Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Nokia N900 and GPS

After installing Community SSU in my Nokia N900, i found a strange issue that my GPS stopped working. My GPS apps always failed in looking for a GPS fix. 
After a few googling and work around, I finally made it work.

Here is that you need to do if you run across the same issue.

1. Edit the "Location Settings" in Settings and change the "Network Position" server to "supl.google.com" (Looks like supl.nokia.com is not working after SSU update)
2. Install location-gui deb package and start a test to figure out the GPS availability and usage.


Link to download location-gui  

wget http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0/non-free/l/location-test-gui/location-test-gui_0.92-1+0m5_armel.deb

dpkg -i location-test-gui_0.92-1+0m5_armel.deb 
 

3. Run location-test and start looking for GPS.

Voila, it worked.