GPS not working on Pixel 3a XL

captainfunk

Hi everyone ,

Since I made the jump to UT, on the Pixel 3a XL some months ago, one of my big problems is the GPS. I cannot manage to make it work. It briefly worked 3 or 4 times some weeks ago but never again. I read many Ubports forum pages about users having problems with it, I tried to do what was advised (Never lock the screen so it always stays on, don't interrupt the app on Tweaks for uNav and PureMaps, put it on the window still with no big building around for 1 hour) but nothing, I cannot get a fix

PS : I have tried the sensor status app and it seems to think the system is ok but it cannot find a satellite with the gps

Any Ideas ?
Thanks in advance !

ikoz

@captainfunk You can run in terminal the test_gps command to see if it does progress or is it stuck.

The problem usually is that it has to download data like the almanac from the satellite which has very small bandwidth, but it should complete in 1 hour.

captainfunk

@ikoz thanks for the help, i've run test_gps but i got :

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ test_gps
*** setup signal handler                 
*** get gps interface
*** GPS interface not found :(
 Bye! 
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$

From what i've read in other threads, I thinks it doesn't mean that my hardware is broken, some users have the same output but when they try to go back to stock android it works great, it's a problem with UT I think...

captainfunk