No GPS access from inside Waydroid

Sentinel

@Eric H said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad:

I'm surprised by some of the bugs you report because I don't have the same ones on my poco x3 nfc.
For example, I was able to download Android images without a problem with Waydroid Helper, waydroid has access to GPS

Is it possible my GPS (and possibly other Waydroid) problems are due to "waydroid init" not working for me, such that I had to manually find & download the (hopefully?) correct vendor & Lineage system images, and then run "waydroid init -f" myself?

These are the images I used:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/waydroid/files/images/system/lineage/waydroid_arm64/lineage-20.0-20250809-VANILLA-waydroid_arm64-system.zip/download
OR
https://sourceforge.net/projects/waydroid/files/images/system/lineage/waydroid_arm64/lineage-20.0-20250809-GAPPS-waydroid_arm64-system.zip/download

AND

https://sourceforge.net/projects/waydroid/files/images/vendor/waydroid_arm64/lineage-17.1-20250809-HALIUM_10-waydroid_arm64-vendor.zip/download

Are they wrong, or do I need to so something more than just "waydroid init -f" to properly install Waydroid & get GPS working?

Vlad Nirky

@Sentinel
Have you tried disabling location services in UT before using GPS in Waydroid?
Have you tried the GPS test app via Atpoide?

gpatel-fr

@Sentinel said in No GPS access from inside Waydroid:

properly install Waydroid & get GPS working?

I never 'installed' Waydroid, I used the version coming with the OS and it helped me to understand GPS because the SatStat application allowed me to see immediately the satellits 'hits'. So in a way GPS is working better under Waydroid than under UT.

gpatel-fr

@Vlad-Nirky said in No GPS access from inside Waydroid:

disabling location services in UT before using GPS in Waydroid?

Hello

as a datapoint, for myself with a Fairphone 5 under 24.04.1, I can get position under Waydroid without disabling location services in UT.

Eric H

@sentinel hello,
Let's try to figure out why you have these unusual problems in order to fix them.
First can I ask you which version of MIUI did you flash before installing Ubuntu Touch?

The version of waydroid on my device is 20-20250809-VANILLA-waydroid_arm64