I'm not sure whether this is a device specific issue, but one thing I have been experiencing since the beginning with this port is the following:

https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1174

In a nutshell, the pictures taken with the camera always have the same orientation relative to the phone, instead being rotated properly relative to the ground by using the reading from the accelerometer.

I know this is more of an annoyance rather than a critical bug... Any known solutions or workarounds?

@trashcat said in Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners:

@Flohack i originally installed with the helium installer and then reinstalled with the installer and had no problems.

@Flohack

Same here, everything seems to be working fine. Now on devel channel

Great news to see our device officially promoted into the installer!

I've been doing some more testing:

After many reboot and test cycles the TTFF has been improving. Now it is more in the order of 5 to 10 mins.

Occasionally, after reboot it would not get a fix at all (waiting at least 30+ mins), with the only solution being a reboot. Maybe related to the bug mentioned by @rocket2nfinity ?

I also tested getting location this morning, having had a successful fix last night and no reboot in between. It only took 2 mins.

To give some more context: I haven't used the GPS much since my initial testing of this port in August (staying at home and all). At the time it worked well as @Flohack described. Recently I tried it again a few times and it was not working (hence my original post). Now I see that after many attempts it is sort of "warming up" and performing better. This is pure speculation from my part, but I suspect there is some kind of caching that helps the GPS get subsequent first fixes faster. Over time, if not used frequently, this information becomes outdated. Maybe this is why there is such thing as AGPS? (which, as far as I understand, is not available in UT).

Anyway, I don't think there is much more to do here. Maybe we should mark this as "solved". Thanks everyone!

I will keep doing some more tests. I'd be happy to help testing if there are any projects that aim to improve the overall performance of GPS on UT.

Sorry to bump this again, but it would have probably been lost in the original N6P thread now that it is closed. Just pasting from https://forums.ubports.com/post/41423:

I'm not sure whether this is a device specific issue, but one thing I have been experiencing since the beginning with this port is the following:

https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1174

In a nutshell, the pictures taken with the camera always have the same orientation relative to the phone, instead being rotated properly relative to the ground by using the reading from the accelerometer.

I know this is more of an annoyance rather than a critical bug... Any known solutions or workarounds?

@flohack said in GPS not working:

Not that when you close an app with location, GPS will stop so it looses track of all satellites. Thats a privacy feature ^^

About that... it can also be an anti-feature, for instance for the purpose of tracking your sport activities. This point has already been raised before, for example here: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1067

I've been doing some more testing:

After many reboot and test cycles the TTFF has been improving. Now it is more in the order of 5 to 10 mins.

Occasionally, after reboot it would not get a fix at all (waiting at least 30+ mins), with the only solution being a reboot. Maybe related to the bug mentioned by @rocket2nfinity ?

I also tested getting location this morning, having had a successful fix last night and no reboot in between. It only took 2 mins.

To give some more context: I haven't used the GPS much since my initial testing of this port in August (staying at home and all). At the time it worked well as @Flohack described. Recently I tried it again a few times and it was not working (hence my original post). Now I see that after many attempts it is sort of "warming up" and performing better. This is pure speculation from my part, but I suspect there is some kind of caching that helps the GPS get subsequent first fixes faster. Over time, if not used frequently, this information becomes outdated. Maybe this is why there is such thing as AGPS? (which, as far as I understand, is not available in UT).

Anyway, I don't think there is much more to do here. Maybe we should mark this as "solved". Thanks everyone!

I will keep doing some more tests. I'd be happy to help testing if there are any projects that aim to improve the overall performance of GPS on UT.

So apparently the GPS works now, it just takes a loooong time to get a fix, which makes it unusable in practice. Specially since you need to keep the screen on and the app focused while you wait. My experience wasn't like this a few months back when I first tried UT on the NP6... how is it for you guys?

I don't know if it had any effect, but I did a complete reinstall from scratch. I first tried the GPS on android and it took circa 30 mins to get a fix. Then on fresh UT it was more like 20-25 mins. Finally I restored my backed-up userdata and it also worked after some 20 mins. Once there was a first fix, other apps were able to almost immediately (~ 1 min) get location info. Although maybe this was cached info or something?

Btw, the warnings/errors in the output of test_gps that I reported a few days back are still present, so they seem to be harmless.

@flohack Rotation works, light sensor works.

Later today I might try to reinstall everything from scratch to see if it helps. On the way maybe I can check if GPS works on android to rule out a hardware issue.

@flohack @kugiigi @rocket2nfinity thank you for the information. I guess I'll have to wait until after the Qt 5.12 upgrade.

About video recording, for me it isn't working anyway, so if at least we can fix the camera rotation it would be an overall improvement.

@rocket2nfinity said in Camera rotation:

ubports-qa install xenial_-_gst-droid

Trying on devel, this step attempts to upgrade 31 packages, and downgrade 3: ubuntu-sdk-libs ubuntu-touch-core ubuntu-touch-hybris

It doesn't seem like a good idea... it is probably too old a solution.

Did it solve the problem back then?

Sorry to bump this again, but it would have probably been lost in the original N6P thread now that it is closed. Just pasting from https://forums.ubports.com/post/41423:

I'm not sure whether this is a device specific issue, but one thing I have been experiencing since the beginning with this port is the following:

https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1174

In a nutshell, the pictures taken with the camera always have the same orientation relative to the phone, instead being rotated properly relative to the ground by using the reading from the accelerometer.

I know this is more of an annoyance rather than a critical bug... Any known solutions or workarounds?

@rocket2nfinity

Sensor status shows no error but no reading either. No matter how long I wait, it remains stuck as this:

On the other hand, the output of test_gps is the following:

*** setup signal handler
*** get gps interface
*** device info
 id = gps
 name = loc_api GPS Module
 author = Qualcomm USA, Inc.
*** init gps interface
 ** Creating thread: 'Loc_hal_worker' (start=0x738aee8e68, arg=0xd29d30)
 ** After thread_create: 'Loc_hal_worker', error=0 (start=0x738aee8e68, arg=0xd29d30)
 **** Thread wrapper start (start=0x738aee8e68, arg=0xd29d30) ****
library "libizat_api_pds.so" not found
*** setting positioning mode
*** start gps track
*** gps tracking started
*** tracking.... 
 Diag_LSM_Init: Failed to open handle to diag driver, error = 13*** set capabilities
capability is 00000047
*** status callback
*** engine on
*** status callback
*** session begin

@rocket2nfinity any suggestions on what to try?

It used to be possible to get GPS location on the N6P but now it has been some time since it has last worked for me. I tried both stable and devel.

Can anybody confirm whether it is currently working or not?