A few questions regarding GPS

[ric9k]

XA2 have hardware problems regarding GPS.

These issues are not so visible in android or other OSes because of other techniques used to help determining position.

Iirc, (but not sure, might be found in the two major old GPS threads) this was acknowledged by someone of Jolla, once, but where?

Anyway, I fixed my XA2 GPS issue again (needed when it has shocks/too much dirt/over some time…) by opening it and it now works again.

Here is a tutorial:

[How-to][Hardware] Fix XA2 GNSS(GPS): Let's Try harder

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