Today I made an express test. Took a walk with an Xepria X (daily driver) and an XA2 (test device) on the palm o my left hand and a camera in the right hand to take photos as GPS changed status. GPS settings custom (BTW, in settings in location it is called “custom settings”, there in “Advanced settings”, hmmm…) “on,on,on”. SFOS 4.3.0.12, MLS from Jolla installed.
Recent GPS history: XA2 didn’t see any satelite for the last 2 weeks, the X, as it is my daily driver, had a fix at least a couple of days ago. Location is allways on (both).
GPSinfo is off, Pure Maps and Kuri on. Used Kuri to monitor GPS satelite fix.
- About 15:45 I stepped outside, partially open sky for the next 30 s walking down the stairs.
- About 15:45:35 opensky, took a photo.
- X (Kuri: yellow) gets a fix: 15:49:09 +3:34 after open sky
- X (Kuri: green) gets a fix: 15:49:39 +4:04 after open sky
- XA2 (Kuri: yellow) gets a fix: 15:52:19 +6:44 after open sky
- XA2 (Kuri: green) gets a fix: 15:53:03 +7:28 after open sky
- For several times, for example, at 15:57:26, so about 4 minutes after fix, the XA2 shows yellow GPS status, while the X stays green.
- Before the summer, I have been taking a walk with both phones for a long time (months), and seldom the XA2 got a fix before the X.
- In the beginning, the XA2 failed very often to get a fix for 30 minutes and 60 minutes walks, while the X had a fix after some time.
- When I move both phones step by step inside the house, the XA2 always looses fix before the X.
- There are another XA2 and XA2plus (not yet on 4.3) daily driver in the family. All 3 XA2 have consistent behaviour.
- I used GPS info, gspcon. For usability tests I don't touch GPSinfo since I don't understand what it does to the device (when I just start it and look at it).