Installing microG on Sailfish OS

[robang74]

@vige

I have a feeling there is a slight misunderstanding here. I wasn’t talking about GPS fix but ”location fix” - perhaps there is a better term for it. What I did was simply that I 1) installed the new microG version (0.2.28.231657) 2) turned on ”request from mozilla” and ”request from hotspot” in the microG location settings and 3) started any android app which uses location.

Even though there aren’t enough visible satellites to get a GPS fix inside my house, microG can get my position within 10 meters.

Something goes wrong with my installation¹ because here in Italy, without any GPS satellite fix I got with my Xperia 10 II a range of 9000m!²

@vige

Note that this only helps with android apps, as sailfish apps naturally don’t have access to location provided by microG.

Unfortunately, without new microG version (0.2.28.231657) the Xperia 10 II has problem in receiving from GPS satellites a reasonable precise point. This seems absurd but it is not when you think that installing SFOS on Android 12 instead Android 11, the GPS does not work at all³. Why?

IMHO, the explanation is quite as straighforward as candid, the Android system is the source of hardware configurations and thus if microG layer does not operate correctly for any reasons, those configurations would not be loaded corretly.

Please feel to correct me, this is the idea I developed reading the forum, the documentation and configuring my Xperia 10 II.

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LINKS

¹ Quick start guide v1.7.3.4, immediately after the licensing.

² GPS work arounds for Xperia 10 II for low resolution issue without GPS fixing.

³ Xperia 10 ii and Android 12 - #19 by farz2farz about GPS failure in fix satellites