[Jolla Tablet] Gps stopped working since sfos 4.3.0.15

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#1

REPRODUCIBILITY: 0% (unknown)
OSVERSION: 4.4.0.72
HARDWARE: Jolla Tablet - tbj - tbj - 0.9.3.46 - i486
UI LANGUAGE: Español (user: es_ES, os: es_ES.utf8)
REGRESSION: yes (since: 4.2 - n/a)

DESCRIPTION:

I enabled ‘Location’ from Settings but it seems that gps doesn’t work in my Jolla Tablet: when I use GpsInfo, there is no satellites detected and no o icon gps is shown in status bar. Plus, CSD Tool tests say that Gps ‘Failed’.
I reseted my tablet to factory settings and gps was working in every update but it failed when I installed sfos 4.3.0.15.

PRECONDITIONS:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Enable Location
  2. Open GpsInfo

EXPECTED RESULTS:

Some satellites are detected and gps icon is shown in status bar when I open GpsInfo

ACTUAL RESULTS:

No satellites detected: 0/0. No icon gps is shown in status bar

MODIFICATIONS:

  • Patchmanager: no
  • OpenRepos: no
  • Chum: yes
  • Other: no:

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Device Owner User: nemo
Home Encryption: not supported

the initial version of this bug report was created using Bugger 0.9.8+git1
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Community meeting on IRC 12th January 2023
[Release notes] Struven ketju 4.5.0.16
#2

I can confirm the issue, GPS is no longer getting activated on the tablet.

The only perhaps relevant logging I can find at the moment is:
geoclue-hybris[]: [W] unknown:0 - While updating the updateInterval, failed to set position mode, error -1

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#3

I reseted again my Jolla tablet and I’m on sfos 4.2.0.21. Maps an gps work really fine now but browser is old, for example, I can’t access to posts of this forum because ‘browser is too old to work on this site’.
I understand that jolla tablet users are a very small group, but in my opinion the experience use with sailfish in tablet is amazing. Please, Jolla, keep alive sailfish on tablet!

#4

If you update, you get the newer browser…

#5

But gps doesn’t work :frowning:

#6

Your answer gave me a hint. I have Here positioning service installed on sfos 4.2.0.21, and these packages are replaced on sfos 4.3 and later versions by mozilla positioning services. Maybe something is broken with this change.

#7

The error message originates from geoclue-providers-hybris/hallocationbackend.cpp at 747fc6ecd1aaaaa394666e9bbf8023774e5c5a5c · mer-hybris/geoclue-providers-hybris · GitHub

Some commit since 4.2.0.21 could be the cause of this. If it is indeed related to /usr/libexec/geoclue-hybris itself an older version of geoclue-provider-hybris-binder could make a difference. But it can an issue elsewhere.

The Jolla tablet is still using Android 4.4 and I doubt the libhybris compatibility layer is tested properly on this old device when changes are implemented.

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#8

On the tablet it is not geoclue-provider-hybris-binder, but the package geoclue-provider-hybris-hal.

And as I expected, it is a bug introduced in a recent version of this package.

I decided to downgrade geoclue-provider-hybris-hal-0.2.35-1.5.2.jolla.i486 to geoclue-provider-hybris-hal-0.2.31-1.3.1.jolla.i486 on my SFOS 4.4.0.72 tablet install, and… the GPS works again!

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#9

Thank you so much for your help!! I’ve updated SailfishOS to 4.4.0.72 and installed geoclue-provider-hybris-hal (v0.2.31-1.3.1) and gps is working.
I will keep this bug opened until Jolla fix it.

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#10

How can i downgrade the package? Can i specify the version with pkcon oder zypper somehow?

#11

With pkcon only after downloading the older version of an RPM package (in order to specify an RPM including its version string):
pkcon install-local --allow-downgrade --allow-reinstall <path-to-downloaded-rpm>

With zypper (first needs to be installed per pkcon install zypper), one shall be able to achieve this with a single zypper command (i.e., without manually downloading, first), see its man-page for details.

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#12

This sounds like a possible fix: hal: Handle not being able to set the SUPL server. by MagneFire · Pull Request #44 · mer-hybris/geoclue-providers-hybris · GitHub

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#13

The fix for this will most likely be in OS release 4.5.0.
Thanks for reporting.

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#14

Great!! Thank you so much!!

#15

A Jolla Tablet issue was fixed? Is this real life?!

#16

I haven’t updated it yet, I will try to do it this weekend. I will write here if all is working fine.

#17

To put things in perspective, all they try to do is repair an issue they caused themselves.

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#18

I can confirm that gps is working fine in sfos 4.5.0.16. Thank you so much!