Very strange behavior of Location

[ric9k]

Yeah, XA2 can have some problems with GPS.
IIRC, Android can help itself with Wifi and Bluetooth to find it’s position.

This conjunction can show a big difference when comparing SFOS with Android regarding positioning.

However, all in all, some hardware fixes showed good results to me.

Here is one of the threads @nephros was probably talking about.
It shows you how you can clean and fix bad GPS signal transmission into your XA2.

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

After some introduction and considerations, I’ll share here the way I renew XA2 GNSS signal path from the motherboard through the antenna to the mysterious top cap (part of the antenna?). The GNSS term is used here, as it stands for Global Navigation Satellite System, including GPS(US), Galileo (EU), GLONASS (RU), BDS (CN)… Hardware, why? ############## Because there are much differences reported between XA2 GNSS capabilities, I believe the Sony Xperia XA2 can have some Hardware problems reg…