GPS not working [Solved]

[magdesign]

Device: Oneplus 6 (A6003)
OS: Ubuntu 16.04 (2021-07-31/2) stable channel

Apps using GPS are not finding GPS at all, even after leaving them open for a full day.
In terminal, after entering
test_gps

I get:

*** setup signal handler ***
*** get gps interface ***
GPS interface not found :(
Bye!

Location detection is on,
also tried with wifi enabled and disabled and
with switching to RC channel... nothing did help.

Do I need to install a GPS driver or something?
Any help very welcome.

[MrCyjaneK]

It's also not working on droidian, however it worked some time ago on ut, back in the days when we were using GSI...

[ljrichards1066]

This also happens on my 6T. I can also confirm that, when i was using the GSI, the location services worked quickly and easily.

[MrCyjaneK]

@erfanoabdi have you applied some patches to the systemimage/rootfs to make GPS work?

[MrCyjaneK]

currently gps is not even working under waydroid

[magdesign]

It seems to be working now ;-)

What I did:

sudo ubports-qa install xenial_-_locationbg
this will remove libc-ares2 (dont know if this info is important)

Then enabled everything like location, mobile data, wifi...
rebooted the phone several times...
Going out for a few hours, check location with puremaps... voila.

[MrCyjaneK]

I'm wondering how I'll do that on droidian, lol ;p but good it works on ut

[magdesign]

Lets us know if you figure it out!
Maybe digging in this pull request might lead you into a direction:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/core/lomiri/-/merge_requests/6
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6191/call-for-testing-background-location-updates?_=1629051082654&lang=en-US

[magdesign]

This workaround does not work anymore on OTA-21 or newer.
When applying sudo ubports-qa install xenial_-_locationbg the phone will hang at kernel boot-screen...
Therefore reopening the issue.....