Comments on: I failed

By: H-Kachal

H-Kachal — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:16:50 +0000

OK JKU, all your comments above, sound good to me.

By: Zuber

Zuber — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:51:54 +0000

I still think it was running faster for me. Perhaps I imagined it, but I don’t think so.

I’ve reverted to standard now for updates, so it will be interesting to see if I think it is slower now…

Many thanks for your efforts by the way.

Zuber

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:19:37 +0000

You did a great job, don’t worry :-)
-You searched and analyzed
-You produced and documented a solution
-You retracted the solution once it became clear that it wouldn’t help that much
-The fact remains that there is a bug in the Nokia code and that osso-software-version doesn’t behave as it should.

Results: Lots of things learned for everybody.

Thanks again!
-Tom, mClock

By: jku

jku — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:52:21 +0000

H-Kachal said:
> I did suspect that you were looking at hot vs. cold gps
> start up when you said on first attempt after
> modification it still took 15 minutes.

I think you’re mistaken, I have not said that.

Actually, I still think that in my testing the difference was very noticeable, but one person just cannot test enough to get a statistically significant result (Not this time of year in Finland).

Also, I object to your requirement for “more testing before posting”. I posted my impressions in my blog and asked other people to try so we could verify them — that was the testing! In fact, in my original post I specifically said “The evidence is just anecdotal, and this could be just a fluke”.

I would do this exact same thing again if I was in that situation, except I’d tell people beforehand that the package prevents upgrades and should be removed after testing.

By: yabbas

yabbas — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:51:41 +0000

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

Your heart was in the right place, and the leap year bug needed fixing anyway despite it not affecting lock-on times! :)

By: H-Kachal

H-Kachal — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:43:05 +0000

I did suspect that you were looking at hot vs. cold gps start up when you said on first attempt after modification it still took 15 minutes. So thanks for letting everyone know that this does not work. Lesson learnt; next time more thorough testing before posting! I think these tablets just have an old, slow gps chip in them and that is the root cause of this problem. Well done for having the guts to tell us the fix doesn’t work.

By: Michael Wiktowy

Michael Wiktowy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:18:05 +0000

I let apt-get -f install remove osso-software-version to solve its troubles. Not entirely sure what the consequences of that are but so far things are working fine. Worst comes to worst, I just reflash.

By: jku

jku — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:35:45 +0000

Derek W, Walther,

That’s fine. Just remember that this is the reason if you can’t update something.

By: Derek W

Derek W — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:17:23 +0000

It works better for me than the previously installed version, so I am keeping it. I also use gps-clock, so I will wait until March to try the old version again.

By: Walther

Walther — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:40:15 +0000

Haha, I was wondering why my fix time didn’t improve after installing your gpsd. But no worries, I will install the previous version when Februari is over :)