Galileo satellites not detected on Fairphone 3+ with /e/ os
- /e/ version: all (including the last 1.0)
- Device model(s): Fairphone 3+, I flashed it myself with the easy-installer for Ubuntu, it went fine
- Device rooted: yes/no (not sure what that means)
Summary
FP3+ is specified to be compatible with Galileo satellites. Since I have it with /e/ os however, Galileo satellites are not detected. More precisely: they are detected every once in while (maybe once a month), but quickly disappear.
I use GPSTest to identify the satellites, and most of the time can only see Glonass and GPS satellites there. The fact that, on rare occasions, Galileo satellites do appear for a few minutes before disappearing leads me to think this is a software issue and not a hardware issue (+ the fact that FP+3 officially support Galileo).
More generally, the GPS is usually quite slow at starting.
I saw someone else has reported a similar issue on the Fairphone forum: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/no-galileo-on-fp3/72367
They don't specify the OS though
The problem
Steps to reproduce
Install GPSTest on a /e/ OS FP3+ and check which satellites are shown, try several times to check reproducibility and how long do the Galileo sattelites remain (if they appear at all).
What is the current behavior?
What is the expected correct behavior?
Galileo satellites shoud appear always (it has global coverage), and the signal should be faster / more robust (Galileo is specified to be faster and more accurate than GPS).
This is annoying as Galileo is a European project (like Murena and Fairphone), funded with public money and with a high level of performance, not being able to use it, as a European citizen, is quite disappointing.
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