Librem 5 GPS/Location Tracking

Purism confirms antenna possible problems on some pieces. It has been already mentioned in this thread and there is somewhere suggestion how to try fix ground connection between metal frame and board. I have not found time and courage to disassemble my Librem 5 and try to fix that. But I try that when I have less duties at the university and company

There is fix heading to mainline which can probably lower some interference between SDIO and GNSS receiver. I am not sure/not checked yet, if it is already included in stable kernel 5.13.0-1-librem5. If you have while, you can check if switching WiFi off enhances SNR

arm64: dts: imx8mq-librem5: Limit the max sdio frequency
This is needed for the 1LV Cyress WiFi module to probe correctly.
It also helps improve GNSS sensitivity.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=09d255f0beb5370440e75a6bf7872f56b26ab4c9

By the way, I have tested GPXsee for Garmin offline image maps. It could be usable. I have enhanced GPXsee to support zoom by pinch on the touchscreen

See branch zoom-by-pinch in my fork

and pull request

If there interest, I pud my Librem 5 build somewhere or even prepare deb package…

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