Maps app thinks I'm in off the west coast of Africa. Sounds romantic

[gondolyr]

The information I’ve gathered seems to indicate that the coastal city in China is possibly where the device was tested or calibrated for the GPS module. It seems that letting it sync with the satelites eventually corrects it. I had the same issue myself and I haven’t noticed it placing me in China for the few recent times I’ve used it.

Librem 5 GPS/Location Tracking

To get a fix with a GNSS receiver you need to have a good antenna connection and the GNSS module must have downloaded an almanac and the ephemerides for the satellites it is tracking. To speed up the process you can upload the almanac and ephmerides to the module , this is know as AGPS. gnss_share can handle the AGPS portion and it also will share data with geoclue which is used by most L5 navigation software for geolocation. You can copy the almanac and ephemeris from a phone that has a 3D …

Librem 5 GPS/Location Tracking

That would explain why when I was testing this the number of satellites “in view” according to GPGSV sentences did not change when I moved the phone from the window to somewhere far away from the window. I was expecting to see fewer satellites in view, but there was no change. Probably I had never any satellite at all truly in view, the info shown was just what should be in view in theory based on the saved position and time info which are very far off. Looks like it thinks I am in China, then…