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andapo
20-07-2008, 01:15 PM
As we all know Lg ks 20 and htc kaiser use the same processor. Is it possible to use the gps driver from Kaiser in order to enable the gps reveiver (if there is an antena) for the Lg? The idea is based on the fact that the Kaiser users use our video driver to improve their video performace. Maybe we can also use their driver to enable the gps. The Kaiser's users can help us here to our try.

The registry location of the gps driver of the Kaiser is:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver]

I think that the driver is the "QualComm GpsOne Card". You can view some registry values for the gps of the Kaiser here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1735972&postcount=112

I think that what we need is descpribed below:



In fact, most QGPS implementations, including the SiRF-III and the Kaiser's Qualcomm have 4 layers of software to make the whole thing work.

The first being the GPS channel driver itself obviously. The second is an GPS intermediate driver, which is somewhat a managed com port driver.

The third - the most important one - being a QGPS service (in Kaiser) / a helper background process (in SiRF-III) running in the background to actually use the downloaded quick gps ephemeris/almanac data to calculate satellite positions, and then upload it to the GPS chip. It is indeed contrary to popular believe that you upload the whole QGPS file to the GPS chip and let it do all the computation. This is actually quite impossible given the processing power of such a small chip and very limited memory. The data crunching must be done with a processing unit running off the chip, i.e. on the host device. In a SiRF-III implementation, the real-time ephemeris/almanac data obtained by the GPS are actually being written back to the QGPS data file, presumably in an attempt to preserve the most updated data in a data store.

Already I found the gps driver and the quick gps in Italian language from the Kaiser rom thanks to Guybrush. You can find it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=307387&page=3
post 23

I install it in lg. After the instalation it obviously seems that all the registry values are similar to the Kaiser for quick gps and the gps driver, but the gps is not activated and the quick gps program does not start at all. I don't know if it is a good start but its a good opportunity to try something for enabling the gps in lg ks20 if exists. Maybe we have also to make some changes in the nv backup file. I don't know.

If anyone knows what we can do next please share it with us.

thorfr
21-07-2008, 04:33 PM
If it s possible it will be so nice :)
Are you sure the hardware is the same as the kaiser?

andapo
21-07-2008, 07:26 PM
If it s possible it will be so nice :)
Are you sure the hardware is the same as the kaiser?

Both use Qualcomm MSM 7200, 400MHz processor core. Also in the nvbackup file of the lg you can find something like the following lines:
xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
where are also used I think from Kaiser.

Chartres
28-07-2008, 03:52 AM
I donīt know much about this, but I think that besides the chipset, the device needs a gps antenna to work - and I highly doubt there would be a spare one in the ks20...

andapo
30-07-2008, 01:31 PM
I don´t know much about this, but I think that besides the chipset, the device needs a gps antenna to work - and I highly doubt there would be a spare one in the ks20...

This is true. There must be a gps antenna in order to make it work. But we will not know that unless someone open the device or make the gps functional working through the gps driver. The second option is easier I think...

thorfr
30-07-2008, 04:24 PM
But we will not know that unless someone open the device

You can see here in french

http://www.forummobiles.com/index.php?showtopic=159809&st=0&start=0

andapo
30-07-2008, 05:33 PM
You can see here in french

http://www.forummobiles.com/index.php?showtopic=159809&st=0&start=0

According to this site there is no gps antenna into the ks20. If someone else can check the photos and can see a gps antenna, then we can continue searching for enabling the gps driver. But for know everything seems bad... :(