Location indicator appears and reappears continually on BQ Aquaris M10

Bug #1573674 reported by Aaron Hastings
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
High
Thomas Voß
indicator-location (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
location-service (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I recently received my BQ Aquaris M10 and, after updating to OTA10, the location indicator keeps appearing and reappearing. It's very annoying and the only way to stop it is to disable all location services. Rebooting does not make any difference.

See video below for a visual explanation. Apologies for the odd background music. I just wanted to get rid of any background noise!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etS4u3IPj3k

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: unity8 8.12+15.04.20160401-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.10.93+ aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.3touch1
Architecture: armhf
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 22 16:31:35 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-08 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 - armhf (20160408-215827)
SourcePackage: unity8
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Aaron Hastings (thecosmicfrog) wrote :
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Chris Reeve (cjreeve) wrote :

Same problem. Location services worked before the ubuntu update and now are broken. I guest the same response as mentioned here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/741515/gps-location-on-bq-aquaris-e5

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
affects: unity8 (Ubuntu) → canonical-devices-system-image
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Chris Reeve (cjreeve) wrote :

Location is working again for me. What I did, which I think is what got it working again:

1) Go to location settings and disable both WIFI and GPS location (alone this did not work)
2) Go to energy saving preferences and disable WIFI and GPS (this is what probably fixed it)
3) Turn back on WIFI and GPS
4) Turn back on WIFI and GPS location - location icon stopped flashing
5) Use a mapping service that requested my current location - this still did not work.
6) Press and hold down power button and select reboot
7) Phablet did not reboot but hung with dull back light so held down power button for a long time until it turned off. (This is probably a separate problem. )
8) Hold down power button to boot

Wohey, location based service now works!

I don't think I have a GPS connection as I am indoors, but at least WIFI location is working correctly now.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :

I had the location indicator freak out for me on OTA10.1 but not a clean flash of OTA 11 (rc-proposed). The only difference was in 10.1 I actually played with each of the options in the welcome wizard. In OTA11 I just left the settings as-is.

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Thomas Voß (thomas-voss)
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-location (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in location-service (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Petras (klavishas) wrote :

gps on m10 bq is something realy bad. it worked me only once with osmscout (nokia's maps makes no sense on that device, as it have no modem). I cant get it work again. even if indicator appears to show that gps is ok, there is nothing on osm scout or in sensors app (actualy sensors app then lounched makes gps indicator disapear). Please ubuntu sort this out, or at least publish the workaround to get gps workng. oh and by the way, it loks this is not gui but overly fully bad problem as '/usr/bin/test_gps' segfaults. I wold like to port some GIS program to ubuntu touch, but without the gps it is pointless. I am wondering if it wold be possible to use old good gpsd?

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