Replicant

Hi,

thank you for reporting this seemingly anomalous behaviour.

I confirm I can reproduce it on a i9100 (Galaxy S2) with a fresh install of the official Replicant 6.0 0003 image.

We are investigating about this.
I will report any news on this ticket.

Thank you.

Fil

Bluetooth¶

• I installed Replicant as usual: I reinstalled the recovery, installed the zip and then did a full factory reset in the recovery.
• Once booted, I then scanned for other bluetooth devices that I found.

The bluetooth chip most probably has some firmware in a rom that can most probably be patched at runtime, so it's possible that it works for some devices but not others.

We need to read the bluetooth driver and kernel logs to understand what happens if no bluetooth firmware is present, to validate that it's indeed the case and to understand in which condition it's supposed to work and not to work.

It would be really nice if the ROM makes it work, though it's a double edged sword as the ROM most probably has security issues. In the longer term we would need to find the time to look into internalblue to see if we can fix the security issues.

GPS¶

For GPS I need more time to try it. As it's not supposed to work at all I'm really curious to know how you managed to get it working.

We need to dig more into it too, as we may uncover some deeper issue such as applications being able to not respect the position privacy settings and so on.

• Did you get a position? Do you have more details on how you managed to get a position?
• If so What made you think that the position was given by the GPS?
• In Settings->Location mode is it set to "Device only" ?

Denis.

I got an accurate position using the OsmAnd app. The wifi and cellular network were disabled and the location mode was set to device only.

I turned on BT on both my i9100 (with sim) and my n7100 (no sim). Both devices says BT is on but they do not find each other despite less than 5 cm distance between them.

I also turned on GPS on the n7100 but so far OsmAnd has not caught any satelites.

For the GPS, osmand requires the android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS permission. So it may be related to that somehow.

This may also apply to the Galaxy Note (N7000) as the bluetooth also works there. It's the same SOC than the Galaxy SII (I9100)

I've been also unable to reproduce this behavior on i9100.
GPStest https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest is unable to get GPS data
I have tried all the modes in the Location settings

#1937 might be the answer for this given such firmware is already mainline, so maybe that is why wifi is present even though proprietary version of it is removed