[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1117543: Bug#1117543: qcom-phone-utils: Enable GNSS when SIM is not detected

[Arnaud Ferraris]

hi,

Le 23/10/2025 à 19:53, Guido Günther a écrit :
> Hi,
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 10:02:43AM -0400, Juno Computers USA wrote:
>> Package: qcom-phone-utils
>> Version: 0.4.2
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Currently GNSS will not be enabled if there is no SIM inserted on the Pixel
>> 3a. I made some changes to qcom-modem-setup to make it work without SIM.
>>
>> <https://gitlab.com/junocomp/qcom-phone-utils/-/commit/55a42ff74691fb3727fc9195ae3ec48c0336e886>
>>
>> I am on Mobian Trixie, kernel 6.12.49-1 sdm670
> 
> I'm not a maintainer of this package (so feel free to ignore) but
> looking at the code: why not simply enable GNSS before making the sim
> checks? That would avoid shifting things around?
> 
> Cheers,
>   -- Guido

Agreed, enabling GNSS first makes more sense than over-complicating the 
whole script, I've created 
https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/qcom-phone-utils/-/merge_requests/17 
using this approach, feel free to test and report back.

Cheers,
Arnaud