Sebastian Reichel

Motorola Droid 4 - WL1285 and GPS

Today I had another look at GPS for Droid 4. In theory it has 3 different chips, that have GPS receivers: WL1285C, MDM6600, WG3LTE. The Cyanogenmod changelog for the Droid 4 contains a hint, that WL1285C’s GPS module is the one actually used: Don't hold st_wakelock until BT/GPS is used for the first time Also the stock kernel contains a driver for GPS from WiLink. WiLink based chips come with either SPI or SDIO connection for WLAN and a shared UART for Bluetooth (BT), FM radio, GPS and NFC. Read more →