GPS blocked by enable

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:04 PM, matthew stanger <stangerm2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just wondering if I could get the background on why the GPS flow
> requires enable. It's causing us pain with unit's that don't have a SIM
> inserted but which would still want to collect GPS data. Since we can't
> enable without a SIM, then we can't get GPS. I'm sure I can hack something
> together but I thought there's probably a good reason and that my effect how
> I try and solve the problem so I was just trying to understand the context
> before diving into this.

I don't think there's any technical reason behind this; we can try to
support it.

We would need to allow the location interface to be exposed in DBus
even on Failed state (i.e. without SIM) and then allow GPS enabling
actions even in that case.

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Aleksander
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