As those who read the comments may have noticed my friend David Chandler, Mars Underground veteran and all round good egg, currently covering NASAish stuff and much more for New Scientist, is now also blogging under his own flag.
At the same time, it's worth noting that New Scientist now has a space site all of its own. In one story JPL is claiming that the loss of MTO will have no effect whatsoever on the data returned from MSL. My memory is that until recently some people were talking about MTO as so crucial to MSL's success that it might be worth launching it early just to make sure it was working and delaying MSL if it wasn't. My suspicion is that the "MSL not affected" line is tenable only with a minimalistic definition of what MSL is meant to do. It may be a bit like saying that nothing would have been lost from the MER mission if both rovers had blown up on sol 91, since their defined mission was just 90 sols long. True to the letter of the contract, perhaps, but not to the spirit of inquiry.
Thanks! A couple of pintos, although my Intercept is from Virgin Mobile:1) The MSL scrolled off of the screen in ConnectBot, but I could enter getprop ril.MSLand it would return the one line.2) When the phone came back from the reset, GPS still wouldn't work. I was glad that I didn't brick the phone, but I was also sad because GPS was important to me. That, streaming music and text messages are the most important uses for my phone. However, I then tried cycling power, and that worked!So thank you very much for this post!Now I don't have to buy that new LG slider from VM for $200. BTW, VM has dropped the price of the Intercept to $99, this a couple of weeks after I bought mine for $150. :/ Gotta love Moore's Law.
Posted by: Gisele | August 04, 2012 at 01:03 PM
Excellent instructions! Your post awellod me to solve my GPS problem. I got the apps and followed your directions. Now my intercept is functioning flawlessly. I spent an hour on the phone with Sprint techs. They couldn't get it done. So, I searched google for a solution online and found your forum. I read it and decided to go for it. I figured I would have to do a factory reset anyway. The process took about 2 hours to complete. Much better spent at home doing it myself than trusting a Sprint store tech to fix. Thanks, south of the Red River.Trinity River
Posted by: Aryan | August 04, 2012 at 07:57 PM