• DUDU OS

  • SUPL protocol

[FEATURE Request]
The SUPL protocol (Secure User-Plane Location) is used to determin the location on mobile devices and also our units.
It is using GPS, A-GPS, cell-id and enhanced cell-id to determine the location as fast and as accurate as possible.
In the Chinese units the server supl.qxwz.com is used. For non-Chinese, international users that should be supl.google.com for a number of reasons.
It is much faster for non-Chinese users (and we all want our location determined as fast as possible)
It uses the google server instead of the Chinese server, where "the rest of the world" is suspicious what the Chinese government is doing with it (I don't trust Google either, but I trust Google a little more than ... 😉 )

Mario Dantas and myself used this in our enhanced kernels for the 7862/5851, but it is just as valid for the 7870 units.

Where can you find it?
In the vendor partition in <vendor>/etc/supl.xml as '<PROPERTY NAME="SERVER-ADDRESS" VALUE="supl.qxwz.com"/>', which should then be changed to '<PROPERTY NAME="SERVER-ADDRESS" VALUE="supl.google.com"/>'

Can you please change that for the international firmware versions?

    surfer63 I totally support this.

      I can't edit my first post anymore

      It is much faster for non-Chinese users (and we all want our location determined as fast as possible)

      This due to the way dns is routed and the firewalls "around" China. For internal China users it doesn't make a difference. For non-Chinese users, it can make a big difference.

      surfer63 I support this as well

        I also support this

        I also support this.

        14 days later

        Thank you for the suggestion. I will include it in the next beta version.