[mukara]

>All common handset devices used in CONUS (every iphone, android phone, etc) will ignore BeiDou signals.

This is correct for smartphones and the likes (all handsets??), though not entirely correct for all GNSS receivers. For example, I regularly use receivers with uBlox F9P chipsets with BeiDou enabled from factory [0].

>Would love if someone hacked the GNSS firmware to make it usable, but haven't seen it happen yet.

If we ask the Broadcom or Qualcomm engineers nicely, they might tell us how to unblock them for their smartphone chipsets in the US. I might’ve seen it before :)

[0] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/ardusimple/AS-RTK...