Field Notice: FN - 70447 - Products with Modems 7700 and 7710 That Use the Cellular GPS Feature Will Have the Week Number Counter Reset on 2019-11-03 - Workaround Provided

Notice

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Revision History

Revision	Publish Date	Comments
1.0	03-Sep-19	Initial Release
1.1	03-Sep-19	Updated the Workaround/Solution Section

Products Affected

Affected Product ID	Comments
C819HG+7-K9
C819HG-4G-A-K9
C819HG-4G-G-K9
C819HGW+7-E-K9
GRWIC-4G-LTE-G
GRWIC-4G-LTE-G=	Part Alternate
C819HG-U-K9
C819HGW+7-N-K9
C819HGW+7-A-A-K9
GRWIC-4G-LTE-A
GRWIC-4G-LTE-A=	Part Alternate
GRWIC-4G-LTE-A++
EHWIC-3G-HSPA+7
EHWIC-3G-HSPA+7=	Part Alternate
EHWIC-3G-HSPA+7-A
EHWIC-3G-HSPA+7-A=	Part Alternate
EHWIC-4G-LTE-A
EHWIC-4G-LTE-A=	Part Alternate
EHWIC-4G-LTE-A++=
EHWIC-4G-LTE-G
EHWIC-4G-LTE-G=	Part Alternate
EHWIC-4G-LTE-G++=
EHWIC-4G-LTE-JP
EHWIC-4G-LTE-JP=	Part Alternate
C819G-4G-G-K9
C819G-4G-A-K9
C881G-U-K9
C881GW+7-A-K9
C881GW+7-E-K9
C881G+7-K9
C881G+7-A-K9
EHWIC-4G-LTE-BE
EHWIC-4G-LTE-BE=
C888EG+7-K9
C887VAG+7-K9
C887VAMG+7-K9
C887VAGW+7-A-K9
C887VAGW+7-E-K9
C886VAG+7-K9

Defect Information

Defect ID	Headline
CSCvq94031	GPS feature and GPS timestamp on routers with MC77xx modems will be impacted after 11/3/19

Problem Description

This field notice raises awareness of the Global Positioning System (GPS) timestamp rollover issue. This is applicable only to customers who enabled the Cellular GPS feature and use the timestamp data from the GPS National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) sentence.

Certain Cisco products that use the Cellular GPS feature (see the Products Affected section) will have the GPS Week Number (WN) counter reset on 2019-11-03. This will reset the date from 2019-11-03 to 1999-11-03 in the GPS NMEA sentence.

Background

The GPS NMEA sentence contains a 10-bit binary number WN parameter. The valid range of values for the WN parameter is 0 to 1023 (or 1024 weeks). The WN parameter is incremented by one each week. At the end of the 1024th week, the counter experiences a rollover (resets) to 0. The last WN rollover was 1999-08-21. For affected Cisco products (refer to the Products Affected section for a complete list), the next WN rollover will be 2019-11-03. As described in the Problem Description section, the rollover will incorrectly reset the date from 2019-11-03 to 1999-11-03 in the GPS NMEA sentence.

Problem Symptom

These are the impacted areas once the GPS week counter resets:

• The date reported in the Timestamp (GMT) field of the show cellular <slot> gps output and some GPS NMEA sentences (for example, GPRMC) will be incorrect.
• If the customer’s external applications make use of GPS NMEA sentences to derive the time-of-day, they will be impacted accordingly.

GPS location information retrieved from the GPS chipset will be intact and correct.

This issue does not impact the router time.

Impact Analysis

Scenario	Impact	Workaround
Cellular GPS feature not used	No Impact	NA
Cellular GPS feature used for location tracking	No Impact	NA
Timestamp used from the Cellular GPS feature NMEA sentence	Impact	See the Workaround/Solution section

Since the products that use these modems are End of Sale (EoS) and have passed the window for software support, there will be no new software/firmware for these modems to fix this issue.

See these documents for more information:

• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco 819 Hardened Integrated Services Router with High-Speed Packet Access
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco 3G and Cisco LTE 1.0 Wireless WAN Enhanced High-Speed WAN Interface Cards (EHWICs) for Cisco 1900, 2900, and 3900 Series ISRs
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco 3G Wireless WAN Enhanced High-Speed WAN Interface Cards (EHWICs) for Cisco 1900, 2900, and 3900 Series ISRs
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco 3G and Cisco LTE 1.0 Wireless WAN for Cisco 800 Series Router Fixed Platforms
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco 3G and Cisco LTE 1.0 Wireless WAN for Cisco 800 Series Router Fixed Platforms (PDF)
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Connected Grid 2G/3G/4G Multimode LTE GRWIC - Global
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco GRWIC-4G-LTE-V and GRWIC-4G-LTE-A

Workaround/Solution

There are two workaround options for this issue.

Option 1 - Change the Date

In the GPS NMEA stream, the current time will be correct. The date will be off by 7168 days. A suggested workaround is provided, which can be added to external applications in order to rectify the error in the NMEA stream.

Add 7168 days to the date. You must also account for leap years in the external application.

For example, if the date is reported as Feb 02, 2013 (010203), then adding 7168 days will get the correct date of September 17, 2022 (170922)

Option 2 - Disable the GPS

Alternatively, if impacted by the issue described in this Field Notice, Cisco recommends disabling the Cellular GPS feature by issuing the Command Line Interface (CLI) commands below and then power-cycling the modem.

Controller Cellular <slot>

            no lte gps enable

Power-cycle the modem after you enter the command.

For More Information

If you require further assistance, or if you have any further questions regarding this field notice, please contact the Cisco Systems Technical Assistance Center (TAC) by one of the following methods:

• Open a service request on Cisco.com
• By email
• By telephone

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