Sparkfun minimod GPS not outputting all strings

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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I have a sparkfun minimod, and something is confusing me. Right now, I simply have the TX pin of the GPS hooked to pin 2, read with softwareserial.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why the minimod stopped outputting all NMEA strings. Right now, it is only outputting GPGGA. I have not sent any programming strings to the GPS, because frankly I don't know how to do that.

I'm not parsing out the other strings either, the other strings are simply not being transmit.

Any help is very appreciated.

Using Arduino Nano with 0012

here is my gps read function:

char gpsread(){
  char gpsdata;
  bool notready = true;
    while (notready)
    {
      if (SoftSer.available()){ 
        gpsdata = SoftSer.read();
        notready = false;
      }
    } 
    return gpsdata;
}