how to use mobile phone GPS without a SIM card?
In a certain neurone's synapse firing (asking "for a friend") my, I mean my friend's mobile phone GPS ought to work without a SIM card, my friend would think. However when I try to use an app that attempts to get GPS coords, with Wifi turned on (and the app updated itself and browser working, so Internet working), the app (Waze) just remembers my previous country (Australia) location and continues to "Attempting to get GPS location" but never finds a new location in my new country location (Noo Zealand). - Android - Wifi on - GPS on - Airplane mode not enabled - no SIM card - mobile data disabled - Bluetooth off Any ideas why GPS would require a SIM card?
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, at 07:06, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Any ideas why GPS would require a SIM card?
On 12/21/18 1:21 PM, juan wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 18:06:36 +1100 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
Any ideas why GPS would require a SIM card?
it's because amont the millions of lines of malware known as "androido" there's one that says : if (no_sim()) disable_gps();
Makes sense to me. Why should a phone's real owner permit its user to access GPS location data without reporting same back to the owner? That free ride would amount to theft of service. Letting GPS work with the radio off would be as silly as designing a mobile phone's case to permit quick, easy battery removal and replacement - the phone's owner decides when "off means off," not the user.
I would suggest to go ahead and review the link of Steve Pointer. Although I can’t dismiss the chance of a similar function like the one mentioned before, I believe that the functionality of the A-GPS is the culprit here.
On Dec 21, 2018, at 12:02 PM, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
On 12/21/18 1:21 PM, juan wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 18:06:36 +1100 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
Any ideas why GPS would require a SIM card?
it's because amont the millions of lines of malware known as "androido" there's one that says : if (no_sim()) disable_gps();
Makes sense to me. Why should a phone's real owner permit its user to access GPS location data without reporting same back to the owner? That free ride would amount to theft of service.
Letting GPS work with the radio off would be as silly as designing a mobile phone's case to permit quick, easy battery removal and replacement - the phone's owner decides when "off means off," not the user.
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