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Cool Re: I want to use Kitchen for 6800 but don't want GPS

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Originally Posted by MrObvious View Post
True, but calling 911 or any time a law enforcement gets a warrant or do an active investigation they will track your phone through GPS. The 6800 is no different. It is part of the FCC's laws. So even if you disable Google Maps from using GPS the authorities can still use it to track you. The only way is to physically remove the antenna or something if you want to avoid that.

In reality, it's not practical and you should just flash a GPS enabled ROM and go ahead and get it set up.
You can disable 911 tracking on your phone. It uses triangulation via tower signals and has nothing to do with the GPS chip. All cellphones (even those without physical gps chips) can be located with the triangulation method. The Mogul has a toggle in the phone options to turn it off !!! Makes aGPS fail (thus the physical GPS chip takes longer to get a satellite fix on a cold start).
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