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

Word.

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

Exactly. It's easily obtainable by any law enforcement person that requests it.

GPS or not your phone connects to towers and they can track you based on that. Go phoneless when commiting a crime :rofl:

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

That's right, I forgot. The pre 3.35 radios could do GPS, but only for 911 personel.

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

The GPS chip on the device is a passive receiver. It does not transmit anything unless a specific software program is monitoring the passive incoming signal from the geosynchronous sats.

The only reason to disable it permanently in the ROM is if you think it has any bearing on power consumption. I am not aware that it runs unless polled. So that is not usually an issue.

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

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.

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

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).

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

How is this done? Where is this setting becuase this would be news to me.