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

[1999TL]

Originally Posted by gc14

You will be "trackable" regardless if you have a non GPS rom/radio or not, through the carrier and 911 triangulation.

Lay off the ganj, it'll help with the paranoia

Word.

[ehanhan]

Originally Posted by bakntyme

The carriers keep data allowing the travels of your phone to be tracked by its history of connections to cell towers. There has been some controversy about carriers having provided this data to law enforcement without a warrant.

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:

[MrObvious]

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

[nmhusa]

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.

[MrObvious]

Originally Posted by nmhusa

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.

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.

[nmhusa]

Originally Posted by MrObvious

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).

[MrObvious]

Originally Posted by nmhusa

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).

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