Android :: Way To Get GPS Location Without Service?
Jul 6, 2010
I am a new developer and have a simple question that I have searched all over for, but have not found a clear answer yet. Simply put, I am developing an application that needs to be able to use GPS. The trick is however that I would like to use GPS to get a phone's location even if they have no carrier service. With that said I have 2 questions. Is is possible to get the GPS location of a phone with no carrier service with a wifi connection?
Is is possible to get the GPS location of a phone with no carrier service AND no wifi service?
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Aug 12, 2010
I've found bits and pieces of this answer scattered through other posts, but I wanted to record it here for others.How can I simply request the user's GPS and/or Network location and, if they haven't enabled the service, prompt them to do so?
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Sep 5, 2010
My app which was working on 2.1 and earlier version fails to run properly in 2.2. It relies on the location but I do not get any error message. However under DDMS /logCat, I see a message saying: Error message while getting the location address: Reason: this service is not available. This is coming more as an information message rather than an exception or error. The process that is printing it out is System.out. Note that I did everything possible ( I can think of) to upgrade the app to run in android 2.2. The API version was changed to 8.
The manifest file contains all the following:-
<uses-library android:name=*"com.google.android.maps"*/>
</application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=*"8"* />
<uses-permission android:name=*"android.permission.INTERNET"*/>
<uses-permission android:name=*"android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"* />
<uses-permission android:name=*"android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"* />
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Jul 2, 2009
I have a location manager: mLocationManager01 = (LocationManager)getSystemService (Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); because i want to stop the gps service, but when i use mLocationManager01.removeUpdates(mLocationListener01); that's not working to stop gps. how can i stop it?
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Mar 14, 2010
I was wondering about the following scenario: I have an application that periodically needs to do some stuff, and at first I found that starting it as an alarm service was a neat way conserving resources AND being sure that the service would execute. However, my service also needs to know the location of the device, and I found that using getLastKnownLocation does not suffice as the location tends to be drastically outdated. I then tried adding a location listener, and requested location updates as frequently as possible, but then it could still take minutes before any location event was fired. So, now I have it running as a standard background service but I really don't like that approach. Is it possible to force a location fix within limited given that the circumstances enable acquiring a fix at all?
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Mar 23, 2010
I want to create a service that runs on Android which can collect all of my location information. Either write the information to a file or send to a server using 3G/wiki network. I was thinking about using a service that runs forever as a daemon. After reading "Diamonds are forever, services are not" by Mark Murphy, I realized that it is not a good idea. However, I need to somehow acquire the moving trajectory information on the Android phone. Without a daemon service running forever, how do I do that ?
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Sep 16, 2013
Log file that show you the name of the app and time when they accessed a location service ? Or maybe there is already an app who are up to date on this thing.
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Mar 1, 2012
I wanna background service which is looking every minute for the location.
So I created a service and created a broadcast receiver connected to the alarm service.
That works generally fine.
Now I wanna check the Location in that Service, I have a Service which is looking first for "gps" and if not available then for "network" location. That works fine!
Now my confusing case: If I am at home and connected to the WLAN the Location is found every minute and give me an notification in android bar all is fine!
But if I am on street and go around it doesnt work. The Service is just running when I touch the screen and make it active, then the service starts and gives me the location.
Why the service just works at street when I have the screen active? And at home in my WLAN it works always even the screen is not active.
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Dec 9, 2009
I am on the cusp of leaving my BB Curve and buying either an HTC Hero or the Samsung Moment. Both have their pluses and negatives.However, something I hear in both forums is to save battery turn off GPS. If you do that how does "Emergency Location" and/or "E911" service work? Aren't those dependent on GPS?
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Mar 24, 2010
A few of us at work are wondering if we can use the google map or anyother type of locating device on our phones without phone service. Does the google maps show our location using the cell towers?
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Oct 26, 2010
I'm developing a mapping app using Eclipse 3.5.I'm setting the minimum update period with the LocationManager's requestLocationUpdates method, via a configuration activity. When I set the property I see in Logcat that the system process sets the value OK.When I actually send a new location from the DDMS emulator control and the location changes on the map view, I see that the system process then sets the minimum time to zero.Below is a capture of the system's log messages. You can see that I'm setting the period to 32 seconds, then 16, then, after I've sent a simulated location change the system sets it to zero.The map responds to location changes to location changes instantly even if they are sent only a couple of seconds apart.
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Sep 17, 2010
In my application I have to fetch the current location. First it correctly fetches the location. But we are moving from the current location to some other location. It shows the previous address. It is not updating the location. My code is: locManager = (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); locListener = new MyLocationListener();locManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager .GPS_PROVIDER ,0,0,locListener); location = locManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);if(location != null){latitude = location.getLatitude();longitude = location.getLongitude();} Please find the mistake and when i launch first time it is not working on second time itself it is working so check this thing also.
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Jan 27, 2010
I have an application which uses the network as the location provider (rather than GPS eg.), however I can't seem to figure out how to send the emulator test coordinates. In DDMS I would usually send coordinates in the Emulator Control tab.Is there a place to simulate coordinates derived from the cell phone network provider?
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Mar 4, 2010
I want to override the method enableMyLocation() in MyLocationOverlay class, in order to implement my own positioning algorithm to get latitude/longitude, and then plot them onto a MapView. I figured out how to do that, but now I'm stuck because I dont know what Canvas to pass when I call the method drawMyLocation().
Here is the MyLocationOverlay class
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Jun 25, 2009
The way we are retrieving locations from our Android phones is to 1st get a Coarse Location followed by a Fine Location. This is for the case where the user may be inside a building initially and unable to track satellites. After we get our coarse location we transition to a fine location to track satellites. This method has been working fine for several months. We recently upgraded to 1.5 and our mapping application, to my recollection continued to work.For the past couple of days we have not been able to get a coarse location and we are receiving a status message in the onStatusChange callback of.We have re- installed previous versions our code that used 1.1 and we are receiving the same status message of .TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE. Other than the obvious description of the constant, we can find no meaningful information.
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Mar 15, 2013
Recently all my android devices think they are in Spain when I am at home in Toronto.
I think this was caused when I ran a location spoofing program on only one of my devices, one of the locations I set it to was Spain (among others).
I've tried clearing the data for the Network Location apps, changing the SSID on my router with no luck.
The only way it shows the correct location is when I go outside and run Google maps long enough to get a GPS fix. But when I go back inside I am back in Spain!
The devices this is affectingGalaxy Nexus with my google account
Nexus 7 with my google account
Galaxy S3 with my google account
Galaxy S2 without my google account
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Apr 2, 2010
Is there any way to specify the time intervals that the Location Manager broadcasts the current location?
I am using a method called startListening:
CODE:.....................
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Nov 14, 2010
How could I fix the location which appears on the clock on the home screen and serves as weather forecast location? I am not living near a big city listed on the weather location list and when at home, the current location usually is indicated some dozen miles away from my home. This could be a cosmetic problem, but in the Alps (where I am living) weather a short distance away can be quite different from where you are.
Besides that, it would be nice to know the weather at home while beeing abroad.
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Jul 2, 2010
i've had my phone about 3 weeks now. up until last week, the htc weather widget would update to my current location. when i was home, it would show the town i live in. i also had the google internet option to use my location and this would also work perfectly until last sunday.now, the weather location was stuck on miami no matter where i went (as far north as west palm beach) and the internet shows up 'location unavailable'. i have found out that the gps is picking up where i am in goggle maps but it seems that the cell towers are not as far as weather and internet location are concerned. i have tried all of the obvious settings.i did a factory reset and now my weather says ft lauderdale which is closer to me but still not my town. it does not update (manually either) as i move. the internet location still says location unavailable although for a fleeting minute after the factory reset, it DID locate me....then it was gone so i called verizon, they didn't have a clue. then i took it to the store and it turns out EVERY phone the tech tried in the store had the same problem, including his. he told me it was a google problem and there was nothing he could do about it. i felt if i tried explaining how that would make it a verizon problem as well, it would be a losing battle
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Jun 7, 2010
I am having problems with the quick search feature. I did a random search for Mcdonalds and a map pulls up that is no where around me. I clicked update location but it says my location is unavailable. I have GPS enabled and my navigation app works just fine.
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May 10, 2013
today i was trying to open my old workspace projects by Eclipse but the old projects used old SDK path n so when i try to change my SDK location the eclipse not allow me tho submit my new location how i can solve this problem
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May 5, 2009
Is there any API method{[android.location " pack ] to get location name? did not find related method to to retrieve location name for given GeoPoint(lat,lon); I wanted to keep list of location names for particular GeoPoints (lat,Lon) in journey. can this be achievable in Android to calculate the name of location from lat .
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Jun 24, 2009
I have a service running in the background.I have a background thread that gets a reference to the service from the application's main activity. But when the background thread calls a method in the service to display a toast, I get the "Looper not initialized exception".Why,if I have a valid, bound reference to a Service, does this still happen?
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Aug 20, 2009
I am getting following message when i try to launch service.Also is there any specific path on file system where we need to place the .apk file which contains my serivce component only.
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Jul 22, 2010
I am trying to run the sample soft keyboard included in the SDK. I am using the debugger, and the literature says that to use a breakpoint while debugging a SERVICE, I need to include:
android.os.Debug.waitForDebugger();
So here is the portion of the code I modified:
CODE:...........
I have put a couple of breakpoints, at the statements indicated by the comments.
This is what happens: the debugger first stops at the breakpoint1, for a few seconds. But then the service restarts. For the life of me I can't figure out what makes the service to restart.
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Mar 1, 2009
My service works exactly the way i want as long as i use start and stop and communicate using intents. However my activity needs to change the state of my service as well as retrieving state information.So i thought it would be nice to broadcast some kind of state_changed event from my service and use a binder interface to pull information from the service or change the services state based on user input.This works fine too. The only problem is that my service gets killed when i unbind it just as the documentation says.Is there any way to keep the service alive but still get an interface to control it directly. My activity offers the user a way to stop the service and the service kills itself anyway after it's work is done but i don't want the service to stop every time the activity is destroyed.
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Nov 9, 2010
I'm confused about whether I need to run my service in a separate process. What are the advantages / disadvantages of each?For reference I'm trying to create an App that uses a service to play [streaming] audio in the background. So which one is better for my use case?
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Nov 20, 2010
what I'm trying to do here is implement something like a peer-to-peer client. Being that, it will start a client thread and a server thread.I know Services themselves run in the main GUI thread, so I'll have to start a couple of independent threads (or Asynctasks?) for each server and client. The only thing I'm not so sure about is if I'll better have 1 Service starting 2 threads, or maybe 2 services, each one of them starting their own thread.
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Nov 30, 2009
I got an problem on getting the TelephonyManager in my personal service. The code as below: public class MyService extends Service {@Override public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { return mBinder;}
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Sep 30, 2009
i have an app that binds to a local service.I want to add a desktop widget that binds to the same service. does my service have to be a remote service or can it still be local?if it can still be local, how can I get at the local binder?
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