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Re: GPS Requires Network??

From Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: GPS Requires Network??
Date 2011-03-30 02:36 -0600
Organization As little as possible
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:

> I wrote a simple test program to dump out info about all the 
> LocationProviders on my HTC Desire (Android 2.2) as per these calls 
> <http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationProvider.html>.
>
> For the GPS provider, requiresSatellite() returns true as you would expect. 
> But so does requiresNetwork()!
>
> Why would GPS require a network connection?

Do you get source code for Android?

-- 
Jim Janney

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Re: GPS Requires Network?? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2011-03-30 02:36 -0600

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