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From: Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: GPS Requires Network??
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:36:28 -0600
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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