Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,alt.internet.wireless Subject: Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:46:00 +0100 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net k5ddl1JvZnHrav2K1ImbWgrgOChR4UwFjeazYlgj9GJtg65eBH Cancel-Lock: sha1:kuWTA0jLMpxtIW2e5zHI/a2Zr14= sha256:M2KVvOw0LrAeBUcOzUT8J5I6q0yxkBt8wwxSbw6Hx4I= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:143906 alt.internet.wireless:18415 Andrews, 2024-10-26 07:47: > How do you spoof Wi-Fi location on Android? On a real device? You can't do this. With an Android emulator you can spoof any location you want for the apps. But this is only possible because the emulator is controlled by the host PC. On a real device you would need to fake the database which is used to derive the location based on the Wi-Fi SSID(s) the device can see. > I probably know this stuff better'n anyone here, but maybe (hopefully) > someone who reads this question knows it better than I do as I do NOT know > how to spoof Wi-Fi location when Google Location Accuracy is turned on. > > Whenever I turn on Google Location Accuracy (e.g., when an app requires it > to run), I immediately first spoof my GPS location (if I'm not routing). No, it is not "GPS location" it is really just the location of the Wi-Fi access point which Google recorder earlier when other devices had GPS *and* Wi-Fi active and the users allowed Google to use that data in the device settings (maybe this is even the default, I am not sure). [...] > Given that situation that it's trivial to spoof GPS when Precise Location > Accuracy is turned on, does anyone know how to spoof Wi-Fi location data? You can't. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de