Originally Posted by
Mrmiata
Figured that link would give everyone a real good idea of the system. Great for us "weekend tuners".. lol. Got my adapter in the mail today and hooked it up to play a little.. Wished I'd have had it before my 74mm upgrade! Should be good for mod upgrade comparing anyways. Now I'm going to have to sneak the wifi out of the house for the GPS tracking and times.. LOL
Oh..one more thing.. After having the car a year and finally going the TB upgrade.. well the little giggle is back when accelerating.. lol. Its not "night and day" difference.. but you can definately tell.
There are two kinds of location tracking on Android: "Wireless Assisted" which uses the location of known wi-fi networks as well as the wireless chipset's knowledge of where cell phone towers are and "GPS Satellites," which really does use the GPS satellites like a real GPS receiver.
All phones should have the GPS option regardless of if they're activated - I don't know of any Android phones that were ever made without a GPS receiver. Tablets and media players are a different story - most of those don't have one.
If you have the GPS Satellites option enabled in the location settings, you should be able to track your location without any cellular or Wi-Fi service.
I use a LG Optimus S that's been deactivated for years to run Torque Pro and I can track my speed and time just fine via GPS.