How do you block GPS on your cell phone?

[Your Endo]

I thought I once heard that you could buy a kevlar case to block the GPS on your phone... but perhaps Im mistaken.

Anyone know how to block the GPS on a cell phone? -Your Endo

[SLick]

never knew they had gps.....always thought they could trace the call through the cell cites youre hitting...if its gps i think aluminum foil throws that off....but no idea bro..that must be some grid if all celss have gps...must just be a screen with dots all over.

Originally Posted by Your Endo

I thought I once heard that you could buy a kevlar case to block the GPS on your phone... but perhaps Im mistaken.

Anyone know how to block the GPS on a cell phone? -Your Endo

[krom]

most of the new nextel phones are gps enabled. We are getting them for our drivers to track them online. It will even give you a prior months history of their whereabouts.

My gf has a nextel I-730 and you can get your current coordinates from it.

[crewboss]

Originally Posted by krom

most of the new nextel phones are gps enabled. We are getting them for our drivers to track them online. It will even give you a prior months history of their whereabouts.

My gf has a nextel I-730 and you can get your current coordinates from it.

yeah a lot of new phones are equipped w/ gps for the e-911 service. i agree the implications of cell phone gps are scary. another service they're testing out using the gps feature is a real-time tracking service for parents who give their kids a phone. i thik that's a great idea.

[ramboj70]

Originally Posted by crewboss

yeah a lot of new phones are equipped w/ gps for the e-911 service. i agree the implications of cell phone gps are scary. another service they're testing out using the gps feature is a real-time tracking service for parents who give their kids a phone. i thik that's a great idea.

now you can check on your wifes, LOL and girl friends, emagine she tells you she is going to her friends house and you track her with gps and find out she is at a hotel getting her pussy pumped very hard by another guy, haaaa bhaaaa LOL

[Desibaba]

You guys better watch out then.You might get busted when you tell your wife you are going to the gym when you going to bang your 18 yr old mistress.She will get ya.

[Your Endo]

Wonderfull... this thread has been lost... ;-)

Anyone have any info on this. As far as I know ALL cell phones produced for the USA have built in GPS (whether you know it or not). There has got to be some kind of GPS blocking case I can use... right? -Your Endo

[liquid]

Originally Posted by Your Endo

Wonderfull... this thread has been lost... ;-)

Anyone have any info on this. As far as I know ALL cell phones produced for the USA have built in GPS (whether you know it or not). There has got to be some kind of GPS blocking case I can use... right? -Your Endo

The answer to your question is no you can not block the GPS with a "case". Anything that would interfere with the GPS signal would effect you reception to the base station. You could possibly disable GPS if you knew an engineer who worked for the company that manufactured the radio. However a much simpler solution would be to use a cheap "pay as you go phone" that doesn't have GPS. Any of the old verizon radios don't have this feature. Actually if you go to any carrier they are going to have some low end model old that will not have this feature, in the next year this will not be the case but all of those old phones will still work.

[ramboj70]

Originally Posted by Your Endo

Wonderfull... this thread has been lost... ;-)

Anyone have any info on this. As far as I know ALL cell phones produced for the USA have built in GPS (whether you know it or not). There has got to be some kind of GPS blocking case I can use... right? -Your Endo

bro I know what your are talking about and there is a place in that phone you go to to turn it off, all phones have them it would be againest the law to have them stay on all the time, its your phone you have the right to want it on or not, otherwise just turn the phone compleatly off, right before I got out of Marines we were using gps and there is always a way to shut it down, give the make and model of phone I will check for you

[finafreak]

Originally Posted by ramboj70

bro I know what your are talking about and there is a place in that phone you go to to turn it off, all phones have them it would be againest the law to have them stay on all the time, its your phone you have the right to want it on or not, otherwise just turn the phone compleatly off, right before I got out of Marines we were using gps and there is always a way to shut it down, give the make and model of phone I will check for you

A MAGNET.

FINA

[quedog123]

there is a mandate by 2005 for all phones to be equipt with gps. rambo is almost right about just turning it off most of the phones are suposed to be able to just be shut off to disable it. however this is not tru with every phone the other way is to open up the phone locate the GPS chip and remove it should not mess up you phone but let me do some research before any of yous do this. i am stil looking for a way to disable without removing encase you ever do need the E-911 service.

[quedog123]

Interesting article


Back in the beginning, the good'ol gov decided that there should be a method
for locating a cell phone... actually, it was the NENA group, created to
serve the goals of the 9-1-1 people. There were a lot of methods suggested
but it boiled-down to two systems. One was called the "Tower Solution" and
the other is known as the "Chip Solution". Most cell phones use the Chip
Solution. What's going on in your phone is this... (by the way, your phone
can not, does not, and never will, receive any signals from any satellites
in orbit) There is an IC in your phone that compares a timing signal received
from the local cell towers and derives a value from the data. That value is
included with the data portion of any cell call you make and in some special
conditions, calls and data messages sent to your phone. When that information
is processed at the "head-in", your location (the location of the phone when
the data was generated) can be "detected" and then sent to the party who needs
it (usually your local 9-1-1 site). The information is known as "Phase 2 ALI
data". Unless you use "social engineering" on your local 9-1-1 Call Taker, you
will not get any use from your phone's "GPS" feature.

Personal comment: The use of the term GPS by the cell phone industry is pure
hype. It should have never been allowed. There is no GPS system involved in
the phone. The only relationship GPS has to all this location stuff is that
the cell sites use the Time Mark data from the GPS to synchronize the cell
system. The location of the cell site is known and does not move.

[Your Endo]

Sorry liquid, I did mean that I just wanted to be able to block the GPS for a short time when I wasnt using the phone. Just something that would block the EMI, radio, whatever signal. I know there is some matierial that does this.... and I think just shutting off the phone does not do the trick.

Fina, you said magnet? You mean just hold a magenet over the phone...? Will it harm the phone?

-Your Endo

Originally Posted by liquid

The answer to your question is no you can not block the GPS with a "case". Anything that would interfere with the GPS signal would effect you reception to the base station. You could possibly disable GPS if you knew an engineer who worked for the company that manufactured the radio. However a much simpler solution would be to use a cheap "pay as you go phone" that doesn't have GPS. Any of the old verizon radios don't have this feature. Actually if you go to any carrier they are going to have some low end model old that will not have this feature, in the next year this will not be the case but all of those old phones will still work.