Gathering location in GrapheneOS

androidin

hi, i wanted to get my current position in munich indoors. It was not possible at all. my friend is running the very same phone, Pixel 8 pro running stock os, and he gathered it almost instantly. can i optimize it somehow? The App organic maps Kam talking about want to get the exact location. Is it only relying on satellites or taking others also into account?

de0u

androidin At present on GrapheneOS the options are getting location via GPS, which can be slow and may not work indoors, but is privacy-preserving, or using Google's location service.

androidin

Don't understand since also in GrapheneOS one can set SUPL to GrapheneOS proxy. Which service is that which is gathering data? Maybe it's blocked by my netguard firewall

de0u

androidin Don't understand since also in GrapheneOS one can set SUPL to GrapheneOS proxy.

SUPL is a way to get satellite orbit data to a device over the Internet so the device can more efficiently use satellite signals to determine position (source). But if a device can't receive satellite signals then SUPL does not replace the missing necessary data.

androidin Which service is that which is gathering data?

SUPL does not gather data. Google's location service does, if it is enabled.