Thread: GPS In Emergency Even If GPS Is Disabled?
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juahan is offline juahan
2010-03-18 , 17:33
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Originally Posted by lew247 View Post
In America it's a legal requirement for GPS chips to be in the phones for many years now, so it's logical to assume the gps is turned on automatically when an emergency call is made by dialling 911
Is that true? Any sources on that?

I always thought that it is only the GSM triangulation that is used locating emergency phone calls... And adding the fact that GPS don't really work indoors. And how does the phone call then enter the phones GPS chip system and relay the information?