Looking at this topic, I see that the Wifi & Bluetooth search in location services use the Mozilla Location Service (MLS). But according to wikipedia, the MLS was retired in 2014. Is this working somehow?
It happens that my FP3 has the GPS hardware sensors broken. But in my previous setup with a normal Android, I was able to use maps almost normally by using only the wifi search from Google. Obviously, I don’t want it with /e/OS. But now it seems that maps apps cannot locate me. I wonder if is there another service that gives similar functionality with less tracking. Is there any fork to MLS or similar, that I could install?
If not, I’m afraid I’ll have to give up using /e/OS and return to Android I’d like to extend the life of the FP3 a bit more, but they no longer sell core module replacements and I need location services.
Ah, thanks for the info. However it still doesn’t work. I’ve just seen that I have beacondb service activated, and all checks enabled in Settings > System > micro-G > Location (this is a new fresh setup of /e/OS official build).
But the maps app still reports “no location”, and same with other apps. Could it be that micro-G location does not support not having GPS at all, although there are other location services?
But yes in a general sense GPS is probably more fundamental to AOSP than Google Android, as raw Google has free access to the millions of “location_points” broadcast by their clients.
I’d like to extend the life of the FP3 a bit more, but they no longer sell core module replacements and I need location services.