Get Latitude and Longitude without inserting Sim Card and Start/Stop Gps from Application

Question

I am trying to fetch Gps latitude and longitude, but i am having a query that whenever i try to fetch Lat & Long without sim card, it is not providing any info where as

Answer 1

This might be outdated, but do you have any idea what the error is?

I'm getting the error as, "error getting cell location info".

I found the source code that lead to this error.

private void requestRefLocation(int flags)
{
    TelephonyManager phone = (TelephonyManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
    if (phone.getPhoneType() == TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_GSM)
    {
        GsmCellLocation gsm_cell = (GsmCellLocation) phone.getCellLocation();
        if ((gsm_cell != null)
                && (phone.getPhoneType() == TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_GSM)
                && (phone.getNetworkOperator() != null)
                && (phone.getNetworkOperator().length() > 3))
        {
            int type;
            int mcc = Integer.parseInt(phone.getNetworkOperator().substring(0, 3));
            int mnc = Integer.parseInt(phone.getNetworkOperator().substring(3));
            int networkType = phone.getNetworkType();
            if (networkType == TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_UMTS
                    || networkType == TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_HSDPA
                    || networkType == TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_HSUPA
                    || networkType == TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_HSPA)
            {
                type = AGPS_REF_LOCATION_TYPE_UMTS_CELLID;
            }
            else
            {
                type = AGPS_REF_LOCATION_TYPE_GSM_CELLID;
            }
            native_agps_set_ref_location_cellid(type, mcc, mnc, gsm_cell.getLac(), gsm_cell.getCid());
        }
        else
        {
            Log.e(TAG, "Error getting cell location info.");
        }
    } else {
        Log.e(TAG, "CDMA not supported.");
    }
}

Notice the check statement

if ((gsm_cell != null)
            && (phone.getPhoneType() == TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_GSM)
            && (phone.getNetworkOperator() != null)
            && (phone.getNetworkOperator().length() > 3))
    {

It somehow leads to the problem you're facing. Of course, by connecting to a WIFI network, you will still get your location as it's using a different way to get it. I hope this answer your question.