Geolocation - Is there a way to get the location from carrier without data connection in Android

Questions

I Would like to show the location of user by fetching the location from carrier(cell network) without data connection in Android App. Is there a way to achieve this?

Answers

you can get location from cell network by getting LAC and CID value.

final TelephonyManager telephony = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
if (telephony.getPhoneType() == TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_GSM) {
    final GsmCellLocation location = (GsmCellLocation) telephony.getCellLocation();
    if (location != null) {
        String LAC= location.getLac() ;
        String CID= location.getCid();
    }
}

In manifest add this

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>

http://cellphonetrackers.org/gsm/gsm-tracker.php http://cellphonetrackers.org/gsm/gsm-tracker.php

Source

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20344594/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-location-from-carrier-without-data-connection-in-andro

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