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I recently used maps.me while in Europe (Germany and Poland), with no data plan and only GPS on Airplane mode. With the downloaded maps, it was great. It even i
by jusuchin 11y ago
I recently used maps.me while in Europe (Germany and Poland), with no data plan and only GPS on Airplane mode. With the downloaded maps, it was great. It even included entertainment, restaurants and some transportation options.
- zoidb 11y agoI discovered it recently as well, also it's pretty snappy due to the offline data.
- freehunter 11y agoI was actually surprised recently to find out that GPS works in airplane mode. Really fun to see what landmarks you're flying over when you see something cool out the airplane window.
- awqrre 11y agoWi-Fi also does works in airplane mode, on Android at least...
- jdmichal 11y agoYour phone is not in airplane mode if it's making any kind of signal. You're just using Wi-Fi with the cellular modem disabled. Since GPS is only reading the satellite signals, it works fine.
- schoen 11y agoI thought there was some kind of aviation safety rule against using radio receivers on board commercial flights, maybe because of retransmission of signals on the receiver's intermediate frequency?
- awqrre 11y agoMaybe not from a legal standpoint, but you can put your phone in airplane mode and then re-activate Wi-Fi and it will still be in airplane mode... unless they changed the behavior on newer Android OS
- kevinnk 11y agoI was skeptical so I just attempted this on my Galaxy S5 and it turns out you're right! Very interesting.
- 1ris 11y agoThe last time I was on a plane I was asked to turn on pairplane mode during take-off and the landing. I could use it in the air, there even was a (extremly expensive) GSM network. Can't remember if GPS works in Airplain mode, though. But I'd suspect it to do since GPS is only passive.
- staticelf 11y agoHow does that work on for example Norwegian planes that offer wifi sometimes?
- yaur 11y agoIt didn't used to but was enabled in iOS 8.3.