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Not really. The phone only appears "off" but is in-fact in a low power mode providing beacons. It won't work if the battery were removed. Also, modern iPhones
by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Not really. The phone only appears "off" but is in-fact in a low power mode providing beacons. It won't work if the battery were removed.
Also, modern iPhones use tower-assisted GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou, and NavIC) so the satellite isn't necessarily Navistar. With fewer or no towers, and positioned in an odd orientation on the ground, a good fix becomes much less likely, and the range can increase from <1m to 10's-100's of m.
- lxgr 3y ago> Not really. The phone only appears "off" but is in-fact in a low power mode providing beacons. It won't work if the battery were removed. Sure, how else would it work? But people usually don’t disassemble their phone before losing it on a train/in a taxi etc. > modern iPhones use tower-assisted GNSS Yes, but GP says they didn’t have cell coverage where they lost it, so that wouldn’t help.