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This doesn’t work anymore because since android 9 or so, there is an api feature that allows any app to query if mock location is enabled. You need to be rooted
by rootsudo 2y ago
This doesn’t work anymore because since android 9 or so, there is an api feature that allows any app to query if mock location is enabled. You need to be rooted to disable that “feature.”
I use it to gamify (not games or such -) a lot of things, but it’s also used for “fraud” or such, one thing when I was researching was that Pokémon go users do this. I just do it for geoarbritage pricing - without a play account on google phones. IMO I don’t think google play follows geographic pricing like apple does with their store (address/credit card in other geographic region)
Coincidentally it’s harder to do the above on an iPhone.
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoI've done it for Pokemon Go. There are (were, it's been a while) pretty specific setup steps required, and it changed over the course of a couple of years as Android changed things up. One of the older methods worked, but semi-required the back of the phone to have aluminium foil on it so that the real GPS signal wouldn't get through and "rubberband" you back to your actual location, earning a soft-ban. I had more than one phone with a couple of layers of alfoil between the phone and the case. There was another method that required a specific version of Google Play Services, so that root wasn't necessary. I think. Also had to rename the FakeGPS app, and use Magisk Hide Good times. I enjoyed "seeing if I could" more than the actual fruits of the labour.