(Tutorial) microG - UnifiedNlp Location Share w/o USB GPS module

roxette

Hi,
You ever wondered why the battery saving location mode is not working?

Here is the solution:

You will need Emteria v0.61 or above
Enable Signature spoofing
Download GmsCore https://microg.org/fdroid/repo/com.google.android.gms-13280012.apk
Rename the downloaded file to GmsCore.apk

adb root
adb remount
adb push GmsCore.apk /system/priv-app

Reboot
Open microG Settings
Click on Permission missing - allow microG to access device location

click on Self-Check
Check the Network location provider support, it will look as follows:

Open F-Droid - Download and install
Xposed installer
Apple UnifiedNlp Backend
MozillaNlp Backend
NominatimNlp Backend
Open Xposed installer - Install Xposed Framework v89
Download and Install xposedunifiednlp module

https://dl-xda.xposed.info/modules/be.r3w6.intika.xposedunifiednlp_v3_45c65d.apk

Reboot
Open Xposed installer - Modules - Enable xposedunifiednlp
Reboot
Open microG Settings - UnifiedNlp Settings - Enable Location and address lookup backends

Check the Network location provider support

If everything goes well then it will look as follows:

Now open Whatsapp, click on any contact and share your location with him 🙂

Ofcourse the above steps can be improved if Emteria team can integrate UnifiedNlp into Android system as described at the bottom of the following page.

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp/blob/master/README.md

That would eliminate the need of installing Xposed framework.

Anyway, i just wanted to share that interesting feature with you, you can go ahead and try the above steps or wait for Emteria team response regarding UnifiedNlp system integration.

roxette

There might be a possibility(i'm not quite sure)that building UnifiedNlp as part of Android will conflict with GmsCore included UnifiedNlp,
Therefore i believe figuring out why the system isn't able to bind UnifiedNlp service (obviously that what Xposed module do)will be an easier solution. 🙂

roxette

@IKS, you don't have time to look at this matter yet?
By the way, that's isn't a personal request, it's a feature which you can implement later if you want otherwise if you think it's useless so please delete this thread.

IKS

Sorry, we are quite busy with other projects right now. I do think it is quite interesting and I'd like to take a closer look into this.

roxette

No problem, when you have time let me know if you're able find your location without using USB GPS, it might look bit similar to the above screenshot 😉

roxette

Problem solved, UnifiedNlp now works without Xposed framework.
I won't post solution here for 2 reasons:

It will require modifying some system file which might break your system if you don't know what you are doing.
It seems that noone is interested (although someone was asking about location feature in another microG thread).
Please delete this thread.

floraa6

Most likely there is a problem with the version you are using. So I would recommend to use the latest microG version...