If you don’t want an application or a game to know your actual GPS location, you can alter it easily. Today, we will explain how you can falsify the situation you are in in a much simpler way than you might think at first glance.
It is simple since all you have to do is send personalized data to your smartphone’s GPS instead of what it obtains from the satellites.
Performing this task can be useful for applications that limit their services depending on where you are or because you want to test a game function that only works in a specific geographical area.
Some applications are quite easy to deceive with your location, but others whose systems have been better prepared and are much more complicated to deceive. Let’s see how you can deceive them and send a different location than your current one.
What do you need?
To get fake our location on Android, you will need to meet some requirements in addition to having some software to achieve it.
Let’s see carefully what we are talking about:
- You must have your Android device with the Bootloader unlocked. If your mobile does not meet this requirement, it will be impossible to perform this method.
- You will also need a Windows computer.
- AÂ Recovery like TWRP.
- Better to have a ROM as close to Android Stock as possible. With one like Xiaomi MIUI, to give you an example, you can also do it, but it will be much more complicated.
- Magisk and Magisk Manager .
- The Storage Isolation mobile app.
- Smali Patcher for PC.
- The Fake GPS app.
So you are going to fake the location
After seeing everything you need, it is the best time to start customizing the GPS location of your Android mobile.
Everything you have to do may be a bit long, but the result will be what you are looking for. That is, to be able to put the location that best suits you.
Bootloader unlocked
For this system to work, the Android terminal must have the bootloader unlocked. This implies that if you have it, everything is perfect, and if you consider it, you will have to search the net as it is done in your specific smartphone model.
It is important, once the bootloader is unlocked that you install a custom Recovery such as TWRP or OrangeFox because everything will come to fruition with one of these recovery systems installed.
Magisk and Magisk Manager
Right now, you have to use Magisk to get root access to your device.
This step is extremely simple because all you have to do is open Magisk and go to Settings. From there, scroll down and click on the MagiskHide option.
Storage Isolation
With Storage Isolation, you will ensure that other applications cannot read the storage of your smartphone.
This is done to prevent some apps from detecting that your mobile is rooted and with a personalized Recovery.
The steps to follow include:
- Run the application and grant it root permissions.
- Enable the application that you want to spoof the location by going to Application Manager (Apps Management), selecting the app, and then click on Enable storage isolation option in Basic Options.
- Next, activate the DCIM and Downloads folders by clicking on Accessible folders.
Smali Patcher
Now is the time to use Smali Patcher on your computer. You must download and install it.
The next steps are:
- Enable USB debugging on your phone and connect to the computer.
- Run Smali Patcher.
- Go to Patch Options and select Mock locations.
- Now we click on ADB Patch.
- Once the program stops working, you will find a zip file inside the Smali Patcher folder. Copy it to the internal storage of your mobile phone.
- Restart the smartphone in Recovery mode and install that zip file from TWRP.
Thanks to what you have just done, no application can detect that it is not a real location you are broadcasting from your smartphone.
No matter how advanced the app is, it will not know that you are simulating since it will not have access to your phone’s storage.
Fake GPS
Now is the time to install Fake GPS Location – GPS JoyStick. Although it is in the Google Play Store, we recommend installing it from the developer’s website since it has several extra functionalities.
After downloading and installing it, the next thing to do is:
- Open the application and click on the Privacy Mode option and then on Quick Options.
- Next, click on Generate.
- Give it the name you want. Do this so that no program or person detects an application called Fake GPS on your smartphone.
- Install the app that you have created.
- When it is done, uninstall the original version of Fake GPS Location – GPS JoyStick.
- At this time, go to Smartphone Settings and then click on Developer options and then Select simulated location application.
- Select the application that you have created.
Impersonate location
There are only a few steps left to achieve your goal, which is none other than putting a different location on your smartphone than the one you really have.
Let’s see how you finish to achieve it:
- Open the version of the Fake GPS Location – GPS JoyStick app that we created earlier.
- Touch on the icon of a map located in the upper right corner of your screen.
- Select Start at the bottom and give it all the permissions it asks for.
- After doing this, go to the Set Location tab in the upper left.
- Put the coordinates of any place on Earth where you want to be.
- Click on Teleport.
From that moment, in any application that requires knowing your location, the one you have simulated will come out.
In this way, not even the most modern apps will detect that you are using a fake location.
