>>2808419YOU need to look up how GPS works. You are straight up retarded.
The satellites continuously broadcast signals, and your phone detects at least three of them, and triangulates your position based on the identity of the satellite and travel time of the signal to your device, giving you an exact position. At no point does your device communicate with the satellites; it doesn't have the power.
This is also why GPS works without a signal and in airplane mode. Those signals are always being broadcast by a network of geosynchronous satellites (always in the same position over earth). Your phone or GPS device can be incapable of sending any signal whatsoever and still triangulate your position based on data RECEIVED from GPS.
