When recieving calls, location appears?

[mlee21]

When people call me, underneath their contact information, a city, state thing appears.. Exactly where/how is the phone getting this information from?

For landlines, it seems like the location is right because I'm pretty sure most landlines are in a public database, but when people call me from mobile phones, it seems pretty glitched.. it names cities not even close to where they really are.. which i'm sure is due to people turning off their public gps setting thing..

Is there a way to turn off this setting, I don't want to see it.

 

[krazy]

area code?

 

[russell5]

Program called city id.


Its pre installed comes with 15 day trial.

If you dont subscribe after that it should stop showing up


Just opened the program and noticed you can remove it.

Choose status then stop free trial. Then gives you an option to remove it.

 

[mlee21]

area code?

definitely not area code.

area codes stretches over multiple cities for landlines.. plus mobile phones move around..

must be this cityid thing. ill try it out.

Edit: Yup.. it was the City ID app.. took it off and it got rid of it.

 

[TBolt]

Program called city id.


Just opened the program and noticed you can remove it.

Choose status then stop free trial. Then gives you an option to remove it.

Wow. Verizon must have heard us *****ing after the City ID fiasco on the Incredible. Glad to hear that that POS crapware can be removed now. hehe

 

[russell5]

Wow. Verizon must have heard us *****ing after the City ID fiasco on the Incredible. Glad to hear that that POS crapware can be removed now. hehe

Yeah same here. I assumed i couldnt uninstall it without root so i didnt open it till this post.