Your system does not support this UnifiedNlP Package

Hello

I’m running an Mi A1 Stock Oreo. I used the Terminal Debloater and removed as much of Google as I understand…

Apps Installed Xposed - version 90-beta 3 FakeGapps - 2.0 Magisk 16.0 Services Core - com.google.android.gms-9258259.apk Services Framework Proxy - com.google.android.gsf-8.apk Store (FakeStore release) - com.android.vending-16.apk DroidGuard Helper - org.microg.gms.droidguard-4.apk

From the above apps I installed, I didn’t install any UnifiedNlP package. These are the same apps I install in Custom Roms, and I don’t see this message in Custom Roms, but for some reason running Stock Oreo with only these packages installed, it is not working. instead in the microg settings I see this section;

System supports location provider Your system does not support this UnifiedNlP package. Either install a matching package or a compatibility Xposed module.

Should I also install UnifiedNlp.apk & NetworkLocation.apk?

I’m attaching two screen shots showing the microg settings.

[Iey4iej3]

The NanoDroid-Patcher (again) includes the unified_nlp patch, which might fix the issue.

But what I noticed is that on some devices com.qualcomm.location must be installed for uNlp to work, while on most/older ROMs you need to remove that package for uNlp to work. The OnePlus 5T is one of the affected devices.

I wonder whether com.qualcomm.location is the proprietary blob described in their official site as

Qualcomm Location periodically sends us a unique software ID, the location of your device (longitude, latitude and altitude, and its uncertainty) and nearby cellular towers and Wi-Fi hotspots, signal strength, and time (collectively, “Location Data”). As with any Internet communication, we also receive the IP address your device uses. We use Location Data, software IDs and IP addresses, and the other data we collect to help us protect, evaluate, and improve the performance of our systems.

that is to say, even if we use UnifiedNlp, the presence of com.qualcomm.location means that users will upload these privacy data periodically? I searched in the repo of LineageOS and found that the maintainers repeatedly re-added it into blobs, even disabling location overlays so that UnifiedNlp won’t work any longer. I don’t understand what is the difficulty there, but LineageOS is at least advertised to be free and open-source, if there is no difficulty to remove com.qualcomm.location, I don’t understand why they include it and make it exclusive.

[Nanolx]

It’s just the way the location provider is technically implemented, I haven’t cared enough to go deepe into details. oF2pks has posted a link (in the NanoDroid XDA-Thread) to a git commit by OnePlus which shows that change.