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Settings — When enabling Wi-Fi Calling, E911 requires an address. Help?

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:23:14 GMT

(This is a strange thing that happened a couple of weeks ago.)

A friend of mine just recently destroyed his last mobile device, so I decided to give them an old phone I no longer use (which is an unlocked Verizon S8). Prior to this Samsung device, their last ~6 phones have been various brands that weren't Samsung (such as Motorola and Apple).

Moving on, we performed a factory reset on the S8 phone to wipe the saved data out, and when my friend finally got past the initial, basic phone set up, they started altering some of the categories on the Settings app. He decided to turn Wi-Fi Calling on, and when he was prompted to put in his E911 address, he saw that his specific address had been automatically filled in.

The strange part was that the device could not have known their address, for sure, because they never saved their home address on any autofill services — not using Samsung Pass (which is Samsung Wallet, now) or in their Google Password Manager.

Does anyone know how this must've happened?

Re: Settings — When enabling Wi-Fi Calling, E911 requires an address. Help?

Ogata92 — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:44:05 GMT

It was possibly done via location settings. In other words, phone used GPS to determine your location and filled in the info accordingly. That's my guess at least.

Re: Re: Settings — When enabling Wi-Fi Calling, E911 requires an address. Help?

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:45:39 GMT

Thank you, that makes sense.

Re: Settings — When enabling Wi-Fi Calling, E911 requires an address. Help?

Yamialex224 — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:33:08 GMT

Add your address. It bases on Google maps and your location

Re: Re: Settings — When enabling Wi-Fi Calling, E911 requires an address. Help?

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:43:44 GMT

What do you mean by "add your address?" Their exact address was already put in, so they didn't have to manually put it in.

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Yamialex224 — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:47:28 GMT

Then confirm it and it will be all set up

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Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:58:20 GMT

The point of this post wasn't because they needed help confirming their address. I asked if anyone knew how a newly, factory reset device could've known their exact address — the street address and unit number, including — even though they have never added that particular address to either one of their autofill services.

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Yamialex224 — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:06:09 GMT

Your Google info. You had to sign in. Your samsung account. There are ways it knows your address

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Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:10:32 GMT

You're not very helpful.

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Yamialex224 — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:24:46 GMT

I'm giving you answers you don't like them then Google the answer yourseld

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Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:18:33 GMT

You're giving me answers to questions and scenarios I'm not asking about.

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Diaboyos — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:56:35 GMT

It probably used GPS and happened to be correct.

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userhNIV3Raqmj — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:23:25 GMT

Home address type in just fill info out the tap save or send witch ever it shows

Re: Settings — When enabling Wi-Fi Calling, E911 requires an address. Help?

5GKiller — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:26:41 GMT

NSA always knows where you are! You have to remove Sim card to go dark.

Re: Re: Settings — When enabling Wi-Fi Calling, E911 requires an address. Help?

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:31:33 GMT

Lol, thank you!