In most countries you can visit a phone store and purchase an inexpensive SIM card to get another number. From here you can claim a number, following the verification and registration prompts. (Your Signal messages are only on Signal’s servers, not Google’s servers.) Go to and log in with a Google account. It doesn’t have to be your personal phone number - there are a few ways to get a second phone number.įor those in the United States, the easiest way to set up a secondary number is with Google Voice. You can register a Signal account with any phone number you have ongoing control over as long as no one else has registered it. If you haven’t tried Signal, check out our guide to get started. We’ll walk you through how to get a secondary phone number, how to choose the best device for it and also review some safety considerations for using the messaging app. The good news is you don’t need another phone plan to use a second Signal account, and you may be able to set it up on a range of devices. Or you could copy an FTP client program, and write the file to an FTP server on your PC over a WiFi connection (which would allow you to have the phone on the other side of the world from the PC).If you use Signal, the secure messaging app, you may have thought about a second account so you don’t have to give out your personal phone number. Or perhaps you could get a bluetooth dongle for your PC and "tether" the phone to the PC over bluetooth, by creating a bluetooth COM port connection for the GPS using something like the Android app BlueNMEA. Both will involve quite a bit of coding.įor b), you might want to consider - writing NMEA to a file on the phone while it is connected to the PC as a USB Mass Storage device, and reading updates to the file from the PC regularly. If you are finding GPSTether too buggy, you really only have two choices either a) implement a version of GPSTether yourself, or b) come up with a different method for doing this. GPSTether is a "hack" using the adb forwarding debug bridge in order to create the link between phone and PC, and then reads the NMEA from the location manager and sends it over the TCP/IP link created by adb forwarding. Unfortunately Android doesn't support USB in such a way natively.
The ideal situation here would be to have a serial port over USB connection between your Android phone and your PC, and to stream NMEA across it from the phone.
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