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[Q] Any way to prevent Facebook app from sharing my location?

I have enabled location sharing from settings since I frequent use my phone for turn-by-turn voice directions and some pedometer-like apps to count my activity. I also like some Google Now functionality that enabling location access gives.
However, besides disabling this setting system-wide, it seems that the Facebook app always shares my location when I post status updates - and I find that extremely annoying. I scanned all app settings and could not find a way to disable location sharing from Facebook.
My question - is there anyway I can keep the system-level setting while preventing Facebook app from accessing location? I have not rooted my phone (Nexus 4) but will be willing to do so if that can help me with this problem.. Any suggestions?

Doesn't the LBE security software allow you to set permissions on a per app basis? I think you need to search for it on xda for the translated version.

Facebook doesn't share my location each update, I just checked a bunch of previous ones and they don't mention it at all.

Thanks!! LBE seems like it might do the trick... Will root my phone tomorrow morning and put lbe.
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Rusty try checking in to some place once. After that it will always share your location for all posts you make. I checked in one without knowing this‚ and there is no way to undo it after.
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Its under settings in the Facebook app

I don't see it under settings... Can you please elaborate? The only setting I see is for sharing location on Chat/messenger but that does not change the location sharing behavior on regular posts.
Any way‚ I rooted the phone but lbe privacy does not work with jelly beans (soft reboot on startup - several recent reviews on play store also says that).. So for now after resetting the phone I've not used the checkin feature on Facebook.. It's a bad workaround and I hope LBE fixes it's jelly bean issues soon.
Thanks again
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GPS won't turn off

Hey everyone,
I have the AT&T 32GB GS4. For the past few days, I have been experiencing odd battery drainages during the second half of the day. I was looking at the battery section of the settings menu, and when I turn off GPS through the notifications bar (when I'm done navigating), the GPS is showing that it is still running. It doesn't turn off until I restart the phone. Also, Google Services is taking up 40%+ of the battery and it hasn't done that ever. I've had this phone for a month.
Any ideas?
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could be location service related or weather app related. freeze all apps you DL'd and check again.

That didn't work. I turned off all apps and cleared data for Maps. Also, none of my apps are allowed to use my location.
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lathamc said:
That didn't work. I turned off all apps and cleared data for Maps. Also, none of my apps are allowed to use my location.
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try doing a factory reset from the settings menu. Just backup everything you want to keep onto your sd card

Do you have yahoo weather installed
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KitKat disable apps getting location

Is it possible to disable apps getting access to location individually?
If I turn on location Facebook seems eager to always wanting to know my location. And it also says high battery usage.
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If you go to settings > location access. you can turn it off though this turns if off for all apps.
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[Q] GPS icon?

Dear members,
Since I installed kk the GPS icon is always present in the notification bar (see picture). Is this normal? If not, what can I do about it too get rid of it? I already tried disabling location services but that doesn't work.
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Nobody? Why is it always present?
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hill67 said:
Nobody? Why is it always present?
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I also have this problem with the 4.4.2 update. Even turning location services off doesn't remove the icon. The only way I've found - apart from a restart - is to launch a Google app which invokes GPS (such as Google Maps) and then close it.

I've seen this too, running C-RoM. Doesn't happen a lot, but when it does, I reboot to clear it. No idea what causes it, although I have a gut feeling it correlates with Maps usage.

How to stop Smartphone App from restarting (and battery consuming) ?

Hi guys,
I've noticed that when I force close Smartphone App (in order to clear voicemail icon), the apps starts itself again soon. My former nexus 4 did not act like this. Any ideas?
Further, Clean Master (from CM), keeps notifying me some apps stop and restart in the background (probably due to 2 GB RAM).

Root ur phone and use greenify app..
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