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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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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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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Over the last 3 days, Google play has been updating my apps even though I I have always had auto-update apps unchecked since I've gotten the phone.
How do I stop this? Is there another setting somewhere?
Did you go into settings when your in Google play and turn auto update off?
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Yes. Its not checked.
Go into settings, apps, Google play and clear cache and data
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Mine doesn't have a check box. You have to click the option and select do not auto update apps. Mine was set to auto update over WiFi.
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Sorry not to be clear. I selected never update in the same place.
I cleared the cache and went back in and it was set to always update.
I set it back to never. may apps are now all up to date. I'll let you know what happens when one is due.
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Over the last 3 days, Google play has been updating my apps even though I I have always had auto-update apps unchecked since I've gotten the phone.
How do I stop this? Is there another setting somewhere?
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Are you running nova launcher? There is am option in Nova settings>new apps that you can change.
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What is this plz tell me this is wakelock shown in better battery stat app.
I have disabled almost everything. No gps no location etc.
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What is this plz tell me this is wakelock shown in better battery stat app.
I have disabled almost everything. No gps no location etc.
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That's Google Cloud Messaging service. You can have them disabled from Google Play Service app if you don't use the services. I usually have all the services disabled without issue.
See more from here: http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html
Thanks, should i disable it from setting > Application Manager. But if i disable it i think i can't use google play store.
How you disabled it... from which app and should i disable whole gcm process or any thing in it which use wakelock.
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Thanks, should i disable it from setting > Application Manager. But if i disable it i think i can't use google play store.
How you disabled it... from which app and should i disable whole gcm process or any thing in it which use wakelock.
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disable it with system tuner.
Play store will continue work
Thanks i tried it but it still giving gcm wakelock.
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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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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.