I have turned off location tracking on my S8 but every now and then I notice the location pin icon shows up in the notification bar, but when i pull it down location is greyed out as it should be. Any ideas what is actually going on here?
richo27 said:
I have turned off location tracking on my S8 but every now and then I notice the location pin icon shows up in the notification bar, but when i pull it down location is greyed out as it should be. Any ideas what is actually going on here?
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It may be because of an app trying to get location. check which app it has location enabled.
Ok I have been keeping an eye on this, what seems to be happening every time I connect to a new wifi network my location is turned on momentarily, but I don't know which app is doing it or how to find it. As far as I am aware I have turned off location tracking on every app i know is trying to use it.
The only time I want location on is when I need to use my GPS, I have no other use for this function.
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I keep getting the small flashing icon in the bottom right notifcation bar saying "Searching for GPS". I have turned off the GPS capabilities in settings and am still having an issue. Anyone else have this problem? Its sort of annoying when its constantly flashing and I dont want it draining battery or anything.
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Steve
same here. happened when an app need to access location.
Here too, but the GPS doesn't appear to be enabled -- the status just shows that an app wants to use GPS. If set to airplane mode or you've disabled GPS, you won't be wasting battery power.
Hmm thanks for the replys guys, the flashing icon is just annoying, thats all. I guess it doesnt seem to be effecting battery that I know of.
I wonder if theres a way to tell which app is trying to use the GPS?
Open Google Maps, then close it (go to home). It usually stop the searching of GPS sats on my phone with that method.
Hi, maps seems to be keeping my phone awake when I lock it. I've searched this forum and I've disabled almost all the settings regarding GPS, location etc, as it seems this is what people are recommending. The only ones that I have kept enabled are 'Access my location', 'GPS Satellites' and 'Wifi & mobile network location'.
Better battery starts shows that 'NetworkLocationPassiveCollector' is giving partial wakelock.
Is there any way to stop this without turning GPS off?
Thank you
Anyone help? I've completely disabled location access, gps etc for now to see if it helps.
Mine was doing this a lot recently. I force closed the app, killed cache/data, then relaunched it and went into settings and toggled all of the stupid "track my location in the background" settings (on again, then back off). Haven't had a problem with it since.
It was sneaky about it, too. I would wake up my screen and see the GPS icon in the status bar and it would disappear right away. 20 minutes later I would wake up my phone and it would do the same thing.
Happens to me a lot also. I noticed facebook app will ping my gps occasionally unless I actually close the app out. I just turn location off unless I need it.
Hey. I've just bough myself a nexus 4 with 4.3 android on it and i was wondering if the GPS is always turned on? Or does it turn on only when an application asks for it? I cant find an on/off button for it like my gf has on her galaxy ace 2.2 android. I noticed when i run google maps the GPS icon appears in the notifications bar. I installed the Avast anti-theft app and was wondering if it needs GPS to work all the time or as i said earlier, just when the app asks for the coordinates (GPS icon doesnt appear like when im using google maps). Thank you and have a great day.
It only activates when an app asks for it it, and then only if you have GPS allowed in location settings.
Look in settting>>location>>see if it's enabled. If it is enabled then your gps will automatic turn on when the app needs it. Also see if you have both option ticked. That way it will use more options to pinpoint your location. I usually do not tick on the wifi option as it drains so much battery for me.
Great! That means it wont drain my battery Thank you for the quick and good answers!
has anyone gotten this? I have GPS off, but the finding location notification and reticle comes up and just never goes away since GPS is obviously off. how can I figure out which app is doing this? it just started, but i haven't installed any new apps lately...
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jayochs said:
has anyone gotten this? I have GPS off, but the finding location notification and reticle comes up and just never goes away since GPS is obviously off. how can I figure out which app is doing this? it just started, but i haven't installed any new apps lately...
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u could install a firewall app where u can enable every app by its own. first shut all apps off, than on one by one to find out which makes this. this is what i would do. yes the app is not for GPS, but mostly when an app starts trying to find out ur location than it wants to deliver the data somewhere. so it could work like this. i have "android firewall" from the play store. its the icon with the blue shield an an android logo on it.
@jayochs GPS toggle switch actually leaves wifi and mobile network location on(Google). Just drops hardware/verizon* GPS. You can long press toggle to check. Not sure if this is your problem, but I found this odd testing and just making sure you are aware. I don't get GPS pops when completely off, I do when I toggle the switch.
I have shut WiFi off the the settings pane and it still shows on in the battery monitor. I don't think it is using a lot of battery (hasn't shown up) but some of the stuff in the system shows WiFi usage when it is clearly shut off.
Anyone have any ideas?
Wifi scans for networks (location assist) in the background by default. Go to Settings > Location > overflow (three dots at top right) > Scanning and change the setting for Wifi/bluetooth.
Does this actually mess up location stuff though?
Mine is the same, turned of wifi scanning also.
This is an old bug from the very first lollipop release and its still in marshmallow, can't believe Google haven't fixed this basic thing. It sometimes works correctly if you turn off WiFi before you lose connection by going out of range. Or turn off WiFi and reboot, that definitely does fix it.
No kidding, a reboot after wifi was switched off worked. thanks man.
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Does this actually mess up location stuff though?
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Shouldn't "mess up" location services. The wifi scanning is supposed to just help find your location more quickly and/or provide more accurate location data without GPS on.