Is there a way to let apps like Google Maps turn on my GPS without my permission? I'm tired of dragging the notification bar, hitting the GPS icon, and clicking "accept".
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Hi, my problem is that every time i turn the screen off the gps goes on. If i lock the screen and turn it on after five seconds the gps icon is active on the status bar.
At first I thought it was some misbehaving app, but now I've frozen almost all apps using the permission ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, but the problem is still there.
The application using the gps appears to be google maps, is this behavior normal? I don't have latitude activated, autosync is off.
I keep gps on because I have seekdroid installed and on gingerbread apps can't self-enable gps
You don't per chance have Tasker installed or some other location based widget on your home screens do you?
If you do have a location widget working (Like Lattitude or Loopt) there is probably a setting to check to tell it not to automatically turn on location.
anyone know what the name of the turn by turn navigation app is on the stock tf101?
Does anyone know who makes it? Is it a google app or an asus app? was it discontinued?
and finally does anyone know of the apk is avalable for donload somewhere?
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The navigation app was a part of Maps. When Maps updated to version 7, the nav icon disappeared. You can now just open the Maps app and tap the curved arrow on the right of the search box to get turn by turn directions.
If you really want it back you can uninstall updates to the Maps app and disable automatic updating and you can still have your nav icon.
Turn by turn is still there, it's just been merged into the Google Maps app. It's a huge improvement this way. Previously, Maps and Navigation were two separate apps, and the transitions between them were jarring (going from maps search to nav was ok, but clicking back out of nav dumped you to the homescreen, losing your search). They each had their own app cache, so you'd be waiting for the maps to load twice, etc... Seriously, the flow of the new Maps app is way better now. I've been using it daily.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 running 4.2.2 (KatKiss)
I'm giving an example, when I open Google play music my phone locks, and than screen turns back on with location icon in status bar, even though it's off... Help. It's very annoying. Not only with Google play music, also with chrome and twitter.
When I open Waze it needs my location turned on to accurately navigate, and that turns on that notification. If I tap on that notification, and tap on Waze in the list, and force stop Waze the notification goes away until the next time I use Waze. :good:
I searched for days for an answer and then figured it out on my own, so I wanted to share and see if this helps.
Is there any way to disable these annoying notifications at the bottom of the screen about weak gps or saving parking location right after unlock the phone?
Sounds like your Google Maps program is giving you warning/notifications. I would do a deep dive into all the maps settings to see what can be turned off.
jaseman said:
Sounds like your Google Maps program is giving you warning/notifications. I would do a deep dive into all the maps settings to see what can be turned off.
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Thanks. Disabling google maps notifications has helped a bit but I still have weak gps notifications from time to time. I really don't like this new feature of android 10 and I don't see the possibility to disable these bottom notifications globally.