Hi. I hope I am posting this in the right place. So I have an LG Nexus 4 which has Kitkat 4.4.* and an updated google service apparently. The location reporting option is no longer available, only the history one. Now my problem is that I accidentally agreed to let google report location data in exchange for higher location accuracy. However I cannot revert this agreement anywhere. Each time I turn off/on the Location service, it resets to the highest accuracy, thus also reporting the location. It doesn't use my last setting as default. Is there a way to force default (device only) setting on it somehow? Or revert this option back to "always ask" or something? I can't find almost anything about this on the web. I'm afraid that it sets this into the google account itself, so my only option could be forcing the phone to default to the desired one. Is it even possible?:/
Any help is appreciated!
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I recently installed Semi V17 and an updated BetterBatteryStats version. With that combination, I noticed that my device was never able to move into deep sleep due to constant location updates, thus causing battery drain. I think I've narrowed down the culprit for my battery drain, however, I'm not sure I know how to resolve it. It appears to be the Latitude support in Google Maps. I'm not enrolled in Latitude, but based on "adb shell dumpsys" output, it appears that it is running and requesting location updates constantly. The following is the registration for location updates from dumpsys. Notice that it is specifying no minimum time or distance, which implies (to me) constant updates.
Code:
Receiver{419e7ad0 Listener [email protected]}mUpdateRecords: {passive=UpdateRecord{421e75a0 mProvider: passive mUid: 10084}}:
passive:
UpdateRecord{421e75a0 mProvider: passive mUid: 10084}
mProvider=passive mReceiver=Receiver{419e7ad0 Listener [email protected]}mUpdateRecords: {passive=UpdateRecord{421e75a0 mProvider: passive mUid: 10084}}
mMinTime=0 mMinDistance=0.0
mSingleShot=false
mUid=10084
Dumpsys identifies the 10084 process as the LocationFriendService:
Code:
*APP* UID 10084 ProcessRecord{41af23e8 13037:com.google.android.apps.maps:LocationFriendService/10084}
class=com.google.googlenav.android.AndroidGmmApplication
Does anyone have any idea how to disable this service without completely freezing/removing the Google Maps application?
Thanks,
Craig
Have you turned off automatic location detection in the Latitude/Maps settings? You can completely disable it or set so it asks you to update it manually.
Also if you have Facebook installed make sure you disable location reporting in your Facebook app settings. That was a big one for me.
One other thing to check is any widgets that use location detection (like weather widgets).
In settings... same place where you enable the GPS.
Strangely, I had to click through to enable Latitude before I could get to the settings to control Latitude and really shut it off. I've now turned off everything I could find related to Latitude and will see if that "sticks". Previously, it would seem to work for some period of time and then all of the sudden start running like crazy, so until I've run like this for at least 24 hours I'm just not going to know if I've truly managed to disable this service.
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csetera said:
Strangely, I had to click through to enable Latitude before I could get to the settings to control Latitude and really shut it off. I've now turned off everything I could find related to Latitude and will see if that "sticks". Previously, it would seem to work for some period of time and then all of the sudden start running like crazy, so until I've run like this for at least 24 hours I'm just not going to know if I've truly managed to disable this service.
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It appears like disabling all things Latitude has cured my battery drain. If only they hadn't hidden those settings, it would have been way more obvious. Thanks for the tip.
I finally decided that I was missing out by not having Tasker automate my life for me, so bought it as well as the full version of Secure Settings.
I've managed a couple of simple Profiles, but I'm having trouble with other stuff I want to do - most likely because I just don't understand.
A. Aim: When Maps is launched, turn on "WiFi" and "Location Mode High Accuracy"
Profile: Near Work
State: Cell Near (work)
Tasks: (1) WiFi On (2) Secure Settings, Location Mode/High Accuracy
This almost works - opening Maps carries out the expected tasks, and when I exit maps WiFi turns off (desired behaviour). However, Location does not switch off again, it stays on switched on, and I don't understand why.
I'd like Location to switch off again when I exit Maps.
B. Aim: Switch on WiFi and Location Mode/Battery Saving and Location Reporting and Location History once an hour, for one minute, and allow (force?) Google to poll my location for a short period so that if I ever lose my phone and it is switched off, there will be a trail of sorts (without having to leave all these services switched on all the time,which canes my battery).
Profile: Manage Location Services
State: Time - I don't know how I can make the profile active for one minute, every hour
Tasks: (1) WiFi On
Then I get lost - I can't see how to enable Location Reporting which is in Location Services in my phone settings. Also I don't know if doing that would immediately prompt the phone to contact Google and report its location (I assume it would).
C: Aim: Between 10pm-9am, if at home, then silence phone and switch off notification light
State: Cell near (home)
This is as far as I've got. I don't understand how to use time as a defining factor. Nor do I know how to switch off the notification light.
If anyone could help then I'd be very grateful!
Also, after reading a lot of Tasker walkthroughs/userguides (and not understanding a lot of them) I am none the wiser as to how to set up an 'exit task'?
There are a lot of issues regarding Secure Settings, I don't recommend it. The only way to turn on/off gps (and the way I'd do it personally) is use root shell to navigate through the settings or better yet set Status Bar-Open and using a Shell-"input tap x y" Use Root: Yes to tap on the GPS quick setting widget.
To add an exit task simply long press on the action part of your profile (on the main screen) and the options will appear. You can also add additional State, Time or Action matchings to your one profile, by long-pressing on the left part!
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I have a Huawei Honor X1 (503L version B007) and live in northern Europe.
I noticed that, although I have turned on the settings to share my location, I can't see my device in Google Dashboard.
In the past weeks there is one moment An hour or so at 03:00 AM that my phone shows up in Google dashboard, but that's all.
Also my weather apps do not seem to find the location I am at or take a long time to switch to the correct location (time to check is set to a low interval).
GPS works fine. Internet through WIFI and data connection work fine and calling or receiving calls is no problem either.
I have tried reinstalling some Google play services with a GPS spoofer installed and all that but it doesn't seem to help.
I read about the 503L, because it's meant for the Asian market, has a different frequency for cell towers. Could this be the problem for the apps not being able to locate my device?
Are there Google services I should have installed for this service to work? (I have Playstore, Google now, mail and sync).
Is there a ROM (being) developed that i could use to 'Europeanize' my phone? (base language English, Google apps installed, frequency correction etc.)
I think there are various issues with this phone. I have the 7D-501U and I note that it too does not properly keep the location up to date. It also fails to run various services at startup, despite them being marked as "allow to run at startup". They can also get shut down if started manually. Basically, I think Huawei has been too aggressive with their power saving tricks.
Hi,
If I'm the wrong forum I apologize and would be happy if directed to the proper one.
Androids newer versions have changed the 'GPS' button into a 'Location' button which now offers 3 options for determining your position (recording wifi router information and comparing it to a google database, using the devices GPS, and doing both) each of those options prompt a disturing and annotying popup each time you turn the GPS on, "advising"/badgering the user into sharing his information with Google.
The only solution which I found to this popup problem (without installing any 3rd party apps or rooting the phone) involves disabling the Google Play Service- that however created something strange which I'm not sure about... If previously the user could choose which way of locating he wants and the device remembered it- now every time the GPS is turned on it is automaticlly goes into "local device&wifi tracking" mode (the first option).
I want to know if a)Does the device indeed monitors that information (even if it can't send it anywhere with google services being disabled)? b) any way to stop it? c)can this default be changed so that only the local GPS chip will be used?
Thank you very much!
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I've noticed a strange issue with location services on my Edge. When I have the location mode set to "GPS, WiFi and mobile networks", with WiFi turned off, sometimes apps detect some (basically random) location, 10-20 kilometers away from where I really am. Once it even detected I was in Tokyo, and I live in Europe. This most often happens when the phone has been locked for about an hour or more. What's also strange is that, once that happens, after I close and reopen an app (say, a weather app, which uses location) a few times, it detects the correct location. And then if I lock the phone and unlock it after some time, the app will again show the wrong location.
I've also noticed this doesn't happen with the Google Maps app, it always detects the correct location. Maybe the issue is with that particular location mode (which is supposed to be "high accuracy", lol). But, on the other hand, I don't see a reason why that would be the case. Could it be something with cell towers reporting wrong location?
I've tried resetting the phone, and restoring my data from backup, but it didn't change this behavior.
Has anyone had a similar experience? What might be causing this and how to fix it?
EDIT: A quick side question: is there a way to revoke the permission you have to give to Google to use that "high accuracy" mode?
Thanks in advance for any assistance or advice.
P.S.: I'm using stock firmware (5.1.1) with no root.