Actually, this is not true with my hack. I did a comparison of battery drain with and without GPS running using 10 second updates and the difference in drain between off and on was less than 10% on my Droid phone.
On Jul 23, 8:42 am, cellurl <gpscru...@gmail.com> wrote: > GPS is such a power hog, no way around it. Physics! > Not to soapbox, but there are a bunch of car apps that will require > putting your Android in a cradle on your car dashboard. > Why? Power. Only in a cradle will GPS be left on without draining the > battery. > > Sooo, please Android, make hostmode-USB a priority so we can build car > apps: self-steering, self-braking, stay-awake apps.... > > jp -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
