To my knowledge that bug is cleared up: I had used it in old versions of Android (2.2 perhaps?) I doubt it persists on vanilla Android in the current build, since I'd read it had been fixed. Because of that, these apps shouldn't work (unless, of course, they've found another hole ;-).
Mark's reply on SO also implies he agrees you shouldn't be able to do this on ICS and above: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10302894/ics-android-enable-gps-programmatically I'd assume the app doesn't work on recent devices. If it does, it's probably only bad devices with crappy stock firmware that haven't fixed this bug. Have you installed the app on a recent device? Kris On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Gary Blakely <[email protected]> wrote: > I came across that thread when I did my original research. Didn't look too > proper and looked likely to stop working if it ever worked. > Thanks, > Gary > > > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 9:57:32 AM UTC-7, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> Google is your friend :-) >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4721449/enable-gps-programatically-like-tasker >> >> Kris >> >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Gary Blakely <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > A while ago I did quite a bit of research to see if it were possible to >> > programatically enable a phone's GPS should it be turned off (without >> > the >> > user knowing about it). The result of this research was that it can't >> > be >> > done. >> > >> > Just today, however, I came across an app named "seekDroid" that claims >> > to >> > do this very thing. >> > >> > Was my research wrong or are the seekdroid people making a false claim? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Gary >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Android Developers" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "Android Developers" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
