In Android Marshmellow, the Power Saving function turns off the GPS when the screen turns off (at least on the Galaxy S5).
On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 10:02:18 PM UTC+9, Thomas Köller wrote: > > When I am using Osmand for car navigation, it frequently (though not > always) happens that it tells me that it lost the GPS signal. In most > cases, it reports the GPS signal being regained after a couple of seconds. > This is repeated at irregular intervals. It is a bit annoying if you are > just approaching a road fork and do not know which branch to take. I also > encountered two variants of this behavior, which are even more annoying, > the first one being a permanent loss of GPS signal reception, lasting > untill Osmand is restarted. The second one is Osmand going into a tight > cycle of GPS lost/regained every few seconds, which makes navigation > impossible. > > I have been suffering from these problems for over a year now, but have so > far been too lazy to reoport them. I am running Osmand on a Nexus 5 with > Cyanogenmod 13 nightly, which I update once every week. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" 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/d/optout.
