There's a pulldown menu at the top of the screen. I can manually turn the gps on and off from there. If it's off my Google maps and similar programmes won't work.
I leave it off unless needed to run a programme both for power use and reasons of paranoia. ;-) I don't know if I can be "tracked" with it off. I hope not. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> Sent: December 28, 2011 12/28/11 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Bad news for Frank On 12/28/2011 1:52 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2011, at 12:49 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Paul, the boogie man will probably never show up at your door. Mine neither. >> >> And yes, some of the things my android (powered by Google) can do for me are >> nothing short of miraculous. >> >> That doesn't mean I want information about me floating around out there to >> be used by anyone who gets their hands on it. That's why I turn off my gps >> when I'm not using it. > > As far as I know, the GPS is always on, but it's only seen by you when the > relevant software is being used. Could be wrong abut that, but I can't > imagine whey the phone would switch it off. Nope, the GPS is a big power drain. It's only on when specific apps turn it on. -- Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
