Good to know. My Motorola Droid 2 running Android 3 doesn't appear to have any function that disconnects GPS. I don't want to turn it off anyway, because I use it frequently, but I'm surprised that all android operating systems aren't the same. Of course, I could be missing something obvious.
Paul On Dec 28, 2011, at 5:16 PM, [email protected] wrote: > 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. -- 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.
