On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:57 PM, mrqzzz <marcus.ob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I red in these discussion groups that you cannot programmatically turn
> on/off the GPS : Mark Murphy was exhaustive, as always.

Ummm...is exhaustive a good thing?

> But i found a 3rd party App, in the market, that creates a widget
> capable of switching the GPS on/off.
>
> How did they do it?

If they are enabling and disabling the GPS, they found a security
exploit and are exploiting it. That's only supposed to be allowed to
be done by system applications.

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