With OTA 10.1 on my BQ E5 GPS did turn itself on every now and so on - without me turning locationservices on, that was still off. I could not find a pattern to it at the time. That was of course reducing battery lifetime. On OTA 10.1 the GPS on/off button was still available under the battery settings, that's how I found out about it. With OTA 11 this button has disappeared, so I do sometimes wonder if internally GPS is still turned on occasionally (and apps could be able to use location-services?) but now I do not have any way to find out.
So, yes with the indicator showing GPS usage that would solve that problem as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-location in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1407921 Title: Indicator should give feedback when location-service is in use by apps Status in Canonical System Image: In Progress Status in Indicator Location: New Status in Ubuntu theme: Fix Committed Status in Ubuntu UX: Triaged Status in indicator-location package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: The only information the location indicator icon conveys currently is whether location detection is enabled at all, when more data could be interesting. Especially acquiring a GPS lock is often interesting, as this greatly impacts the location accuracy. Maybe the location icon should be dimmed when nothing is using it and blink when GPS lock is being acquired, bright when the lock is fine? The current spec is @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Location == Bug revision by charlesk 2016-01-24: The Location spec has been revised in this regard. The new text reads: > The indicator should appear in the status bar > whenever an app has accessed your location in > the past five minutes. It should list all apps > that have accessed your location in the past > five minutes, most recent first. Choosing any > app should switch to that app, so that you may > control whichever functions in that app are > accessing location. “Location Settings…” should > navigate to the “Location” screen of System > Settings. This bug is about the first part of that spec -- making the indicator visible when it's active -- and is (currently) blocked on location- service bug #1536774. The recent apps list component of the spec is covered in sibling bug #1235300. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1407921/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
