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GPS activating very briefly at odd times. Can I check a log of activity?

I've noticed that my GPS is activating intermittently. Sometimes when I turn on the screen, I notice that the GPS icon (that shouldn't have been on) goes off. Just the other day I was about to put down my phone and the GPS icon flicked on and off very quickly.
Of course it is possible that this is some sort of Google service or something perfectly legitimate, but I'm getting a bit suspicious.
Is there any way of pulling out a log of what apps/services have used the GPS and when?

Do you have any apps that may be using a GPS connection in the background to update your location, like a weather app or Facebook places?
If you go to settings>>location and security, is Use GPS Satellites ticked?
if so untick it and this should stop.

Run "Spare Parts" (I can see you're using CyanogenMod 7, so you should have this app in your App Drawer) and see what's going on in "Battery History", "GPS usage".
Other than that is your GPS behaving as expected when running location-aware apps (like Maps, for example), or are you experiencing slow satellite locks, etc.?

GPS Help

I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with this issue. I have all my location and GPS settings set to off but I randomly see my location set icon and GPS icon pop up in my notification bar. If I open GPS Status it locks but should not since everything is set to off. Any ideas? Is someone spying on me? GPS even locks in Airplane mode.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda premium

I wonder if it could be the GPS Status app. I notice it causes the GPS icons to get stuck in the notif. bar sometimes too.... but I do have all location settings turned on. But I would at least try disabling the status app and see if the issue still occurs

"Location Found"

Why does my phone always say "Location Found" in the notifications? I cannot even swipe it away.

You must have Location set to "High Accuracy". The system will try to find your location constantly. If you're in a location where it's hard to get a lock, whether because there is no GPS or network signal, the system will take a LONG time trying to find your location. It cannot be swiped away but you can try clearing your currently running programs to see if that helps.
I changed my Location setting from "High Accuracy" to "Battery Saving" and I have not have any issues with that. It also almost eliminated the heating issues I was having, where it felt like I had a small, portable furnace in my pocket whenever the phone would switch out of 4G into 3G or 1x. I have also found that update 13B is much more stable and has improved my battery life.
Hope that helps.

Location Found Notification
When I open Waze it needs my location turned on to accurately navigate, and that turns on that notification. If I tap on that notification, and tap on Waze in the list, and force stop Waze the notification goes away until the next time I use Waze. :good:

GPS active time

The GPS was active for 10 HOURS (!!!!!!!) for NO APPARENT REASON AT ALL while the Location wasn't even active...
When I presses the Location icon to activate it, it showed me almost instantly the Smart Cleaning notification for some reason. Don't know if it's related, but I think that's worth mentioning.
Any ideas?

No one?

New Samsung settings and GPS

On android devices it was always possible to switch localisation services and GPS separately.
You could keep localisation services turned on (with wifi and phone) and turn off GPS to spare battery.
Now with android pie and new smasung settings it is all or nothing as there is onlys one setting :
I can turn on localisation and it turns on GPS
But if you turn it off, it disables everykind of localisation : GPS but also wiifi ...
Has anyone noticed this and is there a workaround ?

I'm not a fan of the always enabled GPS
I really do not like this at all. I have typically always kept GPS off as far back as Jellybean, favoring Locations battery saving mode, unless I needed navigation or something like that. GPS is power hungry and there's no reason to have to have it always enabled. I know Pie is supposed to help with battery usage and I honestly can't judge whether or not it really does yet as this is day two for me.
Pie is supposed to prevent apps from accessing sensors in the background but I've read that this doesn't apply to GPS so this whole thing is probably part of a marketing thing giving Google as well as app devs the ability to monetize ads based on specific location of us the users. Location is frequently wrong about where I am anyway, showing me a street over and even though I have WiFi and Bluetooth scanning enabled. As a result, my Safe Unlock no longer works when I'm home (only location I have enabled) which sucks. With Oreo I saw this somewhat often and only after I had been home for a while would the Safe Unlock work properly and I accepted this as a consequence of having Location in battery saving mode but now I'm not sure. I just no that with Pie, so far, Safe Unlock hasn't functioned once. My designated home WiFi that I'm on as I type should cause Safe Unlock to do it's thing but it's not. Maybe Location or Safe Unlock are broken. I have seen reports of both regarding Pie so I can't blame it in Samsung. I guess I'll have to try to figure out which of these features is broken.
I'm not sure if this is related to the Location issue but I also noticed that Samsung+ is not working for me. When I first tried to open it I got a notification that I need to have location enabled, I agreed (it was anyway), then I was shown a red screen with error or format codes that force closed faster than I could decipher it. This could be related or could have been broken in an update. Other than for ad purposes, and I don't recall seeing any other than Samsung ads in the Samsung app, I don't know why Samsung+ needs to access location services as it only works in the US and the network tells the app I'm in the US as well as the tower I'm accessing. I suppose it's another attempt to collect user info related to WiFi, Mac address and Bluetooth. I only got the "enable location" request the first couple of times I tried opening the app but the red error screen and FC both still occur. I tried to get a screenshot but I could only manage about half of the screen before it FC'd. I attached the partial pic. It's the bottom half of the screen. When it closes, the app window seems to slide up like when you close apps in the recents view. This brings up another complaint...Screenshot is slow to respond so events like this are next to impossible to capture. I'll have to get a camera out and try.

dronarg said:
On android devices it was always possible to switch localisation services and GPS separately.
You could keep localisation services turned on (with wifi and phone) and turn off GPS to spare battery.
Now with android pie and new smasung settings it is all or nothing as there is onlys one setting :
I can turn on localisation and it turns on GPS
But if you turn it off, it disables everykind of localisation : GPS but also wiifi ...
Has anyone noticed this and is there a workaround ?
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Yes I noticed this. I use 'Tasker' app as a workaround. I set Location Mode to High Accuracy when using Navigation apps, and set to Battery Saving after closing the Navigation app. You can also just create a widget on home screen to toggle Location Mode to High Accuracy or Battery Saving.
I confirmed this setting by using 'Power Toggles' app widget. When the GPS toggle in widget is highlighted, it means on High Accuracy mode, if not highlighted it's on Battery Saving mode.

dronarg said:
On android devices it was always possible to switch localisation services and GPS separately.
You could keep localisation services turned on (with wifi and phone) and turn off GPS to spare battery.
Now with android pie and new smasung settings it is all or nothing as there is onlys one setting :
I can turn on localisation and it turns on GPS
But if you turn it off, it disables everykind of localisation : GPS but also wiifi ...
Has anyone noticed this and is there a workaround ?
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I have yet to notice any adverse battery performance since I've been on pie and I've been on it since the start of the official betas. I was annoyed at first because I had always used battery save mode but really it's been a non issue for me.