ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:50 AM, royden yates <royden.yates@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:19:56 +0100
> Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 28.01.2016 14:21, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> > > On 28/01/2016 15:36, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> > >> Funny enough, the HERE webapp is the only thing that
> > >> actually manages to get a GPS fix for me. I haven't ever
> > >> seen a GPS fix in OSMScout or any other app.
> > >
> > > It shouldn't make any difference, which app you are using.
> > > It may be that the only thing that changes is how you use
> > > the phone while location service is on:
> > >
> > > - The app must be active on the foreground, and the screen
> > > must be on
> > > - For AGPS to work, you need to have WIFI on and be
> > > connected to the internet (either wifi or cellular data, it
> > > doesn't matter)
> >
> > Yes, that's what I would think too. But well, not what my
> > device agrees with... I just opened Here. It loaded, 3 secs
> > later it painted where I am. I closed it again, opened
> > OSMScout and well, in the meantime I've typed this mail with
> > the display on and OSMScout in foreground and it still thinks
> > I'm sitting on the north pole...
> > >
> > > Ciao,
> > >   Alberto
>
> Another issue, is that since the change to the notification drop
> down, the gps chip itself is not seen to be enabled/disabled,
> but "location detection" may be shown as enabled there,
> perhaps confusingly. For gps chip status, one must know to go
> to System Settings -> Battery screen.
>
> This situation is inconsistent, as wifi and bluetooth chip power
> states ARE shwon in notifications.  Why not gps?
>
> cheers Royden
>

We recently updated the spec to remove the GPS control entirely as
explained in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1533837

Cheers
Pat

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