Help Gps

[kevzter]

i have the HTC EVO 4G from Sprint and wondering what i am not able to do/access if i turn of my GPS function? i am trying to do as much as i can to maximize my battery life...thanks!

 

[akazabam]

There are really two parts to this. As a whole, certain things in the system and certain apps will request your location from time to time (if you allow it). If GPS is enabled, it will get a better fix. If it's not, it will just use cell tower triangulation. If you go to menu->settings->location, you'll see you have two options:

Use wireless networks
Use GPS satellites

If you uncheck GPS satellites, anything location based will still be able to find you, but it won't be extremely accurate. It's good enough in most cases. You can, of course, turn off location awareness altogether if you don't want anything to ever be able to figure out your location. It's not going to make much of a difference on batter, though, just leaving wireless network location enabled. That being said, GPS will not use any battery unless it's being used. What that means is, you can leave GPS on all the time, and as long as you don't use anything that regularly checks the location, you won't use any more battery than if you just turned it off.

 

[kevzter]

i see, thanks a lot for help/tip! you have been very helpful..

 

[Rigmaster]

I keep gps off 99% of the time. Only turn it on when I want to use gps.

 

[akazabam]

And you really don't need to turn it off unless you really want to or you have apps that constantly check location, and you want to force them not to use GPS. If it's on, but not checking location, it will not use the battery at all.