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Two questions after the major update

rcyphermd

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Oct 14, 2009
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After the major update, I have two questions. Where is the battery saving setting for location setting? Previously I could limit it to Wi-Fi and cell towers and save battery. I don't see that as an option..

Also I used to be able to have one button to close all recent apps. I don't see that now. Is there another way to do that other than manually?
 
Also I used to be able to have one button to close all recent apps. I don't see that now. Is there another way to do that other than manually?

Do you have the little navigation "pill" or the old buttons? With the pill, you swipe up once to get the recent list and you can swipe (up) them away one by one or swipe right to the end of the list until you get the clear all option.
 
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It's seriously buried in settings.
Settings/Google/location/Google location accuracy, turn that off for phone/GPS only. At least that's where I found it on my Essential, I'm assuming it's the same.
 

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You don't really get manual control over what interfaces (wifi, cell, GPS hardware) the phone will use to get location information anymore. You can choose to use Google's enhanced location services (as mentioned by @Clementine_3 above) but you can't force it to use only wifi and cell towers and never the GPS chip.

(That said, it still won't use GPS unless an application requests a very precise location. It will always use the more power-friendly methods first.)
 
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When it's in use. But wireless location is used by more apps and more frequently, whereas GPS is only used when an app with fine location permission uses it.

Back in 2010 I experimented with this and found no impact on battery life from leaving GPS on permanently (wireless location off) compared with location off completely.
 
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