Which location services should be on?

**panicprone77** · 03-17-2011, 03:57 PM

I noticed that there are 3 different location services, what are each of them for and which ones normally should be on?

**DroidXcon** · 03-17-2011, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by panicprone77

I noticed that there are 3 different location services, what are each of them for and which ones normally should be on?

verizon and google assisted locations you can leave them on all the time, as i do they will only be active when you have gps on .. they use different things like towers to triangulate your location and help the gps lock faster

**panicprone77** · 03-17-2011, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by DroidXcon

verizon and google assisted locations you can leave them on all the time, as i do they will only be active when you have gps on .. they use different things like towers to triangulate your location and help the gps lock faster

Thanks, what about standalone gps?

**DroidXcon** · 03-17-2011, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by panicprone77

Thanks, what about standalone gps?

that is your main gps toggle if that is off your gps is off

**panicprone77** · 03-17-2011, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by DroidXcon

that is your main gps toggle if that is off your gps is off

Thanks, so bottomline keep all 3 on.

**blackmannx#AC** · 03-17-2011, 04:11 PM

all three should stay on.. does not hurt battery as the device shouldnt be requesting location fix unless your in an app or service that needs it. IE google maps, or 4square...

**bmcclure937** · 03-17-2011, 11:44 PM

Interesting. Good to know. I have always heard to disable GPS to help conserve battery.

So basically even with GPS enabled the radio stays idle until a request occurs...

**Chance** · 03-17-2011, 11:56 PM

When I had og Droid my battery went faster with gps on. So I always had it turned off, unless I was using navigation.
So now I will keep mine off.

Oh and on the internet I saw gps symbol pop up a lot. So yea its not idle its being used.
Meaning battery sipping!

For me anyways.

**TheBlueMajestic** · 03-21-2011, 10:43 AM

I found that a lot of my apps where running in the background, even when I had closed the app, and using my location services to update data. An example is the weather applet. I turned off all of my location services (VZ, GPS, Google) and waited until an app that I wanted to use requested my location. So far, Google location service is the only one that's been required and that was for the weather applet. I think GPS is more for navigation with maps but I use my car's GPS for that. VZ location services seems to be redundant of Google's. VZ really wants people to use their stuff so they can collect/use/sell data just like Google.