Stock ROM and GPS toggling

[Sarit Amar]

Hi I'm using Nexus 4 with the stock ROM, unrooted, and I'm fine with it. Except for the GPS toggling! Whenever apps such as Power Toggles, Waze etc need to automatically turn the GPS on, I need to enter the phone setting and do it manually. Very frustrating. Is there anyway to fix this behavior? Thanks,

 

[N4Newbie]

Yeah... just leave it enabled. Why do you feel the need to keep turning it on and of?

 

[Sarit Amar]

Battery life..

Yeah... just leave it enabled. Why do you feel the need to keep turning it on and of?

 

[N4Newbie]

There should be practically zero impact on battery life. When "enabled" the GPS turns itself on and off as needed.

 

[anon(847090)]

Hi I'm using Nexus 4 with the stock ROM, unrooted, and I'm fine with it. Except for the GPS toggling! Whenever apps such as Power Toggles, Waze etc need to automatically turn the GPS on, I need to enter the phone setting and do it manually. Very frustrating. Is there anyway to fix this behavior? Thanks,

GPS is a secure element on your phone so Google has disabled access to GPS toggle by default for other apps.
NFC is also a secure element so it is disabled by default as well.

but if you have root GPS toggle will work.

On my rooted Nexus when i try to toggle GPS for the first time a root access prompt is requested and there after it works normally.