“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by kuschku on Saturday August 22, 2015 @09:30AM (#10102443)

> Google Apps will drain your battery

Google Apps will also drain your battery if you are in a region where Google has no network-location data yet, because then Google will turn on your GPS, and send to their servers the pair of GPS-coords and strength of networks.

If you live in a suburb in Germany where almost no networks are known to Google, this means if you enable location services your GPS will try to get a fix 24/7, eating your battery in about 2 hours.

This is probably going to be an issue in China, too, considering that Google doesn’t have location data there.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by rahimnathwani on Sunday August 23, 2015 @09:23AM (#10105428)

I think you can turn this off. My phone has a setting called 'Scanning always available', which says "Let Google's location service and other apps scan for networks, even when Wi-Fi is off.". If I turn off this setting, and turn off wi-fi, then the problem you point out should be avoided, right?

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by kuschku on Sunday August 23, 2015 @12:59PM (#10106002)

Yes.

But if you turn on WiFi and Location at the same time (which is not uncommon), then it will suck your battery dry in seconds. Turn any of those two off, and it works.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by rahimnathwani on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @04:53AM (#10121830)

Oh. My phone has three options for 'Location mode':

- High accuracy (GPS, wi-fi, mobile)

- Battery saving (Wi-fi, mobile)

- Device only (GPS)

From what you say, it sounds like 'Device only' would save more battery than 'Battery saving'?

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