How to turn off GPS?

[dominikw88]

After i used navigon my gps will not turn off itself, so its seems to be searching or connection to gps all the time with no need to do. So, how can i turn off gps myself. when i go in flight mode it dont turn off. the orange light keeps blinking. this costs battery.

[kareeem]

Just close the program that was using the navigation; it's not like bluetooth or wifi where you can turn it on and off.

[dominikw88]

All programms are closed via taskmanager

[ChumleyEX]

I wasn't aware that there was a light that indicated the GPS was on.

[InRBigness]

Is the orange led not just an indicator that the phone is powered on? The gps does not have an indicator LED. If you want the orange LED to turn off, then you need to turn off your phone completely which makes it hard for people to call you.

The gps only goes on when you use a program that uses the gps.

[ASCIIker]

to the person that started this thread, the correct answer, as most of the replies say, is that the gps should come on by itself when the first application requests it. at this point, you can start other gps based applications and the gps will remain on. as you start closing these applications and/or begin to disable their gps options, the gps will go off when the last such application is closed/disabled.

to those that think there is no indicator/status LED to show whether gps is on or off, there IS such an LED indeed. if you look at the LED bank from left to right, the left most light can be:
1. green (phone is on, no missed calls, no new text messages)
2. orange (phone is on, some notifications are pending)
3. red (battery is critically low)

the right most light can be:
1. blue (bluetooth is on)
2. green (wifi is on)
3. orange (gps is on) <------so there IS an LED to show gps status

[ChumleyEX]

The phone has WiFi?

[InRBigness]

Well I tested mine last night with TomTom and Noviplot gsp software and I do not get any led's flashing when the GPS is on. I am using Kaiser Notification but there is no setting in there to change GPS led either. This is an unbranded HTC. Maybe others are different.

[ASCIIker]

Well I tested mine last night with TomTom and Noviplot gsp software and I do not get any led's flashing when the GPS is on. I am using Kaiser Notification but there is no setting in there to change GPS led either. This is an unbranded HTC. Maybe others are different.

i haven't used kaiser notification and i'm not using tomtom or noviplot. i have tested with google maps and gpstest and the right-most LED blinks orange about every 7 seconds. the blinking stops if i disable "Use GPS" in google maps, for example.

maybe kaiser notifications messes up the LED mapping thus preventing the GPS light from coming on?

maybe tomtom and noviplot access the GPS differently?

you might want to look into that if it bothers you but its all good and blinking as expected here!

edit: just to clarify further, my kaiser is also an unbranded factory unlocked HTC TYTN 2.