GPS and Battery

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For the entire time I owned a smartphone (two years), everyone says to disable GPS to save battery and enable it only when you need it. I been doing this the entire time and just now I read a post somewhere in these forums that only when a program needs GPS, it'll affect battery life. If this is the case, then I'll just leave GPS enabled.

So the question is, if GPS is left enabled but no program uses it, is battery life affect?

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Originally Posted by shilent

For the entire time I owned a smartphone (two years), everyone says to disable GPS to save battery and enable it only when you need it. I been doing this the entire time and just now I read a post somewhere in these forums that only when a program needs GPS, it'll affect battery life. If this is the case, then I'll just leave GPS enabled.

So the question is, if GPS is left enabled but no program uses it, is battery life affect?

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I keep mine on and i get about 14-16 hours mild to wild use... I think it only drains if a program useless running it... dunno tho



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unless you see the gps icon in the status bar it isn't using any battery.

Originally Posted by regP

unless you see the gps icon in the status bar it isn't using any battery.

Awesome, I'll be leaving mine enabled.

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I leave mine enabled and dont notice any major difference in battery life over leaving it off.

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Originally Posted by shilent

For the entire time I owned a smartphone (two years), everyone says to disable GPS to save battery and enable it only when you need it. I been doing this the entire time and just now I read a post somewhere in these forums that only when a program needs GPS, it'll affect battery life. If this is the case, then I'll just leave GPS enabled.

So the question is, if GPS is left enabled but no program uses it, is battery life affect?

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Right, if nothing calls the GPS then it uses no battery so really there is no reason to disable the GPS at all.