Comments | pavelmachek: Google play store playing with GPS?

pavelmachek

Google play store playing with GPS?

Jul 19, 2016 09:32

Microsoft broke my father's computer: it made him update to Windows 10, when Windows 10 can not use two of 3 USB ports. Ouch.
Now it seems Google is trying to break my LG E720 cellphone. I did the right steps: it is running Cyanogen. One method is "we have great update for google Talk". Unfortunatelly, update is 20MB or more, basically filling ( Read more... )

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anonymous July 19 2016, 11:19:36 UTC

why do you use google play store on the phone ?

use racoon !

http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon

pavelmachek September 24 2016, 09:59:54 UTC

Well, I'm basically trying to get rid of anything Android, but yes, that one looks useful.

anonymous July 20 2016, 20:08:53 UTC

And also when location services started google store gps searching block access to gps for navigation apps till find locations. Google store must be kill to allow access to other apps

anonymous September 14 2016, 21:55:58 UTC

I can confirm. HTC ons M7 - stock - up to date.
Sinds a few weeks I experience the same behaviour. GPS constantly trying to get a fix, battery draining, blocking other apps to use GPS, killing Google Play Store brings everything back to normal.
No solution found.
So it must be something with Google play. I see more people having this issue, different devices, different Android versions, latest Google Play.

pavelmachek September 24 2016, 09:57:56 UTC

This was apparently independently discovered:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/09/13/1634237/android-users-need-to-delete-google-maps-and-google-play-if-they-dont-want-their-locations-tracked?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
Ok, so google now claims it was a bug: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/15/google_confirms_play_store_gps_data_grab_as_a_bug_not_a_feature/