FP1: Macadamia 1.9.9-pre3 Alpha (Android Kitkat)

[Stefan]

The Mediatek chipset is simply weird. Read this recent story:

GPS activates itself (Drei Austria / Italy)

Reading around a bit, it seems this happens on more MTK phones. It also appears to be a combination of MTK phone and carrier, and can appear suddenly. There are a couple of suggestions that making some changes in engineering mode makes it go away until a reboot. I can’t verify anything of this, nor have I found an explanation as to why this would work, but if you want try this at your own risk: open the phone app and type *#*#3646633#*#* into the dialing pad to start engineering mode. Scroll rig…