I have the same problem with my FP1. GPS turns on automatically although all GPS settings are turned off.
I also use it with the Austian provider Drei and the problem occured first last week on January, 18th.
Hi,
So it’s not just my phone!
I have the same problem with the GPS on my FP1, since about ten days. I’m also with Drei in Austria, and I have all access to GPS turned off on the phone, in settings, in camera, on all apps where possible, and the time is set to network not GPS.
Still whenever I access my network internet, the GPS turns itself on and stays on until I manually turn it off.
I haven’t recently added any apps, but I did disable Google news.
would love to hear if there is a solution to this!
many thanks,
Rebekah
I’ve added in some details based on what’s written here. I’m not sure what debug info would be useful (and I cannot provide any data as I’m not an affected network).
If what I gather here is correct, namely that the phone starts to determine the location even when the use of GPS satellites is disabled in settings > location access, we can rule out regular apps as iirc you need system privileges to change that.
On October I had to hard reset the FP1 then from this point to now GPS starts automatically, not only when I try to make a call, often when it’s in my pocket, I take it and I check it if it’s active and then sometimes I must disable it.
I live in Italy and I have Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA as provider.
WIND: MCC 222, MNC 88
3 Italia: MCC 222, MNC 99
Wind and 3 in Italy are implementing a merge of their societies…
i am not sure if this is a new prolbem, but…
…yesterday my gps turned on, while i was making outgoing phonecalls.
the dateservice and wireless-connection was turned off (since the gps-problem seemed to occur only when data-sercie was on)
my provider is Hutchison 3Drei in Austria and i have the FP1.
Just for the records: I am facing exactly the same problem: since about 10 days my GPS turns on whenever I activate mobile data or make/receive phone calls. My provider is 3 in Austria as in the most other cases. I hope we find a solution soon…
According to @Rene_Sendlhofer Drei Austria admits that there was a cell update and that they don’t care about the FP1 having problems with it. -> Bug report
(I password-protected the file since I saw some sensitive data such as telephone numbers, and I cannot be sure I managed to delete all of those). I’ll try to run the “-b radio” tomorrow, but can’t promise anything, unfortunately.
@Stefan Thanks for the update, sounds awful If it resolves the problem, switching operator is actually a viable alternative for me…
Hi!
I became aware of this topic a couple of days ago. I’m using my Fairphone on Drei/Austria and I had the problem with the switching on of the GPS for a couple of weeks now (can’t say since when). I assumed that this was an app-update running Amok
Anyway: what is unusual is that today I didn’t have to turn off GPS all day (first time in weeks). From what I understand in the previous posts here is that this is a problem of the Chipset and the Carrier. As I haven’t changed the Chipset on my Fairphone then Drei/Austria must have changed something. Is that possible?
Bernhard
Edit: I draw this back. After 24 GPS-less hours it started activating again