Hi,
also, just for the record: “Me too” 
FP1(U) using the operator “Drei” in Austria, GPS activates itself every few minutes.
Maybe an interesting aside: Seems to be location-specific (happens at work, but not at home).
I’m based in Vienna, so I could come to the Austrian Fairphoners meetup in March, if that’s any help.
Also, I’m a software developer, so feel free to send me dangerous commands to troubleshoot the issue and/or brick my FP 
Some relevant logs with adb logcat would be interesting. That’s not less than I could do at our next meetup… 
adb logcat -b radio could be interesting, too.
how can i send/post an “adb logcat”? or what do you need from us?
(sorry, i have no clue, what to look for or where to find it
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
Excerpts from my adb logcat can be found here (I tried to reduce it to ~1k hopefully relevant lines):
http://tobi-wan-kenobi.net/gps/gps_small.log
Username: fairphone
Password: WDd25E19PpVC27tw
(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…
There are many GPS-related things in your log file.
But I don’t really know what happens at what time.
According to the bug report there are three steps to reproduce:
Could you start the log do those steps, wait until GPS activates itself and stop the log?
Anyway, this seems to be (another) Mediatek-related problem (there are other devices and carriers that seem to exhibit this issue).
It may be too much work, but could you try to reproduce this in the beta KitKat build?
My cousin is on Drei, I could borrow his SIM card and try to reproduce the issue in #kitkat .
PS: Yeah, timestamps would be great!
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
@YtvwlD That is exactly what I did, I just tried to cut out the relevant parts of the log (and probably failed… sorry for that).
I’ve now uploaded a bigger log file: http://tobi-wan-kenobi.net/gps/gps.log
(same username/password as before)
I’ve done the following:
Yes, I will update my Fairphone to the KitKat beta during the weekend and report back.
@Stefan Ah, good point, my bad. I’ll include the timestamps in future traces!
Many thanks for your help!
New adbcat logfiles!
I didn’t know that “adb logcat” also pulls historical data, so the previous logfiles are probably garbage (I deleted them already from the folder)
New files:
Username: fairphone
Password: WDd25E19PpVC27tw
“adb logcat -v time” (GPS switched off, turns on at around 10:25 or 10:26am):
http://tobi-wan-kenobi.net/gps/gps_started_around_1025_or_so.log
as per request from @YtvwlD, “adb logcat -b radio -v time”: (GPS switches on around 10:00am):
http://tobi-wan-kenobi.net/gps/radio_gps_started_around_10am.log
Hope this helps!
Short update: I installed the beta KitKat build yesterday (FP1-1.9.9-pre3-1479835251), with mixed results…
So, overall, I’m not sure that the update improved the situation wrt. GPS… Maybe it’s just “better hidden”.
Also have a look at this topic:
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/gps-shows-as-on-in-battery-stats-after-turning-it-off/20564?u=stefan&source_topic_id=25418KitKat has some GPS issues on its own (that’s 1 reason why it hasn’t been released).
Ps: Great that you are putting so much effort into this!
Ah, thanks a lot for the link, will follow that topic.
Heh, I’m pretty enthusiastic about the Fairphone (plus, I’m a backend developer usually, so this is a nice chance to learn something new, too)
Hey,
I am facing the same mentioned problem.
FP1U, network provider: 3,
GPS is activates itself automatically when switching on the data connection, thats already known.
I just want to add another weired aspect:
Also calling someone (with GPS and data connection deactivated) sometimes activates the GPS. Not always, but sometimes… I have not found out more.
Has anyone an idea?
Because this bug is quite restrictive… you have do deactivate the data connection always…
Please check out our bug report:
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp1-gps-activates-itself-when-mobile-data-connection-is-active/25541?source_topic_id=25418&source_topic_id=25418Ah, thanks for the information
I have the same issue, but not on Drei/Hutchinson. My provider is T-Mobile (Austria). Haven’t contacted them yet.
Also, since yesterday, I don’t see the GPS status/notification any more, but my battery empties within about 3 hours of no/moderate use (usually, moderate to intense use for 5 hours is no problem at all). Haven’t updated the OS, though.
Can someone add that information to the wiki article, please?