Cancel agreement to "Use enhanced location service"

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I don't want to "Agree" to Google's "Use enhanced location service", but yesterday (after turning on 'Location') I accidentally clicked Agree, and now I want to undo that. How do reverse my agreement?
(Galaxy S4; Kitkat 4.4.2)
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Pull down your status bar, tap the icon at the top, tap the gear, go to location, tap where it says mode High Accuracy and choose another.

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Thanks FoxKat, but that only disables enhanced location till the next time I turn on Location.

And It's not so much that I don't want to use enhanced location services, it's that I don't want Google to use them to track my location. What I was disagreeing to is Google using my enhanced location, not the enhanced method per se.

I notice from searching the web that some phones have a 'Location Reporting' menu option that you can enable/disable, but my phone doesn't have that menu item; only 'Location History'. I've disabled that, but I don't know if it also disables Location Reporting.

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Thanks FoxKat, but that only disables enhanced location till the next time I turn on Location.

And It's not so much that I don't want to use enhanced location services, it's that I don't want Google to use them to track my location. What I was disagreeing to is Google using my enhanced location, not the enhanced method per se.

I notice from searching the web that some phones have a 'Location Reporting' menu option that you can enable/disable, but my phone doesn't have that menu item; only 'Location History'. I've disabled that, but I don't know if it also disables Location Reporting.

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You can turn off location tracking in Google directly but it's a bit difficult to find.

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Thanks to everyone here who tried to help. With the help of a member on Stack Exchange, I found the answer (my S4 is rooted):
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If you have root access, edit this file:
data > data > com.google.android.gms > shared_prefs > nlp-prefs.xml

Change the value of confirmNlp in the following line to true.
<boolean name="confirmNlp" value="false" />

Reboot phone.
 

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That's great information. Thanks for sharing. It's very fortunate that you can edit that by being rooted. If not rooted the only other option is a Factory Data Restore and just make sure not to agree the next time out.

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Once again, great info and that's what makes this forum great... People like you who share! Bravo!

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