King,
If you can tolerate a widget, long press on one of your home screens. Press widget, scroll down to power control, and press.
This will add a widget to let you control wifi, bluetooth, gps, google sync and screen brightness (left to right). GPS is in the middle.
Craig
This is poor programming on the developers end, the person that wrote that app. You should be able to leave GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth on all day long without hurting the battery. Someone writes an app that needs one of these services and doesn't code it right, well you need to complain to the developer. My GPS is on 24/7 now and the icon in the notification panel is only there when an app is actually using it.Shouldn't have to turn GPS off and potentially **** other stuff up like News/Weather widget just because a program is doing that.
I have been noticing recently that I have had the same problem with the GPS staying on longer than it should.
This is a perfect reason why I use a task killer. "Don't worry about programs running in the background they say". Yeah, BULL****. When the programs eat your battery by leaving functions of the phone on, you need to close them out until they can fix the bugs.
Task killers are useful if used properly. Normally a task killer is completely unnecessary but there are situations where they are needed. I think there are a lot of posts/threads strongly discouraging their use since there are a lot of newbies that assume that Android works the way their former device did. It's really not uncommon for people to cause problems from task killer misuse.This is a perfect reason why I use a task killer. "Don't worry about programs running in the background they say". Yeah, BULL****. When the programs eat your battery by leaving functions of the phone on, you need to close them out until they can fix the bugs.