Thread: Availability in online mode eats battery
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Alan_Peery is offline Alan_Peery
2010-02-03 , 15:28
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#27
Originally Posted by Alan_Peery View Post
I say above that the My Location setting seems to be having more effect than I expect because even when I am set to "City Level" on location it appears to be powering up the GPS hardware. I am just judging this by the GPS icon -- does anyone have a way of checking directly if the GPS hardware is powered?
After a bit more experimentation, it appears that the GPS is fired up even if "My Location" is set to "City Level". If this is indeed the case, a large of the diminished battery life can be explained by this.

Could those noticing battery drain due to availablilty try setting their "My Location" to "Do Not Share" and see if that helps? I'll be testing this with sharting my availability only to Skype...