Ubuntu
ubuntu-system-settings package

Remove GPS control from the battery panel

Bug #1533837 reported by Pat McGowan
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
Wishlist
Pat McGowan
Canonical System Image 10 "OTA10"
Ubuntu UX
New
Undecided
Unassigned
ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The GPS control does not serve a useful purpose. GPS goes into powersave mode when not in use. We already have a setting to use GPS or not.

The toggle in the battery panel falsely implies the user will save more battery by manually managing it and they will not. The removal of the control from the indicator seems to have confused some users who now go through an additional manual step.

iOS as an example does not provide such a control.

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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)
description: updated
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → backlog
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Good point, well argued :-)

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Specification updated. The spec text did not actually mention the GPS option, only the wireframe did. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Power?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=phone-battery-settings.png>

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Triaged
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody
Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
milestone: backlog → ww08-2016
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

When users will upgrade to the OTA containing this change and have GPS already disabled in battery settings, we must ensure that GPS is reenabled by the upgrade otherwise they won't have a way to reenable it.

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Marek Greško (mgresko8) wrote :

I think there should be proper way to detect whether gps is active and whether it got gps fix. Probably the best way would be to change the colour of the location icon in the quick setting bar. For example white when gps in power save, yellow when gps on without gps fix, green with gps fix.

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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

My understanding was that the switch did not really do anything, cc thomas for confirmation

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Thomas Voß (thomas-voss) wrote :

The Android HAL does not offer a way to force the chipset to "off". The only influence we have is whether the chipset is used in positioning. As we will make sure that the chipset is only used as long as it is needed and if the required accuracy for a fix can only be provided by GPS, a user should not need to alter the specific system setting.

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