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I actually set up my phone to turn GPS tracking on whenever not on Wi-Fi (using Tasker + GPSLogger [1]), specifically to get better precision in Location Histor
by brainwad 2y ago
I actually set up my phone to turn GPS tracking on whenever not on Wi-Fi (using Tasker + GPSLogger [1]), specifically to get better precision in Location History, and it uses surprisingly little battery if you're sampling at moderate frequencies like once per 15 seconds. The screen is the big battery hog, and also the cell radio if you have bad reception.
[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mendhak.gpslogger/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mendhak.gpslogger/
- jpeeler 2y agoI use this too as I was trying to de-google myself. However, I hadn't stopped logging my location to Google since for the presentation of data I hadn't found an easy solution for. Do you view the GPS data from GPSLogger?
- brainwad 2y agoNo, never. I only use GPSLogger to generate more frequent GPS points than Google Location Service would do by itself - it opportunistically uses all GPS requests made by apps on the system. You can also see this effect when using GPS navigation (in Google Maps, but also in other GPS apps): because they enable continuous (1Hz) GPS, the detail in tracks in Location History during your navigation app usage will be much better. I have been thinking about how to replace Timeline for a while; the problem with most solutions is they don't do the snapping to semantic locations that Timeline does for you. And even if they did, an open source solution would probably have to snap to OSM POIs, which tend to be lower quality.