Gps

[Reddog79]

Can gps be turned off

[SteveH · Accepted solution]

It is off by default and only comes on when you are tracking an activity that uses it e.g. tracking a run. Once you end the activity tracking it goes off again.

[Reddog79]

Thank you.

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[BBazz]

This no longer appears to be true, at least not for me. To connect to Android 6.0 app, I *must* allow access to and have on GPS on my phone. Which makes me mad, why the hell do they need that? If I'm not tracing a run? It didn't need it before.

[SunsetRunner]

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@BBazz wrote:
This no longer appears to be true, at least not for me. To connect to Android 6.0 app, I *must* allow access to and have on GPS on my phone. Which makes me mad, why the hell do they need that? If I'm not tracing a run? It didn't need it before.

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we're talking GPS on Surge, not GPS on smartphone

for GPS on Android 6.0, ask Google

[shipo]

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@BBazz wrote:
This no longer appears to be true, at least not for me. To connect to Android 6.0 app, I *must* allow access to and have on GPS on my phone. Which makes me mad, why the hell do they need that? If I'm not tracing a run? It didn't need it before.

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Two different things.

The GPS (more accurately called Location Services) on your phone must be enabled because the folks at Google say so as of Android 6.x; this is an issue regardless of whether we're discussing Fitbit, Garmin, or any other tracker you care to mention.

As for the in-built GPS on the Surge; that is only enabled when you are in certain exercise modes such as "Free Run" and "Hike".