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mardi 24 mars 2015

[Q] Can't skip Google Maps prompt to turn wifi-on when locating my position topic


Curiosity got the best of me this morning and I updated to the latest Google Maps update (v 9.6) from 9.3. Well, upon opening, whenever I try to locate my position, I am prompted to "improve location accuracy" by turning on wifi. I can click cancel but the prompt returns EVERY time I try locating my position. Google Maps literally is unusable in this manner unless I turn on wifi.

I remember in the past, there's an option to disable it. But I can't find it anywhere.

To my horror, after I used Titanium backup to go back to v9.3, the prompt showed its ugly face upon first opening. It never did that before the update to 9.3. I had been running 9.3 for a while, since the updates after all take very long to cold start - I wonder if it's because I am still running the original 4.2.2 stock rom (I intentionally denied any OTA update). I've tried the following:

-clearing data/cache
-uninstalling/reinstalling 9.3

The prompt still shows on a cold start. I guess fortunately, if I hit cancel, v9.3 will then proceed to locate my location without further prompting. But I have to do this every time I open Maps now, which I didn't have to do before.

Any ideas/suggestions?

xda-developers