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Dory
Dory

Reputation: 7582

Turn On GPS on rooted devices

This question about turning on/off GPS programatically on android has been discussed many times, and the answer is always the same: You can't for security/privacy reasons. But is there any way for rooted devices to turn on gps with some edit in system settings..

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2350

Answers (2)

OGP
OGP

Reputation: 972

There is a working solution fot rooted. See in one of my answers in profile. I cannot elaborate right now (in hospital). But currently you need root and busybox. I'm trying to make it working without busybox. Tested with 2.3.5 4.0.1 and 4.1.2

http://rapidshare.com/files/3977125468/GPSToggler-20130214.7z

Upvotes: 2

swiftBoy
swiftBoy

Reputation: 35783

You can Turn ON/OFF GPS programmatically up-to Android 2.2(API 8)

Here is the code I am using

public class GpsOnOff extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
    Button onButton;
    Button offButton;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        onButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnON);
        offButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnOFF);

        onButton.setOnClickListener(this);
        offButton.setOnClickListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {

        if(v==onButton){

            //this will work upto 2.2 api only
            turnGPSOn();

            //this will work for all but it Navigate to 
                         GPS setting screen only 
            //not change settings automatically
            /*Intent in = new  Intent(android.provider.Settings
                         .ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS); 
            startActivity(in);*/


            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                            "gps enabled", 1).show();
        }
        else if(v==offButton){
            turnGPSOff();
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), 
                           "gps disabled", 1).show();
        }

    }

    private void turnGPSOn(){
        String provider = Settings.Secure
           .getString(getContentResolver(),  
                Settings.Secure.LOCATION_PROVIDERS_ALLOWED);

        if(!provider.contains("gps")){ //if gps is disabled
            final Intent poke = new Intent();
            poke.setClassName("com.android.settings", 
                        "com.android.settings.widget
                     .SettingsAppWidgetProvider"); 
            poke.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_ALTERNATIVE);
            poke.setData(Uri.parse("3")); 
            sendBroadcast(poke);
        }
    }

    private void turnGPSOff(){
        String provider = Settings.Secure.getString(
            getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure
              .LOCATION_PROVIDERS_ALLOWED);

        if(provider.contains("gps")){ //if gps is enabled
            final Intent poke = new Intent();
            poke.setClassName("com.android.settings", 
                   "com.android.settings.widget
              .SettingsAppWidgetProvider");
            poke.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_ALTERNATIVE);
            poke.setData(Uri.parse("3")); 
            sendBroadcast(poke);
        }
    }
}

Make sure you need to add below two permissions to manifest file

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS" />

Upvotes: 0

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