Google Latitude Update Position

[Malatesta]

Originally Posted by delawaresace

Its not Google's faltered, its sprints. They wont let Google latitude triangulat your position in the background. You have to keep it running. Of course that kills your battery

AFLT does not kill battery, in fact it is negligible on battery use especially compared to GPS.

Google Maps v3.2.1 updates my position when in the background on my Sprint TP2. My friend's DROID updates automatically about every 15 minutes. This also works on the Treo Pro and Intrepid with no issues.

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim about Sprint in particular not allowing this? Because that's the first I've heard of it. Part of the updates prior to v3.2.1 was to fix the "running the background" issue on devices.

For the OP: there may be a discrepancy between what is reported to others and having to refresh your screen. How are you verifying your position? On our device or another phone/computer? It's only through the latter can you really know. Google Maps won't download maps and run the program when it just needs to update your position for others--it makes processing sense to only update your own map when you refresh.

[otterit]

Originally Posted by Malatesta

AFLT does not kill battery, in fact it is negligible on battery use especially compared to GPS.

Google Maps v3.2.1 updates my position when in the background on my Sprint TP2. My friend's DROID updates automatically about every 15 minutes. This also works on the Treo Pro and Intrepid with no issues.

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim about Sprint in particular not allowing this? Because that's the first I've heard of it. Part of the updates prior to v3.2.1 was to fix the "running the background" issue on devices.

For the OP: there may be a discrepancy between what is reported to others and having to refresh your screen. How are you verifying your position? On our device or another phone/computer? It's only through the latter can you really know. Google Maps won't download maps and run the program when it just needs to update your position for others--it makes processing sense to only update your own map when you refresh.

I can confirm that Latitude drains the battery. I left it open on a 110 minute ride and the battery was almost completely dead.

[rawdikrik]

Originally Posted by otterit

I can confirm that Latitude drains the battery. I left it open on a 110 minute ride and the battery was almost completely dead.

The whole program yes... especially if you are using the GPS.

But when you just use the background services, the only real additional power being used is to transmit your updated location to Google.

I would really like it if someone can get into the registries or something and find a way to make it update more often.