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I know this may sound like a strange request, but this actually makes sense on some devices, such as HD2 running Android, or any others that draw a lot of current while the GPS is on, staying on a partial wake lock even with a time period between the fixes is set to a number of minutes.
IMHO, this should be fairly easy to implement and would give HD2 users (and maybe many other users, too) a pretty good option for long run low precision GPS logs, that should be still perfectly good for stuff like geotagging.
this functionality is already there. When you go to Settings -> GPS -> Time between GPS .. but count, that this settings is doing some troubles on some phones so you have to test it by yourself
No, it doesn't seems the functionality is already there, it seems you pass this interval param into the location manager and trust the location manager to wake up, get a fix and give you that location once in a time interval. This is exactly what doesn't work properly, matching my description above. What i meant is to totally stop everything GPS related, waking up the device once in a time interval using alarm manager or something similar, and only reenable the GPS until you get a fix.
PS: Sorry if i wasn't clear and do correct me if i am wrong somewhere.