Hi everyone,
I configured my Walk activity to "GPS off" as I walk the same route every day, don't need any tracking and prefer to save battery. But sometimes I need to save my current location while I'm walking. Whatever I tried, I can't do so unless I completely stop the activity. I thought the long-press of GPS button will force enable the GPS but it does not, I've got the message "GPS is off. Turn on GPS in the activity settings, or choose another activity". Of course I can go to activity settings and temporarily enable GPS there and then disable it back. But that's quite a lot of buttons for a quick location save.
I tried the other way round and disabled GPS in System settings. And if I long-press the GPS button I've got my GPS functions working which means overriding is possible. But if I then start the Walk activity, GPS is no longer allowed. This is so frustrating that I even stupidly started to abuse the MOB function for that purpose, see my other thread, but kind people here fairly proved me that this is the wrong path.
I would be grateful is someone could point me to a better workaround.