With OTA 10.1 on my BQ E5 GPS did turn itself on every now and so on - without me turning locationservices on, that was still off. I could not find a pattern to it at the time. That was of course reducing battery lifetime.
On OTA 10.1 the GPS on/off button was still available under the battery settings, that's how I found out about it.
With OTA 11 this button has disappeared, so I do sometimes wonder if internally GPS is still turned on occasionally (and apps could be able to use location-services?) but now I do not have any way to find out.
So, yes with the indicator showing GPS usage that would solve that problem as well.
With OTA 10.1 on my BQ E5 GPS did turn itself on every now and so on - without me turning locationservices on, that was still off. I could not find a pattern to it at the time. That was of course reducing battery lifetime.
On OTA 10.1 the GPS on/off button was still available under the battery settings, that's how I found out about it.
With OTA 11 this button has disappeared, so I do sometimes wonder if internally GPS is still turned on occasionally (and apps could be able to use location-services?) but now I do not have any way to find out.
So, yes with the indicator showing GPS usage that would solve that problem as well.