Does "location service" ever let go?

When I leave the "location services" turned on, the usage meter and standby meter always record the exact same amount of time, even if the phone is just sitting there doing absolutely nothing and should be in standby. It takes turning off location services and doing a reboot to get the usage meter to report only the time it's actually in use.
As far as I can tell, this it the only service or app that causes this problem. Strangely enough, it doesn't seem to affect battery life much.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Other specs, in case anyone cares:
-iPhone 3G 16gb White
-model: MB499LL
-version: 2.0.1 (5B108)
-Serial # starts 88827xxxxxx
-Brightness: 50%
-Bluetooth: off unless needed
-Push: on - only pushing Mobile/Me calendar and contacts, which change only once or twice per day
-Fetch: on - 30min - fetching 3 email accounts
-GPS/location: off unless needed
-3g: On all of the time
-Wi-Fi: On all of the time, at use mostly at home

What are all 4 Mighty Mouse buttons mapped to? Starting with left, then right, then scroll ball button, then side buttons. I only ask because it could be possible you are activating a different button when you stop, and the mouse switches to THAT function, thereby letting go of the left click function.

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I should also mention that my wife got a phone the same time I did. Sometimes her's will show the same problem, and then sometimes her's will work fine while mine is right next to her's and not working. This type of behavior would point to a problem with the device and not the service. But then the fact that mine DOES work at times would indicate a software/service issue. I've heard others say that behavior will change when WiFi is turned on or off or when airplane mode is turned off and on. I haven't really noticed that. It's a hard one to figure out. Hopefully it is something with the software/service that will simply be solved with updates.
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Cause Wi-Fi only iPads do not have GPS receivers in them, nor can they use the cell towers for triangulating position. Best they can do is guesstimate based on the hotspots they are connecting to. They base their guess on a database of known hotspots, which can be incomplete, erroneous or wildly inaccurate. The rise of the problem can be due to any change you or your ISP has done to the Wi-Fi setup you use.
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Does "Location Services" always drain the battery when enabled?

Hi,
I've read lots of things that say if you want to save battery power, disabled "Location Services".
I find it annoying that on the odd occasion that I want to use Location Services, say, to find an ATM near where I am, I have to go into settings and enable it, and then go back into the app I tried to use, and go and enter my search again, etc.
Now, I understand that if my phone is actually trying to find my location, that is should use some power.
But my question is... If I have Location Services switched on, and I am not actually using any app that is trying to find my location, does my phone actually use any more power than if Location Services is disabled?

Tamara wrote:
It does not use extra power to have Location Services enabled if you're not using the app.
I leave Location Services on all the time and I have decent battery life.
I agree that having location services on doesn't use battery unless an app is using it. Now none of us can say for sure about that since we don't know the software/hardware and how they talk/work and as the other poster said, powers the GPS chip. Just because the service is on, for all we know the OS only powers on the chip then "when needed"
From looking at the "Optimize Your Settings" from http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html They say:
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While for WiFi/Bluetooth, etc they say turn off, not just minimize use of "applications" that use it. That is because WiFi and Bluetooth have to actively beacon/probe while the GPS only has to do something when requested.
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How does location services work?

I recently found an app called "mapswithme" and basically it downloads maps and I can use it offline. I don't really care about the criticism about how apple maps suck because I personally don't use the 3D features. I can drive perfectly fine even without that 3D or the routing, I just don't want to pay extra for 3G or 4G or LTE or whatever you want to call it because I have no use for it except on maps; which is stupid because "mapswithme" can download an entire country's map for free. Will location services still work even if I don't have 3G and Wi-Fi on, and only relying on cellular data? FOR EXAMPLE: I have a SIM CARD on my iPhone with "GSM only", will location services still be able to find my position? I have heard of others being able to see the blue dot(which represents where your location is) and grey background(which represents that maps has not yet been cached because of no internet) previously on iOS 5 on google maps. Because if it will work, then the grey background won't be a problem because the entire country's map is already downloaded and I do not need 3G service anymore, I only need the location services.
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*PPS: There is also a 4G LTE plan here in the Philippines, but I still have to pay around PHP2000 to PHP4000 every month aside from paying the iPhone, which is again wasting money because I will only need the internet service on iPhone on maps.
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I really need help on this one. It would change my overview on whether I would buy just an iPod touch or an iPhone 5.
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I see, the app does require data connection but only on the first use because it still needs to me to pick which map of a country I want to download. Other than that, it does not require internet connection at all, only GPS. I first saw this app on my friend's android device, he only had GPS turned on. 3G and Wi-Fi were turned off and still worked. It could point his position and maps were not a problem because it had already downloaded the whole country's map.
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Location Services won't let go . . . .

I have a Time Capsule as my base station (primary router) connected to a Comcast cable modem. I also have an Airport Express set up in another part of my house to stream music to my stereo.
I spend 3 months in Florida in the winter and I take my Airport Express with me and use it as my base station (primary router) connected to a Comcast cable modem while in Florida. I've been doing this for 3 years now and when I got home from Florida this year and set up my Airport Express to "Extend a wireless network" as I always have, I noticed a weird thing happening. Whenever I am in range of the AIrport Express with my iPad (which I bought while in Florida this year), the iPad's location services thinks I'm still in Florida. e.g. Google Maps, Flixter (finds movie theaters in you area), weather apps, etc. all snap to the Florida location. If I move the iPad into the range of the Time Capsule, location services correctly locates me in Massachusetts. Funny thing is, this only happens on the iPad. My wife and I both have MacBooks and when using Google Maps (show my location) for directions, they correctly locate us in Mass. no matter which router we are connected to.
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