GPS should be running before needed -- otherwise surveyor must wait too long.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Walk into building with tin roof.
2.Attempt to take GPS point.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to see the LON/LAT of the door I went into.  What I see is "Please 
wait, this could take a few minutes." 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ODK Collect 1.3.0 (1030) on android 2.3

Please provide any additional information below.
Perhaps proved a setting for how early to turn the GPS on -- when the question 
is asked (present design), at the beginning of the survey, or when ODK Collect 
is started -- for people to whom battery life is more important than getting 
their work done in a timely manner.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vernon.c...@ehealthnigeria.org on 12 Sep 2013 at 12:19

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Changed to Enhancement.

Code contributions welcome.

Original comment by mitchellsundt@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2013 at 8:47

• Added labels: Collect, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Having GPS always on will run down the battery.

Perhaps the surveyors could be trained to begin the survey before entering the 
building?

Note also that GPS does not work inside more substantially constructed 
buildings (e.g., the one I'm in).

Original comment by mitchellsundt@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2013 at 8:49

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> Code contributions welcome.
I had a root canal two weeks ago.  I would rather have another than to have to 
program in Java again.  Having admitted that... if no one else gets to this 
until after I finish adding the new functionality to formhub, I may try it.

> Having GPS always on will run down the battery.
Well, yes, but it does not run it down _that_ quickly.  The phones we use for 
vaccination team tracking need to have the GPS running all day. My GIS guys 
tell me that they only have problems if the phone is not fully charged at the 
beginning of the day. When to turn the GPS on and off should probably be an 
application setting.

> Perhaps the surveyors could be trained to begin the survey before entering 
the building?
That will not help, since the GPS is not turned on until you actually get to 
the GIS field of the form.

> Note also that GPS does not work inside more substantially constructed 
buildings (e.g., the one I'm in).
Exactly my point. If I go up on the roof and stand around until the GPS gets a 
satellite lock, I can then come back downstairs and it will have remembered my 
position.  It might even update, since after the initial lock, it can 
triangulate a nearby position quickly based on less data.  Getting the initial 
lock is the painful part where you need a full view of the sky.

Original comment by vernon.c...@ehealthnigeria.org on 13 Sep 2013 at 9:07