HootSuite 1.7.5 for Android

So I've been using HootSuite for Android for a good while now and never really had any issues with it until now. The other day I was doing my regular activities and noticed the GPS signal actively running in the background while non of my GPS enabled applications were running at the time, as I started going through the list of apps I decided to kill their process and see if the GPS icon would disappear but nothing happened, so I powered off my Galaxy Nexus and waited two minutes before turning it back on, everything seemed to be working fine so I didn't think much of it.

A few minutes later I checked my phone and noticed my battery was about to die and the GPS icon was active even though I had not used any applications after the reboot. I sent out a tweet with the following image asking if anyone else had noticed this type of behavior on their Galaxy Nexus.

After some feedback, someone had mentioned that the GPS icon had disappeared after killing the HootSuite application from running in the background. After performing some test myself I was able to duplicate the same results and determined the culprit was HootSuite that was keeping the GPS signal active even though I wasn't using it.

Post your comments below and let us know if you also have encounter the same problem on your smartphone.

Update:
HootSuite has been great in resolving the GPS issue with their latest update to HootSuite for Android.
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