[Kindle Fire Android Development] ezekiel_quacks:
Google Earth 7.1.1.1781 crash

The latest version of Google Earth (7.1.1.1781) force closes when I hit the little location icon in the upper right (next to the menu icon) to zoom in to my current location. I downloaded and installed an earlier version of Google Earth (7.0.3.8527) which doesn't exhibit this bug. Anyone have any ideas on what might be happening or how to fix/work around it? The logcat shows this stacktrace for the crash:

E/AndroidRuntime(25716): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(25716): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: provider doesn't exisit: null
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1429)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1379)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy.requestLocationUpdates(ILocationManager.java:538)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:836)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:430)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.google.earth.EarthLocationManager.requestUpdate(EarthLocationManager.java:138)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.google.earth.EarthLocationManager.enableLocationTracking(EarthLocationManager.java:94)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.google.earth.EarthActivity.updateMyLocation(EarthActivity.java:988)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.google.earth.EarthActivity.onOptionsItemSelected(EarthActivity.java:1042)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.app.Activity.onMenuItemSelected(Activity.java:2548)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onMenuItemSelected(FragmentActivity.java:361)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.onMenuItemSelected(PhoneWindow.java:980)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.dispatchMenuItemSelected(MenuBuilder.java:735)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuItemImpl.invoke(MenuItemImpl.java:149)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.performItemAction(MenuBuilder.java:874)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.android.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuView.invokeItem(ActionMenuView.java:547)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.android.internal.view.menu.ActionMenuItemView.onClick(ActionMenuItemView.java:115)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4204)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:17355)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:725)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
E/AndroidRuntime(25716):	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

I'm seeing this bug on the stock JB ROM, but I also saw this on twa_priv's ROM and the official CM.1 ROM too (in fact, I thought at first that it might be a memory issue, which is partly why I switched over). Thanks in advance.

EDIT: After realizing that the error message has a spelling error, I did a little more Google searching, which led me to this link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11394825/location-manager-issue-for-ice-cream-sandwhich

But I still am not sure if that means that AOSP/CM10.1 simply won't work with Google Earth's latest update with little hope for workarounds...