Android apps that force to get a location fix don’t do this anymore. I use the Nextcloud Phonetrack Android App, settings are set to start with android app support which itself is set to start right after booting, that normally forced the system to start getting a location fix.
When the phone tries to get a fix one can see that cause of the blinking location symbol. This doesn’t happen anymore. You activly need to start a Sailfish app that forces location data to get the phone starting to get fix, the blinking symbol appears for example when starting GPSInfo…