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Google Maps 4.1.1 is a battery hog

I just noticed that when i install the update for google maps 4.1.1 this app will drain my battery really fast. I have used it for aprox. 5 minutes and wihtin my battery comsumption info under settings it had used about 18% battery. With the previous version i had no problems at all. The same happend with google earth.
I also found this thread in google support forums:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=2a11fbd2ef43cf00&hl=en
Anbody else experienced this. Someone has a solution for the described probblem?
Right now i used to train my battery and discharge my phone before i go to bed.
But no way i would used it in the wild.
Uninstalling my be a cure to some battery problems people here seem to have.
Cheers,
Chaos42

chaos42 said:
I just noticed that when i install the update for google maps 4.1.1 this app will drain my battery really fast. I have used it for aprox. 5 minutes and wihtin my battery comsumption info under settings it had used about 18% battery. With the previous version i had no problems at all. The same happend with google earth.
I also found this thread in google support forums:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=2a11fbd2ef43cf00&hl=en
Anbody else experienced this. Someone has a solution for the described probblem?
Right now i used to train my battery and discharge my phone before i go to bed.
But no way i would used it in the wild.
Uninstalling my be a cure to some battery problems people here seem to have.
Cheers,
Chaos42
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Getting the same. Looking at Task Killer, Maps and Stocks keep appearing on it even after killing them and leaving the phone on standby

not using the Maps live wallpaper are you?

rhedgehog said:
not using the Maps live wallpaper are you?
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i have not used gps, live wallpaper, layers, widget, ...
just the plain app.

100% Wake Time

I now have 100% wake time again. My ROM is Fesh 3.2 and Kernel is Netarchy 4.1.9. Is 100% wake time even an issue anymore? I remember it being an issue with the Hero, but I just started looking at it with my Evo. Using spare parts the highest on the partial wake usage is UID10018, but its a very small bar, the second is android system. Under battery usage it says running 100%, screen on 7.5% and phone on 13.8%. I have setcpu and juice defender, but I had 100% even with those uninstall ed. Any ideas would be great appreciated!
Also under running services, I have easy tether and juice defender on that list, could that be the problem?

bigupurself7 said:
I now have 100% wake time again. My ROM is Fesh 3.2 and Kernel is Netarchy 4.1.9. Is 100% wake time even an issue anymore? I remember it being an issue with the Hero, but I just started looking at it with my Evo. Using spare parts the highest on the partial wake usage is UID10018, but its a very small bar, the second is android system. Under battery usage it says running 100%, screen on 7.5% and phone on 13.8%. I have setcpu and juice defender, but I had 100% even with those uninstall ed. Any ideas would be great appreciated!
Also under running services, I have easy tether and juice defender on that list, could that be the problem?
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Are you using BT?
I know there are some ROMs/Kernels that have an issue where they will not sleep if bluetooth is active... I'm running CM6 with King's kernel and I have to remember to manually turn off BT when I'm done so the phone will sleep.

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Are you using BT?
I know there are some ROMs/Kernels that have an issue where they will not sleep if bluetooth is active... I'm running CM6 with King's kernel and I have to remember to manually turn off BT when I'm done so the phone will sleep.
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Nope, not using bluetooth. I just reinstalled my rom and started fresh, im going to re-install each app, one at a time to see where the problem is. I wish there was an easier way

I have been reading A LOT about this lately, and I am also affected by this problem. No matter what you do, the problem comes back after a day or two.
I have tried uninstalling ALL my apps and still have 100% uptime. I'm starting to think this has to do with Sprint's Voicemail App that recently got updated. That's the only thing I can think of.
I have to say though, i have NOT noticed a hit on battery life. Still, this bothers me.

Ive had to deal with this a few times and it was almost always an app or a widget that was causing it. Sometimes its swype and people dont realize it.

Old thread but I just had this problem with 100% wake time and finally figured out that is was a process called com.android.providers.stocks, I just force stopped it in the "running apps" list and the little animated sync icon went off and I'm no longer at 100% wake time.... hope this helps

[Q] battery drain

Background:
Got an incredible last august, rooted, tried many roms, loved CM. CM gave me the best battery life and the most functionality. Three weeks ago I crushed my incredible in a bike accident. I was fine, incredible and other items in pannier were not. Long story short, got a new incredible through insurance, rooted, jumped to CM 7 and was immediately confronted with what I would describe as unusable battery life. I wake at 5:30am having charged overnight. Battery reads 100%. By 9:30am I am already below 30% with light usuage. Let me describe light usage. Read an email or two when i wake up, send a few text messages, check the time every 45 mins to an hour.
kernal: incredikernal (smartass governor with multiple profiles)
display settings: carbon copy of those in a discussion on CM7 Automatic Backlight Settings
I have made two changes with this new phone:
(1) I am using both the gmail app and the built in email app to sync an exchange account as well instead of just gmail
(2) I installed google music app and have been uploading my music from my computer for approx 6 days now
The (2) was my first guess as to what is draining my battery but when I view battery use I see display trumps everything (usually around 65%).
I have been trying really hard to figure this out via google but searching has led me to something of an impasse. Most info points to display but I am hesitant to believe that my display settings are incorrect due to the number of users who claim these to work well.
Any help/ideas/advice is appreciated!

I am on my second dinc also. Luckily I haven't had any issues like this.
Suggestions :
1) cm has a builtin set cpu. Just pick a gov and min/max. Let the kernel do its thing.
2) chads beta11 kernel is the best I've tried. It has an Ingenious gov that works great.
3) vipermod. It's a zip that you flash in recovery. Use terminal emulator to lower voltage.
4) battery calibration app. It's free in the market.
Chads kernel and the vipermod are both found here on xda.
Good luck
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I will give these a try. I am pretty sure i have already given the battery calibration a go but manually instead of through an app. I assume the app is just doing rm /data/systems/batterystats.bin? I was running both setCpu under CM7 so i got rid of that am letting the kernal do its thing with min 128 max 844 and smartass gov. I am going to experiment with vipermod when i get out of work as I have not read much documentation on it and would like to read before flash stuff that messes with voltage. Thanks for the advice, i will let you know how it goes.

No problem. The vipermod thing you open in terminal. It's very cool and easy. Adjustable voltage on the fly. I'm undervolted -100 on chads beta 11 cm7 99 nightly. 8hrs of hard use. Smooth as butter. Can't remember exactly what the battery calibration wipes. It tells you in the app.
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Wanted to bump this to see if any fellow forum members have noticed increased battery drain after installing the Google music beta app? I'm having a hard time figuring out what's going on, I've tried different radios, kernels, etc, but to no avail. Haven't tried uninstalling the app yet (but I don't really want to, its pretty convenient). When I look at what is using the battery in the settings menu, I've noticed the music app is never displayed (same thing with Netflix) but it seems to be using a decent chunk of memory.
Wondering if this is the root of my battery problems, it does seem to have gotten worse ever since I got the music beta invite..

Noticing battery drain also. Ill monitor it and get back to you. (Nexus S).

to k_nivesout: i have been narrowing down the list of possible culprits since first posting this. In my case it seems to be either music beta by google, cell standby or a partial wakelock caused by maps. I turned off my location which caused a drastic increase in the battery life but still did not give me the life I had with my last incredible. Cell standby was showing significant battery use most likely do to my lack of signal in my office where i work this summer. On the weekends I notice slightly better battery life in my house where i have full reception. This being said, music beta by google is the only thing that has actually changed since my last incredible. I am contemplating uninstalling it....

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Wanted to bump this to see if any fellow forum members have noticed increased battery drain after installing the Google music beta app? I'm having a hard time figuring out what's going on, I've tried different radios, kernels, etc, but to no avail. Haven't tried uninstalling the app yet (but I don't really want to, its pretty convenient). When I look at what is using the battery in the settings menu, I've noticed the music app is never displayed (same thing with Netflix) but it seems to be using a decent chunk of memory.
Wondering if this is the root of my battery problems, it does seem to have gotten worse ever since I got the music beta invite..
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That's a good observation! Well my phone is at 99% battery now, and I just uninstalled Music Beta. Will see if my battery life increased, because I too have seen an decrease in battery as of late.

Thanks for the replies everyone, I'm definitely curious to see if music beta is indeed what's causing the battery drain. I might have to uninstall it for a day or two and see if things improve. I'm assuming it would be easy to redownload and sync everything, I'd be interested in your guys' experience.

same terrible battery life on my D1 after installing the google music app....my library is also still uploading from my home computer, not sure if that makes a difference or not. one difference, however, is that in my battery stats, google music was at the top of the list. not sure why its not showing for you guys, but i uninstalled and everything seems back to normal now.
i will try re-installing it once my library uploads completely and see if that makes the difference....hopefully so!

Unfortunately I didn't really notice things get better even after my library was uploaded. Good info though, were you looking at battery usage from the settings menu?

With google music you could turn off auto sync. Especially when you are uploading from your computer.
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Here are my tweaks. Right now I'm at 7 Hours 46 Minutes with 66% Battery life. Couple hours of listening and downloading podcasts/audiobooks/music, some web browsing, app downloading and uninstalling.
Turn off Google Music Auto Sync
Turn off Google Book Sync
Check Weather Apps, stop any auto sync or location tracking
Turn softkey light off whenever possible (CM7 settings)
Screen time out 30 seconds (15 would be even better)
Juice Defender Ultimate (Controls Data/Syncing, huge difference for me)
No DSP Manager Tweaks
Remove any excess apps/ games
Ad Free Android (blocks ad downloads)
Incredikernal, ondemand governor
Turn off Bluetooth
Turn off GPS
I just got this phone a few days ago, and my battery life went from 60 to 30 in 20minutes while it was syncing for the first time. Its working much better now! I even considered extended batteries, but I don't think I'll need them anymore.
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cruud said:
Turn off Google Music Auto Sync
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I have the Vibrant and am seeing massive battery drain all of a sudden. I too have recently installed Google Music. Music upload from my PC is finished. Hasn't made any difference to the battery. I don't see any option to turn off Auto Sync in the Android app and in the settings. Where is this option?

Accounts and sync>Google account
Music sync will be in there.

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Accounts and sync>Google account
Music sync will be in there.
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Oh! It was in the google account! I thought that was just for gmail and didn't look there. But it makes sense. Thanks!
Strangely, I don't see any battery drain today. I haven't been using my phone. I just wanted to monitor it (using Android Assistant) to see what app was using the most battery. Yesterday, without any use, the battery completely ran down. Today, it's down 13% since morning. And I have been gradually adding background processing, GPS etc.

If you get great battery life, please share your tips here!

I'm currently on the CM7 ROM, I have juice defender and done all the minor tweaks as far as disabling wireless network location, turn off the wifi and GPS, and an app killer. I still only manage at max 9 hours before my phone tells me to recharge.
If your getting great battery life, help me and others by sharing your tips here.
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Best tip is to stay on wifi as much as possible. I got 3 days on wifi and about 4 hours use.
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I turn data off when im not using the internet and when I'm just listening to musc I just put my phone in airplane mode

Yeah, I need some help too. I get about a day and a half with no use at all, and about 10 hours with minimal use. 4 hours with real world usage... I can't deal with this. Could it be the battery? It performs like a 1 year old, used, refurb battery came with a stock phone!
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Have you configured the battery since flashing the rom?
I get decent enough battery life, with light usage I can go about 36 hours w/o a charge but on my heavy usage days I usually have to use the car charger a few times a day.

kennyglass123 said:
Best tip is to stay on wifi as much as possible. I got 3 days on wifi and about 4 hours use.
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masaidjet said:
I turn data off when im not using the internet and when I'm just listening to musc I just put my phone in airplane mode
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liquiddetox said:
Have you configured the battery since flashing the rom?
I get decent enough battery life, with light usage I can go about 36 hours w/o a charge but on my heavy usage days I usually have to use the car charger a few times a day.
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all of these... biggest one is to turn off data when the phone is in your pocket. use wifi when u can, avoid using 4g unless plugged in, configure the battery in recovery (i've actually notice that this helps less than anything else for me), and finally: get an extended battery. it's worth the extra hours u can squeeze out of it. don't expect more than 4-5 hours screen on time with any rom/kernel/modem combo with a stock battery.

liquiddetox said:
Have you configured the battery since flashing the rom?
I get decent enough battery life, with light usage I can go about 36 hours w/o a charge but on my heavy usage days I usually have to use the car charger a few times a day.
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Yeah I also did that wipe battery stats at recovery.
I just thought maybe my expectations were too high, although it seems as if my battery drains drop pretty fast.
I would say about -10% battery drop every hour, just checking the time and send/receive text messages. Occasionally I surf the Web on the phone when on break at work. Other than that the phone is in my pocket, and after my 9 hour workday my phone demands the charger.
This is with the stock battery, so I guess this is normal unless I'm using the extended battery?
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u could also run a kernel that allows for over (under) clocking/undervolting. that helps some, too

get the duricell portable battery extender, add milliamps to your arsinal in one way or another with extended batterys or whatever, if you call sprint and complain loudly and dickly they will rebate you the cost that u spend on a new battery or batt extender whatever... that being said all the above options work great, u can also use night mode on chainfire 3d to save battery, or perhaps half your pixel rate, or perhapes turn off some colors (havent seen an app to do this yet) and reset your battery memory in cwm, kill ur batt, charg while off, then cycle again like that. (theres an app for that) if your not rooted, root your phone. if you dont want to root your phone, cycle ur battery the old fasion way or pop it into a rooted phone and do it.

I used to get really poor battery life (due to my phone not sleeping as evidenced by Spare Parts app). I rooted, used Titanium Backup to freeze various apps, and got an Zboost antenna booster for the office and called Sprint who sent me an Airave for the house. I wiped battery stats and cleared my Dalvic cache and the thing the finally got me right was finding out the Amazon MP3 app was still logged in though not running. Once I made sure I was logged out of that and Lattitude (Google Map feature) and Facebook, I haven't had any problem with a sleeping phone. Stock Froyo, standard battery, but rooted. When they say a bad app keeps your phone from sleeping I think they mean an app that requires log in...although this does not seem to be a problem if you stay logged in from a browser, only from an app!

Breezy357 said:
I'm currently on the CM7 ROM, I have juice defender and done all the minor tweaks as far as disabling wireless network location, turn off the wifi and GPS, and an app killer. I still only manage at max 9 hours before my phone tells me to recharge.
If your getting great battery life, help me and others by sharing your tips here.
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You may be shooting yourself in the foot with some of those things. App killers aren't that useful on Gingerbread since they keep killing apps that just reload on their own, and every time the reload it uses power. Just because an app is loaded doesn't mean it is running. Try letting the system take care of it. Juice Defender may help a little but it keeps shutting down data and starting it up, which means you don't get as much usefulness out of the phone and may waste power in some circumstances.
See what you have set to sync. Turn off any autosyncs you don't need, like weather screens, facebook, etc. If at all possible set them to only sync when you open the program.
I use the exchange option for gmail using the stock samsung app, which gives me push email but doesn't have to keep polling the server. I don't know if that makes a difference compared to imap, but it works well for me. don't think you have that option in CM7.
Wifi is a much more efficient way transfer data than 3G, use it whenever you can, and set it to never sleep. Otherwise the 3G radio keeps starting up again and wasting battery.
You can freeze the DRM stuff if you don't use it. I don't know if it really makes a difference but everyone thinks it does, so I do it.
Having a black wallpaper helps a little because on a AMOLED screen a black pixel uses no power.
The biggest battery killer is being in a bad signal area. If you always have 0 or 1 bars then your phone is going to always be draining the battery trying to find a good cell. In that case Roam Control may help you.
That's about all I do, and with the latest Stock gingerbread EH17 and EI22 I'm sitting with about 40 to 50% left after 12 hours, that's with light to moderate use.

I've been through the ringer with this. I'm pretty comfortable now, routinely managing to have 33% of battery left after 12hrs w/3g always on, sync always on, intermittent music listening, 2.5-3hrs of gaming and general "screen on" time (auto brightness), 1.1 GHz OC, no undervolting, and GPS always on. Here's what I'd suggest:
Flash a ROM w/ NO CIQ (thanks k0nane!) - In addition to being a leech on your privacy it's a leech on your battery. It's old news to long-time Epic owners at this point, but ditching CIQ improves battery life and overall responsiveness of the Epic. A popular stable Froyo ROM for this is SFR 1.2.
Minimize always-running services - Long press your homescreen, select "shortcuts," select "settings," and select "running services." Tap this to see what's running ongoing services (not apps) your phone is running. All of these are drawing current to stay in RAM. Things like Juice Defender, Tasker, and others show up here and draw power in doing so. JD and Tasker especially can drain a lot because they perform constant tasks as well. Uninstall them and let your phone manage itself.
The same goes for task managers and app-stoppers - Froyo and above does this fine on it's own
Freeze/Uninstall system services you don't use - This includes things like Sprint voicemail, the "Email" app, and the "SprintAndroidExtension.apk," and SNS services. You'll most likely find these on the "Running Services Page" as well. You can Titanium Backup to uninstall them, but I recommend the SDX Stock App Remover as that can restore them (TB can't reliably). TB can freeze these as well, which accomplishes basically the same thing. SNS is connected to Facebook, so if you use that a lot you might want to keep it. DRM services can also be removed, but may cause problems reading the SD card. I stay away from it.
Use Spare Parts to monitor wakelock and CPU usage - If you notice something giving you persistent trouble, shut it down. This is time-consuming, but you'll get a good feel for what apps are out there to accomplish similar tasks and which one best suits your needs.
Uninstall apps you don't use - Next time you wipe and flash a new ROM, reinstall or restore backed up apps as you need to use them and not all at once. You may find you don't need quite a few of them, allowing you to keep more space open on your phone and requiring less current to maintain them
Don't charge the battery overnight - most phones can reach capacity in 2-4 hours depending on charge level. Beyond that, holding at or around fully charged will degrade the battery by denying it the ability to release the stored energy. I charge mine in the evening a few hours before bed and top it off in the morning before leaving for work.
Get an 1800mAh battery sold for the Epic Touch - this is what moved me form "getting by" to "definitely comfortable." For around $25 (incl shipping) on ebay, I've gotten a new lease on my Epic's life. It may seem like cheating to bring in a new battery, but it makes a lot of difference WITHOUT adding more bulge to your phone (makes it a tad heavier though).
Hope this helps. Remember, of course, that what works for one phone won't necessarily work for another. Despite being the same model, minor imperfections in silicone can create individual temperaments for each phone.

I as always trying to make my battery last by stopping this and uninstalling that. Then I thought; why did I buy this phone with all of these capabilities to turn them all off

So, something like the "Hyperion Sprint Samsung Epic Touch 4G 2 x Battery + Charger" (too "young" to post a direct link)
Would fit in/work with the Epic 4G (without needing a new cover)? Even though its for the Touch?
Lol, I've been doing many of the suggestions across the board, and have gotten much better results. But I'm still not "comfortable" with my battery strength, especially when I'm unable to charge my phone all day...

Looking into your running services is a big one. week ago my battery life greatly decreased. I kept seeing market update pending and it wouldnt go away. Never update never go away. I manually updated the market and the battery is back to wonderful. It drops 2-3% at night off charger. Thats about 8 hours.
A sticky with all the main running services and which ones you can stop would be wonderful. I have sns services running. I think i can stop it but not positive. I also have sanservice running supposedly some type of samsung update. Its not doing anything but its been running for 2 days. No negative effect on battery(that i notice) but its running. Also make sure you turn location off. Ive also noticed that even when you back out of google maps its still in running services. A restart fixes that but thats annoying.

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Looking into your running services is a big one. week ago my battery life greatly decreased. I kept seeing market update pending and it wouldnt go away. Never update never go away. I manually updated the market and the battery is back to wonderful. It drops 2-3% at night off charger. Thats about 8 hours.
A sticky with all the main running services and which ones you can stop would be wonderful. I have sns services running. I think i can stop it but not positive. I also have sanservice running supposedly some type of samsung update. Its not doing anything but its been running for 2 days. No negative effect on battery(that i notice) but its running. Also make sure you turn location off. Ive also noticed that even when you back out of google maps its still in running services. A restart fixes that but thats annoying.
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SNSservice is a Facebook and Feeds and Updates Widget service. ALWAYS stop it. It does not matter to Facebook, even if you use it, but if you remove the Feeds and Updates Widget on one of your screens, that service continues to search for it and will kill your battery in a matter of hours (it starts a "restarting" loop). Either leave the widget on or kill this service after every reboot or if you are rooted, freeze it along with DRM service.
My other battery tips are to log out or sign out of every app such as Lattitude, Facebook, Amazon MP3 (it's ok to use them, but don't just back/exit out, actually sign out of them so you have to log back in next time). Apparently, staying signed in causes your phone to not sleep and you can't find what is causing it (i.e. you can't see it "running" anywhere...people call it a misbehaving app, and you would have to delete apps one at a time to find it by trial and error).

Google chrome battery drainage?

Did anyone notice a huge drop in battery after updating google chrome a few days ago. I literally went from 100% to 40% within 6 hours without touching the phone. I believe its Google chrome so I uninstalled it but I'm not sure. Anyone else have this issue?
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You have a wakelock either way, use something like BetterBatteryStats just to check what it is. Chrome hasn't created any wakelocks for me. Actually in the past, I've noticed Chrome is a huge battery drain while using it, but the latest update seems to be a bit more conservative.

Well in battery stats, did Chrome come up as the culprit?

No but google services did and under that, it said that one of the google services were bookmark sync... I uninstalled chrome all together because I now use dolphin because I love the sonar feature... I'll see how it is tomorrow and will take it from there..
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i'm not sure how to reproduce the problem, but google chrome is always the culprit behind my excessive battery drain
didn't use to happen... wonder what caused this..

I didnt notice battery drain. But the reason i uninstalled chrome was because that huge service runs non stop at like 80mb even when not in use and this phone has an aggressive ram problem as is without that exaserbating it.

RogerPodacter said:
I didnt notice battery drain. But the reason i uninstalled chrome was because that huge service runs non stop at like 80mb even when not in use and this phone has an aggressive ram problem as is without that exaserbating it.
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not sure if you ever resolved it but i found this info and i am hopeful it will solve my issue with chrome.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/chrome/rT0ewNsBx18