Can I find out which app is causing the gps icon to appear? While its on I go to settings under running apps, nothing thats running has gps..
Are you running the stock rom? I never had this issue until I loaded Cyanogen 7 RC1. Unsure what's doing the lookup, but assuming it's what's keeping my phone from sleeping and consuming the battery.
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Is it normal for the battery status bar to be a little slow to appear on the power tab in settings sometimes? It's a bit hit and miss, sometimes it does it, sometimes not. Mostly does this after bringing the phone out of standby, getting a little annoying.
Mine was always instant using the stock rom.
Have just checked it on the custom rom i'm using and don't have that issue on this rom either.
What % of memory is it sitting at? (Mine rarely gets over 50%)
Have you installed a lot of additional apps?
This is with nothing installed except my contacts and diary. My TP doesn't do it and that has got a shed load of apps on it. hmmm
hmm....
maybe someone else running the vodafone rom will pop on and say if they have the same issue.
I honestly can't ever remember having that issue.
Sorry i can't be of more help.
no worries As I say, doesn't do it all the time.
So I recently installed the CM9 kang that's over in the dev forum and I started noticing this weird behavior with the traffic widget where the GPS would remain permanently on while the widget was on the page. Confirmed via the battery stats as well. Thinking it was the ROM, I restored my nandroid backup (totally stock) and noticed the same thing. Has anyone else noticed that their GPS is on 24/7 when they have a traffic widget on their homescreen? I also notice that there is the extra 'trafficappwidgetupdate' service that's continually running and using high cpu cycles, so I'm not sure if something is faulty with the service or the GPS. Any ideas?
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Finding, that the battery from the SGW drops to fast, I installed an so called battery saver app. Firstly I tried juice defender, finding out that I need Pro version to really save energy the way I want to -> deinstalled. Next I tried GreenPower free battery saver. Didn't notice, that switching off WLAN and G3/4 is also only available in pro version. Nevertheless I configured everything in order to give it a try.
Today I noticed, that GreenPower... switched on WLAN and GPS and Blutooth and every other power consuming device. Despite disply brightnes. For what?? So I uninstalled the app.
The problem now is, that GreenPower... switched the display brightness to automatic! Even at the widget "Energiesparmodus" ("powersavings"?) the sign for brightness shows an "A" for automatic. I can adjust the brightness at settings (1000 subfolders) BUT the quick cool sliding at the notification bar is not working any more.
Is there a possibility to switch it on again?
I'm rooted and have Titanium Backup installed with an full backup from last week.
Trying to recover notification bar did not work (screen notification "backup failed" and notification bar was gone; after reboot bar back again, with no brightness regulation).
Anybody with glue for this?
holydiver
Personally recommend to not use a battery saver apps or some sort eg. when the screen is off data connection will be off.
And when you wake the SGW it will again struggle to look for the data connection signal ...that will take energy away from the battery.
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Finding, that the battery from the SGW drops to fast, I installed an so called battery saver app.
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What about installing a custom rom like Bionic cow? Had the same problem with the energy on this device with the stock rom and i tried different "saver"-apps.
At least i gave this rom a try et voilà even with intensive use the accu lasts much longer than before. I can't say why this rom reduces the energy consumption, maybe because of the lightweight launcer and some other modifications...
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Thanks guys!
It stopped working for 3 days. On the 4th suddenly it worked again. Without doing NOTHING. I even didn't do another reset. curios
holydiver
Hello all,
Not sure if it is the rom's issue (90% sure it isn't) or if the phone's GPS is just weird.
I just recently flashed CNA 3.6.5 with it's stock kernel. After I put a google map traffic widget on my homescreen and clicked it. I can see the GPS locked on but it would never turn off. I came from Vicious 4.1.1 v1 (without GPS fix) so this behavior is new to me :S Is this normal for everyone else for the GPS to stay locked on even after 30 minutes it is clicked?
Thanks in advance!
I have a new GS4 which is stock, I have not done anything to it except installing a couple of programs that I have always used on my other phones without any issues.
The GPS icon is constantly on and its displaying "Searching using GPS" while its draining the battery at 25% per hour. When I long press on it App info shows "System UI". Rebooting the phone does not fix the issue, thoughts?