Help with maps app. - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

I keep finding maps running in my running apps list and it is always in my battery list. I have never used it and keep force stopping it but it keeps restarting itself. Is there a reason to this and can I stop it?
Thanks.
PS. I am a newbie coming from iPhone 3gs, this is my first android phone so am new to it all. Sorry to ask so many questions!
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I charged phone to max before I want to bed and then took off charge. This morning after 8 hours, down to 90% battery and maps had used 50% of battery! What's going on!
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Don't worry about it. You're spending more time/battery trying to kill it and worry about it than its using by just doing its thing in the background.
Just open the maps app and make sure its not doing anything funny. If its not having issues then just leave it.
Dropping 10% over an 8 hour period over night is completely normal. The only reason why maps was 50% of the battery consumed is that the screen was not on and the rest of the system wasn't doing anything.

I know what your saying but over 16 hours that's 10% of my battery wasted on nothing that I ever use and phone keeps running out so I want that 10% back!
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I can see where you're coming from mate, its not acceptable. Have you tried going into manage apps and clearing data for Google maps, then if that doesn't work you can uninstall updates from the same page, go to android market and update the maps app. If all else fails you can try a factory data reset from the backup and restore menu option. Hope this helps
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actually, are you seeing maps running when you go to settings then applications then use the running tab?
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It not showing under running apps, nothing mentions apps but there was something under Google services called locations and I have force stopped that so will see what happens. Maybe a update will sort this. I have turned off all location services and GPS but when on browser it still knows where I am when I do searches so I think the browser is triggering something to restart! Hope that makes sense!
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Under Settings/Apps/Running I see Maps running constantly for NetworkLocationServices. Can't be killed and turning off all location services doesn't help.
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have you turned off location in the browsers settings? its in the privacy and security tab.

go2mo2 said:
have you turned off location in the browsers settings? its in the privacy and security tab.
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I found this tobe the culprit to why maps took up so much battery.
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I have disabled this so fingers crossed! Looks good so far, thanks very much.
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Thanks go2mo2, that change plus a reboot got rid of it.
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No problems mate
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Still having problems with this, disabled everything I can think of. I just want to uninstall maps as I never use it but I can't.

Maybe Google Latitude is turned on in the Maps Settings?

I'm wondering if its Facebook keeps activating it as that also keeps starting in apps and I can't turn it off as cannot access any options in ics.

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Crashing issues possible cause

I just had another crash replying to a post here using tapatalk. The keyboard had small pink corruptions as if video memory had an issue.
I pulled the battery for about 10 seconds, tried to turn it back on. No dice. I tried again except pulled the sim as well, that worked.
Maybe some of us having crashes are sim related?
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I've had to do a second battery pull today. Phone locks up then about 5 seconds later the display goes dark. Not fun.
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I froze twice in the past three days. I was using hand cent and browsing. The battery had to be pulled in order for restart.
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Yesterday I noticed GetJar was keeping the device awake (in battery stats), but otherwise it was responsive and all good. I uninstalled GetJar and rebooted for good measure. It powered down fine, but wouldn't power back up. I had to pull the battery.
My first 'battery pull' so far!
I had my first crash today while I was replying to an SMS message. The screen produced these broken specs of green.
I couldn't exit from the SMS, eventually the screen turned itself off and then nothing.
I had to perform a battery pull to fix.
When the phone booted back up ICS complained that the launcher had crashed.
Instead of clicking 'stop' I clicked 'wait'.
Phone returned to normal after that.
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Did you guys restore old apps/app data from your previous Android device? If so, factory reset and START FRESH.
I can't count the people I know that had issues all stubbornly because they refused to start fresh from a new device.
KWKSLVR said:
Did you guys restore old apps/app data from your previous Android device? If so, factory reset and START FRESH.
I can't count the people I know that had issues all stubbornly because they refused to start fresh from a new device.
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I didn't use a restore. I just added my Google account and let the phone download my apps that I more or less had from my Nexus One.
Is that OK to do?
Or should I have done something else??
Let me know, Thanks.
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C64c said:
I didn't use a restore. I just added my Google account and let the phone download my apps that I more or less had from my Nexus One.
Is that OK to do?
Or should I have done something else??
Let me know, Thanks.
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This is how it works. When you login all the apps install automatically.
I just noticed this morning that a bunch of apps I had uninstalled already on my GN automatically reinstalled. Odd right?
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If you have "force 2d rendering" checked in the developer settings, that will cause many issues.
brian85 said:
If you have "force 2d rendering" checked in the developer settings, that will cause many issues.
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I don't have this checked.
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I don't have any dev options on. I'm basically seeing what others are. Lockup, sometimes with screen corruption, then the display eventually goes black some short amount of time afterward. Battery pull required. I thought it may be heat related at one time but it has happened when the device was relatively cool. Seems like a software driver issue that can hopefully be addressed.
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Google maps update thoughts

Anyone seeing maps appear in your recent apps lists on its own? This has happened to me ever since I've gotten the update. Not sure if its a battery drain but its a huge annoyance and feels like a step backwards to what we lived with in gingerbread.
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kichard said:
Anyone seeing maps appear in your recent apps lists on its own? This has happened to me ever since I've gotten the update. Not sure if its a battery drain but its a huge annoyance and feels like a step backwards to what we lived with in gingerbread.
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I noticed this behavior as well, since the update. I finally opened Maps and then closed it. So far, it hasn't shown up again in the Recent list. I'm wondering if it was because of the popup window needing to be acknowledge. If it shows up again, I'll post an update.
Mine has been showing up every hour or two....even after reboot and uninstall of Google +
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I only noticed this yesterday but went on the Market and reinstalled it and opened it and since closing it its been fine.
I'll try uninstalling it and reinstalling. It hasn't shown up under battery stats so its not draining battery...just very annoying to see it there lol.
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kichard said:
I'll try uninstalling it and reinstalling. It hasn't shown up under battery stats so its not draining battery...just very annoying to see it there lol.
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Yeah I know what you mean. Especially clicking on it to reveal...nothing
Wow well I took the advice and just opened the app. Hasn't happened at all today lol. Wow.
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Google maps open

Has anyone else noticed that Google maps is constantly open in the task switcher. I close it. And even force close it. And its back open in a minute or so??
I have turned off all location services and still get it .
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Google wants to know were you are at all times. Welcome to the new world order
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what rom are you running. I've only noticed this with tranquil ice and gummy. However, in checking battery usage, maps doesn't show up
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ive noticed it in bixie rom and now I am using AOKP. and its the same if i go into app management and kill it 2-3 times when its there it seems to solve the problem. but as you say its not in battery stats
Related to one of the options when you initially set up the phone? Sending location based data to Google for one reason or another perhaps?
I noticed it a couple of times but doesn't seem to be happening these days... Running latest Bigxie build aka Apex 1.0.0...
I'm running on 4.01 stock and sometimes it's open and sometimes its not! Pretty annoying if you ask me...
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It's not doing it for me on aokp
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Had that with every fresh install .just go to maps settings and untick and tick back some options ....
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Got the same problem on roman's aokp here, very annoying indeed. Thnx for the tip MattSkeet will try your solution.
Brooklyn got it right...
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Disable maps great battery

So since I've had wake locks with Google maps I thought I'd disable the app when I'm not using it, also I disabled all GPS services. And I've been getting 4hours screen on time, my previous best was around 2 and a half.
If you don't use maps much and need the extra battery life , then give it a go.
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agreed maps app is the real battery problem.
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issue confirmed with latest version of maps...no wakelocks anymore since i deleted maps
I'd love to get 4 hours screen on time with maps enabled , that would be happy days . But I'm a moderate users so 2 and a bit has been fine.
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How do you disable it without uninstalling?
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How do you disable it without uninstalling?
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probably through titanium backup. you can uninstall it or freeze it
I used Autorun Manger
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rs.autorun
Unticked all the autostarts in Googlemaps and have no problems with wakelocks. Plus the beauty is I can start Googlemaps as normal.
BFirebird101 said:
How do you disable it without uninstalling?
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I just went into setting , all apps, maps , then uninstall the update, once that's dine it give you the disable option. So I've disabled it.
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Trying this now. I have been trying to crack the 2 and half hour screen on time for a while now. And even to get there was rare.
I can't stop the TrafficAppWidget Update even though I'm not using the widget anymore.
Any solutions?
Meets34 said:
I can't stop the TrafficAppWidget Update even though I'm not using the widget anymore.
Any solutions?
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How do you know its running? I don't even have that widget.
jhericurls said:
How do you know its running? I don't even have that widget.
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Settings-->Apps-->Running
It has two "Map" apps running, the location service and the traffic widget.
im pretty sure its Lattitude thats causing Maps to stay on....maybe just disabling that will work also?
Edit: never mind
jhericurls said:
I used Autorun Manger
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rs.autorun
Unticked all the autostarts in Googlemaps and have no problems with wakelocks. Plus the beauty is I can start Googlemaps as normal.
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Once you start it manually, do you need to kill the task again or the problem will start or is the problem solely down to services starting?
Update: some screen shots of my battery stats with maps disabled for the day. Well I had to use maps for about 2 hours but then I disabled again. Also brightness us about 40% the rest you can see on stats.
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Simer03 said:
im pretty sure its Lattitude thats causing Maps to stay on....maybe just disabling that will work also?
Edit: never mind
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Latitude does have an option for disabling background location updates. I've had that disabled since day one and have never seen wakelocks nor excessive battery drain associated with Maps. Am I doing something wrong to not be having this issue? :-D
Got the same issue, battery drained too fast.
Yeah I've been noticing quite a lot of wakelocks with the latest google maps. The version before I updated didn't seem to have this problem (or it was much less of a problem). I'd rather not have to disable the whole application though.
(Not using latitude either, I know that drains battery but it's actually doing something to show for it)
codesplice said:
Latitude does have an option for disabling background location updates. I've had that disabled since day one and have never seen wakelocks nor excessive battery drain associated with Maps. Am I doing something wrong to not be having this issue? :-D
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This.
You dont need to freeze or uninstall maps. Just log out of latitude.
You have to turn of all GPS services to stop maps from running in the background
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Google Maps Causing Excessive Wakeups

See attached picture. I am experiencing unusually high battery drain. Could it be attributed to Google Maps causing over 60 wakeups in almost a 3 hour time period?
Since I posted OP 10 minutes ago it's now up to 83 wakes.
Probably more related to an app that is using maps. I had that problem before but can't remember which app it is. Are you using any check in type apps?
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Not that I know of. I never check in with facebook. As for other check in apps like foursquare etc I don't even have any installed
Is it just acting up? Did you try force closing maps then see what happens or a reboot? Or is this an ongoing problem?
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Had the phone for 2 days. So ongoing I wouldn't say. I tried wiping app data but not force closing.
Weather widget using location service via maps? Latitude? I was having the same issue so I just froze Maps. Don't have this issue any longer. I rarely use the maps/gps so I just unfreeze when I need to use it.
I use maps a lot so I can't disable that but I do use accuweather as well maybe I should turn off the automatic sync on that?
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pettigrew95 said:
I use maps a lot so I can't disable that but I do use accuweather as well maybe I should turn off the automatic sync on that?
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Same issue here, looking for a solution. Please let me know if found...

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