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Google maps v5.0 draining battery? Screenshot

Can anybody tell me wtf is going on here? I tried searching here and wiping maps' cache, but it didn't change this problem. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling maps.
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Oh, also.... running myn's warm twotwo with themed launcherpro, setcpu and juice defender.
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forrie1 said:
Oh, also.... running myn's warm twotwo with themed launcherpro, setcpu and juice defender.
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Kill the program. If you leave GPS on and that program runs it will suck battery like no other. Axe GPS and the program and it should go down.
If it doesn't, try reflashing the ROM after clearing everything...this might have also caused some problems

So i turned off gps and force closed maps.... still at 92%. I never had this problem with maps using myn's until maps v5.0.
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ALSO, I turned off background data and force closed maps again, still at 82 percent of battery usage. I am just going to revert to an older version of maps. I feel like someone on here knows the answer and just isn't saying. I used to get 30+ hours on a battery charge, and that number has been cut in half now.

forrie1 said:
ALSO, I turned off background data and force closed maps again, still at 82 percent of battery usage. I am just going to revert to an older version of maps. I feel like someone on here knows the answer and just isn't saying. I used to get 30+ hours on a battery charge, and that number has been cut in half now.
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Yeah...people are going to this thread, reading about your issue and thinking to themselves, Hey, I know how to fix it but I don't think I will post my fix because _______.
Fill in the blank?

Yeah, well, that was a joke. But the problem remains. I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this.

I was having the same issue too. I used it as an opportunity to try out a new ROM (CM 6.1.1), and have not had the problem with the new maps since.
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chr232s said:
I was having the same issue too. I used it as an opportunity to try out a new ROM (CM 6.1.1), and have not had the problem with the new maps since.
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I was thinking the same thing.... maybe the newest fresh, maybe CM. You've convinced me.

I just wanted to say that this is happening to me to. HTC EVO running the most recent official software. I was sent over here by a user on another message board, and there's at least 2 or 3 other posters who are having the problem.
I uninstalled the update, and went back to the version that the phone shipped with and it fixed the problem. Reinstalled 5.0 and there was no problem UNTIL I ran navigation in maps. Now it's doing the same thing again.

i have the same problem to on my HTC wildfire running on the most update official software. i tried reinstalling v5 but that didnt work for more then 3 houres. So now i deinstalled the updates and it works fine again.
anyone a better solution?

Dude, I had this EXACT same problem. Trust me, it's not Maps draining your battery. For some reason, it lists the last app used and puts it there. Later on, it will be Android System. I was scrambling. Killed the program, turned off auto sync, mobile data, etc. Nothing worked. Using the same rom and all.
Found out, my PRI and radios were not compatible with my build. Are you on 3.3? And using 1.9 PRI. It needs to be 1.7.
Check this out and see if that's the issue. If it is, fix that and you will be back to normal. Switching to CM really didn't fix your issue, just their rom with your build is compatible with those radios and PRI.

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I have the very same problem. I haven't exactly solved it but Quickboot sure helped. Maps 5 is seriously flawed though. Even after GPS is off it still hogs the battery, ridiculous.
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barats said:
Dude, I had this EXACT same problem. Trust me, it's not Maps draining your battery. For some reason, it lists the last app used and puts it there. Later on, it will be Android System. I was scrambling. Killed the program, turned off auto sync, mobile data, etc. Nothing worked. Using the same rom and all.
Found out, my PRI and radios were not compatible with my build. Are you on 3.3? And using 1.9 PRI. It needs to be 1.7.
Check this out and see if that's the issue. If it is, fix that and you will be back to normal. Switching to CM really didn't fix your issue, just their rom with your build is compatible with those radios and PRI.
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Well the symptoms that u describe are right, also saw my andriod system high in my battery usage list. However that was back to normal when maps whas up in the list. Now i use the maps without updates and i didnt use my phone much andriod systems is low and maps is not in the list.
I have no idea what radio and PRI do, and where to find which i have. Can u explain where to find some info and where i can see which i have in my phone?
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Does using Google+ INSTANT UPLOAD feature cause high battery drain?

Does using Google+ INSTANT UPLOAD feature cause high battery drain?
My phone used to be able to go into DEEP SLEEP mode but ever since I turned on G+ Instant Upload feature, my phone looks like this:
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NOTE: The phone is NOT actually uploading anything at the time of the screen shot. G+ Instant Upload uses tons of battery just doing nothing! The battery was 100% and the phone was in sleep mode the whole time.
Is this happening to anyone else? I'm on Kang milestone 1. How do we let Google know that their G+ app sucks?

I don't see this myself.
I'm on 4.0.2 and using the latest Google+ app.
I can see that Google+ has the potential to cause problems if it were trying to upload photos on a poor connection.. that could certainly explain similar the behaviour you saw.

ditto. I used Google + upload feature once. Until I realized it uploaded a ton of crap to Google I really didn't want online. I specifically opted to not upload automatically. I didn't even notice it until I bought my son a nook tablet for Christmas. Hacked it of course, and in the Gallery was a ton of photos from Google plus. Glad I found them when I did.
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The choice is there for all to choose.
Personally I use Android and Google+ mainly for this feature. I think it suits my needs well to have every photo I take uploaded to Picasa (now Google+) in a private album ready for sharing when I need to.
But.. if it's not for you, disable instant upload.

xyzulu said:
The choice is there for all to choose.
Personally I use Android and Google+ mainly for this feature. I think it suits my needs well to have every photo I take uploaded to Picasa (now Google+) in a private album ready for sharing when I need to.
But.. if it's not for you, disable instant upload.
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I like the feature. It's nice having automatic cloud backup of your phone gallery. But, it's not nice when the phone screen is off, it's not loading anything and yet drains the battery like no other.
After using CPU spy, I also noticed that it's not going into DEEP SLEEP anymore.
I turned of INSTANT UPLOAD for now to see if it can DEEP SLEEP again.

I haven't had any problems on 4.0.2 with current Google+ I only allow my photos to be uploaded via wifi.
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Actually it's the messager+ feature of google plus that ran away with the battery on mine even though I never used it. It was constantly using the battery running something called the friend locator service in maps. I think it was latitude. I killed it and disabled latitude (which I never enabled) and my battery skyrocketed.
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Don't have this problem and I use that feature a lot. Maybe try reinstalling it. Or have it set to not upload on battery.
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jsntrenkler said:
I haven't had any problems on 4.0.2 with current Google+ I only allow my photos to be uploaded via wifi.
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That's what I'm going to try next. My phone was DEEP SLEEPING just fine before this.
BTW, I think this is an ICS issue. My friend's Evo 3D DEEP SLEEPS just fine with INSTANT UPLOAD enabled all the time.

BTW, there is no indicator as to when instant upload is uploading pictures, so you wouldn't actually know when it is.
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kangxi said:
BTW, there is no indicator as to when instant upload is uploading pictures, so you wouldn't actually know when it is.
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Are you sure? Cuz on mine, it actually said, "uploading 212/398"
But when it was done, it had no message and I hadn't taken any new images or video.

I set it to upload on charger only, so it upload nightly on my nightstand. No problem what so ever.

kangxi said:
Don't have this problem and I use that feature a lot. Maybe try reinstalling it. Or have it set to not upload on battery.
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Same here. I use it all the time and never have an issue with battery drain. I do have upload on wifi only turned on too.
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Are you sure you're using the latest version (2.3.1.242969)?
For some reason the latest G+ update doesn't show up in the "Apps that need updating" list.
You have to manually search it in the market and then you'll see that there is an update.

I had the same issue as OP where Google+ was taking approx 66% of battery even when the phone was idle, and I had not been actively using Google+ previously. I assumed that perhaps instant upload was uploading the rest of the pics that I manually placed in the DCIM folder, but never bothered verifying.
In settings->Appls, I noticed that I could disable Google+ which is what i did, since then battery life is awesome! (you may need to un-install a Google+ update before getting the 'disable' option)

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Are you sure? Cuz on mine, it actually said, "uploading 212/398"
But when it was done, it had no message and I hadn't taken any new images or video.
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Did you manually force it to upload your library? Because normally when it uploads by itself there's no notification.
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I have Instant Upload via cell data and wifi turned on and never have any issues with phone not deep sleeping. GSM version here.
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i've always had instant upload on and i take alot of pictures and google+ only uses a minimal amount of battery around 2% on my phone

BruceCLin said:
I set it to upload on charger only, so it upload nightly on my nightstand. No problem what so ever.
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Me too!
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Does using Google+ INSTANT UPLOAD feature cause high battery drain?
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I had the same issue once. Found that G+ was trying to upload several large videos along with my pictures. I had set it to upload only via wifi... The videos were really big and never uploaded but the battery drained just like the OP. I had to move the videos from my camera folder to another one. Once the videos got out of the camera folder, the battery drain stopped and haven't had any other problems since.
I wish Google would give an option to upload videos. I love the instant upload feature...but hate it does not let you opt out of uploading videos.
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CyanogenMod10 Stable Released for P930

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There is a large group flashing the Nightlies and I wanted to share with everyone that CM has decided their most recent build is good enough to be deemed STABLE.
Enjoy!!!! I suppose you can note issues here, but you'd probably get a better response if you join in the CM10 Nightly thread.
Edit:
Along with the STABLE moniker comes the Bug Reports too: http://goo.gl/zO2i0
More info in CM's Google+ Announcement: http://goo.gl/SvcqY

*Choir of angels singing hallelujah*
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How does one go the most bug free way from CM9 stable into CM10 stable?

Stable does not mean stable build. It is the same as usual "Nightly". CyanogeMod wants to finish building Android 4.1.2 and move to 4.2 (CyanogenMod 10.1)

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How does one go the most bug free way from CM9 stable into CM10 stable?
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Factory reset/wipe data before flashing. That's it.

so stable meaning they worked out the volume issue?
or stable enough to be a dayli driver?

It definitely seems more stable to me so far... But I am just on day one.. So will report if anything goes haywire.
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ahdoublexl said:
It definitely seems more stable to me so far... But I am just on day one.. So will report if anything goes haywire.
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yeah, i downloaded it as well and am 'bout to flash it to my wife's phone, hopefully it'll be stable enough or better than CM9
Edit... so far so good, just gonna let it settle 'cause after setting up all the apps it drained the battery from 70% to 30% in less than 45 minutes

Will we ever get an overclocked kernel for CM10 (JellyBean)?
Of course, I will not be using this phone when they finally get some Nexus 4s in stock

am I blind or is it just me, but I don't see a camera anywhere.
Well after looking at the rom on my compy I don't see that camera apk has been added, bummer

@latinohot,
You should definitely have a Camera app.

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@latinohot,
You should definitely have a Camera app.
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Where is it?
unless is hiding inside the gallery apk itself, which I didn't check, ran out of time but will check when I get home later tonight
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latinohot said:
Where is it?
unless is hiding inside the gallery apk itself, which I didn't check, ran out of time but will check when I get home later tonight
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Camera.apk is inside gallery.apk

I'm getting absolutely horrendous battery life with this release. I flashed yesterday using cm updater, and also tried after a complete wipe of everything and fresh install. Also tried with/without lightning zap. No improvement no matter what I do. I can literally watch the percentage drop 1-2 per minute it seems with screen on. Leaving the device idle isn't much better, maybe 4 hours tops with hardly any use....any one else experiencing this? Other than that it seems pretty solid btw
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Hutch89 said:
I'm getting absolutely horrendous battery life with this release. I flashed yesterday using cm updater, and also tried after a complete wipe of everything and fresh install. Also tried with/without lightning zap. No improvement no matter what I do. I can literally watch the percentage drop 1-2 per minute it seems with screen on. Leaving the device idle isn't much better, maybe 4 hours tops with hardly any use....any one else experiencing this? Other than that it seems pretty solid btw
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Me too my battery dropped 30% in three hours and that was not using my phone at all. I checked for wake locks and thought it might be android system but it only had it at 10 min. So I went back to v20c where I consistently only loose 1 - 2 % per hour in idle.
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that's why for now I'll stick with CM9 from HO NO

Found a bug that is very easily reconstructed. Simply press the record button for video (in my case 1080p). Phone crashes or sometimes freezes up. I can reboot using the power button.
Also battery life (at least so far) is very very poor but im going to let it settle for a few days and see how it is, km coming from cm9 for reference.
Other than that, it is a very solid Rom. Thank you rc for all your hard work. I'm going to attempt to log cat the crash.
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my battery life is just like previous 11/05 and 11/10. i have not yet installed lighting zap.

On my Telus P935 I got much better battery life than before, but that might have been because it's a new battery and isn't really broken in. I used it SMSing a few times a hour and occasionally googling last night on my 10 hour shift and after it being on for 11 hours it still have nearly 40% left. Way better than my Nexus S used to do. I did install Lightning Zap.
P935 on Bell with Telus V20e baseband.

I am also getting really poor battery life.
Yesterday I went out for dinner with 100% charge and came back with 73% left. Just over two hours.
Also, found a bug. The Messaging (SMS) app won't allow me to set the dark theme. Anyone else confirm?
Chrome isn't installed in CM10. I thought Chrome replaced the Stock Browser in Android 4.1 What's going on?

Mystery App

Hey
Anyone know what the running mystery app is with no name at the bottom? Usually 2 of these draining my battery and not sure what they are.
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Dont be lazy. Google it next time. It is a watch face you installed
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glukasil said:
Dont be lazy. Google it next time. It is a watch face you installed
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Thanks for the reply but will have to say that going to the time and effort of taking a screenshot and creating a thread to ask about this means I'm not lazy...Plus this is a forum isn't it....where people can discuss things and ask for help...That's what I did.
Plus i'm not talking about the pujie watch face at the very bottom, I'm referring too the android icon with no name...how can I google something which has no name!?

Sorry mate. Had no intension to offence you at all......
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Classic XDA snobbism. I've also wondered about those unnamed apps.

sheppy101 said:
Hey
Anyone know what the running mystery app is with no name at the bottom? Usually 2 of these draining my battery and not sure what they are.
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Hey!
You could try a 3rd party Wear battery stats app, like this, to see if it can throw more light on it for you.
If that doesn't help, to troubleshoot, you could factory reset your watch (in settings), then reconnect/pair it to back your phone, but don't resync your apps just yet at this point.
When the watch and phone are successfully paired, recheck your battery stats after a few minutes and see if the mystery app returns in the list. If it does show up again, you know it's a stock app, and there's probably nothing to worry about. If it doesn't reappear, and only shows up when you resync your apps to the watch, you then know it's something you've installed yourself.
If it bothers you that much, you could perform another factory reset and install your apps back onto the device one by one, checking your battery stats after a few minutes along the way to see which one is the culprit.
Incidentally, I don't have the no-name app on my SW3 running 5.0.2 with the latest Wear app, and honestly I don't think it's good practice by a developer to leave an app in that state purposely, so I'd be wary of it to be honest - looks kinda dodgy!
Best of luck!

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Hey!
You could try a 3rd party Wear battery stats app, like this, to see if it can throw more light on it for you.
If that doesn't help, to troubleshoot, you could factory reset your watch (in settings), then reconnect/pair it to back your phone, but don't resync your apps just yet at this point.
When the watch and phone are successfully paired, recheck your battery stats after a few minutes and see if the mystery app returns in the list. If it does show up again, you know it's a stock app, and there's probably nothing to worry about. If it doesn't reappear, and only shows up when you resync your apps to the watch, you then know it's something you've installed yourself.
If it bothers you that much, you could perform another factory reset and install your apps back onto the device one by one, checking your battery stats after a few minutes along the way to see which one is the culprit.
Incidentally, I don't have the no-name app on my SW3 running 5.0.2 with the latest Wear app, and honestly I don't think it's good practice by a developer to leave an app in that state purposely, so I'd be wary of it to be honest - looks kinda dodgy!
Best of luck!
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Awesome! Thanks for all of your suggestions I am just in the process of using the app you suggested to track down what application that running service belongs too. It's not bothering me massively, just seems a little suspicious as you say.
What lead me to look there in the first place was that my battery is only lasting me around about 3/4 of a day! Which is a hell of a lot less than all the reviews have stated i should be getting out of it.
I may well try a factory reset tbh...just to see 1. if that service goes away using your methods for checking 2. to see if my battery improves. Will report back when I know more anyway, hopefully be able to help others out who have the same issue.
I did actually have 2 apps with the same lack of name at one point...very odd!
Edit: Damn just seen that the app you suggested required xposed on my phone which I don't have at present due to running lollipop and not wanting to use the alpha

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Awesome! Thanks for all of your suggestions I am just in the process of using the app you suggested to track down what application that running service belongs too. It's not bothering me massively, just seems a little suspicious as you say.
What lead me to look there in the first place was that my battery is only lasting me around about 3/4 of a day! Which is a hell of a lot less than all the reviews have stated i should be getting out of it.
I may well try a factory reset tbh...just to see 1. if that service goes away using your methods for checking 2. to see if my battery improves. Will report back when I know more anyway, hopefully be able to help others out who have the same issue.
I did actually have 2 apps with the same lack of name at one point...very odd!
Edit: Damn just seen that the app you suggested required xposed on my phone which I don't have at present due to running lollipop and not wanting to use the alpha
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Wear Battery Stats doesn't require Xposed! I'm using it on my phone and I've never installed or used Xposed before.

gulpor said:
Wear Battery Stats doesn't require Xposed! I'm using it on my phone and I've never installed or used Xposed before.
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Oh okay, my bad! . It just wasn't showing any info and it said that I must be rooted and have xPosed installed. I went for the full reset and app re-sync option anyway as I want to try and fix the bad battery life...will see if that also resolves the mystery app issue!

Odd! I now have a black one too..

I had fast battery drain because of an animated face...it showed usage 2 percent but in reality was way way more... Just set a standard face and test it for a day
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I think that's the case yanno! I had an animated face set and the battery was draining really really quickly! I was charging it twice a day, I set a different watch face (still slightly animated) but the battery went for a whole day then and still had 30% left!!

GPS battery drain

I have looked up battery usuage apps and Android System drained most of my battery. But the problem is with GPS. As you will see usuage on it. But I dont even have location turned on
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What happens if you click on location access on that screen?

You mean that?
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I'm going to say that it's the camera wakelock. Try to reboot, charge it all the way, then use as normal (discharge) without using the camera?

I turned off camera location tagging even though I haven't used camera for 2 day since I upgraded to 10e. I will report back tommorow.

Go to Settings/location and see which app(s) are making location requests.

Same here.
You can make the problem “visible“ by turning on location and setting it to high accuracy. Then it shows up via a flashing GPS icon as described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/help/android-drains-battery-t3179800
This Problem drives me crazy since no solution seems to exist and not every device seems to be affected.

toshiuser said:
Same here.
You can make the problem “visible“ by turning on location and setting it to high accuracy. Then it shows up via a flashing GPS icon as described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/help/android-drains-battery-t3179800
This Problem drives me crazy since no solution seems to exist and not every device seems to be affected.
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There is a solution, but only temporary. As far as permanent fixes go, I'm also hoping someone finds a solution to this...
Repost of mine from another thread:
I have a VS986 (Verizon) and experiencing this battery drain issue.
I can confirm a few things:
The issue occurs when my location is set to High Accuracy, but not when it's set to Battery Saving
The two apps that use location the most is the Google App and Google Play Services (under Battery, it's "Android System" and the reason is because the GPS is being used)
My Google Play Services is v8.1.18 (2272748-240)
I have disabled many apps using the Debloater tool on XDA
Wiping Google Play Service data only temporarily fixes the issue
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JeffXT said:
There is a solution, but only temporary. As far as permanent fixes go, I'm also hoping someone finds a solution to this...
Repost of mine from another thread:
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Have you tried turning off Google location settings? Such as maps or Google Now?

Sfkn2 said:
Have you tried turning off Google location settings? Such as maps or Google Now?
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Yes, I went to Google Settings app > Location > Google location history. Then I turned the setting off.
Is there anything else I could try?
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JeffXT said:
Yes, I went to Google Settings app > Location > Google location history. Then I turned the setting off.
Is there anything else I could try?
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Settings -> locations --> off (on top of screen)
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Settings -> locations --> off (on top of screen)
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Lol, I might have to just turn off my location all together (though some people said this might not work e.g. Android system attempts to use the GPS even though location is fully shut off)
Thank you for your help, either way.
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JeffXT said:
Is there anything else I could try?
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From experience on various Sammy Galaxies, Root+Xposed framework+Amplify should help noticeably reduce location related wakelocks

hundred_miles_high said:
From experience on various Sammy Galaxies, Root+Xposed framework+Amplify should help noticeably reduce location related wakelocks
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Thanks for the tip. I'm not rooted, because I wanted to avoid tripping the bootloader counter (from "0" to "1"). I'm running the v.10B firmware of the VZW variant.
Not sure if you have VZW, but do you know how to achieve root on the 10B firmware? Then I could try Xposed.

JeffXT said:
Lol, I might have to just turn off my location all together (though some people said this might not work e.g. Android system attempts to use the GPS even though location is fully shut off)
Thank you for your help, either way.
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Exactly.
The GPS shows up because Google locations is pinging you for 15 seconds out of every minute in order to get the most accurate readings. Google Now functions based on this.
If you don't want GPS to ping you, then you can turn off location settings entirely.

JeffXT said:
Thanks for the tip. I'm not rooted, because I wanted to avoid tripping the bootloader counter (from "0" to "1"). I'm running the v.10B firmware of the VZW variant.
Not sure if you have VZW, but do you know how to achieve root on the 10B firmware? Then I could try Xposed.
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I'm on 10b VZW rooted... Simply follow the first post in the thread below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/orig-development/root-tmo-vzw-intl-variants-soon-root-lg-t3164765
and then replace the instructions with that here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63165617&postcount=2231
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hundred_miles_high said:
From experience on various Sammy Galaxies, Root+Xposed framework+Amplify should help noticeably reduce location related wakelocks
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Is there a good tutorial somewhere on how to use amplify?

Almighty1 said:
I'm on 10b VZW rooted... Simply follow the first post in the thread below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/orig-development/root-tmo-vzw-intl-variants-soon-root-lg-t3164765
and then replace the instructions with that here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63165617&postcount=2231
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Is there a good tutorial somewhere on how to use amplify?
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Got it.
Sorry for the noob question (no one had an answer previously): where do I enter that dd command to create a system.img backup of my stock ROM?
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JeffXT said:
Got it.
Sorry for the noob question (no one had an answer previously): where do I enter that dd command to create a system.img backup of my stock ROM?
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Look at the first post of the thread.... All the commands are done on the computer.

Almighty1 said:
Look at the first post of the thread.... All the commands are done on the computer.
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Wow, that was dumb. Sorry about that, I like never make that mistake... I'll see myself out

@Almighty1 I've never had to go beyond the default seup to get noticeable results from Amplify to be honest.
Install, activate module in xposed, reboot, run Amplify, grant root access and let Amplify complete it's setup.
Official Amplify thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-nlpunbounce-reduce-nlp-wakelocks-t2853874
No real need to buy the Pro version, however I bought it to support the developer as it worked so well for me.
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