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Google Maps battery use

OK, so this never seemed to be the case before, but when I check my battery use details, Maps always seems to be the biggest eater of battery. Even when I haven't even used the app. For example, as of right now, Maps has used 40%, while Cell Standby is 25% and Android System - 18%
what gives? has anyone else noticed this? why would this be? or maybe it's a function of my ROM?

j.books said:
OK, so this never seemed to be the case before, but when I check my battery use details, Maps always seems to be the biggest eater of battery. Even when I haven't even used the app. For example, as of right now, Maps has used 40%, while Cell Standby is 25% and Android System - 18%
what gives? has anyone else noticed this? why would this be? or maybe it's a function of my ROM?
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I've seen this too, but it doesn't seem to actually be eating my battery life. It was happening on and off in CM6 (froyo), but now that I'm on CM7 nightlies, I have not seen it happen for some time.

ok, maybe I won't worry about it then, since I'll definitely be switching to CM7 when it's officially released.

Seems to happen on maps 5.0 if you can uninstall the update and go back to 4.5
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I'm running Cyanogen Mod 6.1 and Google Maps 5.0.
When I do use the maps or navigation, I do notice that the battery drain is quite significant. Its not a big deal though because I don't use it that often and have a car charger.
Just out of curiousity, are you using the stock Email app? I had mine setup with my work email and for some reason whenever I would access it, it would launch a handful of apps in the background as well (Gmaps, Market, XDA, FML, WeatherBug). I tested it many times. I would force close those apps and anytime I opened Email they would all be running again.
I switched to K9 mail and haven't had the issue occur again...

Network Location Locator wakelock...

Battery life on this phone is ridiculously good...don't get me wrong. However, I have noticed that overnight sleep battery life is really no better than when the phone is in use. I installed better battery stats and see where my phone is being awakened literally every 10-20 mins by network location locator. I have seen several threads that are not dedicated to this, but have individual posts that do talk about it. I figured I would dedicate a single thread to this issue and hopefully come up with some type of fix. If I have missed the dedicated thread then I do apologize. I do not have GPS on, I have unchecked all location gathering data within Maps, I have unchecked location services within the Google location settings and I have all Facebook location settings and notifications turned off.
Any ideas on what specifically would help alleviate this wakelock? I didn't screenshot it, but I had my phone unplugged overnight for about 6 hours and this service was used for about 1 hr 45 mins.
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Facebook, Google+ or some other social media/location logging app is usually the culprit.

Try this...go to accounts google..then underneath it youll see maps and latitude. .I think you have the second option on..turn it off from that screen this should work for ya..so many location fields..lol

wish777 said:
Try this...go to accounts google..then underneath it youll see maps and latitude. .I think you have the second option on..turn it off from that screen this should work for ya..so many location fields..lol
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Appreciate it, but as I stated in the initial post...I have unchecked all maps and latitude tracking services. It looks like 1% loss every 2 hours during screen off is just something that I'll have to put up with. I know with other Android phones (Nexus and One X) I would only lose 1-2% overnight (8 hours). Not the end of the world, as this phone still gets me through a full day of heavy heavy use easily...just figured I might find another few hours
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Appreciate it, but as I stated in the initial post...I have unchecked all maps and latitude tracking services. It looks like 1% loss every 2 hours during screen off is just something that I'll have to put up with. I know with other Android phones (Nexus and One X) I would only lose 1-2% overnight (8 hours). Not the end of the world, as this phone still gets me through a full day of heavy heavy use easily...just figured I might find another few hours
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It'd be nice to get any kind of fix for this! I'm getting an almost 50% loss to this no matter what I do.

jezaz said:
It'd be nice to get any kind of fix for this! I'm getting an almost 50% loss to this no matter what I do.
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Only way to fix it for the time being is to uncheck "Google location services" under "Locations" in "Settings". The service kicks in via WiFi. Switching it off unfortunately means that other apps (other than Maps) can no longer provide location based services. In short, this bug (at leat that is what I believe it is) is the cause that while on WiFi your phone never reached deep sleep... I hope it will be solved as it is a waste of already valuable energy use...

Have you tried going into apps menu locating Network Location and disabling Notifications kind like disabing push notifications I dont know wild guess but it might do the trick

[Q] Dumb wakelocks, wakeups, help?

Upon loading up BBS, I come across these rather annoying wakelocks:
"wlax_rx_wake" (37m)
"battery-monitor" (27m)
"wlan_wake" (13m)
"mdm_hsic_pm0" (12m)
Partial Wakelocks:
"NetworkLocationLocator" (2m)
Basically, these are repete foes. Their times vary, but they're always there. Sometimes, they go up to hours.
Also, I'm noticing that Maps always has a top 3 spot in my battery usage (using the stock battery info). I'm not using maps, I have location services turned off, but it's always there. I tried clearing the data, didn't do a thing.
Last, I've noticed that many apps "wake up" my GN2 (found it in BBS). Ebay Mobile woke it up over 700 times, so I uninstalled that. Maps wakes it up over 300 times, not even sure why.
Android OS also has a "stay awake" time of 3h, 49m, 45s.
What's going on? How can I solve these issues?
I'm on Jedi 3.3.

Android os is, well, android os, some usage will always be there to run your phone.
That said, if 37 min wakelocks in the span of a full day, is not much. Wakelocks are necessary for some services to run. If you have maps wakelock for several hours with location services off, my guess is an app that is badly coded is checking for location even though it's off.
It would be helpful with a screenshot of kernel and partial wakelocks.
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Here are some screens, keep in mind that they have been much, much worse on my past charging cycles.
Oh and the maps data in these is after I killed maps, dug deeper to disable location services, and wiped maps' data.
37 minutes is the span of after a reboot, I'd say about 6 hours. They've increased (in the screens) over the past few hours. Pre-reboot, the wakelocks were up in the 1.5-2hr mark.

Please post with "since charged" or unplugged, since battery stats shows thirteen hours uptime.
The maps lock is only 3 mins and negligible, despite the intimidating red line You might rather have an app using wifi constantly unless you've actively been using wifi for a long time, or you have bad signal or a poorly configured wifi.
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for the first time ever my phone drained 10% or more over night, its never done that before even though i had every off.. and i did the same as i normally do, but for some reason it seemed to have drained a lot more last night

Ah, I'll have to post those tomorrow. I don't have a reference point saved it says.
That 3 minutes used to be close to 30 before I wiped the data and rebooted, I'm only concerned because maps is showing up as one of my battery killers in the stock battery info dialog, even though I haven't used it all day.
I did see through Watchdog that "friendservice" and its related processes have been running up pretty high, but I have latitude and everything else disabled?

Strange battery usage behaviour

I have a strange issue with my 32G WiFi FLO that I was hoping the knowledgeable members of XDA could help me diagnose.
Since I got it at launch, it's been sucking the battery dry. But not consistently. I have no idea what or why, but here's what I know so far:
All details are with auto sync OFF. WiFi OFF on sleep, location services ON (but cannot use WiFi)
Not unlocked or rooted (stock)
- From boot, and for the first 20-40 hours after that, battery usage on standby averages out to around 0.13% per hour.
- After that, and for no reason I can discern, battery usage jumps to an average of 0.84% per hour, and keeps draining like this usually until I reboot or need to charge
- Stock battery app shows no apps draining, BBS shows no apps draining stuff or excessive wakelocks and indicates the tablet is spending most of its time in deep sleep.
- Life with screen usage seems to be around 7+ hours either way, so this is as expected.
- Sent to ASUS to diagnose & repair, received with note that front camera unit replaced and OS reloaded.
- Issue is still occurring after "repair"
- apps running at the time are usually Android Keyboard, Android Services, Settings. Sometimes Play Store, Currents (even though I don't use it and have never launched it), Google Play Services as well. These are the only apps that run regardless of state of battery drain.
Can anyone think of any reason this is occurring, or where else I can go to check for more info? I'd prefer to stay stock/unrooted.
I'm looking to send it back for RMA *again*, but I'd rather tell them where to look than try and trust that they'll know where to look to fix it this time.

Guess no-one else has this issue or any ideas on where to look for this, since there are no replies

VS985 Lollipop stock RILJ wakelock

Anyone else encountering this? I didn't check before I went to 5.0.1, but right now it is consistent. Rebooting helps for a time, but my phone is awake for the most part even if I'm not using it, and most of that time goes to RILJ, used by the phone app.
I saw some threads about using wakelock terminator, but this doesn't work well on Lollipop because Xposed does not work 100% stably.

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Anyone else encountering this? I didn't check before I went to 5.0.1, but right now it is consistent. Rebooting helps for a time, but my phone is awake for the most part even if I'm not using it, and most of that time goes to RILJ, used by the phone app.
I saw some threads about using wakelock terminator, but this doesn't work well on Lollipop because Xposed does not work 100% stably.
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Yes, I'm seeing RILJ keeping my phone awake too since the 5.0.1 update

NegativeOne said:
Anyone else encountering this? I didn't check before I went to 5.0.1, but right now it is consistent. Rebooting helps for a time, but my phone is awake for the most part even if I'm not using it, and most of that time goes to RILJ, used by the phone app.
I saw some threads about using wakelock terminator, but this doesn't work well on Lollipop because Xposed does not work 100% stably.
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lexluthor said:
Yes, I'm seeing RILJ keeping my phone awake too since the 5.0.1 update
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I'm having this annoying wakelock too on 5.0.1 in Nexus 5. Have you found any solutions?

If you turn off location history (and may need to reboot), it goes away, but without location history, Google now isn't as fun.
RILJ seems to have a wakelock about 50% of the time. This is only since 5.0.1. At least it doesn't seem to really be killing battery life much.

I don't use Google Now and I have location services disabled all together most of the time (no GPS, no network location). I only use it when I open Google Maps. I also turned off location history but nothing changes. RILJ is always there. I think this is related to the phone app.

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I don't use Google Now and I have location services disabled all together most of the time (no GPS, no network location). I only use it when I open Google Maps. I also turned off location history but nothing changes. RILJ is always there. I think this is related to the phone app.
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Do you have location history disabled too? I think rilj is the phone looking for location via the network as opposed to via GPS.

lexluthor said:
Do you have location history disabled too? I think rilj is the phone looking for location via the network as opposed to via GPS.
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You mean this right (see screenshot)? Yes I disabled that hours ago and still have that wakelock (among other wakelocks with high counts like *alarm*, SyncLoopWakeLock and many others). RILJ is the worst one though. It doesn't happen on wifi, only on mobile data.

Adrianrff said:
You mean this right (see screenshot)? Yes I disabled that hours ago and still have that wakelock (among other wakelocks with high counts like *alarm*, SyncLoopWakeLock and many others). RILJ is the worst one though. It doesn't happen on wifi, only on mobile data.
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Not sure that's the same place. I'm looking in settings->location->Google location history If I turn location history off there and reboot, rijl wakelocks stop.

lexluthor said:
Not sure that's the same place. I'm looking in settings->location->Google location history If I turn location history off there and reboot, rijl wakelocks stop.
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Yeah, it's the same setting. That has been off since last night, along with Location services all together (I never use Google Now and rarely open Google Maps to see where something is or where I am). I don't think my problem has something to do with location. Thanks for your suggestion., though.

I may have found something here.
In Google Wallet->Settings->Notifications, I've turned off the nearby items option.
I've now only got 21 seconds of RILJ wakelock in the last 44 minutes.
I've had some other periods of time where RILJ stopped and when I turned the feature back on to test, RILJ didn't start up again, so I'm not sure I've found an answer, but, right now, it's looking ok.

Nope. Significant RILJ wakelock is back. Wonder why it wasn't there this morning.
This is definitely a strange one.

That is the same thing I've been seeing. You reboot and it goes away for a while, then comes back.

lexluthor said:
Nope. Significant RILJ wakelock is back. Wonder why it wasn't there this morning.
This is definitely a strange one.
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I also noticed it's rather insoncistent, but most of the time it's there, going crazy. Nearly 100 instances in a matter of a few minutes. I'm not actually sure of this, but I think it's worse when I'm in a place with bad cell coverage (home and work, for example -FML-). And when I'm at work there's absolutely nothing I can do to stop the wakelocks, because if I connect to that crappy WIFI, the RILJ will go away, but I'll get A LOT of wlan_rx and wlan_wd wakelocks too. When connected to the WIFI at home the phones sleeps like a baby.
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That is the same thing I've been seeing. You reboot and it goes away for a while, then comes back.
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In my case it doesn't. I've read that disabling background location helps (It's always disabled in my case) because it's the phone using cell towers to approximate your location. I don't use nor have Google Wallet. Wakelock detector shows it under "Phone (radio)".
All this ****ing wakelocks are drving me crazy, I'm having all sorts of them. A bunch of sync related wakelocks are always poping out, and I have autosync disabled most of the time. This came with the 5.1 update. I flashed Cynogenmod 12.1 this morning and I haven't seen any changes.

Been doing some more testing and this issue is just really strange. Turning off location history seemed like it was working for a bit, but rilj wakelocks are going just as strong now so that's not it.
Also, there are so few posts about this when i do a Google search that I'm wondering if this is just flat out a bug specific to the G3 that was introduced in 5.0.1.

RILJ is from the phone app. I had it in 4.4.2 too. As soon as I use the phone I get the wakelock.

lexluthor said:
Been doing some more testing and this issue is just really strange. Turning off location history seemed like it was working for a bit, but rilj wakelocks are going just as strong now so that's not it.
Also, there are so few posts about this when i do a Google search that I'm wondering if this is just flat out a bug specific to the G3 that was introduced in 5.0.1.
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It's not exclusive of the G3, I have them too on the Nexus 5. It's definitely related to the radio (phone), I think it gets worse when you have bad coverage. I managed to stop a bunch of the wakelocks I was having by making a profile in Tasker to turn on autosync every 2 hours for 5 minutes and, more importantly, by denying permissions to Google Services, Calendar (and its sync service), Contacts (and its sync service) for location, wake up and keep awake, among other permissions. I still see the RILJ wakelock but it's not significant and has no impact on battery life. I'm not sure if the permissions thing helps with the RILJ wakelock, but I'm sure that was the only thing that help with battery life.

RILJ Wakelock on HTC Desire 816 after Lollipop Upgrade
I am facing the same issue after upgrading my HTC Desire 816 to Lollipop. RILJ is related to the Dialer.
Tried the following:
1. Clear Cache and Dalvik Cache
2. Force Stop Dialer
3. Restart Phone (Works for some time)
However, after Googling for a while I found out that a restart will help as long as you don't receive a call. As soon as you receive a call, the RILJ process again shoots up and keeps your phone awake.
A restart after every phone call is way too annoying.