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Why does Maps wake up my phone 90 times in 1 hour?

In my quest to see why my battery drains so much during idle (3-4%/hour), using GSam Battery Monitor, I find Maps wakes the phone constantly.
I have 'location reporting' from within maps turned off, and location history turned off, latitude location sharing is turned off also.
I do have Google's Location Service turned on so I can use Google Now, and also have GPS satellites and Location & Google Search checked. But I don't see why Location Service would make Maps wake my phone so often (pretty much 1x every minute)
Is this normal? Or is something not right?
P.S. Yes, I know it "only" drained 2% since I unplugged it 1.2 hours ago but it's the first time this has ever happened and as soon as I took the snapshots, it dropped to 97% right away.

I have lots of wakes from Maps too. Likely because you're using Google Location Services and are using Google Now, which needs to know your location.

It is normal. when you check it off try to find it in your running processes, you won't find it.

It stopped doing that to me when I turned off location tracking in Latitude settings in Google Maps.

Eddie1506 said:
It stopped doing that to me when I turned off location tracking in Latitude settings in Google Maps.
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Yes this is the answer
Go in Maps ->Settings->Position settings and disable background update position

alf_malf said:
Yes this is the answer
Go in Maps ->Settings->Position settings and disable background update position
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This is my map - settings - location settings screenshot. everything is disabled already.
Eddie1506: where do I change settings in Latitude?
Automaddux: you mean I have to turn off Google Location Service (and in effect Google Now)?
Thanks everyone!

Your not the only one buddy... I just witnessed this right now. Went to sleep to a pretty good charged battery and wake up to about a 35% battery ..
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Did you leave your GPS on?
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prosumerhacks said:
Did you leave your GPS on?
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I always have. Even on my E4GT..and have had no problems with deep sleep. But now the phone won't sleep at all.
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I leave GPS off unless I need it. That stopped the wake locks for me.

I was referring to those settings on your screenshot. When I turned off everything there, it stopped waking up the device.
But, those settings work for me since I don't use Latitude and Google Now is not usable here in Croatia anyhow.
Sorry

I've had 310 in three hours. Frustrating.
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so it's google location services that causes the extreme amount of wakes. so I have to make a decision, whether to enable Location Services and Google Now or live without it. In the end, it seems like the battery life doesn't suffer that much, so I think I'll keep it on...

I keep my Google now turned off because I'm all about battery life. But other people may have different thoughts
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[Q] Maps Draining my Battery - What to Do

I just got my first Android phone and its a Galaxy Nexus running Jelly Bean. The first two days I was getting around 4-5 hours of battery life and then started reading up on this forum and did a bunch of suggested changes like turning off NFC, location services etc. Also, downloaded Juice Defender and now the battery life is around 7 hours. My usage is very minimal and I was thinking the battery life should be much better than this. When I look into my usage, it seems Google Maps is eating out all my battery life. I have turned off all possible location services to stop this but nothing seems to work.
I have attached some of the relevant screenshots also from my device.
Any advice on how to get this sorted is much appreciated. Thank you.

Isn't there a location setting within the maps app that you should turn off? Or have you already done so?
Go into maps and look in settings if you are logged into "latitude". If so, then log out of it.

dannejanne said:
Isn't there a location setting within the maps app that you should turn off? Or have you already done so?
Go into maps and look in settings if you are logged into "latitude". If so, then log out of it.
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I have done that too

Why don't you just kill maps when you don't use it???
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qtwrk said:
Why don't you just kill maps when you don't use it???
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I do kill the map. In fact, I make sure to kill all apps after I am done using them but somehow it still pops up. I have a doubt that there might be some other app that is keeping my maps awake but I am unable to detect any.

rishi3211us said:
I do kill the map. In fact, I make sure to kill all apps after I am done using them but somehow it still pops up. I have a doubt that there might be some other app that is keeping my maps awake but I am unable to detect any.
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What you can do is root the phone and then install Titanium Backup and freeze maps. Then it will never be able to start again.

[Q] Maps draining battery while not used?

I don't usually use maps but I've been noticing that the maps app use more than 5% of the battery everyday... It uses as much battery as the browser, which I use quite often..
What's going on? I have only used the maps apps twice to test it. My GPS is off and so is network location.
My phone is stock rooted.
Help?

Tronaxious said:
I don't usually use maps but I've been noticing that the maps app use more than 5% of the battery everyday... It uses as much battery as the browser, which I use quite often..
What's going on? I have only used the maps apps twice to test it. My GPS is off and so is network location.
My phone is stock rooted.
Help?
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It's the newer location tracking from Google now. Go into your options on maps or Google now and check there. I don't have N2 yet, so don't know what the options look like, but it should have options for location services and the like.
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Tronaxious said:
I don't usually use maps but I've been noticing that the maps app use more than 5% of the battery everyday... It uses as much battery as the browser, which I use quite often..
What's going on? I have only used the maps apps twice to test it. My GPS is off and so is network location.
My phone is stock rooted.
Help?
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Maps will always run in memory and will drain battery. You can check that from better battery stats as well. It keps the phone awake. Better to freeze the maps
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sohebq said:
Maps will always run in memory and will drain battery. You can check that from better battery stats as well. It keps the phone awake. Better to freeze the maps
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I understand that but 5% of battery usage? With my S2, maps didn't even show up in the battery stats.

Tronaxious said:
I understand that but 5% of battery usage? With my S2, maps didn't even show up in the battery stats.
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You have to install betterbatterystats, it will let you know why maps have used the battery. If maps are showing up in the alarms for no reason, you need to throw it away

I hope you're not logged in Latitude.

Searching using GPS... the source?

This is driving me nuts!!! Since a few days ago every time I'm away from home at work, I get GPS blinking notification with ongoing message of "Searching using GPS..." while it's draining my battery like crazy. I'm not a noob, My phone is very light on apps, Google Now is disabled, Google location service is disabled, only one weather app and I disabled using GPS in there. Tried using GSam Battery Monitor to see if I can narrow it down - no help. Switched from 4G to wifi, still nothing. Of course I can turn GPS off for a problem to go away since i only use GPS in the car. But the problem is that I had my Note 2 for 3+ months and never had this issue before. Plus, I haven't installed any new app in at least 2 months. No life wallpaper, no fancy widgets that drain your resource, no social medial connection what so ever. All stock, not rooted. Using Nova Prime launcher, and a few widgets like Smooth Calendar, Circle Launcher, Rings Digital Weather Clock (with weather disabled), Fast Boot widget, Widgetsoid, Zooper Widget, and Android Weaither (GPS disabled).
That all that I have. Any idea how to resolve this?

Maps. Look in my guide to minimize the drain caused by it. But the best solution is to disable gps.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Maps. Look in my guide to minimize the drain caused by it. But the best solution is to disable gps.
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Do you mean the link in your sig? and btw, where do you access Location Settings per your guide? ... never mind, found Location Setting under Maps. Just disabled "Report from this device". Maybe that will help it?

Yep
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UtkarshGupta said:
Yep
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Funny that I had all that map stuff disabled, and it was still searching for GPS. But as soon as I stepped outside of the building where I work - it stopped. So something was trying to update location through GPS and could lock into the signal, thus searching and draining battery. Only happens in the building where I work. I guess the easy solution is to toggle GPS on/off. But still, would be good to find a source of which app or service is doing that pinging...

Try better battery status
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Battery drain in Galaxy S4 + NlpWakelock and NlpCollectorWakelock + Workaround

I have Samsung Galaxy S4 (TMO) running on rooted stock ROM 4.2.2.
Off late, I have been observing that the battery is draining much faster than it should be.
Earlier it typically used to consume ~12% of the battery during night time (when the phone is not used at all).
However, off late my battery is draining rapidly and is not standing for at least 8 hrs.
I checked the battery usage and got to see
Google Services (v4.3.11) is ranked higher at ~52% followed by
Screen
Android System
Android OS
etc.
I used Wakelock Detector to see what items are causing this drain.
I figured out that under Google Services the top ranking battery eaters are
NlpWakelock
NlpCollectorWakelock
So I tried couple of different things by disabling Google Sync. Even then, there is no change.
The following is what I did which fixed the battery drain:
1. I disabled/unchecked the Settings -> Location Services -> Location Sources -> Use wireless sources
After this, I checked the usage in the Wakelock Detector.
NlpWakelock : This one is now stopped and I don't see any activity with this wakelock
NlpCollectorWakelock : This continues to have wakelocks and is still ranking higher.
2. Now I set the Settings -> Location Services -> My places -> Home -> Selected Method -> None.
Earlier I had this option set to be identifying my home using my WiFi network. This is causing continuous In/Out data transfer (most probably polling to the network to check if the connection is alive) in the status bar observed by the WiFi icon. Once I set this to None, I don't see continuous In/Out data transfer in the status bar.
Apart from the above, I did power off the phone and removed the battery when it showed <5%. Left it like that for couple of hours. Then re-assembled and then it showed me 10% and recharged it after that. I did this on purpose to calibrate the battery (but not necessary) due to continuous discharge/recharge cycles happened for the last couple of days.
After recharging it to 100%, I left the phone without using it for 4 hrs to observe the wakelocks. Voila, the Google Services is at the bottom of the list. The above two wakelocks are no more seen under the Google Services. By the way, I did have the Google Sync on during this observation. I observed 1-2% battery drain for each one hr.
After this, the battery drain is not happening. For the past 9 1/2 hrs, accessing - Facebook, google search, The Weather Channel - couple of times resulted in 17% battery drain so far.
UPDATE: It's been almost 22 1/2 hours by now... the battery is now at 52% after a normal usage of accessing - Facebook, google search, The Weather Channel, CNN, TOI, Google+, phone calls and having Google sync on.
Hope this helps anybody else having a similar problem.

Greenify.

Yeah it's been well documented that Google Service locations(mainly the "Wi-Fi and cellular network" option) will drained the battery quick.
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Thanks for this info. My phone started dying in the middle of the day when it didn't used to. I'm not sure if I updated something and it caused these settings to change but I will see if this helps.

This didn't help me. I have massive battery drain. I made a few wipes, changed different stock roms. Now I'm on Google edition ROM and It's the same. Nlpwakelock is a nightmare for me. Could it be a third party app problem?

Did you have Google now activated? In that case, check if you have location services activated for it. NlpWakelock is mainly associated with the location access. Using wakelock detector, you would be able to find which application is using the NlpWakelock. That would give you a clue about what other app(s) using this wakelock.
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uresh.kuruhuri said:
Did you have Google now activated? In that case, check if you have location services activated for it. NlpWakelock is mainly associated with the location access. Using wakelock detector, you would be able to find which application is using the NlpWakelock. That would give you a clue about what other app(s) using this wakelock.
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I'm using BetterBatteryStats. Disabling Google Now/Location Reporting/Location History doesn't make any difference.

radko93 said:
I'm using BetterBatteryStats. Disabling Google Now/Location Reporting/Location History doesn't make any difference.
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Which app is showing to be using the NlpWakeLock?

radko93 said:
I'm using BetterBatteryStats. Disabling Google Now/Location Reporting/Location History doesn't make any difference.
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One more thing, after doing any changes, in order to get fresh wake lock information, you need to restart the phone. That way, you would know if the NlpWakeLock is being used from the fresh restart. However, if you see the Battery stats from the phone Settings, it would still show the information from the last recharge.

uresh.kuruhuri said:
Which app is showing to be using the NlpWakeLock?
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Google Play Services. I tried to restart the phone. More info about what I tried is here
Edit: I turned off Location Reporting and History, and it's much better. Google Now is making wakelocks now, but only few. Anyway Google ****ed up their own services.