[Q] Maps draining battery while not used? - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

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Google Maps 4.1.1 is a battery hog

I just noticed that when i install the update for google maps 4.1.1 this app will drain my battery really fast. I have used it for aprox. 5 minutes and wihtin my battery comsumption info under settings it had used about 18% battery. With the previous version i had no problems at all. The same happend with google earth.
I also found this thread in google support forums:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=2a11fbd2ef43cf00&hl=en
Anbody else experienced this. Someone has a solution for the described probblem?
Right now i used to train my battery and discharge my phone before i go to bed.
But no way i would used it in the wild.
Uninstalling my be a cure to some battery problems people here seem to have.
Cheers,
Chaos42
chaos42 said:
I just noticed that when i install the update for google maps 4.1.1 this app will drain my battery really fast. I have used it for aprox. 5 minutes and wihtin my battery comsumption info under settings it had used about 18% battery. With the previous version i had no problems at all. The same happend with google earth.
I also found this thread in google support forums:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=2a11fbd2ef43cf00&hl=en
Anbody else experienced this. Someone has a solution for the described probblem?
Right now i used to train my battery and discharge my phone before i go to bed.
But no way i would used it in the wild.
Uninstalling my be a cure to some battery problems people here seem to have.
Cheers,
Chaos42
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Getting the same. Looking at Task Killer, Maps and Stocks keep appearing on it even after killing them and leaving the phone on standby
not using the Maps live wallpaper are you?
rhedgehog said:
not using the Maps live wallpaper are you?
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i have not used gps, live wallpaper, layers, widget, ...
just the plain app.

[Q] Get Rid Of Google Maps

My phone has had very bad battery life when wifi is on. And after reading online, and my own experience, I think the cause is Google Maps. Is there a way to automatically kill it after it stops, like some sort of task killer app?
Whenever I use my task killer, it shows google maps running, even after I killed it.
I don't even understand why google maps automatically runs, or why it needs to use any of my wifi...
Also, my phone is not rooted, nor will I be rooting it until the warranty expires.
snipes1836 said:
My phone has had very bad battery life when wifi is on. And after reading online, and my own experience, I think the cause is Google Maps. Is there a way to automatically kill it after it stops, like some sort of task killer app?
Whenever I use my task killer, it shows google maps running, even after I killed it.
I don't even understand why google maps automatically runs, or why it needs to use any of my wifi...
Also, my phone is not rooted, nor will I be rooting it until the warranty expires.
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First of all, I've said it a lot and I'll say it again:
just because an app appears in the running list, doesn't mean that it is actually using processing power, thus draining the battery.
So, I really doubt that if you haven't signed in to Latitude (which means location updates every so often), Google Maps is doing any harm to your battery.
You probably don't believe me anyway, so I'll just move on to my next answer:
NO, if you are not rooted, you can't remove Google Maps, it's a system app, part of the Google Services Framework, the backbone of Android OS.
Is there a way I can have an app automatically kill it as soon as it starts? And it seems that Google Maps is the only thing that could be possibly taking up my battery. Losing 4% an hour on standby is not normal.
snipes1836 said:
Is there a way I can have an app automatically kill it as soon as it starts? And it seems that Google Maps is the only thing that could be possibly taking up my battery. Losing 4% an hour on standby is not normal.
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If you were to use an app to kill it as soon as it starts, it would try again and again to restart and that's where you would definetely see the drain.
When you go to Settings->About Phone->Battery Use, do you actually see Google Maps in the stats? And if yes, how much percent of the battery does it say there that it takes?
And 4% in an hour could be due to many, many things.
Check out this thread to help you find out more about your issue.
Freeze it with titanium, unfreeze when you want to use it. That's what i do,.
as i know,maps service is only location by using gps,so go to location n security setting,turn off "use gps satellites",if its still running,use iridaki advice-ignore it,it cant eat your battery!!
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iridaki said:
If you were to use an app to kill it as soon as it starts, it would try again and again to restart and that's where you would definetely see the drain.
When you go to Settings->About Phone->Battery Use, do you actually see Google Maps in the stats? And if yes, how much percent of the battery does it say there that it takes?
And 4% in an hour could be due to many, many things.
Check out this thread to help you find out more about your issue.
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Google maps is not in the battery usage, unless I open maps and use it.
The things that are using that battery are : display, cell standby, phone idle, wifi, android os, android system.
But if I turn wifi off, the battery drain problem goes away :S
I will download betterbatterystats and use it, will post on how it goes.

New Google Maps released, promises improved battery life [6.3.0]

I don't know if it's been posted yet (I didn't see it in the first three pages of the forum nor in similar threads section), but Google Maps just released an update that promises improved battery life for users who use background locations.
Google Maps is one of the biggest battery-eaters on Android phones due to background processes and location services, so an update to Google Maps might make a noticeable improvement for some users.
It's too early to tell if it has made any difference yet, but I just figured I'd let you all know about it
Never had any issues with Google Maps draining battery, but updates are always nice
My Google maps always seems to show in the recent apps on my gnex. Will be interesting to see if this helps!
BPP! said:
My Google maps always seems to show in the recent apps on my gnex. Will be interesting to see if this helps!
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This.
I keep seeing maps startup without my permission, if this fixes it great news!
Auto run manager ftw.
EddyOS said:
Never had any issues with Google Maps draining battery, but updates are always nice
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The battery issue is apparent if you use location history and Latitude.
I am seeing a huge improvement. Overnight my phone went from 100% to 80% in 9 hours, with Maps using 7% of the battery, when normally it uses about 15-20%. I use Latitude and Location history as my "Find my Phone" feature.
I've also flashed the SC04DOMLA1 radio on to the device which also seems to be helping greatly.
EddyOS said:
Never had any issues with Google Maps draining battery, but updates are always nice
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Google Maps is the biggest battery-draining default app on Android. This is because it's used for variety of location services in the background. Of course if you turn background location services off then it won't affect your battery life as much.
It's great that they updated this though since I do use Latitude with closest friends frequently.
I installed the new maps last night, and I tested out the battery consumption. Tasker sets the phone to airplane mode for 6 hours every night while I sleep, and my battery (which should be calibrated) went from 100% to 98% over 7 hours. I'll see how it fares at work today, but so far I'm pretty happy. I really like latitude, but I was pretty close to disabling it because of the battery drain.

maps battery drain?

In the never ending search for battery life, I'm trying to figure out why Google Maps is doing a consistent 15% drain on my battery every day. That's 15% without ever opening Maps.
Is this just the s3 reporting maybe all gps activity under Maps or something weird? How can I try and diagnose what is eating this energy to resolve it? I'm trying to go from wake to sleep w/o charging my phone and medium use...
zshguru said:
In the never ending search for battery life, I'm trying to figure out why Google Maps is doing a consistent 15% drain on my battery every day. That's 15% without ever opening Maps.
Is this just the s3 reporting maybe all gps activity under Maps or something weird? How can I try and diagnose what is eating this energy to resolve it? I'm trying to go from wake to sleep w/o charging my phone and medium use...
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Maps -> Settings -> Location settings -> Disable Location reporting
While you are here you can increase your privacy by disabling the rest of the Latitude location reporting options.
timeToy said:
Maps -> Settings -> Location settings -> Disable Location reporting
While you are here you can increase your privacy by disabling the rest of the Latitude location reporting options.
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Doesn't disabling latitude make stuff like cyberus useless?
Also I don't see a location settings under Maps.
zshguru said:
In the never ending search for battery life, I'm trying to figure out why Google Maps is doing a consistent 15% drain on my battery every day. That's 15% without ever opening Maps.
Is this just the s3 reporting maybe all gps activity under Maps or something weird? How can I try and diagnose what is eating this energy to resolve it? I'm trying to go from wake to sleep w/o charging my phone and medium use...
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Diable...only allow. When u need it
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Weird, it's already disabled. I have 4 google accounts on my phone the default one is set to "do not share" and the other 3 haven't accepted the TOS for latitude so I assume they're not sharing.
Any other suggestions?
Any solutions?
The Map drain battery is present it shows that it uses 7% while phone was in standby the whole time. And if the Cell standby is reported incorrectly than battery drains more then 7%. I try to disable GPS to see if it fixes the issue but it makes it super inconvenient to turn it back on whenever i need location.
Update: Turning off all of the location services does not fix the issue.
However looks like uninstalling Google Maps Updates DOES FIX the problem.
What about turning off GPS?
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kinghorsey said:
What about turning off GPS?
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dimammx said:
Update: Turning off all of the location services does not fix the issue.
However looks like uninstalling Google Maps Updates DOES FIX the problem.
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kinghorsey said:
What about turning off GPS?
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Yea All location services i meant GPS too.
But uninstalling Map updates does fix the issue.

[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.

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