This is a new problem, just started happening this past week or so. My battery is draining faster than normal and google Maps is in the top 2 spots every time I check. I've force-stopped it and an hour later it is running again somehow. How to I track down what app or apps is causing my maps usage, and once I find it how do I fix it?
There are several data tracking apps in the play store.
Regarding google maps...I think this is still true. I know it used to be. Almost every program that wants your location calls on maps to get it. You most likely have a program that is polling at a frequent interval. What have you installed recently?
kingston73 said:
This is a new problem, just started happening this past week or so. My battery is draining faster than normal and google Maps is in the top 2 spots every time I check. I've force-stopped it and an hour later it is running again somehow. How to I track down what app or apps is causing my maps usage, and once I find it how do I fix it?
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I had this problem... Disable the location settings options in Google maps settings... It completely fixed the problem for me.
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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.
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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.
I have been using the GNEX for about 6 months and I never had any problems.
Since I updated to JB, the battery drain has been quite big. There is also some big lag sometimes, but I suspect that the lag can be tied to the market too.
I see that the market accounts for the battery drain now.
It should be noted that the market was not opened, no apps were updated and there were no notifications. So it must be running in the background.
I did not use the phone much today, read the news in the morning and made 1 phone call. So the drain is quite big for this using.
Has anybody had this problem and knows the solution?
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I haven't open the maps either.
You can force stop maps, maps can be started by any application that i has location services, Google search, twitter etc. Open play store under settings, uncheck all options.
I just had the same issue with Google Play Store. Plugged the N7 in to charge to get it to power up and the battery usage is showing the Play Store as "Keep awake" for 6h 46m, which essentially drained my battery overnight. I can't see any obvious reason it did this
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I just had the same issue with Google Play Store. Plugged the N7 in to charge to get it to power up and the battery usage is showing the Play Store as "Keep awake" for 6h 46m, which essentially drained my battery overnight. I can't see any obvious reason it did this
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I have exactly the same issue with my new LG Nexus 4 running JB 4.2 !!!
I removed it from charge this morning and after 5 hours in standby mode the battery was on 20%
ur best bet is to "don't keep activities" in the developer options
re: the maps draining, u'd have to turn off location services but it's needed for google now
^That kinda defeats the whole purpose of owning an Android device. I would at least start by uninstalling updates and opening the Play Store back up. Maybe it got stuck doing something it shouldn't have been. The Maps issue. Mine is always running. Never shows up in my battery stats. There are so many triggers that can cause it to run, so I've given up(There's always AutoStarts, though you need root for it) even trying since it isn't affecting my overall battery life. I leave GPS on, but turn off Google Location Services unless I need it.
Play Store and Play Music are really draining the battery in my Nexus 4...
johnyu142 said:
Play Store and Play Music are really draining the battery in my Nexus 4...
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I found out that it happens only after it automatically updates my apps.
I disabled the auto update apps from play store and seems to be fine now....
[UPDATE - 16-12-2012]
Today I checked manually for updates, Installed 26 of them and the battery drained again after couple of hours.
For some reason, it does not stop the application and it is constantly using the CPU thus draining the battery. My phone is very hot (temperature) at the moment and I have not used it for almost 2 hours and it was not on charge !!!
This is ridiculous.....
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
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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
Dear Community!!!
So Days ago i upgrade my Xperia ZL to kit kat, everithing ok a couple days, fantastic.....but, was suddenly my phone without battery, the problem? google play service was draining the 85% to my battery. When i upgrade to 4.3 firmeware i had the same trouble and then i maked to flash again. Also, this time i just did a factory reset and then everithing ok a couple days... but again, suddenly, google play service is draining all life to my phone...So, somebody knows whats the problem anda what can i do (whitout flashing again)... thanks buddies
The issue is a location wakelock, there are two ways around it disable location if you don't use it, or disable Google now.
If you are rooted, u can uninstall the Google search app from system and reinstall it from play store
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thanks
xyge said:
The issue is a location wakelock, there are two ways around it disable location if you don't use it, or disable Google now.
If you are rooted, u can uninstall the Google search app from system and reinstall it from play store
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Ok, if i understand, i must disable location? how i do that? yes i root i gonna unistall google serch and a itold you... very very thanks dude....
Nothing works
Nope.... google servicise going to drining my life.... sucks... check it
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Nope.... google servicise going to drining my life.... sucks... check it
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you have an option in settings to disable location
since you are rooted,look for "wakelock detector" and "disable service" in play store,
'wakelock detector' will tell you what apps or services are causing it, and then u can disable that particular service using the 'disable service' app
Thanks a lot
xyge said:
you have an option in settings to disable location
since you are rooted,look for "wakelock detector" and "disable service" in play store,
'wakelock detector' will tell you what apps or services are causing it, and then u can disable that particular service using the 'disable service' app[/QUO
A lot of thanks Xyge... I download the app than you sugest and AppOps to remove permissions at Google Search, especifically location and screen awake... apparently works better and services not drining the battery... Again XYGE thanks a lot
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Anytime brother, we are all here to help!
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I discovered something else.
I reinstalled my Phone again with Android 4.4.2. I installed all my apps. Using the Google Now Launcher.
Batterie consumptions seems normal. I see wake locks but acceptable.
But when driving to home from work I used Avertinoo (A radar notifying application that uses GPS). At home I closed the application. But suddenly I saw that the phone stays awake all the time. And Google Service is responsible for 86% of battery consumption.
Only solution, restart of the phone.
I did several test with this application. A short usage of the application does not seem to trigger the problem.
I did a test with Navigon (Navigation software) and I got the same problem.
So I think any application using the GPS for to long, will cause a problem with the Google service (endless loop due to time out ?).
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you have an option in settings to disable location
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Instead of disabling location, setting the location mode to "device only" was enough for me.
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I discovered something else.
I reinstalled my Phone again with Android 4.4.2. I installed all my apps. Using the Google Now Launcher.
Batterie consumptions seems normal. I see wake locks but acceptable.
But when driving to home from work I used Avertinoo (A radar notifying application that uses GPS). At home I closed the application. But suddenly I saw that the phone stays awake all the time. And Google Service is responsible for 86% of battery consumption.
Only solution, restart of the phone.
I did several test with this application. A short usage of the application does not seem to trigger the problem.
I did a test with Navigon (Navigation software) and I got the same problem.
So I think any application using the GPS for to long, will cause a problem with the Google service (endless loop due to time out ?).
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it's actually a wakelock, whenever an app requires the phone to be awake(say use gps) it sets a wakelock until some condition is satisfied(as u said endless loop), point is its not due to time out but some weird issue that is coming up with the google apps of our particular device....that's why a restart solves it or at times it may not occur for hours of usage of an app and next time it may occur after a minute.
the disabling of services or location is a temporary solution right now.
I tried to clean up all google apps in system and install the latest gapps and odex them.....until now i havent seen any battery issues(in fact usage is not even visible).....i'll report the findings after a fair usage so i can be sure if it does fix the issue.
I uninstalled Google Search from system and installed from the Playstore, then disabled location reporting and my battery seems to go to normal draining
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I uninstalled Google Search from system and installed from the Playstore, then disabled location reporting and my battery seems to go to normal draining
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How to I uninstall it from system.
I have root of course. I tried root uninstaller from the play store but it just replaced it with the factory version.
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Sirence said:
How to I uninstall it from system.
I have root of course. I tried root uninstaller from the play store but it just replaced it with the factory version.
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you don't have to uninstall or install anything
just go to sittings\ security and disable Google reporting
that's all
a little update is coming
On PTCRB there is a new Version certified .233
Maybe this will fix the battery draining.
http://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=22622
I was having this draining problem (happened out of nowhere, a full week after installing the 4.4.2 update).
Uninstalling Google Search and reinstalling it through the Play Store didn't worked (kept having Google Services draining more than 80%).
Setting Location mode to GPS-only didn't worked neither. Turning location off worked, but disabled my location-based apps, has expected.
What did worked for me was going to Setting -> Location-> Location Services (Google Location Report) and disabling both Location Report and Location History.
Now Google Services DOES NOT DRAIN more than 2% of my battery. CPU usage is always low (using CPU Spy Reborn, the 1512 MHz frequency step is pretty much around 2 - 3% of the time, as is the 1026 MHz frequency step - the remaining frequency steps are all at 0 - 1%, with 384 MHz (the lowest step) at 52% and Deep Sleep at 34% of the time).
All this with Location active on high-precision mode. Roughly 5h10min of usage (LTE always on), with PowerAmp playing for more than 4h straight, around 55min screen on and 15min or so of gaming (Zombie Gunship), and the battery is still at 72%.
With 4.3, with the same level of usage (moderate to heavy, I guess) the battery would absolutely be on the 60-65% range.
In other words, disabling both Location Report and Location History worked for me, with zero downsides with regards to location based apps (Google Maps, Waze and GPS Essentials all work perfectly).
Hope this helps. Best regards.
My phone is just sitting here and draining. It appears the google services is the culprit. It went from 94 to 84 in the last hour just sitting there. Has anyone else had this issue?
Your battery usage should be %0.5 per hour or so. Draining 10% per hour is 20 times higher. Your phone must literally be infested with every Russian malware on the planet, then you have NSA/CIA/US State Department helper apps going rogue, and finally you have a McDonald's app bug draining the battery.
WTF are you doing with your phone?!
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Your battery usage should be %0.5 per hour or so. Draining 10% per hour is 20 times higher. Your phone must literally be infested with every Russian malware on the planet, then you have NSA/CIA/US State Department helper apps going rogue, and finally you have a McDonald's app bug draining the battery.
WTF are you doing with your phone?!
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Thanks for your input. Very helpful. Sense sarcasm?
Hi, Same issue as OP, but on my galaxy S7. It started about 2 days ago. Google services is now taking 51% of my battery usage.
edit: I've just cleared the cache of Google Play Services and restarted my phone, let's see if that solves anything
Had this issue a few times, clearing the data/cache for google play services fixed the issue for me, but you will lose some settings if you wipe the data for it like android pay and such.
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My phone is just sitting here and draining. It appears the google services is the culprit. It went from 94 to 84 in the last hour just sitting there. Has anyone else had this issue?
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from my understanding, the play services includes a wide range of packages. one of your installed apps may be constantly talking with play services and could be causing your drain. Although 10% in an hour idling is pretty odd. Stock ROM/Recovery/Kernel?
Clearing the google play services cache seems to have fixed the issue for me.
I've just cleared cache like most of you recommend. Will report tomorrow with results.