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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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...
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As for those who don't know. There is an app out there called tasker. It allows you to program all kinds of tasks and conditions.
I used it in froyo to turn on my gps automatically when I opened the navigation app. However in gingerbread tasker no longer works. I'm reading that in cyanogen gingerbread roms tasker can still enable and disable gps.
Does anyone know anything about modding EI22 so that tasker will work with gingerbread on our epics the way it does in the cyanogen gingerbread roms?
Is there a patch or a piece of code that can be taken from the cyanogen rom to allow this on different roms/kernels?
Possibly is there an alternative to using tasker to get the gps to turn on automatically when navigation/maps is opened?
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Just leave GPS enabled at all times. GPS won't activate until a program needs it, and won't consume battery life while it's sleeping.
Isira said:
Just leave GPS enabled at all times. GPS won't activate until a program needs it, and won't consume battery life while it's sleeping.
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Cool. I kinda thought that, but I wasn't sure. I guess ill need to turn off location settings for all the apps I don't won't to access gps. I appreciate the info. Thank you.
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Isira said:
Just leave GPS enabled at all times. GPS won't activate until a program needs it, and won't consume battery life while it's sleeping.
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To go with this, if the GPS icon is on the toolbar (generally a bullseye/crosshair looking icon), you're using GPS and therefore extra battery--on the flipside, if the GPS icon is gone from the toolbar, then GPS is in standby and not consuming battery.*
* I'm not entirely certain that it consumes no battery when in standby, but it's certainly much less than when it's active. As long as you keep an eye on which apps you allow to use it and when, the battery drain is negligible--At least until you use Navigation and forget to plug it in! Then you'll damn near be able to watch the battery icon visibly tick down, and might could cook an egg on the back of your phone, it gets pretty hot!
If you running ei22 stock, I can leave gps on all the time and don't need to worry about battery. But if you put in the gps fix, careful.
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I hadn't noticed extra battery drain after flashing the GPS fix. I'll have to monitor that more carefully going forward...
jaytay said:
I hadn't noticed extra battery drain after flashing the GPS fix. I'll have to monitor that more carefully going forward...
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The gps fix makes the phone constantly lock to all possible sats. Draining batts.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Doesn't disabling latitude make stuff like cyberus useless?
Also I don't see a location settings under Maps.
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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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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.
Recently the GPS crosshairs icon flashes on my status bar like every 5 seconds then flips off...on and off, on and off all day. I know the simple fix would to be just to turn off gps, but again this just started happening recently. I always left my gps on all the time and the crosshairs icon would only flash when an app was using it, like in google maps or navigation. So I'm assuming it's an app that's using my gps in the background somewhere. How can I figure out what is using it?
Also, I've always kept my screen on the brightest setting with no problem regarding battery life. But I just looked in Settings>Battery and it shows that the screen is responsible for 80% of the battery, with no mention of gps. So, any ideas about what's going on with my battery?
Better battery stats will help you find what's causing the issue. Its a paid app on the play store, look for the picture of a battery and plus sign.
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You can find BBB here for free for XDA users.
My suggestion is to look at your apps and see what has Location or GPS permissions (ie. Facebook/G+/4Square, Maps, old Latitude-type settings, anything the "checks you in",...).
It is an app that is broadcasting your position and initiating your GPS to trigger. Find the app and fix the problem.
I know I can check settings>location recent location request....but I would like to know which app specifically is doing it.
Is there anything out there like better battery stats? It is driving me nuts, because even with most things greenified with xposed it is still doing it. Maybe its because I was used to also using amplify on my G3 but I never saw this finding location stuff so often!!!!!
I dont even know why I am worrying its not like I have excessive battery drain. I have a mugen battery. But I just want to know in case I revert to stock batteries.
Thanks!
Same thing. I went through and disabled every GPS using greenified and it was still polling frequently. So much that I just disabled the GPS completely.
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in my case it was the home screen smart card weather widget. removed that and the gps usage seems to be better. also you can set the freq of weather updates in the settings.
player911 said:
Same thing. I went through and disabled every GPS using greenified and it was still polling frequently. So much that I just disabled the GPS completely.
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this is good to hear gonna try xprivacy too for other apps
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