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Google Maps Battery Pig

Is anyone else seeing this? It tops my list of wakelocks and I don't use latitude .

GPS=battery killer
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This is after a fresh boot WITHOUT me starting Maps. I hardly ever use it!

robbyr said:
This is after a fresh boot WITHOUT me starting Maps. I hardly ever use it!
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Shut off GPS when your not using it, which is most of the time for me. Most apps ,like weather, can use the network for location based services. Unless your navigation, there's almost no need for GPS.
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Xalky said:
Shut off GPS when your not using it, which is most of the time for me. Most apps ,like weather, can use the network for location based services. Unless your navigation, there's almost no need for GPS.
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Will turning off GPS prevent the "NetworkLocationLocator" wakelock?

I would always find that maps had started it self and used battery.
Now I have used Rom Toolbox to stop it from auto starting and it is behaving it self.

Not to hijack the thread, but whenever someone attaches a thumbnail to a thread, all I see is "Attached Thumbnails" and there is image. Anyone know why?

Update
I use PhoneWeaver (totally underrated app!) and for poops and giggles, I added the GPS toggle in all of the profiles except car mode. Before I have always just left the GPS on and figured if nothing needed it, it wouldn't be used.
Now that the GPS is disabled, the maps process never pops in and battery life is once again back to normal.

robbyr said:
I use PhoneWeaver (totally underrated app!) and for poops and giggles, I added the GPS toggle in all of the profiles except car mode. Before I have always just left the GPS on and figured if nothing needed it, it wouldn't be used.
Now that the GPS is disabled, the maps process never pops in and battery life is once again back to normal.
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+1 for phoneweaver
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Desire HD Blackout ICS Bluetooth off CPU usage 100%

I recently update my phone to this ICS Android version and all goes perfectly until i switch on bluetooh, now when i turn it off got 100% CPU usage with a task called bluetoothd and i don't know how to kill it, i think its part of the system.
But i have the same problem with original 2.3.5 but i'm not shure if was the bluetooth because not rooted phones can't access system task.
Anyone knows how to do for this case, now i'm getting on bluetooth all time but it consumes battery.
Here the screenshoots with BT on and off.
Thanks for any help.
PS: if exist any way to kill this taks with bash command i can do it easy.

Very strange trying other solution turn off the USB debugging solve this problem but I can't understand why only happens when I turn off BT totally lag but turning on work perfect and that task is the only one that consumes all CPU, I have plans to investigate it, thanks for your help.
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Well i make some test and not the same thing i cant switch off bluetooth
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Well nope i try again and the same issue i cant turn off BT because CPU at 100% anyone knows something about
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I noticed the same thing as you, 100% CPU when I turn off Bluetooth. My solution is to leave Bluetooth on all the time now. Try it out. My battery monitor shows me that Bluetooth doesn't actually use that much battery if it's not connected to anything. I have been doing this for the last week. Before that I used an app called automatic Bluetooth toggle to turn Bluetooth on and off when plugged into a charger.
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This is a known bug, it will be fixed in the next version.
Salud!

Nice dude i'll waiting for the next update, thanks
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Google Services is draining my battery. Please help.

Hi guys, sorry for another battery thread but I'm sure I am not alone with this.
I had disabled location services in config (totally disabled) and I was getting good battery life I think (always more than 3 h screen time ) but I noticed that some tasker profiles based on location weren't working (obvious). So today I enabled Location but only by WiFi and network (didn't check gps) and after a while I checked battery status and got this. If that is true that drain is really big ! More than battery? It doesn't make sense to me.
What do you think?
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It's a relative statistic. It didn't use 37% of battery it used 37% of the battery used.

Thanks. But don't you think its high anyway?
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peikojose said:
Thanks. But don't you think its high anyway?
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You used 50% of your battery in almost 8 hours and you think that's high? Check your screen on statistic. Most people only get 3-4 hours of screen on for the entire life of their battery.

Perhaps unchecked currents under your Google account, that was causing battery drain for a lot of. Nexus 7 peoples
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Thanks... But I checked and currents is not even associated to my Google account... But it's active... Good guess... Should I disable it?
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Regardless of whether your screen was on 4 minutes or 4 hours, it should not be that high.. I don't know how to fix it though, because this happens to me on multiple roms.. My only solution is turning Google now off, but it sucks cause I used to use it a lot

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You used 50% of your battery in almost 8 hours and you think that's high? Check your screen on statistic. Most people only get 3-4 hours of screen on for the entire life of their battery.
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That usage is good, but what would happened if I had disable "Location Services"? I would had 37% more battery! Much better!
Screen time when I took the screenshot was about 1:20h.

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joshuajones said:
Regardless of whether your screen was on 4 minutes or 4 hours, it should not be that high.. I don't know how to fix it though, because this happens to me on multiple roms.. My only solution is turning Google now off, but it sucks cause I used to use it a lot
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Yes, looks like the same happens here. And it's very strange that other people don't seem to have that problem, I really not understand.
Today I'm still testing and it's the same, Google Services uses more battery than screen, anyone who knows about electricity knows that if you are using the phone it's almost impossible.
And what is more crazy is that I'm not using GPS, it's always turned off. Locatization is only done by network and wifi.
It's obvious a bug and I hope that they fix it. I prefer not using Google Now than wasting almost 1 hour of screen time.

peikojose said:
Thanks... But I checked and currents is not even associated to my Google account... But it's active... Good guess... Should I disable it?
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Wouldn't hurt
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peikojose said:
That usage is good, but what would happened if I had disable "Location Services"? I would had 37% more battery! Much better!
Screen time when I took the screenshot was about 1:20h.
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No you wouldn't have. At most you could potentially have 18% more battery. And that's only if the battery usage statistic is 100% accurate which is never is.

I have an HTC EVO 4g LTE and I have the same problem. I can't find a solution for it and it does it even if I turn off all location, google now, google sync. I think it has something to do with google play, but I don't know for sure.
Any ideas on how to fix it? It's not very common and I don't think it is caused by any one thing. It only started after the JB update btw.
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I've discovered that Google services turns on even if you are in airplane mode and you have the wifi on but not connected to a network. I did a factory reset yesterday and nothing. I might have to unroot and take it in if I can't find an answer.
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I kept enabled Google Now and Location service and these were the results... My battery life is good even with this drain... Stock 4.2.1 and Franco Kernel...
If I had disabled Location and Google Now I would have had (what location services drained) 30% more! More than 3:30 h of screen time.
So sorry Google ... With this drain I won't keep them enabled...
Its a shame because I used network location to turn on and off WiFi automatically when I was entering and leaving home. Will have to do it manually..
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Today I disabled location services and Google now.. See the difference... This is what battery life is meant to be ... With stock 1750mah battery!!!
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peikojose said:
Today I disabled location services and Google now.. See the difference... This is what battery life is meant to be ... With stock 1750mah battery!!!
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Looks good. What's your rom and kernel profile?

namtombout said:
Looks good. What's your rom and kernel profile?
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Franco kernel 361 stock ROM 4.2.1
I want to move to cyaogen mod but I don't want to mess it hehe
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That makes sense but you can always go back. New ROMs are like
new phones. Sourcery with ak is stable and gets good batt life.

The day is about to finish and here are the final results... As predicted disabling Google now and location gave me 0:30 of screen time and more than 1 h idle.
Sad
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I solved it
I had this issue with my S4. I found it was the new update of Google play service that caused this issue. The battery usage of google services came back to normal after I delete the update. However, the new hangouts requires the latest google play service.
peikojose said:
Hi guys, sorry for another battery thread but I'm sure I am not alone with this.
I had disabled location services in config (totally disabled) and I was getting good battery life I think (always more than 3 h screen time ) but I noticed that some tasker profiles based on location weren't working (obvious). So today I enabled Location but only by WiFi and network (didn't check gps) and after a while I checked battery status and got this. If that is true that drain is really big ! More than battery? It doesn't make sense to me.
What do you think?
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Weather auto refresh works 5% of the time.

My built in weather widget is supposed to update every 1 hr. However it rarely ever does that. Most of the time I have to manually update the weather. It's getting extremely annoying. My phone is full stock. What can I do?

I can't be the only one

same for me too. plus sometimes when i update it manually, it doesnt update. i have to enable gps + wifi for it to update. :/

naeem86 said:
same for me too. plus sometimes when i update it manually, it doesnt update. i have to enable gps + wifi for it to update. :/
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GPS, WIFI, and Mobile Data are always enabled on my phone, but more often than not I have to keep manually updating the weather which sucks! Any solutions ?

ozaghloul said:
GPS, WIFI, and Mobile Data are always enabled on my phone, but more often than not I have to keep manually updating the weather which sucks! Any solutions ?
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I changed the weather app. Am using accuweather and finally its updating by itself. Maybe u should try it too.
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naeem86 said:
I changed the weather app. Am using accuweather and finally its updating by itself. Maybe u should try it too.
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I tried it, but I really hated the fact that their widget doesn't have the clock. :crying: And why can't Samsung make a simple weather app that updates?????????

ozaghloul said:
I tried it, but I really hated the fact that their widget doesn't have the clock. :crying: And why can't Samsung make a simple weather app that updates?????????
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yea clock is missing in accuweather. but at least it is refreshing by itself. and i dont know y other people not commenting on this thread. are we the only ones having this prob?:S

naeem86 said:
yea clock is missing in accuweather. but at least it is refreshing by itself. and i dont know y other people not commenting on this thread. are we the only ones having this prob?:S
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Having a similar issue. I haven't checked thoroughly enough but I think it doesn't update when I'm indoors.. don't really care for weather so I don't notice it too much, but when I'm outside it seems to update normally.
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xcly said:
Having a similar issue. I haven't checked thoroughly enough but I think it doesn't update when I'm indoors.. don't really care for weather so I don't notice it too much, but when I'm outside it seems to update normally.
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for me..i dont really check it when am outside. but when am home and i use my phone. i see it not updating and it irritates me

Does it indoors and outdoors

It happens to me too.. I'm using the lock screen with weather display as the sign.. in my experience, it updates only when the screen is on, or at least if your phone's using data...
i put on weather refresh every 1 hour, at exactly X:00 minute, but it deviates from hour to hour, sometimes the minutes became 02, 04, etc. sometimes it doesn't even update for a couple of hours, usually when its on standby.. sucks

I put it to hourly updates and it seems like the weather refreshes on screen on. It updated at 7 when my alarm went off and at 8.12 which is the next time I turned the screen on after the supposed update time..
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xcly said:
I put it to hourly updates and it seems like the weather refreshes on screen on. It updated at 7 when my alarm went off and at 8.12 which is the next time I turned the screen on after the supposed update time..
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I would be very happy if mine did that (which it does rarely). Most of the time it wont update until I manually update it. Even changing the frequency from hourly to 12hours and then back to hourly doesn't make it update regularly.

Another update. It seems updating becomes a bit of a hit and miss if you activate lock screen weather. Everything was fine until I activated that and it's not updating again. Not a solution but maybe it'll help some people
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[Q]wifi dropping

I Can't find a thread about this, so I was go ogling and that doesn't really help. I am having major problems with my wifi it keeps dropping non stop and it's really annoying. I have my phone stock but rooted and was wondering is there any way to fix this? I know it's a Samsung problem but if I were to load this up with a rom should that help? Thanks in advance
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seedofchaos said:
I Can't find a thread about this, so I was go ogling and that doesn't really help. I am having major problems with my wifi it keeps dropping non stop and it's really annoying. I have my phone stock but rooted and was wondering is there any way to fix this? I know it's a Samsung problem but if I were to load this up with a rom should that help? Thanks in advance
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Maybe it's your router or better yet the router settings. Have you tried changing any of those settings?

Am I missing something? How is it a Samsung thing? What kind of router do you have?
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After looking all night I found a thread that fixed this. You have two choices really to fix or buy your router which I'm not going to do, or you can type in on your dial pad *#0011#. Then you click your menu button, click on the wifi option, and then disable the energy saver wifi mode. That made it so my phone wouldn't drop wifi connection anymore. NOTE: each time you restart your phone you need to turn the wifi energy saver off through the command *#0011#. Hope I helped some of you because this bug is truly annoying.
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seedofchaos said:
After looking all night I found a thread that fixed this. You have two choices really to fix or buy your router which I'm not going to do, or you can type in on your dial pad *#0011#. Then you click your menu button, click on the wifi option, and then disable the energy saver wifi mode. That made it so my phone wouldn't drop wifi connection anymore. NOTE: each time you restart your phone you need to turn the wifi energy saver off through the command *#0011#. Hope I helped at least some of you because this bug is truly annoying.
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That stinks. I don't have any problem and I think this is only the 2nd time I've seen anything posted like this about the S4 (the S3 did have that issue and was common). I've never turned off any energy saver and mine stays connected 100% of the time. So you're saying either that or you have to buy a new router? What kind do you have now and what settings on it did you find out that cause this issue for you?

Right now I have whatever Verizon gives fios customers. It works perfectly for all my phones, tablets, and computer. Just not on my s4 unless I do the dial pad trick. I'll post a link on the xda thread when I get home on how to fix your router. It really does make me angry that I paid 600 for the phone and it does this. Hopefully Samsung fixes this soon since they acknowledge the problem
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Btw here's Samsung acknowledging the problem.
http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-acknowledges-galaxy-s4-wi-fi-connection-problem-7000015431/
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Do you have a dlink router?
GS4

My gf has an S4 and has the same problem. We have a Netgear WNDR3500. So it's not isolated to a D-Link. She also did the dial pad trick and it seems to work for her as well. Need to find a script to run on boot to set the power save to OFF.
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