Hey guys my friend has the vz HTC one and her GPS is always on. I turned her GPS off and even disabled location services. I cannot figure out what is causing this but it's only giving her 1 hour of screen on time. I get over 4 on my att version no way it can be that different. When u go to power in settings and click on the graph it shows a solid blue bar for GPS on. Has anyone else experienced this, and more importantly does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance.
Hmm, that doesn't seem normal. I leave both GPS and location services on all the time and my graph barely shows GPS usage.
This happens even when GPS is manually turned off? Is she running stock?
xenakis said:
Hmm, that doesn't seem normal. I leave both GPS and location services on all the time and my graph barely shows GPS usage.
This happens even when GPS is manually turned off? Is she running stock?
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Yea I know it makes no sense....I do the same GPS is never on for me unless using maps.
Yes she is completely stock. I'm curious if either a wipe is necessary, which she is against or maybe a defective unit.
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Yea I know it makes no sense....I do the same GPS is never on for me unless using maps.
Yes she is completely stock. I'm curious if either a wipe is necessary, which she is against or maybe a defective unit.
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Factory reset really is a pain in the a** but most of the problems I've ever had with Android have been solved with a reset.
Update.....I disabled Verizon location services wiped cache and data re enabled it didn't see her for a couple days and now it's working properly even with GPS on all the time. Not sure if that's what fixed it but it's the only thing I did, and she wouldnt have done anything.
When I first bought the phone, I turned on 4g, then turned it off..
but the 4g icon would stay in the status bar.
I was already at the VZW store for another reason so I went to show a rep, and of coarse, the icon goes away.
bahhh
hope to hear all is well with this!
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When I turn off the screen of my phone, I lose my wifi and data connections. The icons of them in the status bar turn white rather than the usual green. The only way I have found to fix this is to put the phone in airplane mode then take it out. Which is really inconvenient EVERY time I want to use this. I know that when the WiFi turns green it means that the phone is connected to Google. But it never goes back from white to green even after I let it sit for a few seconds and try something to push data through. Even when it's green it doesn't work until I reset the radio.
Things to know:
1. I am rooted.
2. It is the AT&T LG Nitro HD (LG P930)
3. It is the V10f software version.
4. I have not tried a factory reset yet because of the hassle. Yes I know about titanium, it's just time consuming.
If anybody else has this problem, please let me know. Hopefully we can get this fixed.
Update: I fixed my problem by installing Wi-Fi fixer. But it still makes me mad that this occurs. Maybe we can try to find the source of the problem.
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Maybe you are running some battery saving app like juice defender? Check the settings there.
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Maybe you are running some battery saving app like juice defender? Check the settings there.
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Nope, I'm not running juice defender. The only task killing app I use is Advanced Task Killer which I only ever use when I need to quickly restart an app, I don't use it every 10 minutes like some people do.
I had a weird incident where I lost my wifi radio...wouldn't detect any wifi ssids...don't know what caused it. But your situation seems similar...sadly I have know idea how it got fixed...rebooted phone a couple of times and haven't had a problem since.
Is there any way...either an app or a tasker task/script that will automatically agree to the location consent box that pops up when GPS is turned on?. I'm finally getting annoyed by it lol. I'm hoping there's gotta be some way around it.
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I never noticed. Why not just leave GPS on always? It doesn't hurt anything.
Just leave GPS on. It doesn't use battery unless its being accessed for location for an app. You spend more battery going to settings toggling it on and off over and over.
martonikaj said:
Just leave GPS on. It doesn't use battery unless its being accessed for location for an app. You spend more battery going to settings toggling it on and off over and over.
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Somewhat true. The Facebook app is buggy, if you have GPS on... and you turn Facebook on (even though location is disabled).
GPS remains on your status bar... even if you go back to home screen. At least that's my reasoning for having it disabled.
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Somewhat true. The Facebook app is buggy, if you have GPS on... and you turn Facebook on (even though location is disabled).
GPS remains on your status bar... even if you go back to home screen. At least that's my reasoning for having it disabled.
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Use Facebook every day and never had that issue.
Convert whatever is asking for GPS to a system app.
Pretty sure that'll do it.
Recently upgraded and re-rooted and seemly after an update to G3 tweak box keeping the wifi on destroys my battery and heats the device off.
Better battery stats states that the sensors.qcom have been going forever.
Work around for now is to use the device without the wifi on. Thankfully I have unlimited data, but this is kinda annoying.
Any help would be much appreciated.
In my case, once I turn on Wi-Fi, not only the top back part of the device starts heating up, also the phone becomes laggy and buggy. For instance, clicking Quiet mode icon doesn't actually turn it on/off. Additionally, my text messages stop sending/receiving for some time (up to hours!). What I've noticed is that my LTE icon with arrows lighting up appears for a few seconds, then goes away, then reappears, and the cycle continues. I can confirm that my WiFi internet works though, since if I disable mobile data, I am still able to access the internet.
Playing with advanced WiFi options, and removing all saved networks did not help. Having WiFi on, but not connected to any network, is fine and doesn't cause any of the above.
I kept the WiFi off during the weekend (good 2-3 days), and everything was cool and smooth! But I can't just not use WiFi; it's not efficient and I used ~1.5GB of data.
A friend of mine said their colleague experienced the same. He did a factory reset and everything is good. I have not yet had the time to try that myself.
ryceone said:
Recently upgraded and re-rooted and seemly after an update to G3 tweak box keeping the wifi on destroys my battery and heats the device off.
Better battery stats states that the sensors.qcom have been going forever.
Work around for now is to use the device without the wifi on. Thankfully I have unlimited data, but this is kinda annoying.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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In my case, once I turn on Wi-Fi, not only the top back part of the device starts heating up, also the phone becomes laggy and buggy. For instance, clicking Quiet mode icon doesn't actually turn it on/off. Additionally, my text messages stop sending/receiving for some time (up to hours!). What I've noticed is that my LTE icon with arrows lighting up appears for a few seconds, then goes away, then reappears, and the cycle continues. I can confirm that my WiFi internet works though, since if I disable mobile data, I am still able to access the internet.
Playing with advanced WiFi options, and removing all saved networks did not help. Having WiFi on, but not connected to any network, is fine and doesn't cause any of the above.
I kept the WiFi off during the weekend (good 2-3 days), and everything was cool and smooth! But I can't just not use WiFi; it's not efficient and I used ~1.5GB of data.
A friend of mine said their colleague experienced the same. He did a factory reset and everything is good. I have not yet had the time to try that myself.
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try dissabling location services
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try dissabling location services
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Are you referring to "Allow Wi-Fi scanning" under Advanced Wi-Fi settings or the Location Services in general?
sinara said:
Are you referring to "Allow Wi-Fi scanning" under Advanced Wi-Fi settings or the Location Services in general?
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Both actually
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Both actually
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Tried, but issue still persists.
I am going to backup my data, and proceed with a hard (factory) reset. Hopefully it will be resolved, if not I have to look into getting a replacement (which would be a whole different issue to deal with).
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Tried, but issue still persists.
I am going to backup my data, and proceed with a hard (factory) reset. Hopefully it will be resolved, if not I have to look into getting a replacement (which would be a whole different issue to deal with).
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that won't help because this is probably just a rogue app a hard reset might fix this if not try an 10j firmware
suljo94 said:
that won't help because this is probably just a rogue app a hard reset might fix this if not try an 10j firmware
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Hard reset seems to have fixed it for now! *knock on wood* And I've been paying careful attention to the apps, installing things in stages.
sinara said:
Hard reset seems to have fixed it for now! *knock on wood* And I've been paying careful attention to the apps, installing things in stages.
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smart, keep us posted
sinara said:
Hard reset seems to have fixed it for now! *knock on wood* And I've been paying careful attention to the apps, installing things in stages.
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What is your signal strength on Wifi? Mine does seem to heat up considerably on Less than optimal signal strengths.
Mine has been recently returned to stock and wiped, in advance of me RMAing it because I have the "cracks" developing at mic and infrared ports.
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What is your signal strength on Wifi? Mine does seem to heat up considerably on Less than optimal signal strengths.
Mine has been recently returned to stock and wiped, in advance of me RMAing it because I have the "cracks" developing at mic and infrared ports.
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Signal strength was almost full. It still heats up with a lot of use, which is understandable. Definitely not as excessively as before (when I wasn't doing anything and it was heating up).
I didn't play with any of the advanced Wi-Fi settings (did not change them from the default), except for removing the checkmark of notifications of open networks.
No signs of cracks on mine, and I am not using a case currently (it is being shipped to me).
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smart, keep us posted
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Just an update:
No issues with WiFi yet. Some heat during heavy use, but nothing like before (in terms of heat and lag).
LTE symbol sometimes appears even when on WiFi, but definitely not as much as it used to. I think it started doing that once I installed Rogers' VVM Plus app (seems like it needs to communicate with the server directly or something). No biggie, since I don't notice any of the problems I used to have.
Lastly, I'm quite pleased with the battery life now!!
Anyone else having this problem? My places in location settings is greyed out so I can't turn it on.
Did you run Google maps and update your home location first?
Yes. Google Maps knows my home location. Weather seems to know where I am. Anything else I have to update?
Idk of anything else.
On my G4, GPS has to be on or my places is greyed out.
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Doesn't seem to matter on my phone. Stays off even when GPS is on.
Factory reset.
Turn on data
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Factory reset.
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Thanks. Yeah, probably so, but I've got the phone completely set up the way I like it and I'm reluctant to go through it all again just for "My Places". If that's what it will take I'll probably just install Llama which will handle this and a whole lot more.
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Turn on data
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That's an idea. I'll give it a try. I've been keeping data turned off except when I need it because on the HTC One M7 it seemed to really affect battery life even though I wasn't using it and I value the long battery life on the G4 more than I think I would value "My Places". Still maybe it won't have the battery effect on the G4 that it had on the M7. On the M7 at night I would turn off WiFi too and put it into extreme battery saving mode and I'd still lose 12 to 15% overnight. On the G4 I don't bother to turn off WiFi at night and there is no extreme battery saving mode but I only lost 1 or 2 % overnight. What a great phone!
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Turn on data
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You were right. Turning on data did the trick. Requires data and GPS on. Not sure I'll keep it depending on battery usage, but thanks.
Tried it overnight with data and GPS turned on and it lost 8% vs losing 1 or 2 % with them off. So it's goodbye to My Places. Llama does an even better job and doesn't cost the battery power. I can quickly turn on data and GPS when I need them. But thanks for the help.
I have a problem with wifi. In battery stats wifi has more consumption as screen.
I never seen it on any other android smartphone in my house.
Somebody with this behavior? I am using latest stock.
Check Location>Wifi Scanning
any other idea
thx, i disable scanning in location, reboot, after week still wifi 1st in battery consumption, it's not big problem, battery life on this phone is excellent, but can be better
It's a wrong report from Android, your WiFi is not draining your battery (a few of us have the same problem, me included). I don't know where it comes from but you can just ignore it (there's no real way to fix the issue I'm afraid)
Mine was doing the same - and I use Chrome a lot for web surfing
Disable Location permissions in Chrome (Settings->Apps->Chrome->Permissions->Location Off)
ok, i just ignoring it, not big deal, battery life is fine, i just was wondering if can be even better everybody know android is quite tricky
Some screenshots would be great, so people can help.
That's the kind of problem he is having, which is just a bug from Android ?
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That's the kind of problem he is having, which is just a bug from Android ?
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Can you also post how much mah does that use(by clicking on WiFi). And also the battery map clicked.
Thanks
bharatshaan said:
Can you also post how much mah does that use(by clicking on WiFi). And also the battery map clicked.
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Here you go
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Here you go
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I hope you have your WiFi scanning and WiFi network notification off.
I faced same problem in the starting.
I switched above settings off and cleared cache and then switched off WiFi and restated phone.
Now it is gone. Hope it helps.
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I hope you have your WiFi scanning and WiFi network notification off.
I faced same problem in the starting.
I switched above settings off and cleared cache and then switched off WiFi and restated phone.
Now it is gone. Hope it helps.
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Everything has been off for a while, the "problem" appeared afterwards but I personally don't mind, I know that's just a bug
DadOudidOuda said:
Everything has been off for a while, the "problem" appeared afterwards but I personally don't mind, I know that's just a bug
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Are you guys only seeing this reporting when wifi is on but not connected? Or all the time?
Only had the device 2 days, but no sign of it for me - wifi on, background scanning and network notification also on. Only been out of wifi coverage for a few hours though.
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Are you guys only seeing this reporting when wifi is on but not connected? Or all the time?
Only had the device 2 days, but no sign of it for me - wifi on, background scanning and network notification also on. Only been out of wifi coverage for a few hours though.
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It's when the WiFi is on (connected or not).
OK, some say it's a bug, others say it's no biggie since the large battery, but.... I used to get home after a 12 hr days work, and have 4-5 hrs sot and still 20-30% left. Now I need to keep the phone charged, because it's down to 10 % halfway... That IS a BIGGIE.... And for those who say it's just a stats thingie, well, if this thingie shows 0%: your phone WILL shut down!
Ive tried ALL tips, NOTHING works. Period. What bugs me most is that I don't know why! I turned off scanning, cleared cache, reboot, etc, heck, I even did multiple factory resets, NO GO on any of those!
Believe me I'm happy for those that have solved the issue, but this should have never happened.
After consulting Motorola's customer services I was advised to send it back for repair, and so I did. I need to get it back still, but if this really is a bug, than:
SHAME ON YOU MOTOROLA/LENOVO.
You need to fix this asap, because it really IS a BIGGIE!
Even when it was disabled all the time.
you have to disable location scanning for bluetooth and wifi. I've had the same issue. I also dont use high accuracy location. I use device only to save battery and prevent wifi from turning on. It drains crap ton of battery.
Yea! I had also disabled it and made one thread for this so let other knows the solution.
SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/how-to/guide-prevent-wifi-draining-battery-t3612123