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I keep finding maps running in my running apps list and it is always in my battery list. I have never used it and keep force stopping it but it keeps restarting itself. Is there a reason to this and can I stop it?
Thanks.
PS. I am a newbie coming from iPhone 3gs, this is my first android phone so am new to it all. Sorry to ask so many questions!
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I charged phone to max before I want to bed and then took off charge. This morning after 8 hours, down to 90% battery and maps had used 50% of battery! What's going on!
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Don't worry about it. You're spending more time/battery trying to kill it and worry about it than its using by just doing its thing in the background.
Just open the maps app and make sure its not doing anything funny. If its not having issues then just leave it.
Dropping 10% over an 8 hour period over night is completely normal. The only reason why maps was 50% of the battery consumed is that the screen was not on and the rest of the system wasn't doing anything.
I know what your saying but over 16 hours that's 10% of my battery wasted on nothing that I ever use and phone keeps running out so I want that 10% back!
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I can see where you're coming from mate, its not acceptable. Have you tried going into manage apps and clearing data for Google maps, then if that doesn't work you can uninstall updates from the same page, go to android market and update the maps app. If all else fails you can try a factory data reset from the backup and restore menu option. Hope this helps
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actually, are you seeing maps running when you go to settings then applications then use the running tab?
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It not showing under running apps, nothing mentions apps but there was something under Google services called locations and I have force stopped that so will see what happens. Maybe a update will sort this. I have turned off all location services and GPS but when on browser it still knows where I am when I do searches so I think the browser is triggering something to restart! Hope that makes sense!
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Under Settings/Apps/Running I see Maps running constantly for NetworkLocationServices. Can't be killed and turning off all location services doesn't help.
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have you turned off location in the browsers settings? its in the privacy and security tab.
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have you turned off location in the browsers settings? its in the privacy and security tab.
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I found this tobe the culprit to why maps took up so much battery.
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I have disabled this so fingers crossed! Looks good so far, thanks very much.
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Thanks go2mo2, that change plus a reboot got rid of it.
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No problems mate
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Still having problems with this, disabled everything I can think of. I just want to uninstall maps as I never use it but I can't.
Maybe Google Latitude is turned on in the Maps Settings?
I'm wondering if its Facebook keeps activating it as that also keeps starting in apps and I can't turn it off as cannot access any options in ics.
im getting error on the activity log when i start up this app, so im not sure if it works or not
ROM is not compatible with AOS(helper) band control is unvail. get cyanogenMod blah blah
Yeh it does that on AOKP, pa and cm10.1 so I have no answers lol
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Try green power or deep sleep battery saver.
They both work well
Do these apps really work?
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Do these apps really work?
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Not really
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Do these apps really work?
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all they really do is shut your data off when the screen is off, which will save you some battery. but then you wont get any notifications from apps that use data i.e. email, Facebook, etc. or at least that's how it was last time i tried those apps like a year ago, maybe they've changed it.
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lowrider262 said:
all they really do is shut your data off when the screen is off, which will save you some battery. but then you wont get any notifications from apps that use data i.e. email, Facebook, etc. or at least that's how it was last time i tried those apps like a year ago, maybe they've changed it.
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The apps will sync, or should sync, depending on the interval you set the phone to sync. I have mine set every 15 minutes, it saves me around 10-15% battery life a day.
Depend on your settings I think, mine worked exceeding my expectations. I had the dreaded hot phone and literally 5 hours battery life. My last hope is to install a custom ROM and kernel and hope for the best, but I'm trying to stay stock as possible if I can help it. I have my fair share tinkering with custom ROMs with GNex and needless to say I'm done customizing (it's endless once you start!).
So I installed JDU just for the heck of it, lo and behold it actually works. I now get 12hrs with 15% left after a day worth of usage, browsing, lots of yelp, maps and navigation (travelling at the moment), pandora, fb, whatsapp, gosms, GNow and camera. Please note that I'm using the N4 for less than a week and still conditioning the battery, I use JDU for a full day today for the first time.
I realized that using JDU is only a temporary 'fix' until Google patch the battery issue. I hope to get 14-16hrs battery life without JDU on stock and rooted ROM. One can only hope eh..
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Try green power or deep sleep battery saver.
They both work well
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i will try that gree power premium app, see how that goes
I'm using juice defender ultimate on PA and it works fine
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Junk apps are junk.
I have a Note II that is around three months old. The battery would last around 1.5 days with normal usage.
Then, about a week ago, I noticed that it was not even lasting a day. Often 'media' uses more battery than the screen, which I have never seen before.
Last night, I fully charged it to 100%. I woke up 7 hours later and took the screenshot below - 49%! 51% used in 7 hours standby time. This cannot be right? Surely? I have noticed something going on with my SD card, where when I unlock the phone, it "prepares" the SD card. I had not seen this before.
Also, a strange phenomenon occurs where when I delete an app, it leaves a hole/gap in it's folder. (see screenshot 2). I cannot get rid of it. Any ideas?
Having the same problem. Mine used to get almost 2 days and after the latest OTA update "Media" seems to be using a ton of power. It seems to be related to scanning the media files. When I try to force stop the app, it just restarts itself. I thought maybe it was a bad SD card, so I tried a fresh one, but the problem is still there. Any ideas if this was introduced in the update and whether or not we can stop the process. I am not rooted on stock ROM.
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Download media scan root from play store. It will disable media scan and you can re enable it with just a click If you have new media files. But root is required for this app.
Alternatively if you do not have root. Try format the sd card. It might solve the problem a while but not sure why it comes back again. It s a known issue for jellybean
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Hi
Am on stock rom rooted ....suddenly I felt drasric drain in my battery...
Checked through cpu spy and better battery stats ......
Outcome was no deep sleep and totalyy awake phone even though screen is off with partial wakelock audioout_2....
Tried switching off all sounds ...then also same prob
Tried removing battery for sometime...it also didnt work
Plz help battery is draining like hell
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Have u tried media scan root from play store?
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Have u tried media scan root from play store?
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I have not, no. I am not rooted and personally do not want to be. It sounds like this is a fairly widespread issue. I will talk to Samsung and hopefully get a replacement or refund. No way that I paid $1000 for a phone that only lasts 12 hours.
Thanks for your help.
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I have not, no. I am not rooted and personally do not want to be. It sounds like this is a fairly widespread issue. I will talk to Samsung and hopefully get a replacement or refund. No way that I paid $1000 for a phone that only lasts 12 hours.
Thanks for your help.
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Are you also on 4.1.2 like bwallis?
Nope, still on 4.1.1.
Also, Google+ is now using a fair amount of battery too, usually around 10%. Strange when I don't actually use G+...
I tried a new freshly formatted SD card and today I am at 70% after about 12 hours. This is what I was getting before the upgrade. Will keep everyone posted if it happens again. Before the new card I also noticed the system was unmounting and remounting the card frequently. I am sure this is what was causing the rescans. It was only 2 months old so perhaps the card was bad.
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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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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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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.
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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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Wouldn't hurt
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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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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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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?
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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.
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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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Hi, I just got a nexus 7 (its been a month now) when the device is on standby it drains all the battery, in fact it only lasts 6h. In the battery usage, all there is is 'tablet idle' and 'WiFi'.
Till now I have tried clearing the cache partition, restoring factory defaults (more than once) and even signing in with a different user after factory defaults, nothing helps!
I managed to get proper battery usage maybe once or twice.
When this happens the top right part of the tablet gets really hot!
Any clues? Should I return it back to the US?
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you need to provide information if you want help, have you installed betterbatterystats?
are you rooted?
No its not rooted. Betterbattreystats not installed as it needs root access.
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fencer said:
No its not rooted. Betterbattreystats not installed as it needs root access.
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man it could be anything....more than likely though you have a rogue app that likes to kill your battery. The best thing to do is go through your apps, and delete them one by one to see if you can pinpoint the app that is hogging the battery.
Just an update on this. I found out which app was draining my tab, believe it or not, it was the official google now launcher!
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After some 2 months the issue is back!! I installed no new apps since the time I said it was sorted. I have also tried to boot in safe mode but even in safe mode the battery drains in a matter of hours
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