Is anyone having any issue using non Google maps/nav for extended periods of journey. I'm talking for periods >3 hours to say the very least.
I noticed that only Google maps/nav keeps GPS hooked on for hours.
Any other apps I use like nav maps, waze, etc, after like 30 mins (anywhere between 30-180 mins), it just knocks off GPS. The only way to get it back again is restarting phone.
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So yesterday I noticed my battery drain like crazy for some reason, then I looked at my stats and it showed my screen on time was 33min and my awake time was 4hours.
So I opened up the betterbatterystats app and found that Google maps was wakelocking and draining the battery.
I just wanted to see if any other users have got this problem. I had to disable maps and all GPS services to stop it.
It seems to only effect 6.0.0 and above maps.
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You can disable the Maps Application, if you don't use it of course. As a side note, I have the gummynex rom 0.7.0 and every time i boot the phone the maps application is open on the recent applications button. Of course it has a black screenshot as it has not been used.
Yeh I disabled it.
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I just noticed that if i am using google maps with my Galaxy Nexus if i left the screen go to sleep, after turn it on again the gps signal is lost and it will do again the process of getting a gps signal,
Is that normal
yes unless you are using the navigation app. its to save the battery from people who would "omg maps is using all my battery, how do i stop it?" lol
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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Just force close it from the application list.
Also I don't experience any battery drain from it..
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donbronco said:
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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^^ This.
Even when I have my player set to ONLY play On-Device music, my 4 gets all hot and bothered, and at the end of it all, my battery can sometimes drop 15-25% over 45 minutes...
donbronco said:
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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nope. If I don't touch the app, it doesn't use any battery (at least according to settings -> battery). when I use the app, it uses battery, but not really that much.
Google Maps is the one that kills me... and yes, I have all that location reporting and latitude stuff turned off. I just have to keep going into settings -> battery several times a day and force stop maps.
Try disabling mobile data, I've been able to listen to music for hours and only experience 5% battery drop
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I have the same problem on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I listened to music for an hour a few days ago and ever since Music Player has been draining about 20% of my battery even if I don't listen to music at all.
In other words I've charged my phone multiple times to 100% since I listened to music (100% charge resets the battery monitoring statistics, so previous listening to music should not show up anymore), I never ever opened Music Player in these last days, I've force stopped the Music Player days ago, but still, it's constantly chewing on my battery...
I'm on Android 4.1.2.
I had a similar problem, but found that if I disabled sync for music, but left evrything else synched it stopped it eating my battery
No problems for me. Streamed music on Google Play for more rhan 5 hours yesterday and I still got 24 hours on my phone!
wait, so if i have this right..... the app forces syncing of all your music by default and puts the settings for stopping this action somewhere else on the phone...... google clowns i salute you :good:
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wait, so if i have this right..... the app forces syncing of all your music by default and puts the settings for stopping this action somewhere else on the phone...... google clowns i salute you :good:
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lol yeah sounds about right. In settings, under Accounts - Google - you can choose what to sync and what not to
co.ag.2005 said:
nope. If I don't touch the app, it doesn't use any battery (at least according to settings -> battery). when I use the app, it uses battery, but not really that much.
Google Maps is the one that kills me... and yes, I have all that location reporting and latitude stuff turned off. I just have to keep going into settings -> battery several times a day and force stop maps.
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Search in the apps section for the Better Battery Stats thread; somewhere in there is a nice tutorial on how to kill Maps wakelock battery drain.
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I've just come back from a trip to the 24 hour race at Le Mans, durkng which time I was using the scobbler sat nav application. Worked fine but every so often the phone would lose GPS signal, then shortly after hang the entire phone requiring a battery removal to rectify.
It's the first time I've used GPS with screen on for several hours, so wondering whether this may be a heat issue that anyone else has encountered? I couldn't rule out the skobbler app and try google nav because of no roaming data, however given that GPS dies and then the whole phone dies I'm inclined to believe it's hardware related?
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I've noticed in GSAM battery monitor that my "held awake" time seems abnormally high. I've attached three screen shots. After being unplugged for about 3 hours, I lost about 10% battery from being on wifi the whole time, and about 20 min screen on time (mainly google voice text and play market browsing). It was idling pretty much the rest of the time. No music, pandora, video, etc.
The "held awake" time is 2:37 out of 3 hours! And according to GSAM, it's Android system that's keeping it awake. Is this normal...?
Not at all
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Not at all
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Yes at all. 3 hours of wakelock for 9 hours of uptime? That is aweful.
One hour of screen time and been driving around streaming music etc for close to two, totaling 3 hrs. Sounds reasonable to me since I was indeed using the phone which prevented it from sleeping. Don't see how I would be streaming anything if the phone sleeps
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One hour of screen time and been driving around streaming music etc for close to two, totaling 3 hrs. Sounds reasonable to me since I was indeed using the phone which prevented it from sleeping. Don't see how I would be streaming anything if the phone sleeps
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well in your case it's fine, but I'd think that the OP asking this question in such a way that shows he wasnt doing something like streaming means that this IS extremely high.
Also, your 3hrs of wakelocks in 9 hours are NOWHERE NEAR the OP's wakelocks of 2.5hrs out of 3...
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well in your case it's fine, but I'd think that the OP asking this question in such a way that shows he wasnt doing something like streaming means that this IS extremely high.
Also, your 3hrs of wakelocks in 9 hours are NOWHERE NEAR the OP's wakelocks of 2.5hrs out of 3...
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And that's exactly what I mean. I would download an app called wakelock detector from the app store to see what's causing it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector
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Joanni said:
One hour of screen time and been driving around streaming music etc for close to two, totaling 3 hrs. Sounds reasonable to me since I was indeed using the phone which prevented it from sleeping. Don't see how I would be streaming anything if the phone sleeps
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Thats not a real wakelock and you should have said that...
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I've noticed in GSAM battery monitor that my "held awake" time seems abnormally high. I've attached three screen shots. After being unplugged for about 3 hours, I lost about 10% battery from being on wifi the whole time, and about 20 min screen on time (mainly google voice text and play market browsing). It was idling pretty much the rest of the time. No music, pandora, video, etc.
The "held awake" time is 2:37 out of 3 hours! And according to GSAM, it's Android system that's keeping it awake. Is this normal...?
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Had that same wakelock, its Google Backup. I turned it off. Settings>Backup&Reset.
Thanks for all the inputs guys. So yeah, it does appear to be Google backup, as you can see in my third screen shot. I just wanted to check my sanity that this is NOT typical behavior. Does anyone know what exactly Google Backup, well backs up?
I did a hard reset (hold down power button for 10s) and so far that seems to have fixed the problem. I am going to keep an eye on it for now, and keep Google Backup turned on. I'll report back if it starts again.