The GPS was active for 10 HOURS (!!!!!!!) for NO APPARENT REASON AT ALL while the Location wasn't even active...
When I presses the Location icon to activate it, it showed me almost instantly the Smart Cleaning notification for some reason. Don't know if it's related, but I think that's worth mentioning.
Any ideas?
No one?
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wierd thing, when i wake my phone from sleep sometimes i see gps icon on status bar for 1-2 seconds then it disappears.
i'm a little paranoid... it's wierd that the gps seems to be turning on while my phone is sleeping, could this be a symptom of someone doing something on my phone while its sleeping?
anyone ever heard of this before?
Many apps and services like to have access to your location in the background.
If you have allowed GPS to be an available source of location data you will see the icon appear when the app or service is polling.
I would disallow GPS from being used and just let it triangulate your rough location by mobile data/wifi info.
I posted how to change this setting here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192160
Okay so this started yesterday, 4/4/16
The OK Google prompt will work in terms of activating on my watch, but when I speak it wont connect to my phone and will eventually say it's offline even though there is no cloud icon showing im disconnected.
But, as soon as i turn the display on my phone on and repeat the prompt, OK google will function perfectly.
I ran a test 20 times with the phone display off and 20 times with it on. The watch was "offline" every time the display was off and worked perfectly by simply pressing the home button and turning the phone display on. I have a galaxy note 5.
Anyone else suffering the same problem?
Aydie said:
Okay so this started yesterday, 4/4/16
The OK Google prompt will work in terms of activating on my watch, but when I speak it wont connect to my phone and will eventually say it's offline even though there is no cloud icon showing im disconnected.
But, as soon as i turn the display on my phone on and repeat the prompt, OK google will function perfectly.
I ran a test 20 times with the phone display off and 20 times with it on. The watch was "offline" every time the display was off and worked perfectly by simply pressing the home button and turning the phone display on. I have a galaxy note 5.
Anyone else suffering the same problem?
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I always thought that's how it was supposed to work? I thought the watch had to be on to "listen".
I have had a similar experience with my Note 4, but not as highly reproducible as yours. Sometimes "OK Google" did not work and showed "offline", but when I activated my phone, it worked instantly.
Samsung has some energy saving feature introduced for "battery optimization". I turned it completely off and the problem seems to have almost vanished. I think this battery optimization forces the Android Wear app on the phone to go to sleep so it won't listen anymore for incoming requests from the watch.
I also had huge delays in email reception with the battery optimization feature turned on.
So my advice: Turn it completely off and see if it solves your issue.
Hi guys, I am using standard (unsecure) lock screen, but recently I often put the phone away when working, so I enabled PIN for unlocking the screen, and some options in Smart Lock settings (face recognition and location)... it works nice, but after only 8 hours of using Google Play Services used 40% of battery... When disabled PIN and Smart Lock, battery usage went down... Did anybody had similar issues? Is it possible they poor job on this part of system? I mean, I understand that for face recognition, camera must turn on for couple of seconds, and I guess for location services, device will refresh location more often then without this enabled, but my GPS is turned off...
Yes those features use more battery. Gps isn't the only location method. Wifi and cell towers are used too.
Battery guru may help. See the playstore.
Beamed in by telepathy.
it's too annoying
worst thing is that I can't set PIN to be requested after 5 minutes (or 3), and to enable lockscreen in the meantime. This way, I keep unlocking phone in my pocket
I have looked everywhere and cannot find anyone with an HTC 10 that has this icon could someone please inform me what it is?
It's the icon left of the Bluetooth icon
It's your GPS icon.
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Why does it have a cross through it? I haven't seen anyone else's phone with that
Means the GPS setting is either in battery saving or device only mode. The icon you are probably used to seeing is when location is set to high accuracy.
My GPS has never shown that icon no matter what mode it's in. It's always the little "map marker" type thing and only comes on when the GPS is active. I always keep mine on Battery Saving, but I just tried turning GPS off, and I didn't get that icon.
Just thinking... Is it theme related only? Could you keep all of your settings the same but switch themes? I'd be interested to see if it goes away.
i think it means that your trusted location in Smart Lock is disabled
Or, that Location is not set for High accuracy
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On android devices it was always possible to switch localisation services and GPS separately.
You could keep localisation services turned on (with wifi and phone) and turn off GPS to spare battery.
Now with android pie and new smasung settings it is all or nothing as there is onlys one setting :
I can turn on localisation and it turns on GPS
But if you turn it off, it disables everykind of localisation : GPS but also wiifi ...
Has anyone noticed this and is there a workaround ?
I'm not a fan of the always enabled GPS
I really do not like this at all. I have typically always kept GPS off as far back as Jellybean, favoring Locations battery saving mode, unless I needed navigation or something like that. GPS is power hungry and there's no reason to have to have it always enabled. I know Pie is supposed to help with battery usage and I honestly can't judge whether or not it really does yet as this is day two for me.
Pie is supposed to prevent apps from accessing sensors in the background but I've read that this doesn't apply to GPS so this whole thing is probably part of a marketing thing giving Google as well as app devs the ability to monetize ads based on specific location of us the users. Location is frequently wrong about where I am anyway, showing me a street over and even though I have WiFi and Bluetooth scanning enabled. As a result, my Safe Unlock no longer works when I'm home (only location I have enabled) which sucks. With Oreo I saw this somewhat often and only after I had been home for a while would the Safe Unlock work properly and I accepted this as a consequence of having Location in battery saving mode but now I'm not sure. I just no that with Pie, so far, Safe Unlock hasn't functioned once. My designated home WiFi that I'm on as I type should cause Safe Unlock to do it's thing but it's not. Maybe Location or Safe Unlock are broken. I have seen reports of both regarding Pie so I can't blame it in Samsung. I guess I'll have to try to figure out which of these features is broken.
I'm not sure if this is related to the Location issue but I also noticed that Samsung+ is not working for me. When I first tried to open it I got a notification that I need to have location enabled, I agreed (it was anyway), then I was shown a red screen with error or format codes that force closed faster than I could decipher it. This could be related or could have been broken in an update. Other than for ad purposes, and I don't recall seeing any other than Samsung ads in the Samsung app, I don't know why Samsung+ needs to access location services as it only works in the US and the network tells the app I'm in the US as well as the tower I'm accessing. I suppose it's another attempt to collect user info related to WiFi, Mac address and Bluetooth. I only got the "enable location" request the first couple of times I tried opening the app but the red error screen and FC both still occur. I tried to get a screenshot but I could only manage about half of the screen before it FC'd. I attached the partial pic. It's the bottom half of the screen. When it closes, the app window seems to slide up like when you close apps in the recents view. This brings up another complaint...Screenshot is slow to respond so events like this are next to impossible to capture. I'll have to get a camera out and try.
dronarg said:
On android devices it was always possible to switch localisation services and GPS separately.
You could keep localisation services turned on (with wifi and phone) and turn off GPS to spare battery.
Now with android pie and new smasung settings it is all or nothing as there is onlys one setting :
I can turn on localisation and it turns on GPS
But if you turn it off, it disables everykind of localisation : GPS but also wiifi ...
Has anyone noticed this and is there a workaround ?
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Yes I noticed this. I use 'Tasker' app as a workaround. I set Location Mode to High Accuracy when using Navigation apps, and set to Battery Saving after closing the Navigation app. You can also just create a widget on home screen to toggle Location Mode to High Accuracy or Battery Saving.
I confirmed this setting by using 'Power Toggles' app widget. When the GPS toggle in widget is highlighted, it means on High Accuracy mode, if not highlighted it's on Battery Saving mode.
dronarg said:
On android devices it was always possible to switch localisation services and GPS separately.
You could keep localisation services turned on (with wifi and phone) and turn off GPS to spare battery.
Now with android pie and new smasung settings it is all or nothing as there is onlys one setting :
I can turn on localisation and it turns on GPS
But if you turn it off, it disables everykind of localisation : GPS but also wiifi ...
Has anyone noticed this and is there a workaround ?
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I have yet to notice any adverse battery performance since I've been on pie and I've been on it since the start of the official betas. I was annoyed at first because I had always used battery save mode but really it's been a non issue for me.