Zooper seems to be constantly accessing my location (as in every minute or so). Is there a way to modify this? I have it set to only refresh every two hours.
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Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue.
Noticing apps and widgets are not refreshing my location on request and still think I'm somewhere I was up to 24 hours ago. Seeing this on my home screen weather widget and in 4square; all data (weather and nearby venues) is for a geographic area I was before. But, it IS giving me up-to-date weather info.
If I reboot the phone I'm good for another day or so. Also if I enable GPS or go outside for good GPS signal its ok (until I turn off GPS or go inside for a while). I'm running stock kernal, non-rooted.
same here. seems to show the location i was in 15 minutes earlier with no way to refresh. quite annoying that i have to turn the gps on to get the correct location
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Some have good battery life, others say it drains away by itself in a matter of hours. I've been experiencing a several percent battery drain an hour when the phone is just idle so did some digging.
Exchange Active Sync on push
Exchange Active Sync on push can go from being very efficient, i.e more so than frequent polling, to being a big battery drain.
Because of the way EAS works on push, the phone is woken every 15 minutes to check and renew the link to the server. If the network or service provider has a low time-out on idle connections, say 5 minutes, the phone eventually works out it needs to wake and renew the link every 5 minutes. If the network time-out is very low say a minute, the phone is being woken 60 times an hour to renew the link. Because the wake cycle is very quick, it doesn't show in the battery chart as a blue line wake event, so this awakening is hidden, however all that waking up takes it toll on the battery, plus the radio has to go from low power states up to full to pass data and open a new link, so over the course of a day, EAS can be using a significant amount of power.
Also as this wake cycle is dynamic based on the network it is going to vary for everyone, and any configuration changes unknown to us on the network could suddenly see the phone battery life making a big improvement or getting worse and no two people will have the same experience of EAS on push.
If you find the phone is losing several percent an hour even when sat being unused, and you are using EAS on push, try disabling it or moving to a timed polled. If you just have to get your emails immediately, you may just have to take the hit.
HTC Weather Widgets
I think I have found an odd thing about HTC Weather Widgets, they are not all the same when we are asking them to show our current location. Some HTC weather widgets use HTC's own server to decide the current location based on the cell tower, other HTC weather widgets use Google Maps API to fetch the current location. When using Google Maps, it uses more CPU power, and means Google Maps is activated quite often by some weather widgets where it then starts using Wi-Fi and often GPS (it uses GPS to get a good location then sends that location back to Google's servers with a list of nearby Wi-Fi points to build its Wi-Fi location database). If you see Maps using several percent in the battery usage list along with some GPS seconds and you haven't actually used the Maps application, this is probably the reason.
The easiest way to tell which HTC Weather Widgets are using Google services and so draining more power is to go to Settings -> Location and disable Google location services. Now the widgets using the Google Maps API will show a message telling us to enable Google Location services, other HTC weather widgets carry on working showing the current location. I found the large full page weather widget, and the lock screen weather wallpaper carries on working showing the current location without needing Google Location, but the weather/clock widget, set by default on the home page, is using Google Location.
I've since set the weather clock to my fixed home location, keeping the lock screen weather and large weather widget on current location, and 12 hours in, even with Google location services enabled, Google Maps has yet to show up in the battery usage list at it's usual several percent, prior to this change, the Maps app, even though I've gone days without using it, has constantly shown in the battery usage list.
So since putting EAS onto manual, and setting the clock weather widget to a fixed location, my phone can sit happily for a couple of hours, still connected to the network for phone calls and texts and ready for me to pick up and use, but doesn't report losing any power. This means when I do want to use it, I have more power left for on-screen time.
There are probably many more innocent widgets or settings we can change that can cause a knock-on effect to battery life that we don't quite expect. It also means no two people, once they've played and customised the phone to their liking, will have the same experience with battery life.
I also suspect a big part of custom ROMs having better battery life is simply down to the often stripped away back to basics nature of them, by default HTC Sense is using a couple of percent an hour just on the clock/weather widget to show us our general current location. Over a day that adds up to a lot of power just to see on your phone what you can see looking out of the window.
Hope the above helps someone.
Regards
Phil
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thx bro
thanks bro much appreciated
Hello everyone,
I know the alarm free date #SAD...# is a beta feature at the moment, but I've run into a bug with it that I thought you should know about.
I have a section on a widget where I show the next alarm date and time, but I want to also show bedtime, which would be the alarm minus 8 hours. I know for standard dates, I can do something like #D-480...# if I want to subtract 8 hours. I can even do math within the variable, such as #D-$(8*60)$...# to subtract 8 hours. When I try this same sort of thing with the alarm free date variable, I find that it compounds amount added or subtracted each minute until something causes it to reset.
To make a simple example, if my alarm is set for 3:30 on Monday, and if I want to display the alarm time with 1 minute subtracted from it, I use #SAD-1 P:mm p#, and I should get 3:29am on Monday. It works correctly for the first minute, but as soon as another minute passes, I see that the the adjusted alarm time now shows 3:28am. So every time a minute passes, the adjusted alarm time gets multiplied by the number of minutes passed since I saved the widget. If I subtract 2 minutes at a time, then I see the time drop by 2 minutes as each minute passes. If I do 8 hours, then, well, it gets very strange very quickly.
I have noticed that the adjusted alarm time will reset from time to time, going back to the correct calculation for a minute, but I'm not sure of what causes the reset. Sometimes it will go back to the correct calculation after editing the widget, and sometimes it won't. Other times it will go back to the correct calculation after my screen has been off for a little bit and then I turn the screen back on, but not every time. Also, it looks like it may not add or subtract additional increments while the screen is off. Again, with my example of subtracting 1 minute, if my screen timeout is 2 minutes, then by the time the screen turns off, I'll see 3 minutes subtracted in total. If I turn the screen back on 10 minutes later, it will still show the 3 minutes subtracted. The next minute that the screen is on, it will either reset to 1 minute being subtracted, or it will continue to 4 minutes subtracted.
FYI, I'm on a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Android version 4.4.2, Sprint, rooted, but I am running on stock ROM and kernel.
I hope that this helps pinpoint where the bug may be. Please let me know if any other information is required.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Same problem here.
Has anyone else noticed a strange increase in GPS usage after the Lollipop update?
I've always kept the Location mode on High Accuracy, and didn't have this behavior until recently. Basically, whenever an app attempts to find my location, and I'm indoors or somewhere I can't get a GPS satellite, the GPS will say "finding location" for a very long, if not infinite, amount of time. It seemed that until recently, the device would give up after a few seconds with GPS and use Wi-Fi/Mobile to approximate my location - it doesn't seem like it's doing this anymore.
Most of the time, it's the Live Weather app that's looking for my location. I do use that for wallpaper on the lock screen, I know it probably drains the battery faster. However, I have not seen this behavior until recently; I used the wallpaper since I got my phone in December.
I have already factory reset and wiped system cache after the Lollipop update, and wiped the data and cache of Live Weather, no change unfortunately.
Has anyone else seen something like this before?
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It looks like this only occurs whenever I first boot the phone, whether it be a reboot or a cold boot. According to the Location settings menu, Live Weather is the only app with "Battery usage: high" listed under it; when I kill Live Weather, the GPS will turn off.
However, if I do step outside and get a lock, the GPS will eventually shut off. Whenever I come back inside, it behaves as I would expect it to, i.e., the GPS will come on periodically, then shut off after a few seconds.
supertoast92 said:
Quick update for more details:
It looks like this only occurs whenever I first boot the phone, whether it be a reboot or a cold boot. According to the Location settings menu, Live Weather is the only app with "Battery usage: high" listed under it; when I kill Live Weather, the GPS will turn off.
However, if I do step outside and get a lock, the GPS will eventually shut off. Whenever I come back inside, it behaves as I would expect it to, i.e., the GPS will come on periodically, then shut off after a few seconds.
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it looks like I have probably the same problem too. In my case it behaves as follows: if I'm not connected to the GSM network (when using the device without a SIM) and out of reach of any WIFI signal, then the GPS does not work at all. :crying:
Did you try changing your location settings to use only the GPS?
Also, I found a workaround: killing the Live Weather service seems to have no negative effect - it comes right back whenever you open the weather widget or view your lockscreen. Still a pain, but it works. It still sorts itself out the minute I step outside.
Before the update, my watch's time would change automatically when my phone updated to a different time zone. It no longer is changing. I have it set to sync time and date with the phone. Does anyone know why it's not working or what I can do short of having to restart it every time I enter a new time zone? Thanks!
Anyone?