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Why does Maps wake up my phone 90 times in 1 hour?

In my quest to see why my battery drains so much during idle (3-4%/hour), using GSam Battery Monitor, I find Maps wakes the phone constantly.
I have 'location reporting' from within maps turned off, and location history turned off, latitude location sharing is turned off also.
I do have Google's Location Service turned on so I can use Google Now, and also have GPS satellites and Location & Google Search checked. But I don't see why Location Service would make Maps wake my phone so often (pretty much 1x every minute)
Is this normal? Or is something not right?
P.S. Yes, I know it "only" drained 2% since I unplugged it 1.2 hours ago but it's the first time this has ever happened and as soon as I took the snapshots, it dropped to 97% right away.

I have lots of wakes from Maps too. Likely because you're using Google Location Services and are using Google Now, which needs to know your location.

It is normal. when you check it off try to find it in your running processes, you won't find it.

It stopped doing that to me when I turned off location tracking in Latitude settings in Google Maps.

Eddie1506 said:
It stopped doing that to me when I turned off location tracking in Latitude settings in Google Maps.
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Yes this is the answer
Go in Maps ->Settings->Position settings and disable background update position

alf_malf said:
Yes this is the answer
Go in Maps ->Settings->Position settings and disable background update position
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This is my map - settings - location settings screenshot. everything is disabled already.
Eddie1506: where do I change settings in Latitude?
Automaddux: you mean I have to turn off Google Location Service (and in effect Google Now)?
Thanks everyone!

Your not the only one buddy... I just witnessed this right now. Went to sleep to a pretty good charged battery and wake up to about a 35% battery ..
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Did you leave your GPS on?
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prosumerhacks said:
Did you leave your GPS on?
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I always have. Even on my E4GT..and have had no problems with deep sleep. But now the phone won't sleep at all.
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I leave GPS off unless I need it. That stopped the wake locks for me.

I was referring to those settings on your screenshot. When I turned off everything there, it stopped waking up the device.
But, those settings work for me since I don't use Latitude and Google Now is not usable here in Croatia anyhow.
Sorry

I've had 310 in three hours. Frustrating.
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so it's google location services that causes the extreme amount of wakes. so I have to make a decision, whether to enable Location Services and Google Now or live without it. In the end, it seems like the battery life doesn't suffer that much, so I think I'll keep it on...

I keep my Google now turned off because I'm all about battery life. But other people may have different thoughts
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maps battery drain?

In the never ending search for battery life, I'm trying to figure out why Google Maps is doing a consistent 15% drain on my battery every day. That's 15% without ever opening Maps.
Is this just the s3 reporting maybe all gps activity under Maps or something weird? How can I try and diagnose what is eating this energy to resolve it? I'm trying to go from wake to sleep w/o charging my phone and medium use...

zshguru said:
In the never ending search for battery life, I'm trying to figure out why Google Maps is doing a consistent 15% drain on my battery every day. That's 15% without ever opening Maps.
Is this just the s3 reporting maybe all gps activity under Maps or something weird? How can I try and diagnose what is eating this energy to resolve it? I'm trying to go from wake to sleep w/o charging my phone and medium use...
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Maps -> Settings -> Location settings -> Disable Location reporting
While you are here you can increase your privacy by disabling the rest of the Latitude location reporting options.

timeToy said:
Maps -> Settings -> Location settings -> Disable Location reporting
While you are here you can increase your privacy by disabling the rest of the Latitude location reporting options.
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Doesn't disabling latitude make stuff like cyberus useless?
Also I don't see a location settings under Maps.

zshguru said:
In the never ending search for battery life, I'm trying to figure out why Google Maps is doing a consistent 15% drain on my battery every day. That's 15% without ever opening Maps.
Is this just the s3 reporting maybe all gps activity under Maps or something weird? How can I try and diagnose what is eating this energy to resolve it? I'm trying to go from wake to sleep w/o charging my phone and medium use...
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Diable...only allow. When u need it
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Weird, it's already disabled. I have 4 google accounts on my phone the default one is set to "do not share" and the other 3 haven't accepted the TOS for latitude so I assume they're not sharing.
Any other suggestions?

Any solutions?
The Map drain battery is present it shows that it uses 7% while phone was in standby the whole time. And if the Cell standby is reported incorrectly than battery drains more then 7%. I try to disable GPS to see if it fixes the issue but it makes it super inconvenient to turn it back on whenever i need location.

Update: Turning off all of the location services does not fix the issue.
However looks like uninstalling Google Maps Updates DOES FIX the problem.

What about turning off GPS?
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kinghorsey said:
What about turning off GPS?
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dimammx said:
Update: Turning off all of the location services does not fix the issue.
However looks like uninstalling Google Maps Updates DOES FIX the problem.
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kinghorsey said:
What about turning off GPS?
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Yea All location services i meant GPS too.
But uninstalling Map updates does fix the issue.

Lg G3 Massive Battery Drain from bam_dmux_wakelock (Pics Included)

Alright everyone,
Some details about my phone before we begin-
I am a moderate user. I play some games, check emails, text and that's about it.
My phone is NOT rooted and obviously I am not running a custom rom, or a alternate launcher, and I haven't really modified many if at all any settings.
So, that being said I am experience some sever kernel wake lock issues form bam_dmux_wakelock for the past week or so. As you see in my picture, 6 out of my 7 hours of up time (off charger) has been kept from deep sleep, therefore destroying my battery time.
Today I have maybe 30-40 minutes total of screen on time, but not nearly the 6 hours of non deep sleep time.
I've turned off "okay google" detection, disabled wifi when screen is off, restricted background data for youtube, disabled google + (I don't use social media) and my brightness is on auto mode, typically around 35% when the screen is on.
If google can see this I would like to offer them a huge F you for changing the permission architecture so that gplay apps cant detected whats causing the wake-lock without root. They are pretty much forcing us to root our phones to access features locked meanwhile continuing to call android "Open Source"
Can anyone give me a recommendation on what are my options? Or should I really just root my phone, which I don't want to do (I have in the past but I haven't needed too with the G3 since it has everything I want without root)

I don't think it's Google's fault if LG makes a sucks kernel. Anyway, bam_dmux seems to be related to radios. Could it be that during those wake locks you were in an area where there is weak signal? Are you still experiencing this error after a reboot of the phone?

keithleyson said:
I don't think it's Google's fault if LG makes a sucks kernel. Anyway, bam_dmux seems to be related to radios. Could it be that during those wake locks you were in an area where there is weak signal? Are you still experiencing this error after a reboot of the phone?
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I've reset the phone multiple times, and have also cleared the cache from the bootloader as well. I don't have a weak signal in my area; also the radio interface is a separate wake lock code from bam_dmux. From what I read bam_dmux has to do with google background services.

Bump

JetForceF22 said:
I've reset the phone multiple times, and have also cleared the cache from the bootloader as well. I don't have a weak signal in my area; also the radio interface is a separate wake lock code from bam_dmux. From what I read bam_dmux has to do with google background services.
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Google location service may be running in the background to much too long.

gee2012 said:
Google location service may be running in the background to much too long.
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I don't see a google location service only the Verizon Location Agent; there are two other services called "LocationServices" under All in my application manager, and they are both listed at being 0.00 bytes in size (?) I force stopped those anyways along with the verizon location agent which restarted anyways. I also have location completely off in my quick menu from the pull down bar, I only turn it on when I'm using GPS.

GPS Signal Lost in IGO when not in focus

Anyone else have an issue with IGO, that when I switch to desktop or another app, after a few seconds i hear "GPS Signal Lost"
Its rather quick to re-establish a connection when i switch back but seems weird to not get a signal only because its not in focus.
While in focus its rock solid, never drops out.
Setting or known issue?

Always, but I've been got used and don't care...

Snap. Always does it.
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It has to be an Android issue I had a Pioneer Navi unit (they use iGO) never lost signal once locked in, well as long as I didn't go in to a tunnel or parking structure, switched to Android and every time I look away it drops GPS but only for a second or two. I believe there is an advanced audio setting to mute the announcement of GPS signal loss, but I cannot remember if it's a GUI option or if it needs to be put in the sys.txt.

Try this settings in SYS.TXT:
[sound.announcer]
gps_signal_lost = 0; disables voicemail alert "lost signal GPS"
gps_disconnected = 0; disables voice notification "GPS turned off"

themissionimpossible said:
Try this settings in SYS.TXT:
[sound.announcer]
gps_signal_lost = 0; disables voicemail alert "lost signal GPS"
gps_disconnected = 0; disables voice notification "GPS turned off"
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That may be a viable option, when its in focus i never loose signal....so really its just the voice announcement that annoys me when i switch to another App.

I used to use an app called active GPS, can be set to acquire a gps lock and keep it on boot, not sure if you are really losing the gps lock or if Igo just thinks it is.

jakejm79 said:
I used to use an app called active GPS, can be set to acquire a gps lock and keep it on boot, not sure if you are really losing the gps lock or if Igo just thinks it is.
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Im not losing signal no......Its approx 5 seconds after IGO loses focus and it regains the signal immediately after i switch back.
Perhaps this is intentional to allow another App access to the GPS Signal.....ie only 1 App can have access at once, so they only keep it during focus?
Not sure but its peeing me off
Ill check if theres anything buried in IGO settings or the alternative (Not that i like working around a problem) is to quieten the "Lost signal" audio.

pants001 said:
Perhaps this is intentional to allow another App access to the GPS Signal.....ie only 1 App can have access at once, so they only keep it during focus?
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Do you also have a weather widget running with its location based on GPS signal?
Maybe that app requires a temporary connection to the GPS port (that might not be shareable between more apps)...

themissionimpossible said:
Do you also have a weather widget running with its location based on GPS signal?
Maybe that app requires a temporary connection to the GPS port (that might not be shareable between more apps)...
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Ye possible, I also noticed a setting in GPS menu to allow location based services. So might try with that off.
I'll have a play around and report back. :silly:

pants001 said:
Ye possible, I also noticed a setting in GPS menu to allow location based services. So might try with that off.
I'll have a play around and report back. :silly:
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In Android there is no problem for multiple applications to use GPS signal at the same time. You can run 5 navigation apps and another 5 tracking apps at the same time if you have enough RAM. The OS access the GPS sensor and shares the information to apps.
The question is, what really happens. If you continue with iGo in the background, is it still navigating you? Do you hear the correct voice commands or is it really lost and has no idea where you are?
For me all Navigation application work even in background. They have a service (identified by an icon in notification bar) that runs even if the main app is in background. You should also check the GPS icon in navigation bar to see if GPS is shut down.

javlada said:
In Android there is no problem for multiple applications to use GPS signal at the same time..
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I'm not completely sure about the following, but IMHO there is a difference between the smartphones and the MTCB head units for which regards the GPS receiver.
In fact, while generally in a smartphone processor (ex. Qualcomm) the GPS receiver is included in the chip itself, AFAIK in a Rockchip processor (ex. RK3188) the GPS chip is not present, but should be externally connected to the system through an internal serial connection (USB?) and managed by the MCU: for this reason there might be some sharing problems among apps, problems not occurring on a smartphone integrated architecture.

javlada said:
The question is, what really happens. If you continue with iGo in the background, is it still navigating you? Do you hear the correct voice commands or is it really lost and has no idea where you are?
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Ye thats interesting coz this morning i had to go somewhere and used navigation as apposed to just having IGO open on Map.
When Navigating to a destination, you can swap to desktop and other apps and it still guides you with no Lost Signal being mention.
So its only when you have maps open, not using a route navigation and you put IGO into the background.
I assume its IGO giving up the lock on the signal for some reason.

Same issue. IGO drops GPS when focus is lost.
pants001 said:
Ye possible, I also noticed a setting in GPS menu to allow location based services. So might try with that off.
I'll have a play around and report back. :silly:
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I just installed a new head unit 4.4.2 and I have the same issue with IGO. I will try a few things and see what I can find as well.
Will report back if I solve it. It is bloody annoying. I am positive it is an Android thing, not an IGO issue.

pants001 said:
Ye thats interesting coz this morning i had to go somewhere and used navigation as apposed to just having IGO open on Map.
When Navigating to a destination, you can swap to desktop and other apps and it still guides you with no Lost Signal being mention.
So its only when you have maps open, not using a route navigation and you put IGO into the background.
I assume its IGO giving up the lock on the signal for some reason.
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That would make sense, it would be a battery saving feature, no need for a persistent GPS lock (that sucks battery life) if you are just following your location on a map (when the map isn't in focus anymore) but when navigating you want the persistent lock so you can continue receiving directions regardless of what app has focus. I suspect a lot of GPS apps act this way, they just don't announce it.

jakejm79 said:
That would make sense, it would be a battery saving feature, no need for a persistent GPS lock (that sucks battery life) if you are just following your location on a map (when the map isn't in focus anymore) but when navigating you want the persistent lock so you can continue receiving directions regardless of what app has focus. I suspect a lot of GPS apps act this way, they just don't announce it.
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I think your right!

pants001 said:
I think your right!
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Possibly
Google maps acts that way, with maps open, if you open another app, the GPS icon disappears on my phone, but comes back as soon as I refocus on maps, but if I am navigating somewhere then the icon stays there.

Not that it offers you any help but my gps icon is on all the time regardless of what app is or isn't running.
If the above theory is correct then your answer may lie in the power saving and lox location settings.
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Lox is a typo!
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jakejm79 said:
I suspect a lot of GPS apps act this way, they just don't announce it.
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But on a smartphone this battery saving behavior doesn't happen...
And on a HU there is no battery at all and no battery saving needs, on Android all apps should be able to detect if the device is on battery power or currently external power supplied...

themissionimpossible said:
But on a smartphone this battery saving behavior doesn't happen...
And on a HU there is no battery at all and no battery saving needs, on Android all apps should be able to detect if the device is on battery power or currently external power supplied...
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It does happen, test for yourself, but the battery will drain quicker with Maps open and an active GPS lock rather than when another app is in focus and no GPS lock, that is also why the mode to not use active GPS is called battery saving.
Take that up with the developer, but I doubt they will build in an option that is only useful to a very small number of users.
Personally I don't understand why you need the map window open if you aren't actively navigating somewhere anyway.

GPS/Location lost when screen is off??

Hi!
I used to have no problems with this situation on any of my previous phones:
In apps that uses gps, like runkeeper, i get very fast gps lock.. but, then, once I disconnect the screen, the "location" seems to be turned off.. The gps track stops counting. When I turn the screen on again to check what is happening, the phone instantly gets gps lock and registers that new spot. Basically what happens is that I will get a track but, instead of having the full track, I only get "straight" lines between the points the gps locked when i turner the screen on to check what was going on..
I have the location in high accuracy..
Any ideas?
Thanks!

I have the Impression there is a different location provider for the new chipset. When i am at places without any gps signals (for example a tunnel) the reported location is moving with the same speed and direction i had before coming into the tunnel. There also a change in my Google location history. When the screen is off it looks like the location is provided by phone cell only. The reported location is more than 300m away from my real location. I have not seen this in the same locations with my older phones. (Edit: All with Oyxgen OS 3.1.2)

I have the same issue as op on 3.1.2, not rooted.
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I have this stupid thing also, stupid phone,

The gps loses the fix right after you leave the app that uses it. It doesn't work in the background, I'm gonna have to return my phone sadly.

So does this happen with the newer firmware? Can you put it in the background with the screen on and it run? It seems like a software issue more so than hardware, maybe I'm wrong but who knows..
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obviously a software issue, but they won't fix it since nobody talks about it. If you switch to another app that doesn't use GPS or turn off the screen the phone loses the fix right away.

Still happens with Oxygen OS 3.2.0

Can you give a try launching a nav session in google map. On my lg G2, when I get a fix in google map then turn the screen off, I will loose my fix. But if I launch a turn by turn nav session I will keep my gps fix even if I turn the screen off.

Could this be related to doze hibernating Maps or whatever app /?

Jfxmedia said:
Could this be related to doze hibernating Maps or whatever app /?
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Yes. This is likely related to the aggressive Doze mode that has plagued users in receiving notifications. Try disabling Doze by following the instructions in the link below and try GPS again. If it works, then Doze is the cause.
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/push-notification-issues.451149/

Mit Hipster said:
Yes. This is likely related to the aggressive Doze mode that has plagued users in receiving notifications. Try disabling Doze by following the instructions in the link below and try GPS again. If it works, then Doze is the cause.
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/push-notification-issues.451149/
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Anyone tested this with success?

Turn off power saving mode for using GPS while turn off screen
I have used Strava and it can not be received GPS signal when screen off. Then I turned off power saving mode and it was OK.

Porsche.V said:
Anyone tested this with success?
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its dose feature that's interfering. I had the same issue. disabling dose does the trick.

dpj52190 said:
its dose feature that's interfering. I had the same issue. disabling dose does the trick.
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And this is why I make my rom that disables doze all together. It kills battery more then it saves.