I'm a once a week user of Maps. So I need it, but often it doesn't even run between reboots. On ICS it seems to be killing 10% of my battery no matter what. I've tried turning off GPS. Any suggestions other than freezing it?
Are you signed into Latitude, maybe? That might be something to check.
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Are you signed into Latitude, maybe? That might be something to check.
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Not signed into it. Not even signed up for it. I also disabled the reporting of location back to Google and using wifi for location. I should say I first rebooted and didn't start maps, then a day later tried no GPS/reboot/no maps, then no GPS/location reporting/wifi location/no maps.
I'm also seeing the same thing. After the screen, maps is using up to 20% of my battery. I haven't even used maps much since I got the phone.
Very strange. I remember on my Nexus S, Latitude would DESTROY the battery, but signing out of Latitude would fix it. It's not the most scientific thing, but I suggest signing into Latitude and then signing out of it.
Same here guys. Use it once a week, and it has 10% of the battery. Must be some sort of location service.
Maybe make sure the "Automatic caching" is set to Wi-Fi Only and not Wi-Fi or mobile networks?
There is a setting in stock browser to do with location. When I had this enabled I had this problem but once I disabled I no longer lose battery to maps so its worth investigating.
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I noticed there is an update out today that mentions bug fixes on newer devices...
Maps update didn't seem to change anything. I also have the same problem on ICS galaxy nexus.
Same, but can't even freeze it!?
Same issue here, Maps and many processes are constantly running, I want to freeze it, but can't even use a simple command like 'pm disable <package_name>', it seems to have no effect!?
Don't really want to uninstall the app, but freezing won't work for me? Anyone manage to freeze it?
Same here. I cannot stop maps from running...
I've disabled the location options in the browser. Disabled all location items in settings. Disabled all locations settings in maps.
It keeps showing up in running apps!
Finally frozen!
I managed to freeze the app with System Tuner at last I could get rid of this. Obviously had to root the phone for that.
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Anyone else experience this? I'm currently using CM7, but I've seen this across other ROMS and even when stock. Using Google maps even for a second results in it staying open in the background and chewing up battery (I get warnings from Watchdog). I have to use Watchdog to force close the app to fix the problem. Doesn't seem like this should be happening.
Yes, GPS is off. Location by network is on, so maybe that's to blame?
Yeah I turned network location off too and my battery has improved dramaticly. Maps turns on anytime something requires location services ie location based weather services that what my issue was.
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Yeah I turned network location off too and my battery has improved dramaticly. Maps turns on anytime something requires location services ie location based weather services that what my issue was.
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But I don't have the problem unless I've actively opened Maps... it doesn't spontaneously open. I also kinda want network location to be on as I find it useful...
Unfortunately this seems to be a fairly common problem on the dinc. Some people have solved it by downgrading maps to an earlier version. I haven't found any other fixes though.
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Unfortunately this seems to be a fairly common problem on the dinc. Some people have solved it by downgrading maps to an earlier version. I haven't found any other fixes though.
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Oh man that's unfortunate. I have no intention of downgrading Maps, that seems like a ghetto fix. I guess I'll just have to be aware of when I use it and make sure I back out of it afterward. Otherwise, Watchdog does a pretty good job of letting me know when it needs to be closed. Just annoying.
I had a similar problem also, not rooted just stock. I had just upgraded to Maps 5.1 from whatever Maps version came with the phone. I found that Maps would be running in the background using 90% of my battery. My solution... Factory Reset... yeah a little much, but I had just got the phone and didn't really care. My phone was acting up all sorts of ways though, missing apps, missing widgets, so I did a factory reset. Now after that I have downloaded the new version of Maps and everything is fine. Hope you figure it out and don't have to do a Factory Reset.
Hi i did an update on the Google maps app a couple days ago and today I noticed that it has been draining quite a bit of battery. Does anybody know something that can fix this issue or do I just have to wait for an update?
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Turn off the GPS and exit maps....
Well it never happened before the update and it drains the battery when my phone is in sleep. Also the maps app is not opened.
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Just because it isn't currently on your screen doesn't mean it isn't open... It could still be holding a lock... About all you can do is turn off the GPS, and clear its data.... Either use TiBu to clear it's data, or press and hold the maps icon in your app drawer and drag it up to app info, hit clear data and clear cache... and only turn on the GPS if you're using it...
Ok but is there a way to downgrade the version to the previous one?
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Ok but is there a way to downgrade the version to the previous one?
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There's always a way... But it's not as simple as going to the play store and requesting an older version.... If you have the .apk you can replace the current one with an old one, or if you have an nandroid with an old one, you can unzip the nandroid, go to system/apps and get the maps.apk or just flash to an older backup and not update maps...
but that's not going to ultimately fix your issue... i really think it's just holding a lock all the time and it's the gps... which is why i suggessted turning off your gps, and clearing maps data... and if you keep gps on all the time that's pointless, unless you're navigating because apps can get your location pretty accurately based on the towers...
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There's always a way... But it's not as simple as going to the play store and requesting an older version.... If you have the .apk you can replace the current one with an old one, or if you have an nandroid with an old one, you can unzip the nandroid, go to system/apps and get the maps.apk or just flash to an older backup and not update maps...
but that's not going to ultimately fix your issue... i really think it's just holding a lock all the time and it's the gps... which is why i suggessted turning off your gps, and clearing maps data... and if you keep gps on all the time that's pointless, unless you're navigating because apps can get your location pretty accurately based on the towers...
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The thing is I've had gps and everything on before the update and it's been getting great battery life. It's only happened since this update. But I will try having the gps off and let you know how it goes.
Thanks
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The thing is I've had gps and everything on before the update and it's been getting great battery life. It's only happened since this update. But I will try having the gps off and let you know how it goes.
Thanks
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Which is why I suggested turning off the GPS and clearing maps data... after that, turn it back on if you want, it's the only way to know if it fixes it... just have it off when you clear the data... any issue with a specific app, that's what you do first, clear all that data's memory of anything...
the latest maps update was soft rebooting my dads sensation...
but i know enough from using maps, that if it isnt on your screen (still in background) it DOES drop gps signal, and shouldnt be eating up battery in background.
Try "Autostarts" or something similar and disable maps at startup.
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Which is why I suggested turning off the GPS and clearing maps data... after that, turn it back on if you want, it's the only way to know if it fixes it... just have it off when you clear the data... any issue with a specific app, that's what you do first, clear all that data's memory of anything...
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none of these solutions addresses the problem. the update has something that is keeping the phone awake and consuming battery. if I start my phone from OFF and let it sit for an hour, I can look at my battery stats and 10% of it will have been consumed by google maps, without me having ever opened it and without a single GPS query.
Then contact Google about the issue...
Probably Google latitude
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Try turning off location services also. I was having issues with my phone properly sleeping and that turned out to be the cause.
The location services was part of my issue. Lowered the batt usage a lot but maps still shows up as a large user of batt.
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I went to the apps info and uninstalled the update simple as that.
Edit: TiBu can also uninstall updates
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The latest Google Maps is doing the same thing to my phone. I have always had GPS and location services enabled and it never ate up battery like the new Google Maps version. Turning off the GPS and location services is not an option for me so I will have to wait and see if they have a new update soon that addresses the issue. A big problem is if it cannot get a GPS lock due to poor signal from the satellite it will consume a high battery amount trying to find the signal. For now I am able to charge my phone a little bit in the car to make up for the extra battery use.
I'm really not having these issue and today is a day I'm actually using the maps and GPS... I'll keep looking at it and using and report my results... what ROM is everyone with issues running? Sammy or AOSP and which one?
Stock rooted. But I've reverted back to the older version of maps because of the battery drain
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This didn't drain me at all today... I'll post a screenshot in a second... I used the maps for about 20 minutes, sat put for about 30, used for 20 more or so, and have left my phone alone since...
Hi guys, I have this problem since last night. Maps are running in background and there is nothing I can do about it, restarted the phone, pulled the battery for couple of minutes, cleared maps cache and data,force stopped and nothing. Never had problem like this before with any of my phones. The phone is 8 days old and everytging is stock. Thanks
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I had the same problem, I solved by disabling all of the location options.
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I had the same problem, I solved by disabling all of the location options.
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Hi and thanks for reply. I never keep my locatiom optiins on.. it is off since first boot .
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Check if you have your location history enabled on your Google account. I do now, and it causes maps to request a location rather often. The battery life on this phone is good enough for me to leave it on though, I find it useful every now and then
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Google now can drain battery with maps regardless of location settings.
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Google now can drain battery with maps regardless of location settings.
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This is not True. I went from losing 8% overnight to 2% just by ticking off the 3 GPS settings under location. Now when my screen is off, I rarely lose a %
Disable map caching
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This is not True. I went from losing 8% overnight to 2% just by ticking off the 3 GPS settings under location. Now when my screen is off, I rarely lose a %
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I said it can, not always. Gnow is buggy from time to time for some.
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it may be ur latitude posting updates of your location to google in the background
Now it is ok. I restarted the phone couple of times until it was not showing that the maps are running. Battery performance is ok now. Every location service is off, and I never opened the latitude! Thanks for everything guys!
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Google now can drain battery with maps regardless of location settings.
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This is not True. I went from losing 8% overnight to 2% just by ticking off the 3 GPS settings under location. Now when my screen is off, I rarely lose a %
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Thanks! I have ticked off these settings and it really works. It's simple, yet so battery life saving.
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Disable map caching
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How do you disable maps from caching?
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Thanks! I have ticked off these settings and it really works. It's simple, yet so battery life saving.
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Glad it's working for you! Yeah this whole time I never knew how much GPS use was actually draining the battery. I actually read an article online yesterday that talks about how GPS uses a crap load of battery. As of this morning, I only lost 1% overnight. I have 3 emails syncing, wifi on, rest of the syncs all on, google now off. No power saving apps installed. I know i'm saying this in all battery related thread but i'm super excited just like you and want to share the knowledge to all our Note 2 buddies ^_^
Battery drain <- Maps Always On <- Now <- 4.1.2
I noticed Maps was grabbing about 30% of my battery drain so I set out to figure out the problem. Conclusions are:
- 4.1.2 seems to have changed how location is used. I had Google Now on 4.1 and never had this heavy a battery drain.
- Maps was constantly running with TWO services
- Maps did not have to be open or visible, and reboot had both come back even after stopping services
- Disabling "Google Apps Location Access" solved the drain but this made it basically impossible to use Google Maps, because
- Maps would not use GPS without "Google Apps Location Access" turned on
I considered uninstalling Google Maps but realized that:
> All my favourite locations are on Google Maps
> Other mapping software also seemed to want all sorts of invasive rights, which I was not going to grant
So I:
* enabled GPS
* disabled Google Apps Location Access
* uninstalled Google Search (aka Now) using a 3rd party tool (rooted)
* looked for a new search software (let's face it this isn't really necessary is it?)
* found and installed Yahoo Search which I must say seems faster, more interesting and does not require unwanted access to my private data
Battery drain is back to normal, I have ful search and maps and GPS use.
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I noticed Maps was grabbing about 30% of my battery drain so I set out to figure out the problem. Conclusions are:
- 4.1.2 seems to have changed how location is used. I had Google Now on 4.1 and never had this heavy a battery drain.
- Maps was constantly running with TWO services
- Maps did not have to be open or visible, and reboot had both come back even after stopping services
- Disabling "Google Apps Location Access" solved the drain but this made it basically impossible to use Google Maps, because
- Maps would not use GPS without "Google Apps Location Access" turned on
I considered uninstalling Google Maps but realized that:
> All my favourite locations are on Google Maps
> Other mapping software also seemed to want all sorts of invasive rights, which I was not going to grant
So I:
* enabled GPS
* disabled Google Apps Location Access
* uninstalled Google Search (aka Now) using a 3rd party tool (rooted)
* looked for a new search software (let's face it this isn't really necessary is it?)
* found and installed Yahoo Search which I must say seems faster, more interesting and does not require unwanted access to my private data
Battery drain is back to normal, I have ful search and maps and GPS use.
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Let's face it. Google is king of search. And that has spread to other Google uses, maps being a major player. I think Google needs to solve this by fine tuning how and when maps and/or GPS is used. Another big thing is Google needs to fine tune how our phones retrieve data in general. Apple has and is still working on it. Intel is fine tuning it majorly and you can see some of the results on anandtech where x86 and ARM SOC's are compared on windows RT. Randomly retrieving data for all data and apps is a nightmare. It would be nice if we could fine tune our syncs and data retrieval in set intervals or let the OS have a smart system where if x app needs this and it see 3 or 4 or whatever x apps need to retrieve data in the next 20 mins it will retrieve all in one fell swoop causing less wake locks and more idle/sleep time.
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I had a similar battery drain problem... ~8% per hour when screen was OFF! Finally solved it by turning off Google Now AND the Location Service it used. I guess the problem is due to location history collection performed for Google Now.
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Guys first thing first about battery draining is your mobile network not configure properly.. if its configure the network will not awaken your phone it just need a second to runing in background.. just realize it after I install configuration message from provider.. I drain 1% all over night.. and get 2day standby battery with medium usage.. 10 hours screen.. and leaving the phone with charging all night is weaken your battery.. first time I forget to unplug and everything change.. battery drain 5% after sleep 6hours..and only last for 1 day with medium usage.. 6hours on screen now I dont know how to make it back like it was.. using note for 3weeks anyone knows how to increase batt life without changing rom or kernel ?? Im still runing stock 4.1.1
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Hi!
Yesterday i've noticed a strange battery usage, with facebook using 35% of the battery.
http://i.imgur.com/Hqq8v.png
I've noticed that it keeps my gps on and i don't know why, I've also made a tasker profile that turno off the gps when i'm using facebook and turn it on when i exit from the app.
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Today the problem goes on, i also tried to kill the app or turn off the gps from the quick settings but they didn't work.
Facebook isn't been updated yesterday, so i don't know where the problem come from.
Someone else has this problem?
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Uhh you try rebooting?
Uninstalling Facebook?
It's a ongoing bug, been having this problem as well for years now. I just disable GPS. I believe it's a issue with the app and not your phone.
I wonder what happened to CM's feature where they allowed it so you can prevent permissions that an app can access. Would be awesome to disable GPS functionality for Facebook.
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It's a ongoing bug, been having this problem as well for years now. I just disable GPS. I believe it's a issue with the app and not your phone.
I wonder what happened to CM's feature where they allowed it so you can prevent permissions that an app can access. Would be awesome to disable GPS functionality for Facebook.
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He said he tried turning his gps off and it still worked. Just reboot the phone, you have some kind of rogue, unstoppable process.
Its a bug with the facebook app, keeps gps searching non stop even on stock 4.2.1.
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He said he tried turning his gps off and it still worked. Just reboot the phone, you have some kind of rogue, unstoppable process.
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It's not rogue. It's the facebook app, it's a bug within the facebook app. It doesn't care if you have GPS off.
If u had GPS on and then turned facebook on, then it messes up. If you turn off GPS, itll stay on your status bar and keep trying to obtain GPS info even though its disabled.
If gps is disabled and u turn facebook app on, its okay.
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R: Facebook keeps my gps on since yesterday
I write again in this topic because i find a workaround for this problem. Launching Google maps or another apps that uses GPS after closing Facebook seems to solve. It's a bit boring but useful.
There is a bug with GPS routines being locked up and not killed properly (or something like that) usually causing Google Maps to be high battery usage. Facebook at for me, with notifications on and 4 hr refresher uses ~3-4% battery. When I notice a kernel wakelock of gps_lock(something like that) it also correlates to a high Google Maps battery dragin with high awake and GPS time. A reboot fixes this, most other techniques don't.
Conclusion, Facebook app is fine and routinely uses less batter then Google+ when I keep sync enabled. It actually still uses less then G+ under this situation often. Just reboot if you notice rogue GPS issues.
Great thanks for the info
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Running in LeeDroid 7.4.2. Down 20% today and I've barely even used my phone (See attached). GPS is disabled too. Any ideas?
Disable WIFI Scanning to improve your battery life. If you want more, disable Location History, and if that's not enough, go into Google Settings, Security, and disable all the features listed therein. Want more? Go into Services, and disable all the other tracking features, i.e. web & app tracking, search history, etc..., then remove your Google account.
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Running in LeeDroid 7.4.2. Down 20% today and I've barely even used my phone (See attached). GPS is disabled too. Any ideas?
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Wifi and bluetooth.
Plus apps running in the background. I had bad battery drain for a bit last week from Google Play Services. Clearing all "recent" apps (some weren't very recent) and rebooting helped.
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Disable WIFI Scanning to improve your battery life. If you want more, disable Location History, and if that's not enough, go into Google Settings, Security, and disable all the features listed therein. Want more? Go into Services, and disable all the other tracking features, i.e. web & app tracking, search history, etc..., then remove your Google account.
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Could've sworn I had WiFi scanning disabled already. I checked it again and it was enabled...I'll look at the rest of the stuff too. Thanks man.
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Wifi and bluetooth.
Plus apps running in the background. I had bad battery drain for a bit last week from Google Play Services. Clearing all "recent" apps (some weren't very recent) and rebooting helped.
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I thought WiFi uses less battery than LTE though?
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I thought WiFi uses less battery than LTE though?
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It does, as long as you are on a network. The drain happens when you aren't signed into one and it's searching for networks to connect to.
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It does, as long as you are on a network. The drain happens when you aren't signed into one and it's searching for networks to connect to.
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Ah yeah, if I'm not gonna be connected to one I definitely shut if off.
If youre rooted, then try disable service. You can find The app in the playstore
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1) Root phone
2) Install AppOps
3) Find Play Services and disable wakelocks
4) Profit
I don't know what the heck Google is doing waking your phone up so much with Play services, but it doesn't appear to affect functionality at all, and you will quickly see it drop off of GSam's top offender list.