Has anyone else noticed maps using up a lot of battery power in the new 6.0.0 version? I installed it yesterday and it sucked up 44% of power and almost drained the phone overnight!
I have a i9020a. GRK39F (2.3.6) with UKF1 radio.
Mine is using 46% of the battery... Also, a couple of nights ago, I saw a major drop in battery overnight. When I checked, the native Email app had kept the phone awake for about 8 hours.
EDIT: I9023 2.3.6 (GRK39F)
I had the same thing yesterday but with 5.0.12.
It seems fixed now, here's the steps I took:
-Activated Latitude then signed out of it (it was disabled)
-Opened default browser settings and disabled Location
-Went to Location settings and disabled then re-enabled WiFi location
-Rebooted
I have been having horrible battery because of maps continuously using GPS non stop. I went through a full charge in less 3 hours multiple times yesterday. Seems like there are a lot of comments in Android Market that are saying the same thing.
I'm having the same problem since maps updated. Sometimes it's reported usage is up to 98%. Badass battery monitor shows heavy usage of magnetic field and accelerometer by maps. And all of that without even starting maps.
Uninstaling maps updates didn't work, so only solution that worked for me is disabling location by wireless networks.
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I just upgraded to stock GB 2.3.5. Everything seems fine (I did a Factory Reset to kill the Tethering Manager error and haven't seen it since).
I re-installed GPS Test app from the market, which I had before.
I've used it a few times. Every time, I end up exiting out and exiting the program thru Task Manager. So right now it is NOT running and doesn't show up in the list of running Apps.
Yet according to my Battery Usage screen, both Wifi and GPS Test are among the top users of battery, EACH at 24% of usage (don't pay too much attention to the high % as this is over the past 2 hrs where only 3% of total battery has been used, as the phone has been sitting on my desk resting). The thing that is weird is that they stay in Lock-Step with each other all the time (ie both always report the same usage percentage). I have Wifi set to "NEVER SLEEP" because I have read that this is actually better for battery life, although here in my office it is not hooked up to wifi. So I understand that Wifi might use battery if it's searching. But WHY does GPS Test use any battery if the program isn't even running? And it does this REGARDLESS of whether I actually shut off the GPS or turn it on in the settings.
Any ideas? I'm about to just uninstall GPS Test but wondering why this might be happening, as I'd like to have the app on my phone in general.
Hi everyone
Lately I switched to CM10 and I'm loving it just have some issues with it
1. Battery life
I removed completely the NFC and Bluetooth (I don't use either). I'm charging the phone to 100%, the phone is in airplane mode with everything tured off - wifi, sync - anything that can be turned off is, and still when I wake up in the morning I see the battery in around 92%.
This had never happened in the original ROM or in CleanRom (I used both for a long time).
2. Whatsapp
Almost every time I don't see the message until I open the device and even sometimes until I open Whatsapp. This as well never happened in other Roms I used.
3. Google Maps & GPS
Crashes, data lost, GPS signal lost. Only way I can work with Google Maps is to turn off the wifi and network locations. Is there any solution for that?
I'm with the latest CM10 nightly, everytime I'm installing it I fully wipe everything - cache, dalvik, factory & system.
Only apps I'm using are Google Maps, Google Voice, Whatsapp, Fancy Widget (with refresh to manual). All sync is turned off for Gmail, Contacts, Calendar. Only Whatsapp is marked to sync.
Thanks to anyone who can help with anything.
battery life and gps issues are known bugs. try disabling location settings to improve battery life, although 8% in one night seems pretty standard. gps has worked pretty well for me, but some people have issues.
Thanks for you answer.
8% during night, with everything turned off (phone is in airplain mode, wifi off, no nfc, no sync) is standard for CM roms? Because with AT&T rom and CleanRom it was far more better than that.
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Thanks for you answer.
8% during night, with everything turned off (phone is in airplain mode, wifi off, no nfc, no sync) is standard for CM roms? Because with AT&T rom and CleanRom it was far more better than that.
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sense ROMs are optimized pretty heavily for the hardware on this phone
Last night something happened, something I've never seen before.
Like every other night that I'm putting the phone in airplane mode before going to bed, I just turned off data and then put the phone in airplane mode (something the airplane mode should do by itself).
Went to sleep with 51% battery, woke up with 56% (and of course that the phone wasn't connected to a charger).
After using 6.0 for a day or so, I noticed that the WiFi was draining huge amount of juice from the phone, even taking the top spot on the battery chart. This seems to happen even if the WiFi is turned off.
http://i.imgur.com/X2YoNvv.png
So how can we fix this? Well, we'll have to go through bunch of settings to do so. It seems like Google deliberately hid this deep inside location settings. This is how we can "temporarily" fix this issue: Head to Settings -> Location -> Click those 3 dots at the top right corner -> Scanning -> Turn off both WiFi scanning and Bluetooth scanning.
Even with this "fix" I noticed that it keeps draining battery life for no reason, not as much, but the problem still exists. This shouldn't happen! Especially when Marshmallow was built around battery life improvements. The fact that this bug has been causing problems since M Preview #3 shows either Google "missed" this chaos of a bug (or) only cares about that juicy location data. This should be a straightforward-user-friendly option, not one that is buried behind buttons and menus.
It's not a bug, it's a feature
Had the same issue after flashing the factory image. So I flashed 5.1.1 again booted the phone then rebooted into recovery and sideloaded the 6.0 OTA. Booted the phone and preformed a factory reset. Now I don't have that problem.
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Had the same issue after flashing the factory image. So I flashed 5.1.1 again booted the phone then rebooted into recovery and sideloaded the 6.0 OTA. Booted the phone and preformed a factory reset. Now I don't have that problem.
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im currently having this exact issue.
I had same problem also tried disabling Wi-Fi scanning and automatically turning off Wi-Fi when idle but it did not give better results.
Just today i switched phone Wi-Fi to 2.4 GHZ only mode - this workaround seem to work, no drain any more.
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I had same problem also tried disabling Wi-Fi scanning and automatically turning off Wi-Fi when idle but it did not give better results.
Just today i switched phone Wi-Fi to 2.4 GHZ only mode - this workaround seem to work, no drain any more.
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Thanks for that. This actually sounds possible.
On the first day when I flashed 6.0 with OTA, I really felt that the battery life has extended.
Then I switched through a lot of settings and also ended up with 2.4 and 5 (auto) on wifi.
Disabling all wifi related options did not help at all....
Will try this out now. :good:
I'm having severe delays with my wifi on my N5 with 6.0. In speedtest I'm pushing over 90mbps on 5GHz band, but it takes over 30 seconds to load a webpage/ apps. It's not gradually loading it's almost like a stall. Then after the page or app loads instantly. Why is this happening? Is it a severe delay to the server? IDK wtf is going on... I don't have battery drain issues from the wifi this is a different issue.
Same problem... Scanning and wifi off! Wifi drain. At first sight problem only seems to manifest while no wifi available. Tried the 2.4ghz only and seems to reduce though not eliminate the problem...
DaimonPl said:
I had same problem also tried disabling Wi-Fi scanning and automatically turning off Wi-Fi when idle but it did not give better results.
Just today i switched phone Wi-Fi to 2.4 GHZ only mode - this workaround seem to work, no drain any more.
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Works indeed better.. Wifi disappears from the Battery Usage chart, but when it was supposed to went on idle while I put it away, draining started again it seems.
There is a fat bug in the Power-Management in Android M 6.0 final, if you ask me...
All, please check whether it is actually drain or merely incorrect reporting of battery statistics. Symptoms seem similar to this thread
Remember battery 'drain' is where the level is falling at an abnormally fast rate. If WiFi is merely appearing at the top of the stats, but your battery life is actually fine, then it's not drain.
You need to leave your phone over several hours, and take measurements. When investigating or troubleshooting, then logically change one thing at a time, and re-measure again over a long period of time for comparison.
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All, please check whether it is actually drain or merely incorrect reporting of battery statistics. Symptoms seem similar to this thread
Remember battery 'drain' is where the level is falling at an abnormally fast rate. If WiFi is merely appearing at the top of the stats, but your battery life is actually fine, then it's not drain.
You need to leave your phone over several hours, and take measurements. When investigating or troubleshooting, then logically change one thing at a time, and re-measure again over a long period of time for comparison.
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There is definitely a drain problem... because of Google Play Services not letting System into sleep mode and pulling constantly on Wifi...
That is how I think it comes to the problem.
Mine is now running smoothly, after I went into: Settings > Apps > Google Play Services (and maybe also Google Play Store) > hit menu ... > Deinstall Updates > Restart
If you go back into Play Store later on, it updates to the current version.
I also reseted the Network Settings... somewhere.
I tried what was suggested by others in this thread and din't have any luck. I posted how I solved the issue here:
reddit dot com/r/Nexus5/comments/3npesh/wifi_drain_persists_in_android_m_final_release/cvwo3x5
I did another modification. In Location settings I changed mode to device only (GPS).
So together:
- set WIFI to 2GHz only
- disable wifi scanning in location settings
- set location scanning to device only (GPS)
- set WIFI to automatically turn off in idle mode (advanced wifi settings)
WIFI is no longer main battery consumer (screen is now as expected). I'm not sure which of those is crucial but they all look like may improve things a bit (and together give big difference)
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I thought this was bugging me too. WiFi is top of the list in battery stats. But then I disabled ElementalX gestures (doubletap2wake in my case) and that improved things a lot. Even though WiFi is still reported as the biggest power user.
This may be just me and of course it could always be better, but it might be worth giving this a try.
I'm having his exact issue. It's with any resources I access through WiFi, from sftp to ftp to web data, internal and external lans, internet, etc. It's definitely a 6.0 issue. I had it on preview 3 as well, and it was bad enough make me downgrade at the time. Now the official release is out and doing the same thing, I'm REALLY hoping they can fix this soon. It's practically unusable if you don't have dial-up time to kill.
Check my previous post - it completely fixed problem for me
I've experienced the same issue, after a week from the ota update (week in which I had a great battery lifetime), the problem arose out of the nowhere, and after searching the web for a workaround, it seems that putting the wifi in 2.4 ghz only made the trick...
Really hope that google will fix this soon...
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There is definitely a drain problem... because of Google Play Services not letting System into sleep mode and pulling constantly on Wifi...
That is how I think it comes to the problem.
Mine is now running smoothly, after I went into: Settings > Apps > Google Play Services (and maybe also Google Play Store) > hit menu ... > Deinstall Updates > Restart
If you go back into Play Store later on, it updates to the current version.
I also reseted the Network Settings... somewhere.
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This is the only thing that worked fully for me. Getting it to 2GHz made it a little bit better but didn't actually solve it. Uninstalling updates from play services and play store solved it for good and I didn't have to flash 5.1.1 and ota update.
:good:Thanks eyesore!
Hello. I have this issue... I disabled localisation through WiFi and I have also done a network settings reset but the problem still persists (not too much as before -45%- but around 25%).
How can I solve?
Anyone one else suffering with random battery drain / phone staying awake? See attachment.
Temporary fixes include include rebooting the phone, turning on battery saver mode & forcing 4G only but who really wants to do that? I believe its a kernel issue.
I'm running the latest EEA ROM, completely stock and unrooted. Any ideas how to resolve this? it isn't android system doing it.
Check your app autostarts. I bet they are all on. #softwareupdatefails
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Check your app autostarts. I bet they are all on. #softwareupdatefails
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None of them are on. aside of Nova and accubattery.
Interesting. Only other things I've seen on the regular Mix like that is Bluetooth draining battery when used. I've seen 20% in a couple hours from using a headset and listening to music.
You could try installing BBS and.see if it seems anything untword.
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Use BBS or GSAM Battery for seing what is draining battery. My bet is "GMS". You may root your phone and install magisk module "universal gms doze" or install link2sd, for example, and freeze almost all google services. I've done both and i do above 5 or 6 screen hours
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Use BBS or GSAM Battery for seing what is draining battery. My bet is "GMS". You may root your phone and install magisk module "universal gms doze" or install link2sd, for example, and freeze almost all google services. I've done both and i do above 5 or 6 screen hours
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It's such a big bug I don't understand why they don't do something about it already!
It's still continuing. I don't want to root my phone this is something that doesn't need root to fix
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I'm having the same problem. BUT , ONLY on WIFI got 2-3 days of use and 7-8 hours SOT !
I've tried BBS and actually I'm using GSam but nothing relevant found there. Just these days, on home enclosure I've noticed that if don't switch Wifi and Mobile Data the phone works perfectly and doesn't keep awake.
I have lot of Apps installed, NFC active, Wifi, location - GPS, Google apps, BT enabled with MiBand .. EVERYTHING ... (except 5G that is unavaliable with my actual operator) and in this conditions (only Wifi) , I have no issues on 15 days of use, so I suspect is Mobile Data related.
Maybe someone with more knowledgde can found an explanation and bring some help !!!
PD: I'm trying with Mobile Data again with 4G as preferred net , don't know if the system can swith it to 5G again ... driving to battery drainig. We'll see.
kme_kaiser said:
I'm having the same problem. BUT , ONLY on WIFI got 2-3 days of use and 7-8 hours SOT !
I've tried BBS and actually I'm using GSam but nothing relevant found there. Just these days, on home enclosure I've noticed that if don't switch Wifi and Mobile Data the phone works perfectly and doesn't keep awake.
I have lot of Apps installed, NFC active, Wifi, location - GPS, Google apps, BT enabled with MiBand .. EVERYTHING ... (except 5G that is unavaliable with my actual operator) and in this conditions (only Wifi) , I have no issues on 15 days of use, so I suspect is Mobile Data related.
Maybe someone with more knowledgde can found an explanation and bring some help !!!
PD: I'm trying with Mobile Data again with 4G as preferred net , don't know if the system can swith it to 5G again ... driving to battery drainig. We'll see.
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i fixed mine by turning off gps.
toge64 said:
i fixed mine by turning off gps.
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Thanks for the reply.
This doesn't work for me, I've been using GPS with no awake issues. The problem starts at certain time ramdomly even with GPS off.
Someone said something about clearing cache of Google Play Services, that worked for a couple of days but again the problem was there.
By now I'm trying the 4G solution, if the phone keeps the preferences for 4G not switching to 5G by itself (except on reboot) and then look if it doesn't keep awake without reason.
kme_kaiser said:
Thanks for the reply.
This doesn't work for me, I've been using GPS with no awake issues. The problem starts at certain time ramdomly even with GPS off.
Someone said something about clearing cache of Google Play Services, that worked for a couple of days but again the problem was there.
By now I'm trying the 4G solution, if the phone keeps the preferences for 4G not switching to 5G by itself (except on reboot) and then look if it doesn't keep awake without reason.
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Did this work? I'm having the exact same issue. Massive battery drain overnight while phone is on airplane mode and absolutely nothing turned on (Wifi, Bluetooth, NFC, GPS all turned off) Not a single app has autostart permission. What can I do?
Hello,
Anyone having gps issues after updating to 10.0.7? Google maps show info that google location services are disabled, gps status cannot fix with any sat, still 0/xx
Clearing location services cache, disabling/enabling google location services didn't help.
Patched boot image with magisk 20.4
Logcat in attachment.
Turn On GPS and restart the device. I have same issue on Android 9. If you want to enable GPS you have to turn it on restart device with gps on then you will be able to use it, after you turn it off, you have to do all again. I have also problem with SIM card, few times a day OP just lose signal, I cannot call not to mention LTE etc. Reboot not always work, sometimes I have to wait like 15min to get all back nothing help. If those problems will exist I will sell OP and go back to iPhone before had 6s no problems, then I had 8 Plus in 2 years device maybe reset 2 times because of crash i think. Only 1 time had to reset it my self because it stuck, otherwise GPS working (and wasn't draining battery like crazy I was able to go on a 5h trip with all the time Google Maps on from 100% 8Plus went to like 40% which is crazy and lasted me for another good few hourse of usage with OP i have like 15%-20% drain every 1h of Google Maps on), everything just works there and now I have seen that they finally want to put Widgets it is not same like on Android but with Jailbreak I think it will be nice.
Restarts with gps on/off didn't help.