I was looking at my battery use stats for the past couple days, and I noticed that Maps is the #1 user of battery on my phone. Funny part is that I never launched maps, and haven't used anything with a map since I last rebooted my phone. Is it possible that Maps is in reference to the GPS being used, or is there a way for another application to be using the Maps frameworks, thus causing it to show up under battery usage?
It's not necessarily causing terrible battery life, but I find it hard to believe that an app I haven't used is using more battery than the screen.
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I'll keep an eye on that. Speed test had been number one on mine lol
rbrugman said:
I was looking at my battery use stats for the past couple days, and I noticed that Maps is the #1 user of battery on my phone. Funny part is that I never launched maps, and haven't used anything with a map since I last rebooted my phone. Is it possible that Maps is in reference to the GPS being used, or is there a way for another application to be using the Maps frameworks, thus causing it to show up under battery usage?
It's not necessarily causing terrible battery life, but I find it hard to believe that an app I haven't used is using more battery than the screen.
Thanks!
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I think it's in reference to the GPS. I have mine on so my weather is as accurate as possible and maps is a big user on my phone.
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I've had the same exact problem. I can't figure out what is turning it on.
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I think I am also having this issue.
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For the entire time I owned a smartphone (two years), everyone says to disable GPS to save battery and enable it only when you need it. I been doing this the entire time and just now I read a post somewhere in these forums that only when a program needs GPS, it'll affect battery life. If this is the case, then I'll just leave GPS enabled.
So the question is, if GPS is left enabled but no program uses it, is battery life affect?
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shilent said:
For the entire time I owned a smartphone (two years), everyone says to disable GPS to save battery and enable it only when you need it. I been doing this the entire time and just now I read a post somewhere in these forums that only when a program needs GPS, it'll affect battery life. If this is the case, then I'll just leave GPS enabled.
So the question is, if GPS is left enabled but no program uses it, is battery life affect?
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I keep mine on and i get about 14-16 hours mild to wild use... I think it only drains if a program useless running it... dunno tho
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unless you see the gps icon in the status bar it isn't using any battery.
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unless you see the gps icon in the status bar it isn't using any battery.
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Awesome, I'll be leaving mine enabled.
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I leave mine enabled and dont notice any major difference in battery life over leaving it off.
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shilent said:
For the entire time I owned a smartphone (two years), everyone says to disable GPS to save battery and enable it only when you need it. I been doing this the entire time and just now I read a post somewhere in these forums that only when a program needs GPS, it'll affect battery life. If this is the case, then I'll just leave GPS enabled.
So the question is, if GPS is left enabled but no program uses it, is battery life affect?
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Right, if nothing calls the GPS then it uses no battery so really there is no reason to disable the GPS at all.
Will leaving my standalone GPS on all the time actually drain my battery, or does it only get powered on when something requests it?
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I have noticed mine searching for a GPS signal when it needs too. Doesn't seem to be on all the time. I am getting 15+ hours out of my battery.
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Will leaving my standalone GPS on all the time actually drain my battery, or does it only get powered on when something requests it?
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Turning off GPS to save battery is one of the biggest myths of the Android world It only uses GPS when an application requests it. Otherwise, it doesn't use it at all. All you are doing with that toggle is making it unavailable to apps.
I have noticed that Facebook likes to fire up the GPS every time I open the app. Annoying, but it is also the only app I use that doesn't "need" GPS that tries to use it. Any way to disable that?
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Been lurking for quite a while now and have had the ATRIX 2 since the day after launch.
I pay pretty close attention to applications and their battery consumption. Today when checking I found that an app named device health application had been running. Does anyone know what this app is? Have google'd it. It didn't find any info.
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Thats a good question
It showed that it used 77% of my battery yesterday. If anyone runs across the true name of the app I'd like to know so I can disable it through the package manager.
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That's interesting. Its only used 3% of my battery today - so isn't a problem for me yet. However I have noticed of isn't responding to a force stop yet.
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it's a GPS user
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That's interesting. Its only used 3% of my battery today - so isn't a problem for me yet. However I have noticed of isn't responding to a force stop yet.
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It's always been <10% batt usage for me until the other day when I noticed it was up around 15%. I selected it in the batt usage screen and it's battery usage appears to be GPS and not so much CPU. It had the GPS on for 25mins total that day. I find this a bit rediculous and decided to just freeze it with Ti Backup. It's now not contributing to CPU usage, and I don't notice the GPS symbol w/o firing an app that uses it. I also haven't noticed any ill effect yet, but I'd be interested in knowing what this thing does.
I suspect it's a moto app for collecting device stats to aid in trouble-shooting issues, but that's just a guess. I'm not a fan of apps out of my control just firing up GPS at their whim. and no, I'm not willing to go full manual and start GPS myself everytime an app needs to use it. My phone works for *me*, not the other way around.
that's interesting. I haven't seen it on my since the day I posted about it. Didn't notice it doing anything with the GPS. I keep mine turned off unless I need it. Will have to check that one out if I ever see it again.
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Health Device App
Howw do you get rid of it?
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Howw do you get rid of it?
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By upgrading to 2.3.6. This thread is old.look at the dates,november.there is no health app as moto removed Carrier i.q
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I've been noticing higher than normal standby drain on Synergy for a while now. Using BetterBatteryStats I noticed Google Maps is the culprit. Currently, I have 9 hours since charged and it's been sitting idle next to me while I slept. AlarmManager accounts for 2m23s of wakelock, but a staggering 1342 counts. Under alarms, com.google.android.apps.maps and com.google.android.location are the top two, accounting for 315 wakelocks (everything else is another 150 counts). If I'm on Wifi, these numbers blow up and I can see tons of wakelocks even on the built in battery graph. Oddly my battery life is about the same in both circumstances. I notice most of the Alarm events are unaccounted for, so whatever is causing them must be hurting the most. Also, when on Wifi, most of my Partial Wakelocks are caused directly by Google's location services, usually with tens of minutes of wake time and hundreds of counts in ~16 hours. It doesn't sound like much time, but it's the counts that are killing me, I think. I end up with ~90% deep sleep when I don't touch my phone. I lose about 1.2% per hour or so, and I know the phone is capable of less than half of that.
I've disabled Latitude, made sure my CPU was set back to 1.51 GHz (it defaults to 1.9 GHz on Synergy), and my GPS/Location options are all enabled. Switching to a different maps/navigation app isn't really an option for me.
I've found posts discussing this, but typically it's caused by Latitude or just gets chalked up to a bug in Map. If it really is a bug, it's been around off and on for about a year and I have a hard time believing Google would leave a battery draining bug in one of their main apps that long.
TL;DR Is anyone else getting lots of wakelocks cause by Google Maps? Does anyone know how to fix it or narrow down the cause?
I'm seeing very similar, haven't seen a good explanation yet.
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I am having a similar issue. I am starting to think that it is related to Google Now. This isn't meant for ICS and I think it is causing issues. I am going to turn it off for a few days to see if anything changes.
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Yea it sucks I had major battery drain from maps for no apparent reason either on wifi at home
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I noticed the same, I kept Google now off with this last nightly I installed and I'm getting a little under 1% an hour with screen off and wifi on. I think my battery is also better without juice Defender or green Power.
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Clienterror said:
I noticed the same, I kept Google now off with this last nightly I installed and I'm getting a little under 1% an hour with screen off and wifi on. I think my battery is also better without juice Defender or green Power.
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Yea, +1 on killing Google Now, although I just killed the location history option (under latitude and google now, if I recall) and saw a big decrease in battery usage/wakelocks from maps.
I decided to just freeze Google maps. So far so good
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For me, I narrowed it down to the Facebook app. When I uninstalled it, my Maps Wakelocks stopped right away.
Good tip. I just installed Facebook for the first time last night, so for me at least, it's not the cause. I do remember seeing a location option in the settings, so you may be able to solve that issue without resorting to uninstalling.
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For me, I narrowed it down to the Facebook app. When I uninstalled it, my Maps Wakelocks stopped right away.
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If u think it's Facebook u can download friend Caster if I'm not mistaking that app doesn't use gps every time u open it like Facebook does
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I've seen this when I have the Google location service option enabled. It seemed better when I disabled that.
My standby time is now amazing compared to before with maps unfrozen
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I don't know why. I have wake lock sector and have greenify. I use them to counteract the apps the suck my juice. I don't use 3g much and do light gaming and WiFi usage. I only get 2hrs SOT. PLEASE HELP I USE TO GET 4HRS (haven't done anything since)
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dec1153 said:
I don't know why. I have wake lock sector and have greenify. I use them to counteract the apps the suck my juice. I don't use 3g much and do light gaming and WiFi usage. I only get 2hrs SOT. PLEASE HELP I USE TO GET 4HRS (haven't done anything since)
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You're going to have to supply some information from gsam or better battery stats for anyone to help you. It could be anything that is keeping your phone awake
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Here. Google seems to taking a lot. Please help now
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google search would normally be up there, it also includes the launcher plus other things. you use googles launcher dont you? the play store and calandar storage is being used too often.
Did this issue appear in the last weak or so? I'm encountering the same issue, it drives me nuts.
Using same apps as usual, no gaming and still my battery drain is far worse than before. I have even disabled Google Now and Location all together.
Installed GSAM now to analyze the stats, nothing unusual in Android battery stats compared to the stats I had before.
is google play services showing up for you guys?
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is google play services showing up for you guys?
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Low single digit %
Edit, my battery is still good, 5 + sot
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simms22 said:
is google play services showing up for you guys?
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I wouldn't necessarily say my drain is bad, but yeah google play services did start showing up for me the past two days. I think it might be because of the google search update. Could be from the parking location feature.
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Did this issue appear in the last weak or so? I'm encountering the same issue, it drives me nuts.
Using same apps as usual, no gaming and still my battery drain is far worse than before. I have even disabled Google Now and Location all together.
Installed GSAM now to analyze the stats, nothing unusual in Android battery stats compared to the stats I had before.
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Yes last week or so. My battery is really bad now. Don't know what to do
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dec1153 said:
Yes last week or so. My battery is really bad now. Don't know what to do
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It seems weird that my HTC One M8 doesn't have this issue, at least I don't sense it.
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I wouldn't necessarily say my drain is bad, but yeah google play services did start showing up for me the past two days. I think it might be because of the google search update. Could be from the parking location feature.
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the play services showed up on mine as well, 2 or 3 days ago. my phone normally sleeps better than a knocked out baby, but since the play services showed up, i see it wake every few minutes on my battery usage chart(draining some extra battery). been changing my permissions not allowing anything to wake my device, but it still does.
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the play services showed up on mine as well, 2 or 3 days ago. my phone normally sleeps better than a knocked out baby, but since the play services showed up, i see it wake every few minutes on my battery usage chart(draining some extra battery). been changing my permissions not allowing anything to wake my device, but it still does.
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It could be that mine doesn't usually sleep that well that I'm not seeing a huge difference. Speaking of permissions though, I actually made it so G+ can't wake the device because I don't use it, and it still wakes it sometimes.
Try gsam from play store. And if rooted....gsam root companion as well.
Do a full charge, 100 to low....no reboots. Then print a few gsam screens. The main screen, app screen, and in app screen.... Click the drop down and screenshot time held awake and kernel Wakelocks. Also, maybe "screen" screen and radio screen.
I know its a lot, but between all these your issue should show up.
Tho....if you have terrible signal ever while on data....that will crush your battery.
Good luck!!
Yes I have noticed that now my Google play services is right at the top. I might as well try a placebo and do battery calibration. Fingers crossed lol
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dec1153 said:
Yes I have noticed that now my Google play services is right at the top. I might as well try a placebo and do battery calibration. Fingers crossed lol
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You're battery calibrates every time you charge it. No need to do anything else.
I'm noticing more than the normal amount of "suddenly my battery is draining" threads. Seems to coincide with the update to Google Search. I also noticed my battery draining itself with nothing being reported in the battery page last night but a reboot put an end to it as usual.