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Gps always on?

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.

JihadSquad said:
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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[Q] Maps battery use

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!

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.

Google Maps Wakelocks (not Latitude)

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.

faspalma said:
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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(Q) Google Services Battery Drain

I've seen in a lot of topics people asking about this but I have never seen a direct answer. Direct your attention to the screen shots.
Is there anything I can freeze in TiBU? I have my DS battery saver to slumber so anytime I lock my phone it goes to deep sleep right away.
Granted my battery life is phenomenal but I feel like it could be better.
Carbon 1.3
Ktoonsez's latest update.
At this point, my phone is just one big tweak.

Try turning off Google location services.

rogue5099 said:
Try turning off Google location services.
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I keep it off.
Edit;
After looking back at my settings I guess I didn't turn it off last time I reflashed my rom. I'll keep an eye on it and see if that helps. Thanks.
At this point, my phone is just one big tweak.

Mine is always on but I turn off all sync. I don't see Google services ever in my top 5. Turning off might help but that might not be the issue.
From the other thread, your battery saver might actually be the problem.
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bobAbooE said:
Mine is always on but I turn off all sync. I don't see Google services ever in my top 5. Turning off might help but that might not be the issue.
From the other thread, your battery saver might actually be the problem.
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Yeah if I see it again after this charge cycle I'm disabling, I'll keep trying things and will let everyone know what I find.
At this point, my phone is just one big tweak.

Android OS eating battery?

Is android OS destroying anyone else's battery? Its using like 40% for me. Anyone else? Any fix?
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Is android OS destroying anyone else's battery? Its using like 40% for me. Anyone else? Any fix?
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No, i'm at 6%.
something you are running is causing the activity to spike.

Percentages like this are meaningless without something to compare it to. 40% isn't unheard of if you never use the phone, for instance.

I was having this issue yesterday. I installed FAUX kernel and it went away; screen: 28%, mediaserver 16%, rocket player 13%, android os 10%. Yesterday at this time my battery meter was 40% ; today 67%.
That could be coincidence and not correlation though. If you are up for the challenge, a custom kernel could help.
However, like vincent law said, it's all relative. If android os is 40% and your battery is at 95%, that's not really so bad is it...

When android os is high... It's an app keeping your phone awake 90% of the time
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JPOKeefe said:
Is android OS destroying anyone else's battery? Its using like 40% for me. Anyone else? Any fix?
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im at 4%...... not sure whats wrong with your. im not running any custom roms either. just rooted and unlocked bootloader
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Reboot when you see this happening.
I've seen it once before... I didn't think to check OS monitor before rebooting to see exactly which process it was though.

I have this problem. Anyone got solutions to it?

Try disabling some location features in Google now. I found the traffic cards to give big battery drains in Android OS. Or you can check which in settings - double slide down from top > location, to see which app is using the highest request. Google play service was usually high when I had huge android os drain.
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inspiron41 said:
Try disabling some location features in Google now. I found the traffic cards to give big battery drains in Android OS. Or you can check which in settings - double slide down from top > location, to see which app is using the highest request. Google play service was usually high when I had huge android os drain.
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+1
I have also noticed that at times google play services has a huge drain on the battery. I was wondering if play store setting had anything to do with it. I have mine set to " do not automatically update".

I have both facebook and google search on low battery use. For Google location reporting, I only have location history turned on. I don't know if this helps.

I start getting the same issue since yesterday.
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I've also been experiencing the same issue. Started a few days ago. Checked tonight right before I put my phone on the charger after a full day of use, and Android OS had 9+ hours of awake time. It's driving me crazy and I can't figure out what is causing it.

I am so disappointed!!! I have the same bug. I had it on my old Phone (Samsung Galaxy S). I flashed 3 different firmwares on my i9000. Nothing helped. Now I bought the Nexus 5 and after one day it starts again
I went to bed with 97% Battery. Woke up and it looked like this:
It is stock Firmware with no changes. Maybe it is because of my google account? I am using the same google account for my nexus5 and i9000.

Check your WiFi connection. I don't really know why (yet) but sometimes, being connected to certain WiFi networks increases Android OS usage. This happens a lot in my college's network so I believe it's a problem with that, because it does not happen at my home's WiFi. You could try disabling WiFi in the different networks you use and check which is draining.
Hope this helps.
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JPOKeefe said:
Is android OS destroying anyone else's battery? Its using like 40% for me. Anyone else? Any fix?
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Yes I had this problem. I flashed factory image and enable high accuracy location AND reporting. My problem I pinpointed was Google Now NOT refreshing.
It would hang there trying to update and without location it didn't have anything to report and it would eat battery. I would force close the launcher and notice the wakelock stopped shortly, to return to Now not updating.
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I found a way to prevent the Play Services and the Android System from eating my battery.
First I noticed that it was only happening, when the location services were enabled, and then I found the App Ops App for KitKat.
All I did was disable the rights for those two Apps to use location and to keep the device awake.
I'm having the location services on - and working in 4sq, Maps, etc,.. - and no more drain.
Maybe you can verify this?

Try this
My Android OS is at 3% after 19 hours.
Google services not enough to even show.
Battery 75%.
Light use 55 minutes screen time.
Google auto sync off, i sync when i need to.
I don't let play store check for app updates .
I turn location on when i need it.
I use mostly wifi some LTE
Unchecked wifi scanning always available.
Keep wifi on during sleep
Minimize battery use when wifi is on is checked.
I refresh my email accounts when i open them so it's not being checked automatically.
No battery or services complaints (Google services is so low it doesn't even register), give it a try?

raul90 said:
Check your WiFi connection. I don't really know why (yet) but sometimes, being connected to certain WiFi networks increases Android OS usage. This happens a lot in my college's network so I believe it's a problem with that, because it does not happen at my home's WiFi. You could try disabling WiFi in the different networks you use and check which is draining.
Hope this helps.
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The problem is definitely caused by the Wifi! I am using my College-Dorm-Wifi over night. When turning it off, the battery life is normal.
But turning off the Wifi is no solution! I don't have data so I am only using my phone in college networks
There musts be another way.

legendnexus said:
I start getting the same issue since yesterday.
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Me too. I have disabled wifi when i'm out... i will check if this changes something!