Hi there,
Over the past week or so I have noticed that my battery is going down a LOT faster than usual...
The culprit is "gpsd" that is using upwards of 30% of my battery every charge...
I have looked through everything that uses the gps and it's all either off or not using it.
How do I find out who / what is keeping gpsd going and make it play nice, or die?
Galaxy S4 i9500 - Omega Rom v21 (4.4.2)
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Hopes help.
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Definition - gpsd*is a daemon that receives data from a GPS receiver, and provides the data back to multiple applications such as Kismet or GPS navigation software. It thus provides a unified interface to receivers of different types, and allows concurrent access by multiple applications.
Workarounds - Look for every GPS associated application on your device. Make sure to switch off GPS.
Go to Settings, then to Application Manager or Apps. And find the GPS associated apps, open them and force stop them. Sometimes they auto run and can cause battery drains.
Tell me how this goes for you.
Sent from my Nexus 5
All apps that need location services disabled / uninstalled and it's still there...
Okay...
Just wiped and re-flashed rom... no apps installed aside from BetterBatteryStats and GPSD is still there...
Maybe time to find something other than Omega
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I'm finding that the Battery Usage Stats are always missing apps from the list as posted below. Can anyone else confirm what they see on 2.3.4 ROMS and state whether it's OTA/Stock or custom. Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16795324&postcount=4559
It is working here.
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I think apps won't show because in comparison to the screen, WiFi and Android OS they use almost no power. Apps eventually do show when they are used more intensively.
However if you want to monitor which apps use most power, I suggest you use BetterBatteryStats (xda-topic). This will let you track apps who wake your phone and which apps draw most power. It's a very useful app.
The_Worst said:
It is working here.
I think apps won't show because in comparison to the screen, WiFi and Android OS they use almost no power. Apps eventually do show when they are used more intensively.
However if you want to monitor which apps use most power, I suggest you use BetterBatteryStats (xda-topic). This will let you track apps who wake your phone and which apps draw most power. It's a very useful app.
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What ROM are you running?
I've just had beyondpod playing with presto playback speed plugin for the last 90 minutes with screen mostly off and see the attached. There's definitely something amiss as I've seen them listed before and look how much they've drained my battery since the last screen grab posted above.
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70mb of traffic for removed apps process? Why do we even need that? Even if we need it some way why is it done ALL THE WAY in background? Dosent that keep the device awake? I got around 100kb/s speed and with a sleeping(screen off) device the speed is even lower. So the traffic could keep the device awake for a long time and kill the battery.
If not, then what on earth is that process and why it eat 70 of my mbs in 2 days?
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
I have the same information displayed on my handset as seen from OP's screenshots. I'm also interested in knowing what these "removed apps" could be.
The battery drain bug was due to "auto rotation" feature. please check the forums for more details. turn it off to see better battery performance.
lot of Custom ROMs have been released since then which have drastically improved the performance. Apex ROM with Matr1x kernel is what i am using and it doesnot have better drain issues or the "Removed Apps" process that you mentioned in data usage monitoring tool.
I have the same issue, and I can't seem to find a straight answer as to why or what the Removed Apps is doing, can someone please give me a straight explanation?
i think it's the combined data used by apps that used to be installed on your phone...before you removed them.
does that make sense? like if you installed google music and streamed 300MB of music then deleted the app. the app has been removed but the data it used will still be on that billing cycle.
it just doesn't bother to separate it into background and foreground or maybe it can't. data is data once the app is gone.
Hello,
I have bought the Chinese PHABLET and before returning it or attempting to root (if failed) trying to find fix to GPS location services on it.
(not rooted, hence very many apps dont work and most importantly GooglePlay doesn't install/work properly, more about it : .xda-developers.com/showthread.php ?t=2637534 )
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It was meant to have Maps and Location working, but it doesn't
General Location services settings
In having all of the features on- it works by locating device, but never gets SatNav accuracy of GPS (only by wifi location)
So back to the alternative ways through GPS EPO settings
Set correctly, I believe
and by luck I discovered, that this tablet using Mediatek components
In having settings as such it keeps on looking for GPS and no application managed to fix GPS positions...
in GPS a-GPS settings are two choices either NOKIA
or GOOGLE
Could somebody guide towards the answer regarding GPS not fixing?
Thanks!
Here are few more screen-shots:
I managed to get satellites to be in a view of few different apps, though none locks to them in neither configuration...
Is it permanent/terminal in such circumstances?
Whilst Android is primarily google's proprietary OS, used in non approved (supported of) device makes it useless in ever so many aspects, unless I'd find a way to make it think- it is googlePlay supported?
Or is it something in GPS configuration I could do, before attempting to root it?
Thanks!
Hi, I need help on this. It has been days since my battery has gone haywire and I don't know what happened. I just saw that my WIFI isn't turning off even though i toggled itoff in settings/quick settings. I thought maybe a simple reboot may fix it but no. I came from CO12 to Exodus to Bliss but all have the same problems. Wifi isn't turning off! All my settings are stock. Kernels are stock also. I'm getting an average battery life of 3 1/2 hrs SOT which is awful for my usage. Also AndroidSystem and OS is killing my battery but I disabled Google PlayServices which should help. My only concern is the Wifi not turning off. Pls help thanks
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Hi.
I use this app wich does only cut on and off the network: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.aDataOnOff&hl=en
(you can also apply a screen filter to help stop battery drain)
But I doubt its your only problem... I tested with and without the app, and the difference is almost not visible. Also, my wifi (when app off) is in third place on battery usage, and I have at least a good 5-6 SOT..
(Blisspop - renderkernel R7)
Some people say that it is a common bug in Android 5.0. Can anyone confirm?
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Some people say that it is a common bug in Android 5.0. Can anyone confirm?
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The known bug with wifi is not battery drain but the difficulty to connect, to link the network.
Hello All,
On both my wife's and my Tmobile S7s running 6.01 on the November security patch, the location services are terrible. The phone keeps thinking I am at my house when I am 20 miles away at work. My wife has the same problem. If I toggle location services off then on, it instantly updates to the correct location. Eventually if defaults back to my house. This wouldn't be such a huge deal if I didn't have a SmartThings home automation system. SmartThings keeps unlocking my front door, turning on lights, and putting the heat back on because according to the phone I am at my house and the automation kicks in. Here is what I have done to try to fix the location issue:
- Location on with method = GPS, Wi-Fi, and mobile networks.
- Improved accuracy on with Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth Scanning enabled.
- Under Optimize Battery usage, I have unoptimized Location Services (meaning it should always be running).
Does anyone else have this problem with their S7s? If it were jsut mine, I would chalk it up to a faulty device, but it is happening to my wifes as well. Any other tricks to make this stop happening?
Check your apps to make sure the location permission hasn't been unchecked. Exactly which app could be missing that is hard to say. A factory reset might be your friend for this kind of situation.
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