So I was wondering if anyone else has this issue with GPS running in the background. All I did was use google maps on high accuracy settings and then turn off location. I noticed my battery was draining like crazy and saw that google maps was still using GPS 15 hours later. Is it a android bug, app bug or ROM bug? I'm running the latest paranoid stable. Rebooting seems to stop it by the way.
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Use Greenify to stop Maps from running in the background.
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Hello,
I have a Nexes S since about a month, and in this period, I noticed that Google Maps have a strange behavior: whenever I run a task manager, I find Google Maps process active and if I kill it, after a few minutes it became newly active.
Also in battery consumption screen of Nexus S menu, I can read tath Google Maps is always around 20% of total battery consumption.
Is this behavior normal?
Is there a manner to limit Google Maps Activity?
Thanks.
Mephysto
Which version of gb are you using? On 2.3.2 there were issues with latitude, if you were signed in then it would drain battery life but the 2.3.3 update supposedly fixed this issue.
Also, if you after using location based stuff I'm pretty sure it uses maps to determine where you are. Therefore fc won't work as it will just open again.
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I'm sorry,
I have gb 2.3.3. I'll try to logoff from latitude.
For what it's worth, my battery dropped from about 35% to 10% overnight last night, and I'm not sure why. I did notice that Google Maps was listed as taking up 23% of my battery. I'm on 2.3.3 also.
Uninstall the updates and install again.
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mephysto666 said:
Hello,
I have a Nexes S since about a month, and in this period, I noticed that Google Maps have a strange behavior: whenever I run a task manager, I find Google Maps process active and if I kill it, after a few minutes it became newly active.
Also in battery consumption screen of Nexus S menu, I can read tath Google Maps is always around 20% of total battery consumption.
Is this behavior normal?
Is there a manner to limit Google Maps Activity?
Thanks.
Mephysto
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Ever since the 5.1 update to Google Maps there's a permanent service which will run (and restart if you attempt to kill it). However, if you are not signed into Latitude it should use little to no battery. It doesn't even appear on my Battery Use list if I haven't used Maps.
I recommend never staying signed into Latitude. It will destroy your battery due to the constant GPS and data updates.
I often see the GPS satellite symbol showing activity like some app is using my GPS when I dont have a GPS or navigation related app open. How can I tell what active process is using GPS at a given moment?
Thanks
tk_xda said:
I often see the GPS satellite symbol showing activity like some app is using my GPS when I dont have a GPS or navigation related app open. How can I tell what active process is using GPS at a given moment?
Thanks
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Why don't you just disable it?
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matt95 said:
Why don't you just disable it?
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Because I want GPS to be ready when I do open a nav app. And I am curious if there's a way to tell what is using it.
Go to menu-system apps-running...
List all you have running when you see that gps symbol. My guess is that you may be signed into google latitude.
If it is latitude, go to google maps, settings, and somewhere in there is an option to sign out of latitude.
Its not latitude. Google sets GPS to sleep when apps are running in the background. Third party developers aren't as good as Google.
Anyone have a real answer and not a guess?
Searched very long for a solution and it was quite hard to find the solution working without root, so I'll post it here:
Get the app "GSAM Battery Monitor" from Google Play, on GSAM's start screen select "Application Usage",
then on top of the screen select to view the used GPS time.
Well, this doesn't show which app is using GPS right now but you can see how much time each app actually activated GPS since the last battery charge, so this is very helpful to determine the apps using GPS in the background.
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Even if your gps is turned on, it dosen't necessarily means that gps is being used. Use Spare Parts app from play store and it'll show you what all apps used gps since you last plugged in your phone charger. And yes, don't use this app while your phone is being charged...otherwise the readings gets resetted.
Also, the android os uses gps continually, like the camera app, gallery app etc.
abachhd said:
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Even if your gps is turned on, it dosen't necessarily means that gps is being used. Use Spare Parts app from play store and it'll show you what all apps used gps since you last plugged in your phone charger. And yes, don't use this app while your phone is being charged...otherwise the readings gets resetted.
Also, the android os uses gps continually, like the camera app, gallery app etc.
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Hi i want also ask about usages of my GPS and CPU
Before i go to bed I was at 100%
IMG: 2i.cz/2i/i/5238835a/105ba874a6a915965707995aef057fe5/718485af7c.p.jpg This is graph of my battery after morning.
Is there some tool which tells me what process used CPU and what used GPS?
I know last hour of graph could be facebook, but till that time was no activity.
d1one said:
Is there some tool which tells me what process used CPU and what used GPS?
I know last hour of graph could be facebook, but till that time was no activity.
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Hi,
yes there is: GSAM battery monitor - please read my post above on how to find out with it which app used the GPS for how long
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Hi everybody,
Just noticed I'm having some issues with sensors being used 100% of the time by navigation apps, eating up my battery like crazy.
First I've noticed Sygic 11.2.6 showing as the second battery consumer (about 25% of the total battery usage at any given time) with orientation sensor used 100% of the time even though no process related to Sygic was running.
Restarting would fix the problem, only for it to reappear as soon as I started Sygic again.
After I've uninstalled Sygic I noticed Google Maps 6.6.0 having about the same behavior, using the accelerometer 100% of the time even after force closing the app. Again, restarting the phone would fix the issue but running Maps once would make it appear again.
I tried uninstalling the updates, reverting to version 5.8.0 and no more accelerometer issues. Updated to 6.6.0 and started having the same issues again. Uninstalling the updates once more and again no sensor issue.
One interesting thing is that if I restart the phone and then disable auto-rotation, once I run Sygic or Google Maps 6.6.0 the apps start using the orientation/accelerometer sensor 100% of the time just like they use to (even though it's disabled!!!!...?!?!).
To me this would seem like a software issue. Anybody else experiencing something similar?!
Thank you in advance for your opinions!
Inginerul said:
Hi everybody,
Just noticed I'm having some issues with sensors being used 100% of the time by navigation apps, eating up my battery like crazy.
First I've noticed Sygic 11.2.6 showing as the second battery consumer (about 25% of the total battery usage at any given time) with orientation sensor used 100% of the time even though no process related to Sygic was running.
Restarting would fix the problem, only for it to reappear as soon as I started Sygic again.
After I've uninstalled Sygic I noticed Google Maps 6.6.0 having about the same behavior, using the accelerometer 100% of the time even after force closing the app. Again, restarting the phone would fix the issue but running Maps once would make it appear again.
I tried uninstalling the updates, reverting to version 5.8.0 and no more accelerometer issues. Updated to 6.6.0 and started having the same issues again. Uninstalling the updates once more and again no sensor issue.
One interesting thing is that if I restart the phone and then disable auto-rotation, once I run Sygic or Google Maps 6.6.0 the apps start using the orientation/accelerometer sensor 100% of the time just like they use to (even though it's disabled!!!!...?!?!).
To me this would seem like a software issue. Anybody else experiencing something similar?!
Thank you in advance for your opinions!
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Yes... noticed this with Sygic. It's a known app bug, and they still haven't fixed it yet. Haven't had this issue with Google maps though. Be warned however that any navigation app will chew up your battery very fast... Can't help it since it's accessing the Net, Compass, Accelerometer and GPS antenna - all at the same time at a high refresh rate...
Thank you fir your reply!
I know navigation is supposed to use a lot of battery but doing it even with processes closed?
It's good to know you confirm the Sygic bug. Honestly I've googled for 2 days and wasn't able to find any useful info about such a bug with Sygic. And for me, since Google Maps 6.6.0 acts the same way, it makes me think it's also a bug. For now I'm sticking to Maps 5.8.0 and I've reported the issue over to Google.
Thank you again!
When I look at my battery stats at the end of the day, Maps is ALWAYS in 1st place for eating my battery. It shows that it consumes about 30-40% of my battery. Now for the weird part... I haven't run maps during that cycle at all. I have tried cold booting and leaving maps alone. I have tried killing the maps application. It doesn't seem to have an effect.
I am assuming this is an error and that Maps isn't eating my battery. Does anyone have any insight here?
I am rooted, lock bootloader, stock ROM.
Blueback22 said:
When I look at my battery stats at the end of the day, Maps is ALWAYS in 1st place for eating my battery. It shows that it consumes about 30-40% of my battery. Now for the weird part... I haven't run maps during that cycle at all. I have tried cold booting and leaving maps alone. I have tried killing the maps application. It doesn't seem to have an effect.
I am assuming this is an error and that Maps isn't eating my battery. Does anyone have any insight here?
I am rooted, lock bootloader, stock ROM.
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I'm pretty sure the stock battery stats aren't very accurate. You could also bloatware freeze maps.
I've noticed lately that I've had to kill GPS a few times.
Don't know if it's Maps, something else Google or Weather Bug.
Check for the GPS icon lower right corner (1st icon) to see if it's attempting to get a fix.
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GPS is off
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GPS is off
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I noticed the same thing and started turning wifi off while not in use. Once it was off, Maps no longer showed up as being the greatest battery hog (usually doesn't even make it onto the list now). Though this is annoying that I have to remember to turn wifi off, it seems to resolve the drain.
The only question is, is this due to Maps pinging the wifi to get the current location (I don't need my location while the device is off, they should offer a setting to turn that off)? OR, is it some issue with the battery stats and Maps is just a false positive?
EDIT: I should note that I do not have latitude turned on (so it would need to be a setting other than that to turn off whatever other wifi processing it is doing).
I see the same thing. At first, I just turned off the wifi, and it didn't show up as using the battery, now I just ignore it. It doesn't actually seem to actually be using that much of the battery.
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i am also facing the same problem. am i thinking should i just freeze it and see how it behave ?
Turn off location settings
I had the same problem too, which I resolved by going into Maps->Settings->Location Settings and then un-ticking everything that was ticked. Maps then no longer needs to stay awake and log your location everywhere you go. The app now only shows up on the battery list when I've actually been using it.
I'm looking for someway to lessen/ prevent Maps location sync service from waking up my phone every few seconds. I've tried turning off the location update with in the app and a good deal if the settings in Google now. Its killed a third of my battery according to better battery stats. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm on the ns4g sprint ota jb with thalamus' latest with idle 2 disabled.
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uncle_seuss said:
I'm looking for someway to lessen/ prevent Maps location sync service from waking up my phone every few seconds. I've tried turning off the location update with in the app and a good deal if the settings in Google now. Its killed a third of my battery according to better battery stats. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm on the ns4g sprint ota jb with thalamus' latest with idle 2 disabled.
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Disable Location service in Latitude
Disable location in phone settings, both GPS + celltower
Using an app such as Autostarts or Gemini app manager, disable all starting events
That fixed it for me, forever. Never get any wake up anymore.
I'll try the Gemini and let you know
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