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Over the last few months I've notice when looking at my battery stats that google maps uses 98% of my battery. The other few % being phone idle. The thing is I restarted my phone and never opened google maps since the last charge. Also Advanced task killer shows google maps as not running.
So why is google maps using all my battery life? My phone only lasts about 24 hours with little to no use. Before I could go a 2.5 days with the same usage.
Whats going on here?
My phone is rooted and I run cyanogenmod (lastest version [15])
Thanks.
i also have the same problem. i cant even last the whole day. from 6 i unplug at 100% and i go to school. with barely any use. and at around 5 -7 its at like 6 percent.
If you're using his most recent rom, this is old news, everyone has the drainage issue. Go dl another rom if it really bugs you that much...
So, Cyanogen is running Google maps constantly which is draining my battery? How accurate is the battery usage stats?
Try turning location services off. In the settings uncheck "Allow google to know your location"
People have been saying to do this. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Troubleshooting#Battery_recalibration
pratikworld said:
Try turning location services off. In the settings uncheck "Allow google to know your location"
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I did that along time ago. I only have Bluetooth/Wifi/GPS on when I need it, and for my testing in this thread, they have all been off. I've had "Allow google to know your location" uncheck since I've owned the phone.
Hey Folks,
On the last couple days, my phone started draining battery really fast, with no apparent reason.
My colleague, that has the same phone but with different firmware (his is brazilian vivo, mine is dutch open) is having the same problem.
According to battery usage chart, Google Maps is draining battery (60% of the load), so for now I disabled it.
Anyone else had the same problem?
yep, same here, after i flashed 20a i noticed google maps were using around 50-60% of battery, draining it really fast even when in sleep mode. i think the culprit is a widget or something that is using auto-locate. for me, i think it was accuweather widget in 20a, so i set the refresh time to be daily, and removed custom location, and used fixed location. also, i disabled all google location prompts, it seems to have fixed it.
i had this problem too.
I disabled all auto location reporting features and uninstalled google maps update then re-update.
seems to have fixed the problem.
L2Deliver said:
i had this problem too.
I disabled all auto location reporting features and uninstalled google maps update then re-update.
seems to have fixed the problem.
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Removed updates from Google+ and i dont have this problem
Hi guys,
I've had the Xperia Z, and i'm not even remotely close to getting the battery life some people on here are getting.
I'm unrooted and followed the advice on here for better battery life, but still cannot get 4 hours of on screen time.
Anyways, over the weekend, i've noticed Google Maps suddenly taking up huge amounts of battery.
I've barely been using Maps or indeed barely using any app that uses location based services.
Even over night, my battery would drain 15% and Google Maps was clearly the culprit when looking at apps using the battery.
It was even stopping stamina mode from kicking in.
I disabled GPS.
that didn't fix my problem.
I tried to Force Stop Google Maps.
that didn't fix my problem.
For example, i could charge my battery to 100% to reset my battery stats, then do nothing else but immediately watch half an hour of a film, and incredibly Google Maps would magically be the app thats drained the battery the most, like double that of the screen or triple that of media server!
So last night, i reset my phone back to factory settings, reinstalled all my apps, but i haven't applied the Google Maps update.
so far so good. so far, it is behaving itself.
has anyone else had this problem?
I don't know whether i should update Maps or not.
its weird, for the first couple of weeks, it wasn't an issue, so i don't know why it suddenly became a problem, but it was massively draining my battery, even when i had done everything to disable it!
under the reviews in google play, if i filter reviews for just reviews by users with XZ, i can only see one other person complaining of the same problem.
i couldn't find anyone else posting about this issue when i googled it.
So anyone else have this problem, or know why it is/was happening?
thanks,
It isn't the version of maps you are using that causes the issue. It is 'location settings'.
If you go into location settings in Maps, you will see that you can turn on and off things such as Location reporting, Report from this device, Enable location history etc.
Some of these are required to run Google Now to its full potential, however they cause quite a high level of partial wakelocks.
It is up to you whether you have them switched on (with some battery drain), or switched off (with no/little battery drain).
I also noticed a larger than normal battery drain since a couple of days. I can't remember if there was a gmaps update right before the drainage increase.
Just for the sake of repetition silly. This has nothing to do with the Maps version.
FYI - The last Maps update was on 12th March. Point proven therefore.
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It isn't the version of maps you are using that causes the issue. It is 'location settings'.
If you go into location settings in Maps, you will see that you can turn on and off things such as Location reporting, Report from this device, Enable location history etc.
Some of these are required to run Google Now to its full potential, however they cause quite a high level of partial wakelocks.
It is up to you whether you have them switched on (with some battery drain), or switched off (with no/little battery drain).
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BUT like i said, i had turned all of these off, and MAPS was STILL draining my battery, despite location based services turned off, Maps forced stopped and not even using any location based app.
That is what i am querying. Why was this happening?
random quirk, or a more serious problem?
In that case I have no idea. It doesn't happen for me.
What I have noticed before once or twice however is that my location settings have changed without me doing it manually. This has happened to me twice when I have (un)installed Now.
nobnut said:
In that case I have no idea. It doesn't happen for me.
What I have noticed before once or twice however is that my location settings have changed without me doing it manually. This has happened to me twice when I have (un)installed Now.
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i'm hoping its just a random quirk.
On friday, i noticed maps was using quite a bit of battery.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday however, it just went crazy.
I could lose 15% battery when my phone was asleep all due to Maps.
well, I reset my phone to factory settings 12 hours ago, and so far the problem has not repeated itself.
i've got GPS on, location based services on, and so far Maps isn't doing anything it shouldn't be doing.
I will definitely keep an eye on it and update this thread as and when.
I've had this phone 3 weeks, so i don't know why it suddenly became a problem on friday. The only thing i changed on friday was i installed new app Google Keep which almost certainly cannot be the culprit that i can see
So since the latest Google Play Services update, I have been suffering some serious battery drain issues. There are various mentions all around the internet and most point to the issue being 4.2.1, which, we aren't running.
I spent some time over the last few days trying to figure out what the issue is and have some observations. But, for some background, last few days I have been getting no more than 10 hours battery with no more than an hour or two screen time.
Google Play Services is listed as the biggest battery drainer with 49%, so I started looking into that.
First off, I noticed in battery stats that if Wifi is on, the device doesn't deep sleep, even though wifi is set to never on when sleeping, the wifi never turns off and the phone never deep sleeps.
First thing to try was turning off wifi, so, I turned off wifi, straight away, phone deep sleeps again.
Next I began messing with Google related things, first of all I "uninstall updates" on GPlayS, tested with Wifi on, great, no more battery drain, phone sleeps, BUT, phone keeps bugging me with notifications to update.
Next was to update, battery drain returns. So, disable Google Now in its own settings, battery drain remains when on Wifi, however, if I kill "Google Search" after disabling Google Now, the battery drain stops.
Various mention on the internet has attributed it to location history and location services in the "Google Settings" however I have had those disabled for a few days now and they seem not to be the issue in this case.
My conclusion so far is that the link between the latest GPlayS and Google Now is the real killer.
At present, I have Google Now disabled, and no battery drain, Wifi turns itself off as it should and the phone sleeps. This isn't a great solution since I use Google Now regularly.
I'm hoping that unless someone has come up with a realistic solution that doesn't involve disabling services, Google will release an update to fix the issue.
Currently without access to another device other than my N10, I'm unable to test whether this particular version of the issue is specific to the XZ or the GoogleNow/GPlayS versions.
My next test is to install Network Info from F-Droid and Better Battery stats, and see if I can attribute the thing preventing wifi from turning off during sleep, and hence the failure for the device to deep sleep, to a particular activity going on.
Further, I have already tested the GPlayS related services by disabling everything such as Calendar and Contact Sync, disabled all of books, movies, photo sync, disabled Google Plus, none of these had any effect on the issue, which all but rule them out of the equation.
Has anyone else got observations on this, is anyone else suffering the issue, or has anyone got a real solution?
I'm off on Holiday on Saturday and would really like to have access to Google Now back, but not have the battery drain that's going to kill my battery while roaming the streets of Rome without access to a charger.
alias_neo said:
So since the latest Google Play Services update, I have been suffering some serious battery drain issues. There are various mentions all around the internet and most point to the issue being 4.2.1, which, we aren't running.
I spent some time over the last few days trying to figure out what the issue is and have some observations. But, for some background, last few days I have been getting no more than 10 hours battery with no more than an hour or two screen time.
Google Play Services is listed as the biggest battery drainer with 49%, so I started looking into that.
First off, I noticed in battery stats that if Wifi is on, the device doesn't deep sleep, even though wifi is set to never on when sleeping, the wifi never turns off and the phone never deep sleeps.
First thing to try was turning off wifi, so, I turned off wifi, straight away, phone deep sleeps again.
Next I began messing with Google related things, first of all I "uninstall updates" on GPlayS, tested with Wifi on, great, no more battery drain, phone sleeps, BUT, phone keeps bugging me with notifications to update.
Next was to update, battery drain returns. So, disable Google Now in its own settings, battery drain remains when on Wifi, however, if I kill "Google Search" after disabling Google Now, the battery drain stops.
Various mention on the internet has attributed it to location history and location services in the "Google Settings" however I have had those disabled for a few days now and they seem not to be the issue in this case.
My conclusion so far is that the link between the latest GPlayS and Google Now is the real killer.
At present, I have Google Now disabled, and no battery drain, Wifi turns itself off as it should and the phone sleeps. This isn't a great solution since I use Google Now regularly.
I'm hoping that unless someone has come up with a realistic solution that doesn't involve disabling services, Google will release an update to fix the issue.
Currently without access to another device other than my N10, I'm unable to test whether this particular version of the issue is specific to the XZ or the GoogleNow/GPlayS versions.
My next test is to install Network Info from F-Droid and Better Battery stats, and see if I can attribute the thing preventing wifi from turning off during sleep, and hence the failure for the device to deep sleep, to a particular activity going on.
Further, I have already tested the GPlayS related services by disabling everything such as Calendar and Contact Sync, disabled all of books, movies, photo sync, disabled Google Plus, none of these had any effect on the issue, which all but rule them out of the equation.
Has anyone else got observations on this, is anyone else suffering the issue, or has anyone got a real solution?
I'm off on Holiday on Saturday and would really like to have access to Google Now back, but not have the battery drain that's going to kill my battery while roaming the streets of Rome without access to a charger.
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I shut it off it was draining my battery!
I had the same problem.
And here's a solution for you: Factory data reset
After that there will be no problems with battery drain.
NXT3 said:
I had the same problem.
And here's a solution for you: Factory data reset
After that there will be no problems with battery drain.
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I did a factory reset and have the problem.
So the amount of battery drain has lowered significantly, but it is still there. I attached a screenshot from before the change and a screenshot from after.
use link 2 sd ( root required ) search at playstore
open it and seacrh google play service
option and sleep it..and u done
echopark15 said:
use link 2 sd ( root required ) search at playstore
open it and seacrh google play service
option and sleep it..and u done
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it must be a way without root
Update Google play Service to version 5.x
Recently, I've noticed that the Maps app really wastes power on standby time. Left the phone for one night from full battery and I wake up the next morning to find battery down to about 74% (no usage between those times), and a short check to the battery management section shows that about 68% of battery usage was due to Maps, and the display used less than 10% of the battery.
It seems that STAMINA Mode can't shut Maps down for one reason or another as it always asks me to force close it, like when I checked my phone first thing this morning. Does anyone have any idea on how to force close it until it's needed? I hardly ever use it, but it just keeps turning itself on again and again during standby, and since there's no blacklist feature in STAMINA Mode, I can't really force it closed either...
Yeah, I had the same issue when I first got the Z running 350 firmware. I disable Google Now, Location services and then reverted all Maps updates to prevent maps eating up battery. Now I'm on 434, I have Google Now and location services disabled, and Maps is up-to-date, the problem haven't came back. This at least works for me.
I've experienced the same issue with both firmwares 350 and 434, the thing is that google maps only seems to suck the battery dry after location services is turned on. You don't need use google maps for the program to kick in and start draining battery. I usually get rid of the problem by turning off location services and killing the app from memory.
I've an exact problem before. You can tried using Greenify application which can hibernate schedulers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
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