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Help Google maps killing battery
- Thread starter jmhemiram
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First off, there is no Google GPS. There are Google location services (checks wifi signals and cell towers against a database to determine location) and a GPS chip (that uses the GPS sats.)
Do you use latitude? or have you ever used latitude? If your signed in, and your GPS and Google services are on, google will track and report your location to the latitude service so people can find you.
Have you tried a reboot?
Do you use latitude? or have you ever used latitude? If your signed in, and your GPS and Google services are on, google will track and report your location to the latitude service so people can find you.
Have you tried a reboot?
superstretch
Well-Known Member
There's something that's triggering Maps to run, otherwise it wouldn't be either running or consuming lots of power.
Some thoughts:
*Most people I know have GPS off all the time and selectively enable it for navigation and geocaching. Location tagging your photos is a great way to shorten the life of your photo shoot sessions.
*Force killing apps is pretty much frowned upon now from a technical standpoint. If your system wants something running and it stays in the background, let it. Constantly killing/restarting apps will drain the battery quickly.
*If you see Maps constantly in the foreground and consuming a high % of battery, narrow down what is causing that. Latitude will do that and there might be some crapware or misconfiguration somewhere.
*Instead of force killing, try going into the application, mock-navigate somewhere, and then exit navigation. I've had apps that even between force killings think they have some mission to accomplish, so you might have to interrupt it in a more friendly way.
Good luck
Some thoughts:
*Most people I know have GPS off all the time and selectively enable it for navigation and geocaching. Location tagging your photos is a great way to shorten the life of your photo shoot sessions.
*Force killing apps is pretty much frowned upon now from a technical standpoint. If your system wants something running and it stays in the background, let it. Constantly killing/restarting apps will drain the battery quickly.
*If you see Maps constantly in the foreground and consuming a high % of battery, narrow down what is causing that. Latitude will do that and there might be some crapware or misconfiguration somewhere.
*Instead of force killing, try going into the application, mock-navigate somewhere, and then exit navigation. I've had apps that even between force killings think they have some mission to accomplish, so you might have to interrupt it in a more friendly way.
Good luck
jmhemiram
Member
Alright. I'm not signed into latitude. Stand alone gps is not on. Google location services is on. I went to running services, maps doesn't show up. But I know its running in the back ground. I'm just getting really frustrated because you guys are making suggestions and nothing will stop it. Maybe if I reboot and not open maps. But as soon as I do, back to square one. Killing the battery. I guess I will just uninstall the updates. Never had an issue before the update.
First, you know the battery usage is reported in %. So if the only thing you did on your phone was maps, the let it sit for 4 hours, maps will have used the highest % of your battery.
Also, after you shut off whatever it is causing maps to use up battery, it will take a while before that registrars in the battery usage. If maps used up 40% of your battery usage over the last 4 hours, then you turn off the thing causing that, it dosn't change the fact that it used up that battery, and it will still be reported in the battery usage details. Plug the phone in then unplug to reset usage statistics, then let it sit for a few hours then look and see if maps is still sucking up battery.
Have you played with the navigation recently? Try opening that up then go to menu > exit navigation.
You have lots of stuff running the background, Android OS isn't like windows, its not a good thing to have lots of unused RAM. Just because you see maps in a list of running processes doesn't mean its sucking up your battery.
Also, after you shut off whatever it is causing maps to use up battery, it will take a while before that registrars in the battery usage. If maps used up 40% of your battery usage over the last 4 hours, then you turn off the thing causing that, it dosn't change the fact that it used up that battery, and it will still be reported in the battery usage details. Plug the phone in then unplug to reset usage statistics, then let it sit for a few hours then look and see if maps is still sucking up battery.
Have you played with the navigation recently? Try opening that up then go to menu > exit navigation.
You have lots of stuff running the background, Android OS isn't like windows, its not a good thing to have lots of unused RAM. Just because you see maps in a list of running processes doesn't mean its sucking up your battery.
sdrawkcab25
Extreme Android User
Latitude does not use much battery at all. I use it everyday and I have no significant battery drain. I'd look for other causes.
NovaCove
Newbie
have used latitude since launch day and its never been a problem for me, but i did have this same problem pop up the other day..
open internet> menu> more> settings> website settings.. this will show you what webpages try to track your location(look for the gps symble), the one that was causing me problems was zipscene.com(touch.zipscene.com) that i let track my location when we went out to dinner at out local cheddars and was brousing their menu before we got there
only thing i have tracking in that list now is google
open internet> menu> more> settings> website settings.. this will show you what webpages try to track your location(look for the gps symble), the one that was causing me problems was zipscene.com(touch.zipscene.com) that i let track my location when we went out to dinner at out local cheddars and was brousing their menu before we got there
only thing i have tracking in that list now is google