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simon238

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Normally my phone lasts all day at work and I have about 80% battery left. This morning about 10:30am I check my phone and it's already down to 60%.

The process gpsd is draining 75% of my battery currently.

Does anyone know what gpsd is and how I can stop it. I've turned GPS off and it's still draining.
 
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The battery is now down to 33%. I just rebooted the phone and it seems to have stopped draining. But it's going to be rather annoying if this happens daily.
 
duchm2 said:
Im having the same problem, can you show me the way to fix it ? I read the link but don't know how to make it right. Thks
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The link didn't help at all I don't know if the guy was trying to be helpful in providing it.



It was the standard maps app that was causing mine, even although my GPS was turned off.

I ended maps in recent apps, killed it in the task manager but yet GPSD was still draining my battery. I also cleared my RAM.

Nope didn't work

To stop it I killed the app in application manager in the settings menu (i'm new to android and didn't know this settings menu existed) once it was ended there the % drain started falling.

Basically your looking for an app that uses GPS in that list and stop it running.
 
The culprit seems to be the tracking system.
I got this issue recently after the software update so looks like Samsung messed up somwehere.

Go into Settings -> security -> enter your details and then slide to unactive.

This will solve the problem. Hopefuly they'll fix it in the next update.
 
asifh said:
The culprit seems to be the tracking system.
I got this issue recently after the software update so looks like Samsung messed up somwehere.

Go into Settings -> security -> enter your details and then slide to unactive.

This will solve the problem. Hopefuly they'll fix it in the next update.
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There's no "tracking system" or "enter your details" option in the security menu.


My issue is fixed now anyway, it was google maps running in the backround.
 
Mohzinati said:
Have you tried to restart the phone ?
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I tried to restart and now it's not draining anymore.

I have an idea about this problem. A few days ago I was driving with Sygic navigation and suddenly GPS icon on notification area disappeared but GPS didn't disconnect. Then I turned off / on GPS but nothing changed. I guess this was the reason. When this happened, GPS Deamon (gpsd) stuck and it's state never changed actually. It stayed always on and searching.
 
Hi
I am also having this problem.

I have read right through this thread about three times but I still don't really understand.

I have gone in to task manager and stopped all the apps that were running and I have gone in to Settings/Location Services and turned off everything.

I have turned the phone off and on again.

gpsd is still at 60%

I'm afraid I have no technical knowledge at all and am new to Android, and indeed smartphones, so I'm really asking if someone can help me in simple language that I will understand.

Many thanks
 
barryl85 said:
There's no "tracking system" or "enter your details" option in the security menu.


My issue is fixed now anyway, it was google maps running in the backround.
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I've had the same issue, most likely culprit is Samsung remote control. I only installed the Samsung apps recently coinciding with the battery drain. If I don't post again, take it that disabling it fixed it for me
 
i found a solution to the cursed gpsd hell. . tried everything. . master resets. . rebooting dozens of times. . disabled everthing on my galaxy s4. . rooted and custom roms. . nothing worked. . gpsd refused to stop. . i sat down with a hammer in my hand ready to smash the phone when it hit me. . its not the phone its was the sim card. . yes the sim. . turns out that my galaxy s4 is a gt-19500 model. . its not a LTE/4G phone. . the sim card is a mtn network sim with LTE activated. . what i done is . . went to settings. . connections. . more networks. . mobile networks . .network mode and set it to GSM only. . bloody hell . . it worked. . installed my stock 4.2.2 firmware again. . left nothing disabled or uninstalled for testing. . the phone runs like new. . only downfall is that its running on a slower edge network. . my wife is using the s4 . .she mostly use it for whattsapp and dont do downloads and stuff and dont need high speed. . I'm still convinced that its a network problem because the phone was fine for more than a year and a half with the same sim card thats LTE activated. . will see what happens after a week or so to see if the phone will run on HSDPA network without triggering the bloody gpsd. . i think MTN must have made changes to the network that affected thousands of phones. . my LG G3 is also LTE. . tried te sim from the galaxy s4 and found no problems. . put my sim in the s4 . .and there it was again. . gpsd triggered again . . put it on GSM only in nework settings and yet again the gpsd was gone. . looks like a network problem that affects galaxy s4's
 
Found a possible reason for S3. a Poor signal causing issues. This youtube vid fixed my high drain. From 80% in 2 hours to 20% in two.
 
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