Help Maps waklock

[tchen811]

Ever since I upgraded my AT&T S3 from ICS to Jelly Bean. I've noticed that Google Maps is draining more battery than before. I've downloaded BetterBatteryStats and it shows that Google Maps is top two of partial wakelocks.

I don't have GPS enabled but I have Location and Google Search checked under Settings -> Location Services. I have now disabled that to see if it would improve. However, if I disable Location and Google Search, I cannot see my location via Google Maps.... so really not a viable solution.

Anyone else experiences this??

 

[abevuk]

Surprised no-one has replied before now....I too have exactly the same issue every now and then, it usually shows under battery as GPSD. to stop it I have to force close maps restart the phone and charge until it says remove charger, if you don't wait for that GPSD is still shown. Hope this helps.

 

[Yatezy]

Read somewhere that the NetworkLocationLocator wakelock is your phones GPS

 

[NewPepper]

Perhaps it's related to Google Now which uses location information to produce the cards. I turned off location tracking but Maps continued running. I just turned off Google Now to see if that is the cause.

EDIT: Looks like that did the trick.

 

[Roadie1015]

Maps has always been a bit of a battery drain on my phone, even before Jelly Bean. I don't want to turn it off completely because I like to use Maps and navigation once in a while, but most of my other location services are turned off, but I have no idea why maps always seems to be working in the background, I rarely use it.

I even deactivated Google Now and I thought it worked at first but now I'm not so sure. My battery still seems to be randomly draining.

 

[boofer]

Ever since I upgraded my AT&T S3 from ICS to Jelly Bean. I've noticed that Google Maps is draining more battery than before. I've downloaded BetterBatteryStats and it shows that Google Maps is top two of partial wakelocks.

I don't have GPS enabled but I have Location and Google Search checked under Settings -> Location Services. I have now disabled that to see if it would improve. However, if I disable Location and Google Search, I cannot see my location via Google Maps.... so really not a viable solution.

Anyone else experiences this??

i have increased battery drain because of maps as well.

i have found that if i use maps once for anything and then back out of it via the Back button (which you should do for most apps to "close" them properly), i then see 2 or 3 instances of Maps running in Task Manager. you can find that by long pressing home to pull up recently opened apps and tapping task manager. go to your running apps and kill the maps instances that are running, and see how your battery life does (it takes ~5 seconds for them to disappear from the list of running apps).