All of a sudden my battery is draining overnight.
I installed a trial of GPS Tuner the other day and wondered if it's anything to do with it.
I know the gps drains battery but I only used app for about five mins and then shut it (not minimized)
I wonder if GPS receiver is still active after app shuts down.
Does anyone know if there is an app or registry tweak to make sure GPS is off when not needed by an application? Or is there a way to turn it on/off manually?
Thanks
Rog
Normally the gps receiver is turned off, when no application is need. There is a registry tweak to change the time interval after which the the gps is turend off, but the standard value of 500ms should be ok.
Personally I'm using GPSGate, which changes the color of the system tray depending on the status of the gps receiver.
But if you shut down any application that uses gps, it shouldn't be enabled any more.
You should check the processes that are running, maybe it is something different than the gps.
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Is there an application that could turn GPS ON or OFF manually in our HTC Advantage?
cktlcmd said:
Is there an application that could turn GPS ON or OFF manually in our HTC Advantage?
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Usually, this is a function within the GPS application itself. In many of them, there is an option that allows you to decide whether GPS should still continue to run when you switch off the device. In many situation, I find it sensible to leave the GPS running while the device is switched off, so that you still know where you are while switching off the device to conserve power. If this is not what you want, you can always choose to switch the GPS off.
eaglesteve said:
Usually, this is a function within the GPS application itself. In many of them, there is an option that allows you to decide whether GPS should still continue to run when you switch off the device. In many situation, I find it sensible to leave the GPS running while the device is switched off, so that you still know where you are while switching off the device to conserve power. If this is not what you want, you can always choose to switch the GPS off.
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I see your point. I was a little concerned how it will affect battery life if left ON all the time.
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I see your point. I was a little concerned how it will affect battery life if left ON all the time.
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Glad that you do.
It is exactly because we try to conserve power that we allow switching off the device while keeping the GPS running. GPS applications, if not closed, are usually useless if the GPS is not running.
Since the GPS is a passive system I mean only "listen" don't emit signal the power used by that chip is a few even if it's connected.
The people argue that the GPS drains the battery but that is only half true. What really drains the battery is not the GPS itself is the program (Tomtom as an example) running in the CPU and the screen being on for long time. As I told you since the GPS chip only "listen" for signal shouldn't consume too much.
This is not the case of GSM, Wifi and Bluetooth and their associated chips. Those three systems emit signal draining the battery.
Best regards,
mahjong
P.S.: Sorry about my english... I hope you understand what I'm saying.
mahjong said:
Since the GPS is a passive system I mean only "listen" don't emit signal the power used by that chip is a few even if it's connected.
The people argue that the GPS drains the battery but that is only half true. What really drains the battery is not the GPS itself is the program (Tomtom as an example) running in the CPU and the screen being on for long time. As I told you since the GPS chip only "listen" for signal shouldn't consume too much.
This is not the case of GSM, Wifi and Bluetooth and their associated chips. Those three systems emit signal draining the battery.
Best regards,
mahjong
P.S.: Sorry about my english... I hope you understand what I'm saying.
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Thanks. It's very clear to me. I find this to be very true. When I use my mobile golf scorer, after four hours of use, it uses less than 10% of the battery although GPS is on throughout. The difference is that I switch on and off the device between use.
But is there a way to switch on GPS and/or to monitor its status? Telenav seems to have troubles finding the GPS at times...
Thanks everyone. This thread actually answered all my questions. This is my first GPS phone, so I'm a newbie with regards to GPS.
I found that the some GPS tool will not actually close GPS when it was terminated (Google maps seems OK), even when the phone was switched to fly mode. Battery was drained very quickly in this situation. Is there any too can check current status of GPS and also manage it?
How did you found out ?
Normally, I'll put phone to fly mode during night and it will consume about 5% power. But if I used GPS in that day, the power consumption would be ~20%.
flypp said:
Normally, I'll put phone to fly mode during night and it will consume about 5% power. But if I used GPS in that day, the power consumption would be ~20%.
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I can't provide much more details, but I'd rather tell you to look elsewhere for the solution to that huge battery drain, as from what I know it's very unlikely to be gps's fault.
The gps is turned off by the device whenever you put the hd2 to sleep with the power button, in fact every app that uses it also loses the location (see navicomputer, nonigpsplot, and tomtom) when you turn off the display.
So, even if the app "forgot" to turn off the gps, it would be turned off when you press power button.
Just to make sure, have you checked with a task manager if the gps is really closed? Some apps (GPS or otherwise) dont really close when you close them, they merely move to the background.
The suggestion GPS is always closed when you sleep the device is not correct, some apps prevent real sleep, exactly to prevent loss of fix.
I'm sure that all GPS related software was closed. The answer from HTC customer support was to remove the buggy GPS software.
Hi,
I am looking for a tool to dissable Standby on a temorary basis.
For example... if I leave "GPS status" the device shuts down GPS and goes into standby.
I would like to dissable standby for some applications and turn the display of instead.
Maybe someone has a different idea but in OSM i can turn on logging and leave the application running in the background. GPS does not get dissabled if I turn on logging and it looks like it also runs in the background if I turn the device into standby.
Does someone have an idea how to manage that?
Last but not least.. I am looking for a good ENMEA-logger which also displays the signal strengh of each sattelite.
Thanks in advance!
Hello.
Is it normal for the GPS to be on when I have turned off location access (both GPS and WiFi)? Are apps able to override this system setting?
I noticed that sometimes even though I have this off, GPS symbol stays in the status bar for hours. Killing suspected apps didn't help. In battery I see 'fused location' using my GPS.
Please see the screenshot.
How do I troubleshoot this?
Thanks,
Show a pic of your battery stats? Any location wakelock?
Hi guys,
I started to use android lost, it has some cool features, the problem is it drains my battery like crazy.
Its the main cause for my battery decreasing and the GPS is always on but for some reason there is no indication of it in the notification bar - there the GPS is off.
I tried to remove location access for the application but the GPS remain turned on.
Thanks in advance.
I had this issue too, the gps bug, haven't had it since 4.2.2, when I disabled gps, android would report it running, you have to reboot, the indicator and setting was switched to off, maybe turning it on/off several times?, I will try if it comes back