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Android checkin service - 70-80% of cpu

Hey guys,
So the other day I rebooted my blade, and it was running painfully slow. I rebooted again and again to no avail, so downloaded a cpu meter.
The results from this were that android/checkin service is using a drastic (70-80%) of the cpu when this is happening.
I launched a terminal, killed the process, the phone rebooted and it was fine.
Now the problem is, if i reboot my phone again it goes back into slow mode, with the checkin service using the cpu.
Anybody know anything about this process?
Im running stock rom, unlocked, rooted, uninstalled bloatware, using go launcher, custom lockscreen and custom font.
Thanks in advance
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Sounds like an app failing to sync data. Try betterbatterystats - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 it might help you to find out which app.

Wow really? One app failing to sync uses that much? Wow. Hmm i'll give that a try. Is that syncing with market updates? Or just general sync?
Thanks for the reply, hope it isnt an app i use a lot :S
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A badly written app misbehaving could. If you find out what it is then you can try changing whatever app settings might be causing it, removing app data, or uninstalling the app. Better battery stats should give more information on what app it is, i think android checkin could be any app that syncs data. either that, or it's some kind of location checkin thing, have you used lattitude at all? it could be that.

Unfortunately betterbatterystats isn't free in the market, and the dow load links in the post arn't compatible :-/
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So according to astro's process manager it's 'system_server'.
Does that shed any light on it?
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okay so i think i've solved it by turning off location services.
It might be because foursquare recently added assisted gps.
So, looking around the internet, this problem stems back to when google latitude and other location services were created. Something along the lines of multiple location requests kills the device.
If thats the case, then why is it still affecting phones today? I'll let you know if it has properly fixed it though.
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It could be foursquare or latitude, maybe the combination of both. My money would be on latitude, if you've ever set it up, it seems to be quite badly made & i don't think many people use it, but google insist on bundling it with google maps. Maybe you can turn it off if you open the app & press menu, I never joined, so I'm not sure.
Turning off location services will affect apps that you might want to use, like maps & navigation.

Well I don't have latitude on mine, it may have been installed but i removed it when i was clearing bloatware. Havent had a problem since turning off location services, perhaps forsquare uses the same buggy api as latitude? I dont need location services much anyway, and as long as i turn it off before a restart it should be okay
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And it's done it again, even with location services disable... :-/
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If you don't want location services then why do you have foursquare installed?

I did want them enabled, but I thought it had solved the problem, which evidently it hasn't. Uninstalled it for good measure and it still did it, so no idea what it could be now.
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maps app + battery loss

Just my n4 and it was my first day out and about with it and when I checked my battery usage at about 50% I noticed the maps app had used 25% of that. What's weird is that I never even opened the maps app all day. I never had anything close to this on my gs2 on cm10 even when using maps. Is this normal for this phone and is it part of Google nows "distance to home" thing? I used that on my gs2 and didn't have the battery drain.
I am on stock 4.2.1 unrooted and locked (not for long )
Looked on android issues page and others seem to be reporting this on 4.2.1 has anyone found a fix aside from completely disabling the services?
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mbucks911 said:
Just my n4 and it was my first day out and about with it and when I checked my battery usage at about 50% I noticed the maps app had used 25% of that. What's weird is that I never even opened the maps app all day. I never had anything close to this on my gs2 on cm10 even when using maps. Is this normal for this phone and is it part of Google nows "distance to home" thing? I used that on my gs2 and didn't have the battery drain.
I am on stock 4.2.1 unrooted and locked (not for long )
Looked on android issues page and others seem to be reporting this on 4.2.1 has anyone found a fix aside from completely disabling the services?
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This has been covered many times. Next time try searching the forums first.
Go to maps, settings, location settings. Uncheck all options related to location reporting and location history. This won't completely disable all location services but will stop all background processes relating to maps. After this my battery stats do not report maps anymore.
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fitzman49 said:
This has been covered many times. Next time try searching the forums first.
Go to maps, settings, location settings. Uncheck all options related to location reporting and location history. This won't completely disable all location services but will stop all background processes relating to maps. After this my battery stats do not report maps anymore.
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And just so everyone's clear: doing this severely limits the ability of Google Now, right?
I understand it's a tradeoff for battery life. The question is more just to make sure there aren't lots of people complaining about Google Now not working as well as it did before they turned off all the location reporting.

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And just so everyone's clear: doing this severely limits the ability of Google Now, right?
I understand it's a tradeoff for battery life. The question is more just to make sure there aren't lots of people complaining about Google Now not working as well as it did before they turned off all the location reporting.
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This has nothing to do with google now. This pertains specifically to the maps app. I verified with the locaion settings in maps disabled but system location access enabled I was still able to use google now and any apps that require location access (yelp, Facebook, etc).
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irishtexmex said:
And just so everyone's clear: doing this severely limits the ability of Google Now, right?
I understand it's a tradeoff for battery life. The question is more just to make sure there aren't lots of people complaining about Google Now not working as well as it did before they turned off all the location reporting.
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The ONLY thing necessary for maps is "WiFi and mobile network location"
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why google maps use so much battery

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As attach,google maps use too much battery-----I had not use maps ..

Go into Google maps settings into location and uncheck all options in there and ensure that it isn't reporting your location.
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much thanks，I'll try this
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tsongwh said:
much thanks，I'll try this
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press the thanks button instead report back with findings

If you don't use maps at all, freeze with TB

calanizzle said:
If you don't use maps at all, freeze with TB
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And when you do use maps.... it's a hassle. If you have maps set up properly, it shouldn't even be using any battery life at all unless you turn the app on and actually start using it.
With your theory, you should freeze all apps you don't use? Doesn't make any logical sense.

I've got a similar issue with my battery usage. Comparing the maps usages on my N4 to my Photon, and on my N4, the usage is 10%, keep awake is 40m and the gps is 6m, and CPU is 8m.
For my Photon, the usage is 2%, the keep awake is 2h and the cpu total is 2m.
I do have CM10 on my Photon and still stock on my N4, but the behavior does seem odd. The N4 has much more usage

for me, unchecking location reporting did not fully do the trick. what you need to do is make sure maps does not autostart and cause wakelocks which decrease your battery life substantially. to do this, download an app called "autostarts" from the play store and disable all maps autostarts by sorting the autostart processes by app. this will not allow maps to autostart and use increased battery, but you will still be able to open maps normally and use it to its full extent

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zephiK said:
And when you do use maps.... it's a hassle. If you have maps set up properly, it shouldn't even be using any battery life at all unless you turn the app on and actually start using it.
With your theory, you should freeze all apps you don't use? Doesn't make any logical sense.
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Exactly it doesn't make much sense.
The usual issue is Google will periodically use Maps to get a GPS fix and Wi-Fi list to update it's own Wi-Fi to Location database. Saves them driving around with cars all the time and getting complaints about privacy I suppose :cyclops: Often it is this background updating of Google Wi-Fi locations that continually pop Google Maps into the battery list even if we never use it between charges.
There is now an easy to use global setting to quickly disable Google Maps from doing this, this is under Settings - Accounts - Google - Location, flick the switch here to off, now Google applications can not poll for locations or do background updates, however other applications can still use GPS and request a location.
Regards
Phil

sorry for bumping this but quite recently my maps app has been consuming battery more than my wifi, it's comparable with OP's photo. Now here is the thing, I already had this problem before and I solved it by disabling location reporting and stuff, but a few days ago it suddenly began to consume battery as if i had reenabled the location reporting stuff. I have used a app called wakeup detector to try and find whats wrong and this is what I'm getting. I hope someone can help.

Download "Greenify" if you're rooted.
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Maps draining my battery.

I haven't even opened maps at all. I have used instagram and internet. What should I do?
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jm1999 said:
I haven't even opened maps at all. I have used instagram and internet. What should I do?
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I believe this is Samsung S Health, the pedometer "Walking" application. If you do not use the pedometer, make sure the screen does not contain the widget, and make sure the tracking is stopped inside S Health.
On a second thought, it could also be Google Now, or latitude. Also disable location tracking in Now.
I use pedometer app and Now with location tracking on, and it is not draining the batt that much, but Maps does show up as high power consumer. The phone lasted 26 hours before I charged it today.

Could it be my foursquare widget? I think it might be.
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I had this same exact problem, go in Maps > settings > location settings > uncheck: Report from this device, Enable location history, Automatic check-ins.
That will stop the battery drain / usage from Maps.

Bjray said:
I had this same exact problem go in Maps > settings > location settings > uncheck: Report from this device, Enable location history, Automatic check-ins.
That will stop the battery drain / usage from Maps.
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I also have noticed this, more noticeable after the update, anyways, is not that bad, but I have noticed draining since then, and when I check my Display is taking 54% of it and then Maps follows with 15%, I can tell you that every time I check is at 15%, and like the rest of you Maps is not opened, I have disable all Location Settings on Maps and have no Google Now widgets running, I have even tried disabling GPS and even after that, the Maps still there with 15%.
I thought that a reboot will help but still the same, any other suggestion?

Ugh. It definetly has some thing to do with location right?
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I read that someone had this issue before. If I am correct, someone else suggested they remove the pre-installed "maps" APK that ships with the phone and then go to the APP Store and re-install Maps from there. I don't know if it worked or not or even why. You might want to try and search for the original thread. It was either here in the AT&T S4 forums or the original S4 forums. Again, it was just something I read when the phones first came out.

Maps is a known battery drainer. The best solution with the SII is Greenify, and I suspect that it will also work very well with the S4. Requires root. You can install from the play store, but go to the developer's xda thread and read the first three posts. Lots of folks just greenify Google maps and nothing else.

scott14719 said:
I read that someone had this issue before. If I am correct, someone else suggested they remove the pre-installed "maps" APK that ships with the phone and then go to the APP Store and re-install Maps from there. I don't know if it worked or not or even why. You might want to try and search for the original thread. It was either here in the AT&T S4 forums or the original S4 forums. Again, it was just something I read when the phones first came out.
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I just removed original Maps app, and installed Play Store one and now everything seems to be back to normal, so. my theory is that something occurred during the update with the maps app and is causing this, because it wasn't doing this before that.
Thanks for sharing.

I guess there is now way to fix this with out root? Thanks guys!
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I want my 16% back.
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It's the location history option for Google maps. That is nothing to do with the phone and it had been a problem on many devices. Turn off location history and you should see it go down.
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All this bad advice with such an easy problem to fix.
My location history and auto-update of location/gps is on at all times. This causes NO BATTERY DRAIN!!!
This is actually how to fix your Google Maps battery drain.
Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps and battery drain.
Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.

Grant H said:
All this bad advice with such an easy problem to fix.
My location history and auto-update of location/gps is on at all times. This causes NO BATTERY DRAIN!!!
This is actually how to fix your Google Maps battery drain.
Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps and battery drain.
Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.
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I'm not sure if this will always work, I tried this a couple of days ago and my battery drain returned pretty quickly. I had to disable location reporting and location history.

Same here, it worked for a while, but then once I opened Maps the next time, it came back, although, this time is showing 3-6% instead of the steady 15% I had before.

Have you tried to disable "report/update my location" in settings? Worked as a charm in my old S3. In the S4 haven't that huge drain.
Regards :thumbup:
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Maesedroid said:
Have you tried to disable "report/update my location" in settings? Worked as a charm in my old S3. In the S4 haven't that huge drain.
Regards :thumbup:
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Doesn't this break Google Now?

same thing with maps and i still had great battery life today

battery drains very fast with Google Services, Android Apps and Android Core System

Hey guys, me again, I have a problem over here one day my phone starts to consume a lot of battery, at first it was the contacts application, then logsprovider, then contact manager, finder application provider and in some cases the android application system, all that I consume the phone, one day is a day other which I can do, since I heated phone use and the battery runs out very quickly.
I have already installed the firmware twice with odin and after a few hours back the same, I've done factory reset and nothing working.

Andr3s said:
Hey guys, me again, I have a problem over here one day my phone starts to consume a lot of battery, at first it was the contacts application, then logsprovider, then contact manager, finder application provider and in some cases the android application system, all that I consume the phone, one day is a day other which I can do, since I heated phone use and the battery runs out very quickly.
I have already installed the firmware twice with odin and after a few hours back the same, I've done factory reset and nothing working.
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Go to Maps settings and turn off location reporting in Google locations setting. Also in Google+. Then go to your Gmail account in settings, long press on your email and uncheck all services you don't want to sync.

xuser said:
Go to Maps settings and turn off location reporting in Google locations setting. Also in Google+. Then go to your Gmail account in settings, long press on your email and uncheck all services you don't want to sync.
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Fine thanks, also use the application Greenify

The new Android Device Manager location finder seems to be the culprit a lot of time now. If you are in a low signal area or have bad gps reception this new app that was pushed to the phone can suck down your battery. You have to disable this feature through the Google settings app in your app drawer.

cruise350 said:
The new Android Device Manager location finder seems to be the culprit a lot of time now. If you are in a low signal area or have bad gps reception this new app that was pushed to the phone can suck down your battery. You have to disable this feature through the Google settings app in your app drawer.
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Has anyone found a solution to this problem? I'm still getting major battery drain from Google Services even with location reporting unchecked and device manager turned off. I don't have this problem on CM10.2, only TW (currently on stock MF9), even though I use the same setup on both roms. Any other tips?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357417
This is a way to lower usage from Google framework
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I was finally able to take care of the problem. If you force stop Google Play Services and clear the app's data, then force stop the Play Store and clear the app's data, then reboot, it seems to take care of it.
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thanks maxpower7, your reply helped. I was also having battery drain problems suddenly. I cleared the Google Play Services cache en some other things, like disabling location services. Now all is ok.
I did have these services enabled before without any problems.