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Maps killing battery

I'm having an issue with my n7. The maps app that I never use is constantly eating loads of battery. Its always the second thing in the battery usage list. I never use it! why is it draining my battery?
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geoldr said:
I'm having an issue with my n7. The maps app that I never use is constantly eating loads of battery. Its always the second thing in the battery usage list. I never use it! why is it draining my battery?
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I think its built to start up automatically during certain actions such as wifi being turned on. You should be able to disable it in settings > apps. If you're rooted, you uninstall it.
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VanillaG0rilla said:
I think its built to start up automatically during certain actions such as wifi being turned on. You should be able to disable it in settings > apps. If you're rooted, you uninstall it.
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I'm rooted but I don't want to completely uninstall it. For now I have disabled location services, so I will see how well that works.

geoldr said:
I'm rooted but I don't want to completely uninstall it. For now I have disabled location services, so I will see how well that works.
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Get titanium Backup and freeze it. When you need it just defrost it
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[Q] [q] strange battery life on the n4

Just got my new Nexus 3 days back.. and today was the first day using the phone not plugging it on and off thorough the day.
noticed something odd. I hadn't opened the maps app.. so it makes it even more strange.
any ideas?

Maps always runs itself. I believe this can be remedied by turning off location settings.
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Which app is that by the way? And turn off location settings and latitude.
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I just disabled maps
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droidmakespwn said:
Maps always runs itself. I believe this can be remedied by turning off location settings.
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the even more curious part was that the app had run only for 34seconds!
not faced the problem today, hadn't changed any settings. guess it will remain a mystery until it happens again?

Someone was having a similar problem a few weeks back. Try going from maps to navigation and accepting the user agreements etc. Someone found that this solved the maps battery drain.
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karanrajpal14 said:
Which app is that by the way? And turn off location settings and latitude.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm.pro
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Endoran said:
Someone was having a similar problem a few weeks back. Try going from maps to navigation and accepting the user agreements etc. Someone found that this solved the maps battery drain.
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+1
This was an issue on galaxy nexus when updating from 4.0 to 4.0.1 .all you had to do is to go to maps accept t&c and that's it.
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Can't open settings.

Something strange is going on with my N4, every time I try to open my settings it just closes it again almost instantly. Also I've noticed that if I turn off wifi it turns itself back on straight away and then it goes into silent mode for a second (speaker symbol with dash through it) then back to full volume. I've tried restarting it and uninstalling recent apps. I am thinking about doing a factory reset but don't want to if I can help it... But I can't anyway because I can't get into settings! Nothing shows up in virus scans. Screen briefly flashes black regularly too. Any suggestions please? Thanks.
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Unfortunately you will have to wipe EVERYTHING on your device to fix this issue.
For now press and hold the power button, press and hold the power off option.
You should see a safe mode option, press OK and the device will boot to safe mode.
In that stage check the settings if it still works.
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Thanks, do you know what has caused this problem?
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Osborn82 said:
Thanks, do you know what has caused this problem?
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No idea, probably some settings or kernel bug.
Did it work?, if so then reboot to get off safe mode and see if it works.
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I can get the settings to stay open in safe mode but still same problem when I restart it again. Should I do a factory reset?
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Osborn82 said:
I can get the settings to stay open in safe mode but still same problem when I restart it again. Should I do a factory reset?
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Most likely an app is doing this, yes try factory resetting.
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Factory reset it and all good now! Thanks.
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Did you installed an antitheft app?? Usually they try to make the settings persistent when in locked to Help phone recovery mode which usually gets activated by changing the SIM card
A factory reset should fix that in most cases
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gierso said:
Did you installed an antitheft app?? Usually they try to make the settings persistent when in locked to Help phone recovery mode which usually gets activated by changing the SIM card
A factory reset should fix that in most cases
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Already fixed, read above your post.
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andyabc said:
Already fixed, read above your post.
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i did read it. i was pointing that out in case it happen again that could be the case

me too
strange enough, I also have exactly the same problem today (August 21). Also had to do hard reset. What's happening? Really curious to know what the cause is.

gierso said:
i did read it. i was pointing that out in case it happen again that could be the case
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What you said makes sense. So, just for the future reference. Should I uninstall my anti-theft app before changing sim card? Will this prevent if from happening? Thanks!

freeintruth said:
What you said makes sense. So, just for the future reference. Should I uninstall my anti-theft app before changing sim card? Will this prevent if from happening? Thanks!
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or deactivate the function in the antitheft app but yes uninstalling is easier some times

cant open settings in nexus 4
Osborn82 said:
Thanks, do you know what has caused this problem?
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Hi i cant open settings in my phone as well. I tried safe mode and that didnt work as well. Could you kindly help

What's causing Google services to keep running?

I was using GPS on and off during a trip, but whenever I'd turn it off, I'd make sure WiFi services in location settings was off too. And data too. But Google services kept going up, why? I checked for wakelocks and found none. Doesn't make sense
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Girn said:
I was using GPS on and off during a trip, but whenever I'd turn it off, I'd make sure WiFi services in location settings was off too. And data too. But Google services kept going up, why? I checked for wakelocks and found none. Doesn't make sense
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Did you turn off Google Location services?

Yes, that's what I meant by Wi-Fi services
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Girn said:
Yes, that's what I meant by Wi-Fi services
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Interesting. I saw that Google services were on the top of the list for using the battery and went into Location services and unchecked that same box and just left GPS turned on and Google Service were no longer an issue. Have you tried pulling the battery? I remember that on my Note 2 sometimes things got "stuck" and pulling the battery was the only way to fix it.

High Google Play services?

For some reason google play services seems kinda high... its the second highest on my list. I'm not sure what could be causing this.. any ideas?
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Also. Sync is off, GPS is off. I am not signed into hangouts or google+
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That app is a hog! If you're rooted go ahead and make it a user app then greenify it. If you aren't rooted then Idk what you can do because unfortunately you can't uninstall it. :/
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xamadeix said:
Also. Sync is off, GPS is off. I am not signed into hangouts or google+
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Make sure in the location services WiFi and data is unchecked. And you can also download betterbatterystats to figure out what the drain is also. Your battery should look like this. Screen should be the most used.
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Make sure in the location services WiFi and data is unchecked. And you can also download betterbatterystats to figure out what the drain is also. Your battery should look like this. Screen should be the most used.
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I turned off location services and location history last night before I went to bed, Seems much better. Google play services isn't even on the list anymore. I'll have to see how it goes today.

yeah, it seems every app wants access to your location.
i seem to have more issues on kk roms and none on TW roms like Golden Eye--may vary for others--