[Q] GPS signal searching every 10 seconds... - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

My new S4 searches for GPS location every 10-15 seconds for some reason. Can I find out what app is doing this, or does anyone know why it does it? Thanks.

sether52 said:
My new S4 searches for GPS location every 10-15 seconds for some reason. Can I find out what app is doing this, or does anyone know why it does it? Thanks.
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Do you have GPS & all location services enabled? Or an app that has location services enabled? Also how can tell it is searching every 10-15 seconds?

Joe0113 said:
Do you have GPS & all location services enabled? Or an app that has location services enabled? Also how can tell it is searching every 10-15 seconds?
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I do have all that enabled, yes. And I know it because the GPS crosshairs show up that often.

sether52 said:
I do have all that enabled, yes. And I know it because the GPS crosshairs show up that often.
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Download a battery monitoring app (I HIGHLY recommend GSam Battery Monitor) and see what is using your GPS signal.

Joe0113 said:
Download a battery monitoring app (I HIGHLY recommend GSam Battery Monitor) and see what is using your GPS signal.
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It might be smart Wifi. Go into your advanced wifi settings and turn it off. (It uses GPS to determine when to look for wifi)

I believe you may have a user app running in the background that is constantly accessing your location. Kill user apps one at a time until the gps indicator stops flashing or you may find the culprit by checking the permissions of recently installed apps.
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Or just turn off GPS when you are not using IT?
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daniel4653 said:
Or just turn off GPS when you are not using IT?
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^this
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daniel4653 said:
Or just turn off GPS when you are not using IT?
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I have GPS on 24/7 and it doesn't drain my battery. I've been averaging one day with 3hr + on screen time. It must be an app draining his battery this bad.

Joe0113 said:
I have GPS on 24/7 and it doesn't drain my battery. I've been averaging one day with 3hr + on screen time. It must be an app draining his battery this bad.
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Joe all phones are different. I turn mine off when in am not using it to prevent this. But more than likely the OP has a rouge app.
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My battery life has been terrible today...

As the title states, my battery life has struggled mightily today. Check out my pics, what do you think could be causing this?
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dude 3 hours awake time out of 5...thats an issue. you've got a wake lock somewhere. download wake lock detector
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the 1positive with mine so far is the battery. i go all day (12-14hrs) with moderate use and still have 30% charge when i plug it in.
That's terrible. You got an app freaking out. I noticed a huge drop in battery life when I put on a different sms app.
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Thanks guys, I installed the wakelock app. I will see what's going on.
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What was the issue?
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Install better battery stats.....maps and partial wakelocks seems to be killing you battery. BBS would give u a better indication of whats eating your battery
WizeGuyDezignz said:
As the title states, my battery life has struggled mightily today. Check out my pics, what do you think could be causing this?
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akong702 said:
What was the issue?
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Not sure what the issue is yet, I was charging my phone. Now I took it off the charger and have better battery stats installed. I will monitor it and let you know.
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Held awake for 3 hours because your screen was on for almost that long. Right?
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one thing that really kills this battery is the setting under location access "wifi and mobile network location" if you have that enabled google services keep the phone awake and drain the battery. I disabled that and my battery last so much longer now.
Well guys, something is still eating my battery alive. I went to bed with over 40% battery and I woke up with 7% left.
Here are my screenshots from better battery stats. Can anyone figure out what's eating me alive?
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
As the title states, my battery life has struggled mightily today. Check out my pics, what do you think could be causing this?
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Use greenify....you will see improvements right away.
Hit thanks
WizeGuyDezignz said:
Well guys, something is still eating my battery alive. I went to bed with over 40% battery and I woke up with 7% left.
Here are my screenshots from better battery stats. Can anyone figure out what's eating me alive?
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NLP-Network Location Process-seems to be your biggest issue. My best bet would be settings>accounts>Google>google+>location
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bova80 said:
one thing that really kills this battery is the setting under location access "wifi and mobile network location" if you have that enabled google services keep the phone awake and drain the battery. I disabled that and my battery last so much longer now.
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Thanks, I turned it off and will let you know if that was it.
lastdeadmouse said:
NLP-Network Location Process-seems to be your biggest issue. My best bet would be settings>accounts>Google>google+>location
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I wasn't signed into Google+, so hopefully turning off the setting above will help. Thanks!
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lastdeadmouse said:
NLP-Network Location Process-seems to be your biggest issue. My best bet would be settings>accounts>Google>google+>location
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Yeah, good tip. If that doesnt work, go to Maps and disable history and location reporting as well. Might want to disable Wifi and mobile network location under the global location settings as well. This prevents other programs from eating up battery trying to access location when GPS is off. Restart your phone after diasbling any of these, then check battery life
Ok guys, here is how my battery has been doing since I made the changes that everyone suggested. Am I in good shape?
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seems good. here was mine earlier though lol
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jayochs said:
seems good. here was mine earlier though lol
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Lol nice. The only complaint that I have about this is that I had to turn off every single location based setting in the phone. I've never had to do that on my previous phones. It never drained like this on my S4 with those settings on.
The root of my complaint is that I can't even get weather updates on my widget because it is all turned off. And I always like to have the weather widget on my main screen. Which single setting can I turn on to get weather updates? I will leave the other ones off.
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Getting eaten alive again. What are these top two things?
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Power management wakelocks in the kernel is a placeholder for partial wakelocks. Look at the partial wakelock list for details. I had a terrible *backup* partial wakelock that had a start count of 3000 within 8 hrs!!! It was killing my bat. Check yours, it might be that same if its not the location wakelocks acting up again

Anyone have this app now that we have root?

Auto-Enable GPS For Maps
I always hate that everytime I open maps I have to enable gps.
If someone has this can you please share either here or by a pm?
Thanks so muc
stu5797 said:
Auto-Enable GPS For Maps
I always hate that everytime I open maps I have to enable gps.
If someone has this can you please share either here or by a pm?
Thanks so muc
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Give this app a try, you can do this and pretty much anything else you want similar to it and more.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage
stu5797 said:
Auto-Enable GPS For Maps
I always hate that everytime I open maps I have to enable gps.
If someone has this can you please share either here or by a pm?
Thanks so muc
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Why not just leave gps enabled? I doubt you would notice any difference in batt life.
What Root?
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Use tasker
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bosshogg38 said:
What Root?
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This root. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481590
njfoses said:
Why not just leave gps enabled? I doubt you would notice any difference in batt life.
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^^^This. I've left GPS on 100% of the time on my last 10 Android phones, and it has literally zero effect on battery life. I've compared with it off, and with it on, and both give exact same results. My wife didn't believe me either and she tried and got same results as well and keeps it on all the time now too. If anything, it actually helps battery because your phone isn't randomly trying to pull network location all the time as GPS overides priority location (if I remember correctly).

[Q] Kernel (Android OS) sucking my battery !! Can Anyone help ??

I have GSam battery monitor installed on my Note 3 (SM-900) running stock JB 4.3 (MK1) ....
Since a last few days I have witnessed battery drain on my phone without any apparent reason....I charge my phone to 100% at night (wifi & 3G data is off at night) & when I wake up after about 8 to 9 hours of sleep I find that the battery is down to 85% !!! Strange isn't it ...
GSam battery monitor says that nearly 67% of battery is used by "App Usage" , on clicking App Usage for bifurcation of battery usage I find that nearly 50% of my battery is used up by "Kernel (Android OS)"......How to control this , any help will be appreciated dear forum friends !!
Please help me regarding this unusual problem....
Turn location services off. And then go check out @stanley08 thread about battery saving tips.
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radicalisto said:
Turn location services off. And then go check out @stanley08 thread about battery saving tips.
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There are 2 things checked in my "location services" ...1) Access to my location....2) Use wireless networks.
Do I need to uncheck both ??
ketani73 said:
There are 2 things checked in my "location services" ...1) Access to my location....2) Use wireless networks.
Do I need to uncheck both ??
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Yup uncheck both
radicalisto said:
Yup uncheck both
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In that case do I need to turn on my GPS ?? Because there will be a few apps requiring "My location permission" !!
Yup all location and GPS data needs disabled. It milks your battery
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radicalisto said:
Yup all location and GPS data needs disabled. It milks your battery
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In that case what will happen to apps which need your location permission ???
They won't get permission. If you need maps or navigation then turn it on temp
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Here is my battery saving thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2579075
ketani73 said:
In that case what will happen to apps which need your location permission ???
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honestly it is not the real cause.
i personally dont turn off these 2 options, and dont have problem with battery.
but sometime (ONLY sometime), the Android OS also eat my battery. Just reboot the phone and no more problem
So try to reboot your phone?
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GPS turning itself on and off

My gps keeps popping up that its on in the notification bar and then goes away in about 5-10 seconds. It is draining my battery, i have rebooted many times to no avail. Anybody else having this problem? Screenshot below, almost 4hrs on!!!!
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Btw my google location services and anything to do with location is off.
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CIQ? Maybe a rouge app.
Steamer86 said:
CIQ?
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yeah likely carrier IQ.
OP, go to settings>>apps>>running apps>> and I believe it's "android system" or something and inside you should find "carrier IQ" or something similar tell it to stop running that and carrier IQ will be disabled until you reboot. your gps will stop turning on and your battery life will improve significantly.

"Unified Daemon (EUR)" Causing high GPS Usage

Hey guys.
I just noticed that when I go into the location settings on my Note 3 (Omega V12) , i see something called Unified Daemon (EUR) causing high GPS Usage and probably battery usage too. Does anyone know what this is ?
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mahdibassam said:
Hey guys.
I just noticed that when I go into the location settings on my Note 3 (Omega V12) , i see something called Unified Daemon (EUR) causing high GPS Usage and probably battery usage too. Does anyone know what this is ?
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Its to do with the accuweather widget on the homescreen, and the widget on the lockscreen. I have my location set as a certain place. So it does not use my GPS.
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mahdibassam said:
Hey guys.
I just noticed that when I go into the location settings on my Note 3 (Omega V12) , i see something called Unified Daemon (EUR) causing high GPS Usage and probably battery usage too. Does anyone know what this is ?
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celderic said:
Its to do with the accuweather widget on the homescreen, and the widget on the lockscreen. I have my location set as a certain place. So it does not use my GPS.
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hehehe.
I always off the location setings
save my battery a lot
Not for me...
antique_sonic said:
hehehe.
I always off the location setings
save my battery a lot
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I also have mine using a set location with auto refresh every hour. I'm also getting the high battery usage and it's always on the recent location apps.
I turned the app off and it stopped consuming battery. Guess I'm in the market for a new weather/clock widget...
Hope this helps!
jwp0015 said:
I also have mine using a set location with auto refresh every hour. I'm also getting the high battery usage and it's always on the recent location apps.
I turned the app off and it stopped consuming battery. Guess I'm in the market for a new weather/clock widget...
Hope this helps!
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Theres some gps options that you can use to avoid the widget from consuming the battery:
1. U can just set it up to update once every 6 hours
2. U can change the locations settings for low usage or use just the gps.

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