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"com.motorola.providers.contacts" eating away battery.

My "com.motorola.providers.contacts" usage is always pretty damn high, with 15-20+ minutes of CPU time.
It always shows up high on the battery usage list.
A thread in the Motorola support forums for the Droid X states that "BlurPhotoDownloadService" eats away at battery life as well. I couldn't seem to find this process on the Atrix, so I'm assuming it's packaged into "com.motorola.providers.contacts".
Anyway, what does this process do?
Furthermore, how can I slow/stop it safely to save my precious battery?
Thanks!

Nobody else having this issue?

i think that process syncs your contacts from gmail or hotmail. you can disable it with titanium backup if you are rooted

Is it safe to freeze this process?

there are three our four apps associated with your phones contacts I think you can freeze 2 of them without losing your contacts. check the thread on what you can freeze or you can try it yourself. freezing these apps won't bricked your phone.
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neotekz said:
there are three our four apps associated with your phones contacts I think you can freeze 2 of them without losing your contacts. check the thread on what you can freeze or you can try it yourself. freezing these apps won't bricked your phone.
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Yup I figured that part out.
I checked the thread but couldn't find anything about com.motorola.providers.contacts. I'm not sure what to freeze to disable syncing.
Today, my phone died 30% in an hour because apparently Twitter had been syncing/using CPU time for 1.5hrs. I havn't opened the app in days either :/

there are other apps that sync and use up your battery. i disabled all email and social media sync and a few others.

neotekz said:
there are other apps that sync and use up your battery. i disabled all email and social media sync and a few others.
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Hmm alright, I'll freeze some of those mentioned on the list and report back.
Thanks!

Weird battery drain

Sp i came home after work and saw my note was at 14% battery,weirdest thing when i left to work it was about 80,no internet or nothing was enabled,btw this is 2nd time happening like this,any thoughts?
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Mine is I left it to charge over night, close those no use app.
When this morning wake up, saw the display using about most of the battery.
Any app to see what proofread is using the battery so much?
P/s: can't upload picture, keep asking me to login but I had already login.
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That is mostly caused by some app, had that too and deleted a few apps i installed last rebooted and it disapeard.
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Any idea wht program can use to show what app are in use?
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Try Badass Battery Monitor

Look for Samsung Push Service in your apps list and un-install it!
If you use Samsung Apps, this program is automatically installed and stays active, won't let your phone go to sleep!

My battery stats!
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My battery stats!
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High system and OS percentage.

Hi thanks the suggestion...after install it I noticed there is an app called phone radio auto sync to internet...how do I uninstall it as I can't find it in my app list....
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Look for Samsung Push Service in your apps list and un-install it!
If you use Samsung Apps, this program is automatically installed and stays active, won't let your phone go to sleep!
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Hi henklbr,
Thanks for the tip, I uninstalled it alrd...is there any other app tht I can get rid of?
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lhooipg said:
Hi henklbr,
Thanks for the tip, I uninstalled it alrd...is there any other app tht I can get rid of?
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Instead of trying to uninstall apps, installing Magic Locker allows you to set power saving and this could be very helpful. In my case it doubled the battery life and I now have around 60% left in the evening.
Hope this helps.

agboa said:
Instead of trying to uninstall apps, installing Magic Locker allows you to set power saving and this could be very helpful. In my case it doubled the battery life and I now have around 60% left in the evening.
Hope this helps.
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I try to search for one but turn up mostly is for theme, which one I suppose to select?
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lhooipg said:
Any idea wht program can use to show what app are in use?
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There are a number of Apps you can install that will show running applications ~ SystemPanel is one such app.
It comes in two variant ~ Paid & Free.
The free version is okay for looking at what your apps are doing but it does not offer the same level of service that the paid version gives and in this case you do need the paid version.
Full version ($2.99) adds app manager (installer/uninstaller with multi-version APK archival), and long-term application resource monitor to solve app-related battery life problems.
However, for finding out what apps are using your battery you can do this with your phone's built-in settings.
Just navigate to Settings/Applications/Running Services and look at what apps are currently running.
If you don't need a particular app running simply tap on it and select 'Stop'.
Job done that is one app no longer running in the background.
Another option is to again go to Settings/Applications/Battery Usage.
Here you not only see the graph at the top but also a list of main running apps (note not all are shown).
Tap the graph at the top and it shows you various parameters i.e. when the screen was on and when the device was awake. Basically you need both to be the same. If the phone's screen was off but it remained awake you then have an app running constantly in the background.
So, press the back button and look at the list of apps showing. To terminate an app simply tap on it and this time select 'Force Close'.
Spend a little time now and again popping over to these two places (Running Services & Battery Usage) and you should be able to identify what app or apps are eating your battery.

Beards said:
There are a number of Apps you can install that will show running applications ~ SystemPanel is one such app.
It comes in two variant ~ Paid & Free.
The free version is okay for looking at what your apps are doing but it does not offer the same level of service that the paid version gives and in this case you do need the paid version.
Full version ($2.99) adds app manager (installer/uninstaller with multi-version APK archival), and long-term application resource monitor to solve app-related battery life problems.
However, for finding out what apps are using your battery you can do this with your phone's built-in settings.
Just navigate to Settings/Applications/Running Services and look at what apps are currently running.
If you don't need a particular app running simply tap on it and select 'Stop'.
Job done that is one app no longer running in the background.
Another option is to again go to Settings/Applications/Battery Usage.
Here you not only see the graph at the top but also a list of main running apps (note not all are shown).
Tap the graph at the top and it shows you various parameters i.e. when the screen was on and when the device was awake. Basically you need both to be the same. If the phone's screen was off but it remained awake you then have an app running constantly in the background.
So, press the back button and look at the list of apps showing. To terminate an app simply tap on it and this time select 'Force Close'.
Spend a little time now and again popping over to these two places (Running Services & Battery Usage) and you should be able to identify what app or apps are eating your battery.
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Very well put...... +1

thanks...will try that first and see how's thing goes

MIUI
lhooipg said:
I try to search for one but turn up mostly is for theme, which one I suppose to select?
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In my case I chose MIUI but I think any theme should work as well. After installation it asked if I wanted to activate the battery saving mode which I accepted to check its performance as I was having battery drain as well and needed a solution.
I was happily surprised the next day. I hope all these issues are fixed by Samsung in ICS.

Best Battery Status with Chracks Rom.
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Does anyone know what is this phone radio app is? I try to find it at the app and want to uninstall cannot find...
How do I get rid of it?
Thank you.

lhooipg said:
Does anyone know what is this phone radio app is? I try to find it at the app and want to uninstall cannot find...
How do I get rid of it?
Thank you.
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Errrrrr...
That's your phone!

Whatsapp wakelock drains my battery

Need some help. Since the last update from whatsapp (2days ago) my n4 won't go into deepsleep cause of whatsapp. What can i do beside deleting whatsapp?
Thanks for your help.
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Chintao said:
Need some help. Since the last update from whatsapp (2days ago) my n4 won't go into deepsleep cause of whatsapp. What can i do beside deleting whatsapp?
Thanks for your help.
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Use Greenify

Chintao said:
Need some help. Since the last update from whatsapp (2days ago) my n4 won't go into deepsleep cause of whatsapp. What can i do beside deleting whatsapp?
Thanks for your help.
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Go to settings, scroll down to accounts, tap on whatsapp. There you can turn off contacts synchronization, which is causing the wakelocks.
It will not interfere with your messages as this only sycs your contacts.
Do check once in a while if it stays of as with me it sometimes turns on automatically

Thanks for your help. I will try it
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Bram89 said:
Go to settings, scroll down to accounts, tap on whatsapp. There you can turn off contacts synchronization, which is causing the wakelocks.
It will not interfere with your messages as this only sycs your contacts.
Do check once in a while if it stays of as with me it sometimes turns on automatically
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I'll give this a shot. I was shocked to see that Whatsapp was keeping my phone awake for more than 7 hours over the course of a day. Thanks.

I AM having this problem too. My auto sync is already offline and I still get a huge amount of wakelocks.
What else can I do?

after opening whatsapp..just go to settings->apps-> whtsapp.. and click force close.. u wil have no wakelocks

Try and find the previous apk.

saikat_ace said:
after opening whatsapp..just go to settings->apps-> whtsapp.. and click force close.. u wil have no wakelocks
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Having the same issue... Don't think that's the best solution - using your method, I'll have to do this everytime I finish conversation.
Nexus 4 @ stock 4.2.2
Alex_Dreyk said:
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Greenify will probably "kill" message notifications?

My problem went away after I installed the newest version off their website.

@clankfu,
Thanks, will try it. Seems that Play has 2.10.*** and the latest on their website is 2.11.***

Had this issue with website versions weeks and months ago. Might be that the bug came into the playstore version (although I don't have any issues right now)

gzesku said:
Having the same issue... Don't think that's the best solution - using your method, I'll have to do this everytime I finish conversation.
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It will take it to sleep mode.

I see this once in a while and it'd be good to understand WTF is going on. Why does it take a full 5 minute wakelock?
I'm not even sure if its the contacts sync because I clicked on Whatsapp in the Android Settings menu and it showed that the last sync was at 7pm last night. Yet this morning I had a 5-6 minute wakelock. I unchecked and rechecked and it completed the sync in a second or two.

download LLama or Tasker and you can create a task so that when you are backing out of whats app it will FC it for you. I do this with some system apps that stay open longer than I would like. Although its not the way Android may want it its what I do

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download LLama or Tasker and you can create a task so that when you are backing out of whats app it will FC it for you. I do this with some system apps that stay open longer than I would like. Although its not the way Android may want it its what I do
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could you specify the way you do this on tasker? will this action stop the notifications in new message?

Calendar Storage causing keeping phone awake!

So I'm totally in love with my Samsung galaxy note 3. I'm just not satisfied with my battery life. I find that it's really inconsistent. Sometimes the battery life is good, other times not so much. My phone can be charged to 100% and then within 2 minutes of use its down to 99. Also, for example, last night I went to bed at 3am and woke up at 11am (8hrs) and my battery had gone down from 40% to 22% :s. I downloaded wake lock detector and found that "calendar storage" was constantly waking my phone up. I've searched everywhere for solutions and haven't found something concrete. Can anyone help me out please?!
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Can any one offer any suggestions or solutions?
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Disable calendar sync maybr
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I tried that. Still doesn't work. This is unbelievably frustrating. It's absolutely killing my battery life man
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Cant help but found your problem while searching for an answer to my own. Same here, but on a Moto X so it's not necessarily Samsung related. Calendar storage has a whopping 1,013 wake locks in 10 hours. The next closest is incomparable with Google Search /109, then Tasker / 64, everything else is negligible.
Going all Chuck Norris and disabling a bunch of things may work, but I hate that method as it ruins the point of a "smart phone". There has to be some better explanation out there, but many threads are years old for the same "calendar storage" problem and usually device-specific solutions.
edit: make that 1,023 just since writing this post! crazy

Force-stop it. It's probably stuck. (settings --> general --> applications --> all --> Calendar storage --> Clear cache & Force Stop).
Also, turn off all Syncs (including Google and Exhange) and Backup for the calendar.

If I force close calendar storage, the calendar app doesn't work . It opens, but all the information in my calendar doesnt show. I've even tried other third party calendar apps.
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anyone found a solution yet? Previously on my s4 it would wake like 150 times a day, which isn't to bad, but I just got a OnePlus One and this is constantly waking my phone! It had like 800 wakes in 4 hours!

GPS keeps turning on

My GPS keeps turning on randomly. I have location services and such turned off, but they keep turning back on. Anyone know what's causing it, or how I could track down if an app is doing it?
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Thanks Christ for create this thread as I am about to post the same question.
It has happened in the last couple days. I wouldn't say 100% but surely 98% every time I turn the screen on, there is "searching for GPS" pops up.
It keeps running for from a few seconds to minute then turns back off.
Yes, I DID set to disable GPS.
Does anyway we can figure out which app is actually searching for GPS, gurus?

Facebook does for me and I don't know how to prevent that **** from doing so.
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Just disable Location in FB/Messenger app.

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Facebook does for me and I don't know how to prevent that **** from doing so.
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How do you know it's the FB?

It used to search for gps whenever I received a Facebook notification. It might not be the same issues for you. What about the weather widget?
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I don't set any notification ON and FB isn't running at all.
I suspect the G+ but don't know for sure.
Weather widget is not a culprit.

For me, it was Carrier IQ. Once I disabled that, my random GPS wakes stopped.

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For me, it was Carrier IQ. Once I disabled that, my random GPS wakes stopped.
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Took the words right out of my mouth

redpirate8 said:
For me, it was Carrier IQ. Once I disabled that, my random GPS wakes stopped.
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Sounds reasonable but I do have CIQ enable from day one w/o any issue.
It just happens in the last couple of days. Maybe 2014 isn't the year for me?

Maybe GSam Battery Monitor can help pinpoint which app is causing the GPS wakes. Or Wakelock Detector.

I also have been noticing the location icon popping up on my status bar every now and then. I cant find what app is triggering it. I dont see cIQ in my application manager to disable it...
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Running Applications > Android System > IQ Agent Service. Hit stop there and then hit stop for Android System. You'll have to do that at each boot unless you're rooted. If you're rooted, you can use System Tuner.

Here's my shots.
This is probably directly related to the issue or NOT.
Clearly, Location Manager Service goes crazy.
What it is is yet to figure out.

At one point, I saw Google Messaging Service kicked on so I turned off Hangouts SMS feature and along with a reboot, my battery is now better but the "searching for GPS " still pops up.

Is location services turned off also in Google Settings and Maps?

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Is location services turned off also in Google Settings and Maps?
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Absolutely YES

Those photos... completely baffling. Wow. My guess would be all the recommendations above and going through all apps requiring location and disabling it.

Could try Greenify. I use it. It hibernates apps so they won't run until you tell them to