I have just received my note 3. When i checked my battery stats, I noticed that the gps is always awake although I had disabled every single location access. Here is the screenshot. Any ideas?
nepolaon said:
I have just received my note 3. When i checked my battery stats, I noticed that the gps is always awake although I had disabled every single location access. Here is the screenshot. Any ideas?
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You have to disable one more thing.
Go to: "Settings->Connections->Wi-Fi" and press the Menu button. Click on "Advanced" tab.
There you will find something like "Let/Allow/Permit always to scan" or sth. My phone is not English so i don't know what there originally writes in English but it is something like "Let/Allow/Permit always to scan".
If you UNCHECK this option, your wifi won't be awake all the time, anymore.
TheRecRuiT89 said:
You have to disable one more thing.
Go to: "Settings->Connections->Wi-Fi" and press the Menu button. Click on "Advanced" tab.
There you will find something like "Let/Allow/Permit always to scan" or sth. My phone is not English so i don't know what there originally writes in English but it is something like "Let/Allow/Permit always to scan".
If you UNCHECK this option, your wifi won't be awake all the time, anymore.
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Thank you for your help, that option is already unchecked. In fact, the issue is not about wifi. The GPS is awake because of some reason. I could not find why.
Battery drain due to GPS?
I could not find anything about the gps online. Does anyone have any ideas? Why would be the GPS awake all the time although the location services are completely off.
i am not an expert but can it be a false reading? because also it seems your screen is on while your phone is not awake? as i said i am not an expert but that is a condition i never saw on my note 1.
It is a bug with battery stats from my own experience ...The gps is not on but it shows it as on in the battery stats.
Try rebooting the phone. The gps bar will probably stop increasing until you turn it on again.
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problem solved?
Apparently, the reason was "Remote Control". When I turned that off, the gps was finally deactivated. The battery life seems to be better now.
nepolaon said:
Apparently, the reason was "Remote Control". When I turned that off, the gps was finally deactivated. The battery life seems to be better now.
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That would make sense as I believe remote control is a security app.
When launched you can track your phones GPS co-ordinates and it sends them to you remotely.
Hence why the GPS would always need to be on?
I think you can still locate the phone via Google. I left the google location service on and the GPS battery drain is not back again. I am very relieved now
nepolaon said:
I think you can still locate the phone via Google. I left the google location service on and the GPS battery drain is not back again. I am very relieved now
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Hi, I have the same issue. Can you explain what you did? Is it an option in settings or an app?
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idewis said:
Hi, I have the same issue. Can you explain what you did? Is it an option in settings or an app?
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I have deactivated remote control from the security preferences in the settings menu.
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Hi, every time I turn off my WiFi connection, it turns itself on throughout the day. This way it drains out my battery really fast and clearly I don't like it, since I hardly ever use WiFi on my phone...
Anyone an idea? I might have overlooked some settings I just should have ticked, on or off.
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gideonMorrison said:
Hi, every time I turn off my WiFi connection, it turns itself on throughout the day. This way it drains out my battery really fast and clearly I don't like it, since I hardly ever use WiFi on my phone...
Anyone an idea? I might have overlooked some settings I just should have ticked, on or off.
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Do you have any automatic updates set up for example weather, stock, emails etc?
I'm running Titanium on 6.5, energy rom. I think you're talking about tf3d, or? How shall I do it?
I turned off the setting in the weather menu, 'download weather automatically'. Is that the option you were talking about.
Somebody please shine a light, since this kinda sucks ;'-)
edit: On top of the screen there's an icon with a G on it, sometimes it turns in a red wifi icon...Thought I should mention.
edit 2: And WiFi was just turned on again, magically. Argh!
gideonMorrison said:
I turned off the setting in the weather menu, 'download weather automatically'. Is that the option you were talking about.
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Yes, this is what I was talking about. But you should also have a similar option for stocks (not sure about titanium as I don't use it), email and possible QuickGPS application if you use it.
Basically it sounds like something or some app is activating your wifi to come on as you have it setup to update automatically
Google maps is keeping my phone awake, I cleaned the cache and forced stop but keeps running, It used 12% of my battery in 2 hours so is a issue, any way to fix it?
Uninstall the Google Maps update. Others have had the same issue.
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Check if you have Latitude running. It can restart google maps. Also, you might want to do a search on your own, you're not the first one with this problem.
I ripped out crap I didn't use and it helped with speed and responsiveness. Maps was definitely one to go. I can always install it later if needed.
I'm pretty sure it's Latitude that's causing the problem.
dmora01 said:
Google maps is keeping my phone awake, I cleaned the cache and forced stop but keeps running, It used 12% of my battery in 2 hours so is a issue, any way to fix it?
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I've had this same problem. For me, Latitude was the problem. I don't use it, so I used Ti Backup to get rid of it.
However, my wife uses Latitude and the way she solved the problem is by going into the Latitude settings and turning off the auto-update location feature, which was waking her phone up every 10 mins or so to update her location. Now she has it set so that she has to manually update her location and the battery use issue has gone away.
Latitude was the problem for me also. I turned off Latitude and it was fixed.
How do you keep it shut off? I have the same problem with Latitude but it just keeps starting up again. Only thing working is unchecking using both wireless networks and gps but then no applications can use that stuff which isn't super cool. Latitude is ofc still running doing this but at least it's not draining my battery.
calanbalan said:
How do you keep it shut off? I have the same problem with Latitude but it just keeps starting up again. Only thing working is unchecking using both wireless networks and gps but then no applications can use that stuff which isn't super cool. Latitude is ofc still running doing this but at least it's not draining my battery.
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This is what worked for my wife:
VisedMonk said:
My wife uses Latitude and the way she solved the problem is by going into the Latitude settings and turning off the auto-update location feature, which was waking her phone up every 10 mins or so to update her location. Now she has it set so that she has to manually update her location and the battery use issue has gone away.
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In Latitude > Settings > make sure "Do not update your location" is checked and "Enable automatic check-ins" is not checked. Then sign out of Latitude and you should be good to go.
tmcquake said:
Latitude was the problem for me also. I turned off Latitude and it was fixed.
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That's not a solution, though, is it? FWIW, I made a bug report: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17356
VisedMonk said:
However, my wife uses Latitude and the way she solved the problem is by going into the Latitude settings and turning off the auto-update location feature, which was waking her phone up every 10 mins or so to update her location. Now she has it set so that she has to manually update her location and the battery use issue has gone away.
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Can I ask what good is latitude without the auto update feature? So your wife keep on manual updating everywhere she go?
ykphuah said:
Can I ask what good is latitude without the auto update feature? So your wife keep on manual updating everywhere she go?
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I don't use it, so I can't say. I imagine she uses it to check in places, kind of like foursquare, which would be easy enough to do manually, I suppose.
ykphuah said:
Can I ask what good is latitude without the auto update feature?
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Not much, really. Well, if you sign out completely you can't even see where your friends are.
Anyway, disabling the updates for my own location in Latitude's settings didn't make any difference for me.
As of 4.1.2 Maps is running permanently unless I disable Google Apps Location Access. LAME.
this has been an issue with me since ICS. I've uninstalled maps several times because I was getting such horrible battery life. I've seen my phone die in 3 hours in standby because maps was constantly running. Couple the map issue with your phone searching for a data signal, and it's easy to kill your battery from a full charge in just a few hours. Something needs to be done, severely!!
You can notice an instant, DRAMATIC increase in battery life after uninstalling/freezing maps, btw....I'd recommend giving it a shot to anyone having battery life problems.
heinrich said:
As of 4.1.2 Maps is running permanently unless I disable Google Apps Location Access. LAME.
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I read that all location requests by all Apps goes through Google Maps, when WiFi and Mobile network location is enabled.
I too have been experimenting with different ways to boost my battery life, trying out disabling:
1. Signing out of Latitude
2. Turning off WiFi and Mobile Network Location
3. Turning off Google Now
4. Manually disabling Wifi and Mobile network etc...
So far I realize that its actually #2 that causes battery issues for me. Keeping latitude signed in doesn't seemed to have much impact if #2 is turned off.
I have ended up just uninstalling it because it was by far the most battery draining app on the phone, on the days where I was barely using it maps kept the phone awake for 3+ plus hours, making me charge the phone every day when I didn't even use it!!
My advice is when you need it, install it OR the day before, input the route/address/location you need and after the use for it ended, uninstall it. It'll be in your play store app list anyway so the above process, wont take too long.
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I have ended up just uninstalling it because it was by far the most battery draining app on the phone, on the days where I was barely using it maps kept the phone awake for 3+ plus hours, making me charge the phone every day when I didn't even use it!!
My advice is when you need it, install it OR the day before, input the route/address/location you need and after the use for it ended, uninstall it. It'll be in your play store app list anyway so the above process, wont take too long.
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You can also freeze it with Titanium Backup or similar. More practical way to do it, IMHO.
By the way, if you freeze it, location services will be in their own process.
Just disable Location access.
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polobunny said:
You can also freeze it with Titanium Backup or similar. More practical way to do it, IMHO.
By the way, if you freeze it, location services will be in their own process.
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Good advice! I'll try it that way in the next couple of days when I have a few job interviews coming up. However, I DO wish EL goog sorts this problem out sooner or later, it's only maps in the core Google apps that really has this problem.
Hi all. I have noticed a problem since updating my samsung gala y s4 i9505 to jellybean 4.3
The battery is draining really quick.
I have all the s features turned off. Gps, wifi turned off
in settings its saying 53% for screen
17% google services
Surely the battery shouldnt be draining this quick
Can anybody help
Try making sure your WiFi is off by going to Settings->Wifi->Menu Button->Advanced-> Disable Always allow Scanning(4.3 only)
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Try making sure your WiFi is off by going to Settings->Wifi->Menu Button->Advanced-> Disable Always allow Scanning(4.3 only)
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This was already turned off me, and I also have been experiencing battery drain after updating. Google services and screen..It's annoying
Check to see for Wakelocks you may have some apps keeping your phone awake.
I recommend either betterbattery stats or wake lock detector. Both available on the market. Let that run over the course of a day then check to see if you have any high number of wakelocks caused by any apps.
Also see whether you have location reporting on or off in the Google settings app. Location can sometimes hammer with wakelocks.
It's probably one of the apps you have installed, I never have any battery problems with 4.3
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Check to see for Wakelocks you may have some apps keeping your phone awake.
I recommend either betterbattery stats or wake lock detector. Both available on the market. Let that run over the course of a day then check to see if you have any high number of wakelocks caused by any apps.
Also see whether you have location reporting on or off in the Google settings app. Location can sometimes hammer with wakelocks.
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Doesn't the wake lock stop the phone from going into Deep Sleep? Mine seem to sleep just fine but ever since I upgraded to 4.3 it drains almost 40% over night. With Wifi and BT turned off it's only about 3%. the 'always allow scanning' option is turned off.
Is the Mobile Data on? Do u have a Exchange account added? Because I see the issue is because of the Mobile data always trying to download or upload something. I disabled the exchange account and it started working fine. But that just a workaround.
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Is the Mobile Data on? Do u have a Exchange account added? Because I see the issue is because of the Mobile data always trying to download or upload something. I disabled the exchange account and it started working fine. But that just a workaround.
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Thanks.....I do have two Exchange accounts and without Wifi and mobile data things are much better. I think I'll delete and re-create the accounts on the phone.
I've noticed bigger battery consumption too, idle and with screen on. I even did a factory reset but to no avail. I definitely used to get much longer screen-on time than before, such a shame.
Check your battery! My battery life started to decrease not long after moving to 4.3, thought it was the ROM but turns out I had one of those faulty batteries.
ewok666 said:
Thanks.....I do have two Exchange accounts and without Wifi and mobile data things are much better. I think I'll delete and re-create the accounts on the phone.
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Definitely WiFi for me. On Mobile data it drains 2% in 8 hrs and on with WiFi on it drains about 35% or so.
ewok666 said:
Definitely WiFi for me. On Mobile data it drains 2% in 8 hrs and on with WiFi on it drains about 35% or so.
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Hi.
To make sure WIFI is not using up yr battery, check google play store settings and uncheck updates through wifi. and u might also want to uncheck software updates through wifi in settings/about device/software updates.
Next is open Google Settings app, go to Android Device manager and uncheck "Remotely Locate This Device".
Another thing to point out is to uncheck "notification reminder" in settings/accessibility/notification reminder.
This was the big culprit for me for the 100% screen awake on my device...
Cheers..
maanz "L" said:
Hi.
To make sure WIFI is not using up yr battery, check google play store settings and uncheck updates through wifi. and u might also want to uncheck software updates through wifi in settings/about device/software updates.
Next is open Google Settings app, go to Android Device manager and uncheck "Remotely Locate This Device".
Another thing to point out is to uncheck "notification reminder" in settings/accessibility/notification reminder.
This was the big culprit for me for the 100% screen awake on my device...
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've done all of that but my Wifi battery drain remains. I even disabled active sync altogether but still screwed. Either I disable Wifi or the battery drains overnight.
ewok666 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I've done all of that but my Wifi battery drain remains. I even disabled active sync altogether but still screwed. Either I disable Wifi or the battery drains overnight.
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Have u tried re-installing yr firmware again?
What custom roms and kernels are u using?
Since the day I installed 4.3 knox-free version, i have no WIFI drain issues apart from the '100% screen awake'.
I'm using MJ5, all google-related connectitvity turned off, I'm having 2 and half days of battery life.
Deep sleep is between 92%-96% all the time.
maanz "L" said:
Have u tried re-installing yr firmware again?
What custom roms and kernels are u using?
Since the day I installed 4.3 knox-free version, i have no WIFI drain issues apart from the '100% screen awake'.
I'm using MJ5, all google-related connectitvity turned off, I'm having 2 and half days of battery life.
Deep sleep is between 92%-96% all the time.
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I did reinstall the firmware a few times actuallybut in the end I fixed it with a reset. I reset my phone (from the settings) then gone into recovery and formatted cache and data from there as well and the drain was gone. Must have been something in the old settings coming across from 4.2.2. Pain in the A*** but at least it worked. Lase night I upgraded to MK8 (DBT so MK8 radio as well) without a reset and there is no drain.
ewok666 said:
I did reinstall the firmware a few times actuallybut in the end I fixed it with a reset. I reset my phone (from the settings) then gone into recovery and formatted cache and data from there as well and the drain was gone. Must have been something in the old settings coming across from 4.2.2. Pain in the A*** but at least it worked. Lase night I upgraded to MK8 (DBT so MK8 radio as well) without a reset and there is no drain.
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Good to hear that, mate.
This is getting ridiculous
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is it possible to reset the database used for the "Smart mode" Wi-Fi option? When I first got my device I remember after a day or so the Wi-Fi would automatically turn on if I was in the vicinity of my home and my parent's home. Now it won't turn on in either locations, however it will turn on in certain locations "randomly" that do have Wi-Fi... for example today at work it would turn on several times after turning it off and entering certain floors that carried Wi-Fi. There has to be a database of some sort or a way to reset it so the only two locations that matter to me, home and parent's home, get preference to "Smart mode". any suggestions?
Theoretical, haven't tried it, but try this -
Settings / More / Application Manager / All / Sprint Connections Optimizer -
Force stop
Clear cache and data
reboot
thanks for responding, unfortunately I do not see "Sprint Connections Optimizer" even under the All tab in Application Manager. I'm on 4.3 if that makes any difference...
That's Really Odd....
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That's Really Odd....
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I don't have the Sprint Optimizer as well. I found this thread because the "do you want to use smart mode" (paraphrasing) pops up all the time for me despite the fact that I always have it enabled. It's quite annoying when it pops up in the middle of the night and lights up the entire bedroom. Anyone else suffering from this deluded feature?
dimm0k said:
thanks for responding, unfortunately I do not see "Sprint Connections Optimizer" even under the All tab in Application Manager. I'm on 4.3 if that makes any difference...
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I don't have the Sprint Optimizer as well. I found this thread because the "do you want to use smart mode" (paraphrasing) pops up all the time for me despite the fact that I always have it enabled. It's quite annoying when it pops up in the middle of the night and lights up the entire bedroom. Anyone else suffering from this deluded feature?
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Do you both have 720s or 720Ts?
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Do you both have 720s or 720Ts?
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720 running kit kat
Hmmm.... I have a 720T on 4.3. Could be the culprit/difference. Can't investigate what I don' t have.
And I'm holding off on updating...
#blamesprint
anyone know how this smart mode thing works? should I leave wi-fi on all the time and let it do its thing or what? seems like with this option on, wi-fi keeps turning on even when I turn it off.
By any chance, is this setting in WiFi / Advanced what you're looking for?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...canning-unless-you-find-the-special-checkbox/
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By any chance, is this setting in WiFi / Advanced what you're looking for?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...canning-unless-you-find-the-special-checkbox/
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thanks for this link! never noticed that specific option in the advanced part of the wi-fi settings. wonder how true it is when the article states that leaving this option on saves battery versus firing up the GPS chip. I understand GPS would suck more, but would it do it silently at the app's request even though the app isn't running in the foreground? Anyway, this setting might be intertwined to the Smart mode Wi-Fi option, however Smart mode Wi-Fi is a separate option along with this one you pointed out... which kind of raises more questions!
Why is my WiFi always on? Relevant screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/8ZI49P6.png
WiFi is manually toggled off.
WiFi scanning in Settings > Location > Advanced is turned off
I get that there are wake issues in my screenshot, but that's more likely to deal with Facebook than anything. Still doesn't explain why WiFi is always on.
Edit 31-JAN-2016: So I tried the following in my testing
Charge phone to 100%
Turn Off WiFi
Check battery screen, phone seems to show WiFi on still
Reboot
Notice that WiFi is off on the battery screen.
However maybe a minute later, it seems to "turn back on" (SEE SCREENSHOT)
Have you checked your Location scanning settings as well?
Is Wi-Fi scanning turned off there too?
dmo580 said:
Why is my WiFi always on? Relevant screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/8ZI49P6.png
WiFi is manually toggled off.
WiFi scanning in Settings > Location > Advanced is turned off
I get that there are wake issues in my screenshot, but that's more likely to deal with Facebook than anything. Still doesn't explain why WiFi is always on.
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I have the same problem too.
If you go into the dialer and try searching on a company does it prompt to turn on wifi scanning?
Try rebooting
Same problem here.... Reboot doesn't help.
Same problem
My Nexus 6p wifi always remains on. Battery is draining. Please help.
kEvinErd said:
I have the same problem too.
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Same problem here.... Reboot doesn't help.
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chenmoy said:
My Nexus 6p wifi always remains on. Battery is draining. Please help.
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Do you guys by any chance have any of these apps installed? I'm suspecting it has something to do with these.
My testing so far is as follows:
Turn off Wifi
See that WiFi is still on in Battery Screen
Greenify the list of apps above
See that WiFI is still on in battery screen
Reboot
WiFi no longer shows as on
I'm going to do further testing to see. This is inconclusive so far.