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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Or just turn off GPS when you are not using IT?
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^this
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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.
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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.
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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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Thanks! I think smart WiFi was the ticket.
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
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I wasn't signed into Google+, so hopefully turning off the setting above will help. Thanks!
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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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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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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
I keep my GPS off to help my battery life, but every once in a while the GPS turns itself on randomly and tries to get a lock. It's an issue because while I'm inside it really struggles to get a lock and eats battery like a mofo. I got to work with 97% battery and an hour and a half later I now have 85%.
What can I do to stop this from happening short of waiting for cyanogenmod?
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Install System Tuner, free from market (lots of annoying ads, no big deal).
Click the red System Android, click Android System, Details, then uncheck all 7 CarrierIQ related processes.
Worked OK for me and no FC issues with calls or anything.
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Which ones are carrier IQ? I don't see ant that are explicitly named...
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There's a list in the carrier IQ thread in general
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EDIT: figured it out, Thanks!
THANKS! @zxrax:good:
Alright. I'm getting horrible battery life. Do you guys have any tips? Even after a data wipe its still bad. And tips specifics to this phone or general ones? Thanks
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Are you in an area with poor reception?
You can try turning GPS and WiFi off when not in use.
You can also root your phone and feeeze/remove bloatware.
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Get wake lock detector and you can find what is draining your battery
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Well I had good service but had to wipe it and now it seems like my service is terrible and it drops all the time
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Well I had good service but had to wipe it and now it seems like my service is terrible and it drops all the time
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I had the same issues after my update. I then went and froze mobeam, all Knox services, enterprise.knox, knoxs.eventmanager, and a Security wipe apk. Let my note drain all the way until it powered down. Let it charge full cycle while turned off. So far work 1hr and 45 mins of on screen on time I'm down 15%. I feel like that's decent. Been on xda app pretty heavy and 2 different games straight with no screen timeouts
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Alright. I'm getting horrible battery life. Do you guys have any tips? Even after a data wipe its still bad. And tips specifics to this phone or general ones? Thanks
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Best tip I can give in general, whether you're experiencing bad battery life or not, is to learn how to bring down the Google based wakelocks across play store, youtube, account sync, maps, hangouts/talk etc
So how does one do this? First, do the obvious by going into each Google app - Menu key - settings - and untick things such as annoymous usage data, google mob ads etc. Delete apps you don't use if you're rooted too.
Disable Account Sync altogether if you can, location services in gps settings, bluetooth, nfc
More advanced things you can do is learn about "wakelocks" here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827676
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I had the same issues after my update. I then went and froze mobeam, all Knox services, enterprise.knox, knoxs.eventmanager, and a Security wipe apk. Let my note drain all the way until it powered down. Let it charge full cycle while turned off. So far work 1hr and 45 mins of on screen on time I'm down 15%. I feel like that's decent. Been on xda app pretty heavy and 2 different games straight with no screen timeouts
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thanks, i have 30min of screen time and down 15%
After upgrading to 4.4.2, I noticed a massive battery drain, and then noticed that in BBS system_server is taking quite a lot, any ideas what it is and how to stop it?
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After upgrading to 4.4.2, I noticed a massive battery drain, and then noticed that in BBS system_server is taking quite a lot, any ideas what it is and how to stop it?
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Change settings in some apps how frequent they should update. For example, update every 6 hours and change settings in Location to device only that might help. On my phone, I had a battery drain to zero just overnight. I disabled Google+ because I do not use it and in Google Play Services turn location off. I also wiped cache and dalvik cache in recovery and the battery drain stops.
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Change settings in some apps how frequent they should update. For example, update every 6 hours and change settings in Location to device only that might help. On my phone, I had a battery drain to zero just overnight. I disabled Google+ because I do not use it and in Google Play Services turn location off. I also wiped cache and dalvik cache in recovery and the battery drain stops.
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I already switched off location, and disabled most unused apps, yet the drain is still here. Anybody else experiencing this issue?
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Wrong screen.
To check what is draining your system, select in first tab: Partial Wakelocks.
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Wrong screen.
To check what is draining your system, select in first tab: Partial Wakelocks.
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What I meant is not an off screen battery drain, rather it is an onscreen battery drain that is far more quicker than 4.3, with my phone under normal usage having a maximum of like 1.5 hours of on screen time even though idle drain is low.
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And I am telling you that this doesn't prove anything.
At same screen, I have much more use for system server in comparison to you, but in real life there is no problem.
So, don't worry about this.
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