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My gps is turn off but drain my battery

Hey guys something is wrong with my nexus 4.
I turn off my location service but in battery stats it show my gps is on and drain my battery.
Any idea why?
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Codrea said:
Hey guys something is wrong with my nexus 4.
I turn off my location service but in battery stats it show my gps is on and drain my battery.
Any idea why?
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When did you turn it off? Because the bar in your screenshot indicates, that is was turned ON at some point...
If gps is still being used although it is turned off after a device restart (maybe there is some app misbehaving atm), the only option I could think of would be installing an app that logs which apps accessed the gps module and by doing so drained the battery. One would be "Spare Parts"
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danielms22 said:
When did you turn it off? Because the bar in your screenshot indicates, that is was turned ON at some point...
If gps is still being used although it is turned off after a device restart (maybe there is some app misbehaving atm), the only option I could think of would be installing an app that logs which apps accessed the gps module and by doing so drained the battery. One would be "Spare Parts"
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I think this answer may be useless. Apparently Spare Parts does not have that feature anymore. Sry :/ If you find another app that does, please let me know.

This was a bug in 4.2. Maybe it's still present in 4.3. Doesn't look like it's actually causing battery drain though. The "fix" is to reboot. There was a fix released in the 4.2 days but it caused other issues iirc.
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Do you have wifi set to stay on or off during sleep? I notice it takes a good few seconds to reconnect to wifi upon wake. Does data also stay on while the phone is asleep? In that case will keeping wifi on during sleep save more battery compared to just data alone? Thoughts?

I don't know how to override this without tasker or juice defender
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[Q] Why does my GPS / location turn on when I turn on my screen?

Not every time, but often when I turn on my screen the GPS/location icon blinks in the upper left. Seems to always happen when I unplug the device. Anybody know what is requesting my location?

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If anybody else is curious about this I answered my own question. GSam battery monitor reports which apps are using GPS, for me it happened to be the Weather Underground app.

Can't use power saving in Location settings

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Screen stays on?

Anyone else noticing their tab screen randomly staying on?
It's always the same, screen randomly turns on and stays at the locked screen. It does this until I interact with it, or until it runs the battery dry.
It's sporadic, sometimes when charging or not even touched.
I haven't been able to isolate what triggers the screen to turn on.
One night it was charging face up and it just turned on and stayed on.
The other day, I left it in a drawer fully charged and came back to it completely drained.
Most other times it just happens when it's laying around.
Sometimes it stays on with notifications, sometimes no notifications.
But during the nights, I have it on blocking mode, so notifications wouldn't trigger the screen.
I also made sure daydream mode and stay awake are both off.
At a total loss here.
Anyone else have this issue?
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Still suffering from this issue... Anyone else?
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FroznArrow said:
Still suffering from this issue... Anyone else?
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I was having this issue when I had the brightness turned all the way up. The phone would randomly wake itself up. Try switching your time off to five minutes and turn off the smart stay. Worked for me and fixed my battery issue

Toneman07 said:
I was having this issue when I had the brightness turned all the way up. The phone would randomly wake itself up. Try switching your time off to five minutes and turn off the smart stay. Worked for me and fixed my battery issue
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My brightness is never all the way off, most of the time it's actually all the way down.
Time off has been switched between all the times, and smart stay has never been on.
Can't seem to figure it out.

FroznArrow said:
My brightness is never all the way off, most of the time it's actually all the way down.
Time off has been switched between all the times, and smart stay has never been on.
Can't seem to figure it out.
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Weird... Mine only did it with bright all the way up. Have you tried factory reset?

Yep, no luck.
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