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Hey guys,
So the other day I rebooted my blade, and it was running painfully slow. I rebooted again and again to no avail, so downloaded a cpu meter.
The results from this were that android/checkin service is using a drastic (70-80%) of the cpu when this is happening.
I launched a terminal, killed the process, the phone rebooted and it was fine.
Now the problem is, if i reboot my phone again it goes back into slow mode, with the checkin service using the cpu.
Anybody know anything about this process?
Im running stock rom, unlocked, rooted, uninstalled bloatware, using go launcher, custom lockscreen and custom font.
Thanks in advance
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Sounds like an app failing to sync data. Try betterbatterystats - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 it might help you to find out which app.
Wow really? One app failing to sync uses that much? Wow. Hmm i'll give that a try. Is that syncing with market updates? Or just general sync?
Thanks for the reply, hope it isnt an app i use a lot :S
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A badly written app misbehaving could. If you find out what it is then you can try changing whatever app settings might be causing it, removing app data, or uninstalling the app. Better battery stats should give more information on what app it is, i think android checkin could be any app that syncs data. either that, or it's some kind of location checkin thing, have you used lattitude at all? it could be that.
Unfortunately betterbatterystats isn't free in the market, and the dow load links in the post arn't compatible :-/
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So according to astro's process manager it's 'system_server'.
Does that shed any light on it?
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okay so i think i've solved it by turning off location services.
It might be because foursquare recently added assisted gps.
So, looking around the internet, this problem stems back to when google latitude and other location services were created. Something along the lines of multiple location requests kills the device.
If thats the case, then why is it still affecting phones today? I'll let you know if it has properly fixed it though.
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It could be foursquare or latitude, maybe the combination of both. My money would be on latitude, if you've ever set it up, it seems to be quite badly made & i don't think many people use it, but google insist on bundling it with google maps. Maybe you can turn it off if you open the app & press menu, I never joined, so I'm not sure.
Turning off location services will affect apps that you might want to use, like maps & navigation.
Well I don't have latitude on mine, it may have been installed but i removed it when i was clearing bloatware. Havent had a problem since turning off location services, perhaps forsquare uses the same buggy api as latitude? I dont need location services much anyway, and as long as i turn it off before a restart it should be okay
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And it's done it again, even with location services disable... :-/
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If you don't want location services then why do you have foursquare installed?
I did want them enabled, but I thought it had solved the problem, which evidently it hasn't. Uninstalled it for good measure and it still did it, so no idea what it could be now.
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Is there ant apps same like S health without use GPS and DATA ?
and how the S health apps work ? with help of any sensor ?
yajur said:
Is there ant apps same like S health without use GPS and DATA ?
and how the S health apps work ? with help of any sensor ?
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Not aware of any apps that do what S Health does. You may probably find some Pedometer app to count steps, BUT I never tried any of them. Here is an example
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wsl.CardioTrainer
NOTE I do not know what this app does/is, try at your own risk.
Regarding what sensors S Health uses, it is likely accelerometer, gyro, compass, temperature/humidity, barometer. The use of SO many sensors makes me think there is no other app that can work as well as S Health.
I haven't even opened maps at all. I have used instagram and internet. What should I do?
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jm1999 said:
I haven't even opened maps at all. I have used instagram and internet. What should I do?
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I believe this is Samsung S Health, the pedometer "Walking" application. If you do not use the pedometer, make sure the screen does not contain the widget, and make sure the tracking is stopped inside S Health.
On a second thought, it could also be Google Now, or latitude. Also disable location tracking in Now.
I use pedometer app and Now with location tracking on, and it is not draining the batt that much, but Maps does show up as high power consumer. The phone lasted 26 hours before I charged it today.
Could it be my foursquare widget? I think it might be.
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I had this same exact problem, go in Maps > settings > location settings > uncheck: Report from this device, Enable location history, Automatic check-ins.
That will stop the battery drain / usage from Maps.
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I had this same exact problem go in Maps > settings > location settings > uncheck: Report from this device, Enable location history, Automatic check-ins.
That will stop the battery drain / usage from Maps.
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I also have noticed this, more noticeable after the update, anyways, is not that bad, but I have noticed draining since then, and when I check my Display is taking 54% of it and then Maps follows with 15%, I can tell you that every time I check is at 15%, and like the rest of you Maps is not opened, I have disable all Location Settings on Maps and have no Google Now widgets running, I have even tried disabling GPS and even after that, the Maps still there with 15%.
I thought that a reboot will help but still the same, any other suggestion?
Ugh. It definetly has some thing to do with location right?
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I read that someone had this issue before. If I am correct, someone else suggested they remove the pre-installed "maps" APK that ships with the phone and then go to the APP Store and re-install Maps from there. I don't know if it worked or not or even why. You might want to try and search for the original thread. It was either here in the AT&T S4 forums or the original S4 forums. Again, it was just something I read when the phones first came out.
Maps is a known battery drainer. The best solution with the SII is Greenify, and I suspect that it will also work very well with the S4. Requires root. You can install from the play store, but go to the developer's xda thread and read the first three posts. Lots of folks just greenify Google maps and nothing else.
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I read that someone had this issue before. If I am correct, someone else suggested they remove the pre-installed "maps" APK that ships with the phone and then go to the APP Store and re-install Maps from there. I don't know if it worked or not or even why. You might want to try and search for the original thread. It was either here in the AT&T S4 forums or the original S4 forums. Again, it was just something I read when the phones first came out.
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I just removed original Maps app, and installed Play Store one and now everything seems to be back to normal, so. my theory is that something occurred during the update with the maps app and is causing this, because it wasn't doing this before that.
Thanks for sharing.
I guess there is now way to fix this with out root? Thanks guys!
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I want my 16% back.
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It's the location history option for Google maps. That is nothing to do with the phone and it had been a problem on many devices. Turn off location history and you should see it go down.
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All this bad advice with such an easy problem to fix.
My location history and auto-update of location/gps is on at all times. This causes NO BATTERY DRAIN!!!
This is actually how to fix your Google Maps battery drain.
Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps and battery drain.
Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.
Grant H said:
All this bad advice with such an easy problem to fix.
My location history and auto-update of location/gps is on at all times. This causes NO BATTERY DRAIN!!!
This is actually how to fix your Google Maps battery drain.
Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps and battery drain.
Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.
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I'm not sure if this will always work, I tried this a couple of days ago and my battery drain returned pretty quickly. I had to disable location reporting and location history.
Same here, it worked for a while, but then once I opened Maps the next time, it came back, although, this time is showing 3-6% instead of the steady 15% I had before.
Have you tried to disable "report/update my location" in settings? Worked as a charm in my old S3. In the S4 haven't that huge drain.
Regards :thumbup:
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Maesedroid said:
Have you tried to disable "report/update my location" in settings? Worked as a charm in my old S3. In the S4 haven't that huge drain.
Regards :thumbup:
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Doesn't this break Google Now?
same thing with maps and i still had great battery life today
And if so: is it working for you? And what apps are greenified on your nexus?
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Yes.
Yes.
Maps is a big one. It likes to run in the background and eat up battery.
im using, its working, and most my apps are greenified, besides a few root apps. i dont use notifications for any app besides gtalk and gmail, so i greenify all that i can. i also use an app called autostarts, which works well in conjunction with greenify
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I still don't know it's purpose.
Yolo
I can't get facebook message notifications even though I ungreenified them
I used to use it. Among the apps I Greenified were:
1. Facebook
2. Maps
3. ESPN Scorecenter
Although I found that WhatsApp and Viber woke my device quite often, I use them all the time so it didn't make sense to include them in the list.
In terms of effect, it did reduce battery consumption some. But then I figured I'd just be a responsible user and sparingly install apps and turn off notifications altogether if I didn't really need them (or use bookmarks to mobile web versions instead). If you really need all your apps, then Greenify is a safe choice.
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I used to use it. Among the apps I Greenified were:
1. Facebook
2. Maps
3. ESPN Scorecenter
Although I found that WhatsApp and Viber woke my device quite often, I use them all the time so it didn't make sense to include them in the list.
In terms of effect, it did reduce battery consumption some. But then I figured I'd just be a responsible user and sparingly install apps and turn off notifications altogether if I didn't really need them (or use bookmarks to mobile web versions instead). If you really need all your apps, then Greenify is a safe choice.
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The concept of turning off notifications altogether is good only of the app is properly written for it. For example Facebook.... Even if you turn off all notifications whatsoever it still creates wakeups.
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deeren said:
The concept of turning off notifications altogether is good only of the app is properly written for it. For example Facebook.... Even if you turn off all notifications whatsoever it still creates wakeups.
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Correct. Which is why I now use m.facebook.com instead. The Facebook app is a really terrible battery drainer.
I see maps waking up the phone quite often. But will Google now still work if you greenify maps?
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I am wondering if anyone knows what system apps S Health is dependent on?
I know it's dependent on the sensor app, but I can't figure out any others. I have deleted some of the Samsung bloat, clearly one it calls to....it is unable to open.
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