I'm not one to open up new threads, but I thought this might be an appropriate time to do so. Anyway, I'm going to sum this up in as short of an explanation as I can.
My GPS used to work fine and today, all of a sudden it completely crapped out on me. Time and time again I tried to get a lock and it just wouldn't work. So I thought about any new apps I recently installed. The only two were snapdragon battery guru and KiK messaging app. I forced closed battery guru with no results. Now immediately after force closing KiK my GPS instantly got an accurate lock on me. Needles to say that app has now been deleted. So if anyone is having GPS issues be sure to remove that app and see if it helps. Later everyone, peace.
I use kik all the time and my gps locks with no issues
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Kik has been installed and running on my phone since day one and I've never had a GPS issue. I use Google maps with navigation and waze pretty frequently.
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So I have had my phone for almost two weeks and had only 1 ISSUE with the GPS not finding me, I was in a restaurant and could but find me for a couple of minutes, other than that working perfect. The other day I used the latitude app, I have never used this before, and now (I'm sure this is the propose of this app) it knows where I am at all times. So it goes without saying, this would help the people with GPS problems right?
As someone has stated before other phones seem to always have GPS working, this phone however turns GPS location on only when you use an app or program that uses your location.
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Lattitude doesn't help
I have GPS issues with or without Lattitude. I have tried both and have yet to get to ANY destination successfully using GPS. I read today that Samsung is acknowledging the GPS problem and promising a fix. Can't wait.
I have the phone for about a week. And I'm quite impressed with its performance. But a few problems bother me since the very beginning and it's on the edge to be returned/exchanged.
I noticed that the GPS locking is pretty fast, compared to my iphone4 with Navigon. However, Atrix lost GPS connections quite often. Last weekend I drove about 100 miles and I have to restart navigation software 4 or 5 times. Re-launching software does work. It locks GPS signals again every time after I restart software. But if I just let it try to search for GPS signal itself, it would never come back. I also tried to turn off WiFi location service but got the same results.
Also, my finger reader sometimes doesn't work. Once in a while, I have to reboot my Atrix because of this. However, reboot doesn't always work so I actually don't know it's a Motorola software problem or a real hardware failure.
Does anyone have any experience to share? Thanks.
I've noticed that my fingerprint scanner doesn't seem to work as well when the battery gets below the 15% range, it could just be this is usually late at night so I don't let it scan right
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it was all a matter of update googlemaps at market so its working as a charm!
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Actually I'm having trouble to find the gps signal in Navigation (google maps).
The cell phone keeps looking for the signal til it give up.... maybe it needs some updates or patches...
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I was using Google Maps navigation today, and as I got to my destination, it force closed on me.
I was able to use the phone and other social networking apps after that FC incident.
On my way back home, I tried to use Google Maps navigation again. It launched, locked my device really bad, and shut my device down! I was not able to turn the device back on using the power button. Had to do a battery pull.
Since when did Android apps have the ability to shut down the device and prevent the power button from working?
Google Maps navigation worked fine for the drive back home after the battery pull.
Stock DroidX (.621 OTA updated) Android 2.3.4
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I was having an issue with Maps draining my battery because it wouldn't close properly, never locked my phone up to where I needed to reboot though. It would just keep starting in the background and running, even a force close wouldn't fully work.
PappaFloyd said:
I was having an issue with Maps draining my battery because it wouldn't close properly, never locked my phone up to where I needed to reboot though. It would just keep starting in the background and running, even a force close wouldn't fully work.
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For some reason Maps is one of those applications that runs non-stop, regardless of rom or device.
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For some reason Maps is one of those applications that runs non-stop, regardless of rom or device.
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Very true, I went into ROMToolbox under Auto Start MGR and stopped it from opening all the time, works great. No more drain!
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Sunspot activity today caused problems with GPS systems today. Maybe the cause of your problem.
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Google blaming the Sun for my Google Navigation app locking up (on many occasions) would be like the Captain of the Exxon-Valdez/Titanic blaming the Sea for his ship sinking. LOL.
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My N4 hasn't had good battery life compared to my GNex and its noticeable. I used Google now on the Gnex and I got like close to 3 hours or more of screen on give or take with the 2000mah extended battery depending on what i was doing with 25% brightness most of the time. But on my N4 with Google now I got like barely 2 hours at like 20% brightness which doesn't' make much sense seeing that the battery in the N4 is larger. So I decided to turn off Google now since I don't really use it and now I get a little over 2 and a half hours sometimes more. I'm guessing that's cause Google now isn't updating and all that cause I turned off all the location services and GPS except the "wifi &mobile network location" for certain apps or widgets and stuff. This is all leading up to my question. How or why maps is at the top of my battery usage and why it says its using GPS when I have it off? It never was at the top before the android OS or screen was there. Now I get better battery life but still the screen isn't the top drainer which is odd. Does anyone have any insight? Cause I can only imagine the battery life I could get out of this if everything worked properly. Cause idk if its a bad code thing or hardware.
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Turn off WiFi under location access
But then I wont get any location data for certain apps or widgets. And that was never a problem on th GNex. Is that really the only option i would have?
If you have not done so, signin to navigation at least once.
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If you have not done so, signin to navigation at least once.
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Ok I did cause i haven't yet and i had to turn on GPS to do so. But now im back out i turned off GPS. What would doing that do exactly? If you dont mind elaborating?
If you never went through that step, some apps that request location will never get it and will keep sending requests draining the battery.
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I have signed in but google maps is still my top battery drain even when I haven't used it at all. Anything else that could be causing this?
Could be some widget or app that put location data like any weather widget for example.
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If you have not done so, signin to navigation at least once.
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Is this a documented fact or something you came up with on your own? I am just wondering because Google Now does not work properly on my phone but it worked great on my Gnex.
Well I guess maps has a bug or its badly coded because like you guys said you still get the battery drain even when you seem to turn location stuff off. Well i did the same I have no Google now activated and it was a little better but id still get maps and it would even say the GPS was on for like hours in it on the GSam battery app So I just decided to force close Maps and since then I have no issue maps isnt even on the GSam radar and my battery life is much better I Can get 3 hours screen time with 15% brightness pretty easy and more if im not doing intensive stuff. Im hoping better code for Jellybeen or maps will come out soon to even make this higher or actually let me use maps and google now without such the drain.
Also I found that when I went to use Maps for directions the GPS getting "stuck" issue would come back so id have to force close to get that to stop and it seems that some apps that use GPS get stuck even though I switch it off like Gas Buddy which looks for gas around your location I tried it and turned on GPS then off when i was done and when i checked GSam it was at the top of my list because the GPS was stuck on and even force closing the app wouldnt shut it off so I had to uninstall and reinstall to stop it. I think it was just that it wasnt coded for 4.1.2 well so hopefully all those bugs will get worked out in the future. Hope this helps someone!
Not documented, but I have personally have 3 n4s map battery drain fixed this way. I heard here on xda, tried, and worked. So there are at least 4 people fixed this way. Of course, this is probably not the only battery bug/optimization issue in 4.2.1.
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Make sure you're not signed in to Latitude, it's a killer.
Go to Google Maps > Settings > Location, and disable "Location reporting".
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Go to Google Maps > Settings > Location, and disable "Location reporting".
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what they said. this is a huge + for why maps is being used. wished google disabled this from the start so people wouldnt mistaken the phone for having 'poor battery life'
same issue! battery usage as GPS
I'm actually having the same issue (i know this is old)
All my settings are correct, even with force closing the app (GPS and Facebook sometimes) the battery usage will be #1, and the GPS on time under details will be constantly ticking. As I refresh the battery usage, the GPS timer will continue to go up.
Only way I figured to solve this is to reboot my phone.. anyone else experiencing similar issues?
I did! I just noticed this problem in the last 2 days and I found this post.
Does google know about this problem? Will there any patch release for this bug?
I can confirm the same thing with this gps issue.
There's a bug report filed. Vote for it to make it more visible to devs.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=52236&q=Gps%20usage%20when%20off&sort=-id&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
Experiencing it both on Google stock 4.3 Galaxy Nexus and Slim Bean 4.3 Nexus 4. Battery stats show GPS running under Google maps after switching GPS off using quick settings tile, after switching off location services in phone settings and even after switching off location in Google settings app. Only reboot stops good usage in battery stats.
This is very annoying. Have anybody fixed it? Any advice appreciated.
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Well I guess maps has a bug or its badly coded because like you guys said you still get the battery drain even when you seem to turn location stuff off. Well i did the same I have no Google now activated and it was a little better but id still get maps and it would even say the GPS was on for like hours in it on the GSam battery app So I just decided to force close Maps and since then I have no issue maps isnt even on the GSam radar and my battery life is much better I Can get 3 hours screen time with 15% brightness pretty easy and more if im not doing intensive stuff. Im hoping better code for Jellybeen or maps will come out soon to even make this higher or actually let me use maps and google now without such the drain.
Also I found that when I went to use Maps for directions the GPS getting "stuck" issue would come back so id have to force close to get that to stop and it seems that some apps that use GPS get stuck even though I switch it off like Gas Buddy which looks for gas around your location I tried it and turned on GPS then off when i was done and when i checked GSam it was at the top of my list because the GPS was stuck on and even force closing the app wouldnt shut it off so I had to uninstall and reinstall to stop it. I think it was just that it wasnt coded for 4.1.2 well so hopefully all those bugs will get worked out in the future. Hope this helps someone!
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You have exactly the same finding of mine (although I may have better punctuation)
The GPS is stuck on even when you killed the map and turn OFF the GPS in the settings already.
And you are right, every app that use the GPS can have this "bug". (I used Yelp a lot and battery status always shows that its GPS usage is on even after I turned off GPS)
In GSAM battery monitor it does not show a high usage though, I guess it does not actually drain battery.
And this issue is still appearing in Android 4.3 with Google map 7.2.0
Lately my s view case when opening has one heck of a lag turning on. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
I have been having the same problem. I have had the case on for about 3 weeks now and everything was fine until about 2 days ago where this started happening and it has been very randomly. Every time i have tried to show the problem to anyone it doesn't seem to happen. I also happened to notice the issue occurring more when the phones battery level is under 50% (not sure if that has anything to do with it though).
Mine even locks up occasionally. Assumed it was an app (the music download app was my guess), but the timing with these other instances is very odd. I deleted about 15 apps and seems more stable now. Could it be a memory issue? For those with this problem: please reply with a) last 5 apps installed and b) free space on internal memory.
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Mine even locks up occasionally. Assumed it was an app (the music download app was my guess), but the timing with these other instances is very odd. I deleted about 15 apps and seems more stable now. Could it be a memory issue? For those with this problem: please reply with a) last 5 apps installed and b) free space on internal memory.
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I have not installed any new apps since I started experiencing this issue but the last 5 the were updated were Facebook (multiple times) Spotify Galaxy Gear Manager Chrome and S Fitness. My available internal storage is 6.88 GB and my Ram used is 1.4 GB. I have also started to notice that it does happen more with my galaxy gear paired with my phone (but that could just be coincidence as i have my gear paired 90% of the time that my phone is in use). I also tried flashing my SD card thinking that might be the cause as i have had to do that to help with battery issues in the past with other galaxy devices but it also did not work.
When you open the case, do you open it like a book or flip the cover all the way open so it rests on the back of the phone? I feel like it happens more when I open all the way. Is there a magnet in the cover?
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When you open the case, do you open it like a book or flip the cover all the way open so it rests on the back of the phone? I feel like it happens more when I open all the way. Is there a magnet in the cover?
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I have just been opening it like a book and it is happening. I am not 100% sure if there is a magnet in the case. I would have to guess that there is a magnet which is what allows the s view to work properly. I do know that i have a smart cover for my Galaxy note 10.1 (2014) and that does have a magnet at the top that allows the tablet to turn on and off automatically and I think that they are using this same technology on these covers.
Are you using a third party launcher? I have Nova installed and am beginning to wonder if that is the cause of the issue. I was just noticing it happening regularly so for testing purposes I switched my phone to Touch Wiz and everything appeared to work fine. I am going to try and work with Touch Wiz over the next few days and see if that makes any difference.
Question: Is your brightness level all the way down and on auto?
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Question: Is your brightness level all the way down and on auto?
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I have my brightness set to auto. Anther thing i have tried and it has worked so far it to disable the smart remote from displaying on my lock screen. I will update later if i happen to see the issue come back again but i am hoping this fixes it.
That didn't work for me.
Even though on auto, is your brightness slider all the way left?
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That didn't work for me.
Even though on auto, is your brightness slider all the way left?
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No it is almost all the way to the right.
I thought that may be it could be Nova launcher but the same thing has been happening with the Google Now launcher. Has anyone figured this thing out? It makes me want to go back to my Note 3.
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shoresteve626 said:
I thought that may be it could be Nova launcher but the same thing has been happening with the Google Now launcher. Has anyone figured this thing out? It makes me want to go back to my Note 3.
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I have turned off my weather and pedometer on the s view lock screen and so far that has worked for me (it has only been about a day so far so i am not calling it a complete success as of yet). If you have either of these options turned on try shutting them down and see if it makes a difference for you.
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I have turned off my weather and pedometer on the s view lock screen and so far that has worked for me (it has only been about a day so far so i am not calling it a complete success as of yet). If you have either of these options turned on try shutting them down and see if it makes a difference for you.
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I switched from Nova to the Google Now launcher and haven't had any problems but I'll try this work Nova to see if it fixes the problem and will report back.
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I have gone all weekend without the phone freezing once with the cover on. Even pressing the power button two or three times quickly (which previously would freeze the phone immediately) worked just fine and it has been just as responsive as the day i took it out of the box. Just for fun i turned the weather and pedometer views back on the the S View Settings and almost immediately it started freezing again and stopped once i turn the features back off. I am going to go out on a limb and say that this was a success for me. As much as i love having those features turned on for quick glance purposes I will gladly give them up for a quick functioning phone.
Alright.... This ^^^^^ worked for me no matter what launcher I used! I literally spent hours throughout the day trying to get it to freeze after disabling the pedometer and weather but it never did. Thank you!
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I bit the bullet and did a factory reset. Pain in the a$$, but no problems for a week...
I contacted Samsung yesterday about this. A factory reset will work temporarily but the issue will come back again. The only suggestion they had was to clear the data from the weather app and the s health app (which means loosing all data in your health app and any weather locations you set which I have a fair amount set) which again. Is only a temporary solution. In my opinion this is not an acceptable solution but it's all they could provide to me so I am choosing to stick with keeping these features off for now.
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Yeah... I'm on the same page. I shouldn't have to keep clearing the data to get my $50 cover to work properly with my phone. I don't need the weather and pedometer in s view that bad....
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Just a heads up it appears that samsung has fixed the issue. They released an update to the s health app today and a fix to the s view issues was on top of the changes. So far (it's only been about 10 hours) I have not had an issue with the pedometer and weather apps on. I will update again if I run into any problems.