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Hi everyone, so I am the proud owner of 3 Nexus S' and I have to say, probably the most awesome phone I have ever owned... Battery life is good on all 3 phones with an average of 20 hours on average use... however as soon as I enable LATITUDE on either of the 3 devices.. battery life drops to around 8 hours with the same average use. I believe people are aware of this issue, but I could not find a fix other than obviously disabling the feature.
Is this a software bug for Google yet to fix, or is Latitude/GPS that much of a battery drainer (sometimes up to 20% in battery usage in info)
Same here. Battery drops as soon as it is enabled.
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Well Latitude continuously pings your location to Google, and it's receiving info of where your friends are, so yes, it's a battery hog.
nxt said:
Well Latitude continuously pings your location to Google, and it's receiving info of where your friends are, so yes, it's a battery hog.
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I honestly believe that's not the problem, especially with hundreds of emails coming through my phone a day. I never had such a drastic battery drain from this feature on another android device (e.g. Nexus One)... I believe it may be linked to either a software bug or hardware issue (I'm assuming Samsung GPS takes up more time and power to acquire the same lock vs an HTC device).
Anyone know of a way to tweak Latitude's GPS refresh rate? I'd like to raise it's minimum to like 30/45min. Or I want to figure out why it's keeping the phone awake 1-3hrs in a single day.
disable location history and auto checkin ...mine doesn't seem to take up as much power after i did that
yeah, there's a bug report if you google. latitude is not that battery hungry on my previous HTC Magic.
supernine said:
I honestly believe that's not the problem, especially with hundreds of emails coming through my phone a day. I never had such a drastic battery drain from this feature on another android device (e.g. Nexus One)... I believe it may be linked to either a software bug or hardware issue (I'm assuming Samsung GPS takes up more time and power to acquire the same lock vs an HTC device).
Anyone know of a way to tweak Latitude's GPS refresh rate? I'd like to raise it's minimum to like 30/45min. Or I want to figure out why it's keeping the phone awake 1-3hrs in a single day.
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remember when you are signed in to latitude, it does not use the GPS in the background, it only approximates your location from the nearest cell site. when you actually go into maps and into latitude is when it pinpoints your precise location with GPS. soon as you minimize it, the GPS turns off and it goes back to approximating location again.
i cant use latitude in this condition
can u link the bug report please?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15057
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I'm on second Nexus S. I didn't have Latitude enabled on my previous Nexus S. Battery used to last me a day.
On second one, I enabled Latitude and it would last about 5 hours. I didn't think Latitude was problem.. though I should disable after weeks of usage. Then I get about 15 hours with mild usage.
Yea I've stopped using latitude... only manually refreshing it then disabling it every now and then. It was fine on my Nexus One so I don't know why it's such a huge hog on the Nexus S. I submitted a bug report to google a few days after release...
Same issue on my NS when using Latitude as well. I'm wondering if it has something to do with Samsung's GPS functionality as there has notoriously been issues with it with their Galaxy S phones.
Just when I thought I do not have this issue anymore, yesterday Maps was using 70% of my battery, and I saw that it kept my phone awake for 7 hours of my 15 hours period!
I have rebooted my phone and now Maps seems to be at a normal 20% battery usage (still not normal if compared to latitude being enabled on my old HTC Magic).
Really need latitude....
enable latitude always kills your battery life
but set to never sleep in wifi advanced settings will definitely reduce the battery leeching
I hate resurrecting old threads, but there is an alternative to latitude.
Search for altitude, by the same dev that put out betterbatterystats.
It allows you change the refresh on latitude, and how coarse/fine you want it to locate you.
Definitely reduces the resource drain.
I just never open latitude. Till this day its never been open.
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So I also disabled latitude because of this.
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I just never open latitude. Till this day its never been open.
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Try it. Not everybody has the issue.
Actually on that bombshell, Latitude uses very little power when I don't travel and lots when I do, as I expect. The refresh rate depends on how much I move about. Newer versions of Google Maps has tended to use more power than older versions but the update last week has helped.
I don't have any real reason to use Latitude most of the time, other than I can, but my wife uses it to not call me to see where I am. I wonder if the power saved through no call makes up for the drain..?
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Hi,
Hope someone can help because I'm pulling my hair out over this. I am seeing pretty terrible battery life on my nexus 7 ranging between 3 and 6 hours screen time over a day or two. The culprit is pretty obvious as reported as Google services in battery usage and I can clearly see obscene partial wakelocks from networklocationlocator. This is chewing through battery while the tablet is not in use. I have attached a screenshot of both the standard battery graph and better battery stats. Latitude is not on, I am not reporting location but location services are enabled for Google now etc. Please help. I don't want to have to cripple Google now to solve this issue.
No suggestions at all?
Does this show up under your regular battery stats? I would try to help by offering a comparison, but I have no interest in spending $3 for a battery stat program like you're using.
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ExploreMN said:
Does this show up under your regular battery stats? I would try to help by offering a comparison, but I have no interest in spending $3 for a battery stat program like you're using.
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Do you ever see Google services in your battery usage?
This is all I have on my usage screen.
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I'm having similar problems with mine.. poor battery life, and I seem to have almost the same partial wakelock issue, except on the top of my list, I have AudioOut_2, which is really weird, I have no idea what that does. NetworkLocationLocator is the 2nd on my list..
I also have very low screen times ranging between 3-6 hours, way below Awake time. which means its doing stuff in the background..
My regular google battery page looks like yours. Wish I could help.. I will investigate some more.. do some tests.
Ive been thinking of doing a factory reset..see if that helps anything.
Google Now location settings
Binke said:
I'm having similar problems with mine.. poor battery life, and I seem to have almost the same partial wakelock issue, except on the top of my list, I have AudioOut_2, which is really weird, I have no idea what that does. NetworkLocationLocator is the 2nd on my list..
I also have very low screen times ranging between 3-6 hours, way below Awake time. which means its doing stuff in the background..
My regular google battery page looks like yours. Wish I could help.. I will investigate some more.. do some tests.
Ive been thinking of doing a factory reset..see if that helps anything.
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I was having the same issue, though the only thing I realized I didn't check was my Google Now settings. Go in there to make sure one or more of the cards aren't GPS happy.
I turned off a bunch of them, and will check again tomorrow to see if that does the trick.
In Common.
My issue is IDENTICAL, this is really a big time problem I hope there is a solution to. I don't have a Nexus 7 tablet, but a Verizon Galaxy Nexus running 4.1.1. This is a Jelly Bean problem. I unplugged my phone from a full charge, turned the screen off, and woke up to 66%.
NetworkLocationLocator
12m59s (779s) Count:1717
SignalCollector.ScannerThread
12m25s (745s) Count:225
AudioOut_2
3m29s (209s) Count:65
Got to be a way to shut those things down, this is incredible.
Hello all,
I need you all to know that I have been searching and reading all the sub forums to no avail. I did picked up one tip stating to disable google play services which I did, but I keep getting warnings that other apps need it to function correctly.
It has been really bugging me that my GN3 with full T-Mobile 4G coverage (and wifi calling/data) has worst battery life then my GN2 on non-existent Sprint 3G coverage (wifi air-rave at home). My GN3 battery stats were great at first but then on the fifth day or so my "Media" usage details started cooking 35% of my battery daily while actually making the handset hot. I'm talking at the rate of going from 100% battery to 45% in 2.5 hours!!! With the brightness at only 15%-20%.
I also disabled and uninstalled updates on all the apps that were drawing ram/data that I never use including Ant radio services, Ant plugins, Chaton, Bloomberg+, HP print services plug-in and all the google play apps except play store.
So yesterday into today was the first cycle with all the above disabled and I am at 1day 16hours w/ 4% battery left. That includes a 10hr work day with 1.5hrs commute where I logged 20+ phone calls with just over 3.5+ hours talk time via bluetooth, 100+ text messages, 50+ emails and a few minutes of internet searches/browsing.
Obviously a huge improvement, but what else can I do to extend the battery?
Thank you all in advance and sorry if this is a noob question. The limitless knowledge on xda-dev is fascinating.
HighCaliber said:
Hello all,
I need you all to know that I have been searching and reading all the sub forums to no avail. I did picked up one tip stating to disable google play services which I did, but I keep getting warnings that other apps need it to function correctly.
It has been really bugging me that my GN3 with full T-Mobile 4G coverage (and wifi calling/data) has worst battery life then my GN2 on non-existent Sprint 3G coverage (wifi air-rave at home). My GN3 battery stats were great at first but then on the fifth day or so my "Media" usage details started cooking 35% of my battery daily while actually making the handset hot. I'm talking at the rate of going from 100% battery to 45% in 2.5 hours!!! With the brightness at only 15%-20%.
I also disabled and uninstalled updates on all the apps that were drawing ram/data that I never use including Ant radio services, Ant plugins, Chaton, Bloomberg+, HP print services plug-in and all the google play apps except play store.
So yesterday into today was the first cycle with all the above disabled and I am at 1day 16hours w/ 4% battery left. That includes a 10hr work day with 1.5hrs commute where I logged 20+ phone calls with just over 3.5+ hours talk time via bluetooth, 100+ text messages, 50+ emails and a few minutes of internet searches/browsing.
Obviously a huge improvement, but what else can I do to extend the battery?
Thank you all in advance and sorry if this is a noob question. The limitless knowledge on xda-dev is fascinating.
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Im lookin for the same thing. I found a forum where they list the apps and stuff that u can disable but I cant find something that would explain whats that certain app for before I disable it.
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2470862
I haven't disabled anything and battery life has been awesome compared to my old Nexus 4. 17 hours with 2 of screen in time and still had 63% this afternoon. Also running T-Mobile here
Maybe lookout can influence that I think.
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roni2915 said:
Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2470862
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Thanks. This really helps a lot.
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jhobert said:
Thanks. This really helps a lot.
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No problem
My g2 battery sucks donkey balls....
I have watched like two youtube vids and listen to maybe 3 songs over the cloud and im at 86%????
Last night i left it on without at charger on about 20% and i wake up this morning and its at 2% ???
I sold my htc one for this phone because of the battery life did i just get a bad unit?
Check your running services.
What carrier are you with?
Are you in a poor signal area?
Do you use WiFi at home?
Install the battery guru app from the play store. It learns your usage & can manage a lot of things to minimize drain.
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garywojdan81 said:
Check your running services.
What carrier are you with?
Are you in a poor signal area?
Do you use WiFi at home?
Install the battery guru app from the play store. It learns your usage & can manage a lot of things to minimize drain.
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At&t
1-3 bars lte
I use wifi at home
Im off for the week so i need it to learn next week when im back at work doing my normal day
I'm thinking of just putting clean rom on it because most of whats in the running apps is at&t stuff
GhostSoldier_US said:
I'm thinking of just putting clean rom on it because most of whats in the running apps is at&t stuff
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Check the stock battery stats. Also, you may consider using a 3rd party battery stats application.
I was having some drain issues with Google Services. It turned out there was a Google Contacts sync issue caused by setting the ICE Contacts within the phone. I didn't quite have the drain you are having but there was VERY noticeable differences from before and after.
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Check the stock battery stats. Also, you may consider using a 3rd party battery stats application.
I was having some drain issues with Google Services. It turned out there was a Google Contacts sync issue caused by setting the ICE Contacts within the phone. I didn't quite have the drain you are having but there was VERY noticeable differences from before and after.
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How did you fix it?
Something is not right my friend. I use mine with stock rom and with pacman 4.3 for a long time and i spend 2 days until reaches the 20%...And i use a lot of messengers and Facebook...So just in case maybe you need a replacement
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Something is not right my friend. I use mine with stock rom and with pacman 4.3 for a long time and i spend 2 days until reaches the 20%...And i use a lot of messengers and Facebook...So just in case maybe you need a replacement
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I did a soft reset and ive moved from 68% to 62% in 3-4 hours
Battery
Battery is really different to gauge between users, carriers etc... I've had great battery life with the latest CM Rom 10.2 Nightly. Bloatware kills battery.
Have you checked the battery status to see which apps are using the most percentage
chrisbooth12 said:
Have you checked the battery status to see which apps are using the most percentage
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GhostSoldier_US said:
My g2 battery sucks donkey balls....
I have watched like two youtube vids and listen to maybe 3 songs over the cloud and im at 86%????
Last night i left it on without at charger on about 20% and i wake up this morning and its at 2% ???
I sold my htc one for this phone because of the battery life did i just get a bad unit?
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Is your GPS constantly activating ? It's probably either Google services tracking your location for Google now, or Carrier IQ. I had this issue a while back, and it doesn't show in a wake lock detector. Its a carrier installed program that tracks the GPS location of your phone without your consent. Search for it here, you'll find a few threads on how to remove it.
LG G2
livebyknight said:
Is your GPS constantly activating ? It's probably either Google services tracking your location for Google now, or Carrier IQ. I had this issue a while back, and it doesn't show in a wake lock detector. Its a carrier installed program that tracks the GPS location of your phone without your consent. Search for it here, you'll find a few threads on how to remove it.
LG G2
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This...
vween said:
This...
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Could you link me to a thread on how to remove this?
livebyknight said:
Is your GPS constantly activating ? It's probably either Google services tracking your location for Google now, or Carrier IQ. I had this issue a while back, and it doesn't show in a wake lock detector. Its a carrier installed program that tracks the GPS location of your phone without your consent. Search for it here, you'll find a few threads on how to remove it.
LG G2
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Could you link me to a thread on how to remove this?
Battery
Chances are good that it could POSSIBLY be a bad unit. I've seen posts about battery issues when looking up a solution for mine. Sometimes the phone will just not charge, and it would get really hot. I recently had to call warranty and have them send me a new phone. I hope they don't find out I've rooted it LOL
I'm not really sure how to get rid of the traces aside from unrooting :/
Here's what worked for me
GhostSoldier_US said:
My g2 battery sucks donkey balls....
I have watched like two youtube vids and listen to maybe 3 songs over the cloud and im at 86%????
Last night i left it on without at charger on about 20% and i wake up this morning and its at 2% ???
I sold my htc one for this phone because of the battery life did i just get a bad unit?
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I had horrible battery life at first too, then found this and has completely taken care of the issue and get exponentially more life now
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2479892
GhostSoldier_US said:
How did you fix it?
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I removed the contacts from the ICE listing. If you still have trouble you can use an app called Contacts Sync Fix that fixes most problems.
Recently my battery is very bad and I try many Roms, They all I get 3 hours screen battery.
I have root and used Greenify.
I actually came to xda to see if anyone else was having problems. My wife and I have noticed huge battery drains the past few days. Honestly have no clue what it was. She noticed her google now launcher now has a white background when viewing "all apps".
Our phones are not rooted and are stock.
Help?
Probably Google Play service related. I have had bad battery life on pretty much all roms, and in power settings it always says G+, google services, youtube or something else is using most of the power.
PedexGaming said:
Probably Google Play service related. I have had bad battery life on pretty much all roms, and in power settings it always says G+, google services, youtube or something else is using most of the power.
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Nope.
any services not running in background.
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