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In the last few days, my battery has been eaten alive. And when I checked the culprit, the phone says it's Maps (Google Maps). This behavior just started a few days ago. I have GPS turned off and as far as I can tell, Maps is inactive. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a fix?
oooh...i have this problem too. it started a few days ago and google maps is showing usage as high as 85% and my battery is getting eaten up so fast. it never did that before...i wonder if it's from the update (I'm pretty sure i loaded an update just before it started but i can't remember)
anyone know how to fix this? I LOVE google maps and can't stop using it but i don't like my diminished battery, especially after finally getting great life out of it!
Spot on--I also did an update, but can't recall exactly when. If you go to the Manage Applications option and select Maps, there is an option for uninstalling the update. I did that and I'm going to see what effect that has.
By the way, another way this problem manifests itself is that it takes about twice as long to charge the phone as it did just a few days ago. So whatever is eating the battery (I still think its Maps) continues to draw lots of power when the phone is trying to charge.
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By the way, another way this problem manifests itself is that it takes about twice as long to charge the phone as it did just a few days ago. So whatever is eating the battery (I still think its Maps) continues to draw lots of power when the phone is trying to charge.
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I can confirm that Google Map = battery killer.
Same battery eating symptoms, I also uninstalled updates and am gonna see what the effects are.
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This issue is getting a lot of user group exposure--wonder why no one here has commented on it? Rather than post a bunch of links, just Google "google maps android battery" and read up on it. Bottom line: apparently a reboot fixes the issue until you use Maps again. Then you have to reboot again. Sure hope Google is on top of this one!
I uninstalled the upgrade. What it does after the upgrade, is that if you kill it, it comes back in less than a second. It's there again. And it will never go away. At least with this app we have the option of uninstalling the upgrade. It's taking a lot of resources, and I seldom use it.... not worth it
Dunno if this is related, but when Yelp had an update a little while ago it was eating my battery up similarly, under battery use "Maps" would be in the 70-90% range of use.
They fixed this in a update a few days later, I'm sure this could also be taken care of.
By the way, I have done the froyo update and did a download of the latest maps and haven't noticed anything unusual in the battery use relating to maps, and I used the map app to find a few things.
Google Maps just received a significant update a few days ago with integration of Google Places directory...Looking in System Panel I see that there's a com.google.android.apps.maps: MapsBackgroundService...Dunno if that's been there I only just got System Panel 2 days ago.
I just uninstalled the maps update and noticed that the size of the program decreased from 8mb to about 2.5mb. I have also noticed a huge difference in my battery life as well since installing the update. Hopefully uninstalling it helps.
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firemedic624 said:
I just uninstalled the maps update and noticed that the size of the program decreased from 8mb to about 2.5mb. I have also noticed a huge difference in my battery life as well since installing the update. Hopefully uninstalling it helps.
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If you check Maps 4.4.0 reviews on Market, some others users have reported this problem.
Way to go Google Maps Android team!
Thought I was the only one having this problem. I actually just checked and its is up to 93%. They need to have it so you can quit it like you can navigation.
Sokesleezy said:
Thought I was the only one having this problem. I actually just checked and its is up to 93%. They need to have it so you can quit it like you can navigation.
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Settings >> Applications >> Manage Applications >> Running tab >> Maps >> Force Quit
Having same issue, I guess this was occurring months ago too. It didn't do this originally, now it just runs and runs. If you do a reboot it stops it completely...but that sucks. Hopefully we'll see an update SOON. I feel bad for people that don't really know about this or are very technical. They just say, oh my EVO sucks on battery life.
I had unistalled the update and reboot the phone and the battery life seems to be back to where it was (not great, but manageable). I just turned my phone on and had a notice that an update is available for Googler Maps. Does anyone know if this update was the one that was killing my battery or maybe, perhaps, I hope this update fixes the battery problem?
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I had unistalled the update and reboot the phone and the battery life seems to be back to where it was (not great, but manageable). I just turned my phone on and had a notice that an update is available for Googler Maps. Does anyone know if this update was the one that was killing my battery or maybe, perhaps, I hope this update fixes the battery problem?
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Nope, checked the market. Last update was 5 days ago.
This was happening to me occasionally, before the update. It happened almost every time I used google navigation (still shows up as "maps" in the battery screen). I found that I have to go to menu, exit on navigation to close it. Clicking the "back" button on the phone doesn't seem to properly exit it.
I haven't noticed it happening any more often since the update.
Dave
Google maps eating battery power solved!?
Have 7" Samsung tab and Galaxy S phone, both on Gingerbread and both with google maps 5.9.0. Tab's power usage was 2%. phone 20%!
Uninstalled google maps updates on the phone and power usage was so small it did not register on usage menu. Reinstalled updates and - hey presto - power usage just 2%, the same as the tab. Reckon its update piled on update that caused corruption and the massive increase in battery usage.
Try it. It only takes a few minutes!
Hi,
I've searched this forum and google for this problem but couldn't get an answer so far. My Legend isn't rooted and I'm using 2.05.405.2. Always after about 2 days my phone gets really laggy. For example pulling down statusbar can take up to 20 seconds until it reacts. Also when I get an incoming call, picking up can last up to 10 seconds. The only way to resolvethis so far is to reboot the phone, but thats exactly what I don't want. I tried several taskkillers without success, I then tried without any taskkillers, too. Also same behaviour. I just have a few apps installed:
- JuiceDefender
- Opera
- ES File Explorer
- MixZing
- Handcent
- Facebook
- SystemPanel Lite
- K9
I tried to get into SystemPanelLite when the phone gets laggy to see what process this is causing, but without any success. I'm really puzzled as I don't understand, why the system is getting laggy up to an unusable amount. I'm not a poweruser who is playing around every 5 minutes with his phone, just writing and reading some SMS, taking a look at facebook and reading and writing mails. Is this a common problem with the legend and everybody is used to it or is this a problem that only hits me for whatever reason? Oh, yes, the problem also existed with older firmware, too.
No such problem in my legend
My legend is very smooth
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same here. No such problem in my Legend, it is too smooth.
Legend is known to be a snappy handset.
How much free memory do you have ?
Did you try uninstalling any third party apps to see if any of that is causing the trouble?
Thanks for the answers. I uninstalled now k9, JuiceDefender and ES File Manager, as these are the only one, that I have installed always from the beginning. I'll report back, if that helped.
have you got the facebook contacts bug where you've got about 50,000 duplicated contacts?
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have you got the facebook contacts bug where you've got about 50,000 duplicated contacts?
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No, facebook runs just fine with contact-synchronisation and all.
cdfs said:
Hi,
I've searched this forum and google for this problem but couldn't get an answer so far. My Legend isn't rooted and I'm using 2.05.405.2. Always after about 2 days my phone gets really laggy. For example pulling down statusbar can take up to 20 seconds until it reacts.
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It happened even to me during the first start-up. I decided to reset completely the phone and make a clean start-up. I believe you should very carefully during the first sync of gmail,facebook,etc. Leave the time to the Legend to sync properly and install one application behind the other.
After that my Legend is working fine
As I upgraded to the first 2.xxx firmware, I had it resettet to defaults, as I did the upgrade via USB. As far as I remember, synchronisation was done when I began to install apps. But I think, if the deinstallation of the mentioned applications doesn't resolve this issue, I will try to reset it, too...
I had similar behavior, when installing that Facebook update last week. Besides the published battery drain the phone became laggy and unresponsive. The dialer sometimes took 10 seconds to react! Sometimes I could not even take a call. The patch that came after to improve the battery drain didn't fix the lag issue for me.
So I uninstalled the complete facebook update via application menu and voila! No more lag. Everything is as snappy as before. Not even a reboot was required.
I just uninstalled the fb updates out of interest and my Legend was much quicker! Reinstalling the updates and it's still quick. I didn't notice the slowdown before. Thanks!
After uninstalling k9, JuiceDefender, ES File Manager and facebook updates along with disabling facebook for android, so that there is only facebook for sense there, these are the results after 2 days so far:
- phone is snappy as if it was turned on 5 minutes ago
- battery-life is much better! Without JuiceDefender it was about 8-10 hours with very slight usage, up to 36 hours with JuiceDefender... today, after over 42 hours my battery is at 32%, I played games, wrote some SMS, took some pictures and had a short call
So it has to be one of the above mentioned apps. From what I read up until now, my closest bet is the facebok-app, that could be interfering with facebook for sense. I will now reinstall k9, JuiceDefender an ES File Manager and report back again in about 2 days.
Edit: It seems to be that k9 is the reason for the lags... just some minutes after installing and configuring k9 I noticed some lag with scrolling in lists, uninstalled it again and the lag was gone...
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I installed the updates for FB again and I'm using it as before. The phone is still very snappy, no sign of slowdowns. Next I will test JuiceDefender.
After testing a lot with uninstalling all apps and then step by step reinstalling I found the problem: It seems that JuiceDefender triggered for whatever reason the lag after about 2 days. At the moment I also don't have a need to reinstall it, as from my testings I found out, that my battery lasts for 2 days without JuiceDefender, with JuiceDefender it was just 4-5 hours more. This is with fb-updates hourly, gps always on, 2 IMAP-Accounts that are qurried via push, some sms a day and about half an hour telephone, slight internet browsing.
Glad to hear your phone is running better. As a side note, I still use Juice Defender but an old version 1.7.7 The development seemed to go off the rails after this version and i was not happy with any other the updates so I am sticking with this older version.
Still get about 2x the battery life using it.
I also having same problem and available free memory keeps on reducing . Though i installed juicedefender, i never uses that and kill using system panel. Will uninstall and check for 2 days
Hey guys, I've had my VZW G2 since Feb and could not imagine being any happier with a phone. It's been completely perfect up until about a month ago.
I've been running official KK 442 since close to release. I tether a Pebble Steel daily. Phone is rooted and xposed with G2 Tweaksbox, GravityBox (KK),XBlast, and XuiMod as the main xposed mods installed.
Apps commonly used:
Facebook
FB Messenger
Poweramp
Chrome
Opera
Spotify
BleacherReport
Yahoo Fantasy
Light Flow
Sync (bit torrent Sync- just started using it well after battery issues started)
Pocket Casts
Mint
Pebble app (always latest from Play Store)
Various pebble apps like MusicBoss and PebbleLocker
Running this set up, i used to EASILY get at least 30+ hours battery life, with most days above 40+. That's being tethered to my watch for 9 hours. I didnt even have a charger at work because id be at 75% by the end of the day and would get an entire second work day out of the same charge.
Then one day I woke up and havent been able to get better than 25, with many days barely making 12-18. My battery life has been effectively halved and I can't figure out why. I'm constantly playing with settings or installing new apps, so I reverted any and all possible changes I'd made and froze all recently installed/new apps. When this didn't fix the problem, I started uninstalling and freezing apps that had been updated recently in the Play Store. When that didn't work, i took more drastic measures:
Things I've done:
FDR device, including wiping all data in TWRP and turning off google's app data sync to ensure fresh settings/config files
Uninstalled or used TitaniumBackup to freeze 40+ apps, including all non-necessary apps often considered to be battery hogs (fb+messenger, for example)
Froze Xposed and disabled all mods to run almost completely stock ROM with largely default settings
Monitored GSAM, BetterBatteryStats, Wakelock Detector, and CPU Spy for rogue/borked apps
Skipped wearing Pebble for a day to test
Updated and downgraded Google Play Services (various versions from as old as this past spring to the latest version released last week)
Prayed to Joe Pesci
Has anyone heard or seen ANYTHING that could be causing massive battery life losses but that doesn't show up as an app with massive wakelocks? Google Play Services has tons of wakelocks, but it always has. It's a known battery hog, but additional WLs and battery consumption are now expected with Google consolidating more and more services into it, so I'm not sure what to expect now. I dont use Hangouts but keep it installed and frozen 99.9999% of the time.
Not sure what else to do at this point.
still having major battery life issues. I've fdr twice and ran stock with minimal apps for a day with very little change.
guess my battery is bad. ugh.
is it worth replacing myself or should I try and get vzw or lg to replace it under standard warranty?
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Hi all...
So, I think I may have gotten the latest update last night, and I think it may have broken all sorts of things. My battery is draining faster than my wireless charger can actually charge it (which has never happened before), and I can't seem to install apps from Google Play. It's super awesome.
My friend with the same phone seems to be experiencing similar problems, and I was just wondering if anyone here was too?
Update: I just plugged my phone into Smart Switch, and it found an update . . . soooo, I don't think that getting an update last night was the problem. I'm running the update now and we'll see if that solves the issue.
I do experience battery drain. This phone battery life gets worse and worse each update. Screw this 3600mah
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It's the latest Oculus update. Freeze it or uninstall until fixed. Oculus home is trying to install over and over again.
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It's the latest Oculus update. Freeze it or uninstall until fixed. Oculus home is trying to install over and over again.
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I'm thinking is the oculus update as well because my lookout continues to scan oculus rooms every 2 mins. It's just a weird coincidence that it happened about the same time as the update though. I'm having severe battery drain, texts and mms not being sent or received sometimes, and generally laggy overall.
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I'm thinking is the oculus update as well because my lookout continues to scan oculus rooms every 2 mins. It's just a weird coincidence that it happened about the same time as the update though. I'm having severe battery drain, texts and mms not being sent or received sometimes, and generally laggy overall.
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Oh man, thank you! The battery drain is being reported as "Android System" which is no help at all. I'll give the Occulus thing a try
Mine is draining from the latest good lock update
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Since updating this morning my phone runs hot and the battery drains 35% an hour. Charging is slow and phone has tons of lag. Worst device performance i've had since i ran ICS on my HTC G2
I'm wondering if using adoptable storage is causing it. I'm actually backing up and attempting a factory reset in a bit. My device is not rooted. Never even attempted root on my S7E.
Mine is smoother than ever. But im carefully looking at the battery and it seems to be draining faster. I have to look at oculus. But it doesnt seem i have that install
My phone has the same problem. Lookout is scanning Oculus Rooms two or three times a minute. So, is it an Oculus problem or a Lookout problem?
What baseband version you guys got?
I flashed my phone from sammy mobile (on the 28th i believe) dated 9/21 and security patch dated 9/1 and seems to be working much better than it was prior. Phone was getting hot and now it has not at all. on 2nd day right now. I still having used my wireless charge though.
I had the same issue. I was having extreme lag, overheating, battery drain(54% drain in less than two hours and it was in my pocket) and the screen kept refreshing every few seconds. All my apps were basically affected. The worst was snapchat and the keyboard. I saw the post on reddit about oculus being the problem. I uninstalled all the oculus and gear vr apps that could be unistalled and disabled the rest. My phone is working perfectly now.
It was the Oculus update. They (Oculus? ) pushed a fix out and now it's corrected. Confusing for users of Good Lock, because the Oculus problem happened the same night as the 9-29 Good Lock update, which was also very buggy. Uninstalling the 9-29 Good lock did not fix the problem though. All better now thanks to the Oculus Home update. I believe Good Lock was also fixed with the 9-30 update. I haven't gotten the OTA software update yet (PIA).
Woke up this morning and my battery was down 40%, rebooted which is recommended anyway everything mellowed out, charged my phone back to 100% have over 4 hours of screen time with 47% left. I disabled lookout because it's always scanning and running chewing up battery. I have no idea what Oculus is. Duh on me I guess
This update was 22.x mb in size, updated security patch to october,2016. I updated 2 days ago and since then the battery is draining constantly because phone is always awake in battery stats (10% drain last night). Anyone else having the same problem? Any fix?
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This update was 22.x mb in size, updated security patch to october,2016. I updated 2 days ago and since then the battery is draining constantly because phone is always awake in battery stats (10% drain last night). Anyone else having the same problem? Any fix?
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I also updated.. but my phone is working fine.. check ur settings in display if something has changed
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I also updated.. but my phone is working fine.. check ur settings in display if something has changed
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My friend is also having the same problem after update (same phone). I removed the sim and the drain disappeared. Maybe its because of bad signal? Or maybe its firmware issue.
Battery drain after update
My moto e3 power too is having similar excessive battery drain after the 22mb update due to phone being always awake.
Please reply if anyone has a fix.
I already informed this issue to Indian Lenovo (Moto) team and lenovo's forums also. After getting next OTA system update, it will solve.
Check lenovo's forums .
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B176Cbvuapswa3A0RndRcF85cUE/view?usp=drivesdk
Don't go for small updates they were buggy and with lots of other issues stay on stock for better experience.
i'm still on 23.0XT1706_S131_160905_ROW and device perform very good (Getting 2.5 day battery backup).
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Don't go for small updates they were buggy and with lots of other issues stay on stock for better experience.
i'm still on 23.0XT1706_S131_160905_ROW and device perform very good (Getting 2.5 day battery backup).
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Thank you for that clarification, this was driving me crazy because my E3 had many problems after this update.
Google now launcher force closing, all Google apps force closing, and rebooting every few minutes.
All my system information did not make sense and was wrong.
Motorola have now repaired my device it had to be wiped and the firmware reflashed, it now has System version S131 and was System version S124 before the update.
I have received notification yesterday about another 22.3 mb update, this will increase my system version from S131 to S135 as in my screenshot.
I have not installed this update.
I have read in Motorolas own forum and the E3 Facebook page many people complaining about problems with this update.
Thank you again for making us users aware this update is problematic and possibly faulty
Here is the notification of new update ?