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When my SGS3 was started up or opened the screen ,It has pop-up message " BroadcomMEMsService has stopped " .What is that means seem nothing happen to my SGS3 only it disturbed me to "OK" to get rid that message. Thank you
I have this service running on my phone as well. I'm not sure what it does.
A-gps and glonass I think.
There was a thread about this already and it was mentioned there.
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I froze it with Titanium Backup and nothing has stopped working that I'm aware of.. get a instant GPS lock.
This takes a lot of battery and my battery life has significantly improved after I froze this.
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gaui said:
I froze it with Titanium Backup and nothing has stopped working that I'm aware of.. get a instant GPS lock.
This takes a lot of battery and my battery life has significantly improved after I froze this.
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Ya I'm not 100% certain but glonass and a-gps may be separate to "normal" GPS so you would still lock on to the "normal" satellites.
Theoretically anyway.
The poster said it was to control some bcm(some numbers) chip and it was a-gps and glonass. He sounded like he knew what he was talking about.
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Hello
I think it has to do with the weather widget.
I disabled the Current City: Enable to show location information.
And manually added my city, now the broadcom service has dissapered.
Sry for bad english :/
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Hello
I think it has to do with the weather widget.
I disabled the Current City: Enable to show location information.
And manually added my city, now the broadcom service has dissapered.
Sry for bad english :/
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Weather widget gets location from....... GPS/glonass/a-gps.
Broadcom doesn't make weather Widgets, it makes wireless chips, Bluetooth, wifi, GPS etc.
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Steincool said:
Hello
I think it has to do with the weather widget.
I disabled the Current City: Enable to show location information.
And manually added my city, now the broadcom service has dissapered.
Sry for bad english :/
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Thank you ,It works for me too that disturbed Pop-up has gone.:good:
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Thank you ,It works for me too that disturbed Pop-up has gone.:good:
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U cant see this popup anymore, but your problem isnt over.
When you need A-GPS or Glonass again you shall face this error again.
It seems some system file are corrupted; only a full wipe or other rom can solve this, I think.
After six months without this problem, yesterday, I run into same problem, you describe - "BroadcomMEMsService has stopped", its really strange... Yesterday I installed only these updates - QuickPic, franco.Kernel.Updater, Change Hostname, Sleep as Android, IM+ Pro, nothing more... But even after uninstalling these updated, error doesn stoped... So I dont really know, why this is happenning. In detailed error message I can see: java null exception error 29
So I tried to froze this service, and error is gone, and GPS is still working. I need to do more tests, If I can find if anythig was affected by frozing this service... but up to now, everything is working...
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My Galaxy S2 is constantly trying to get gps fix. Is there any way to find out which program that is responsible for this?
long-press the home-button, start task manager and see which apps are running perhaps?
According to task manager WidgetLock is the only program running.
I need a program that monitor all programs and what they do at what time
I have your answer
That damn samsung vingo voice control App(don't know name) while driving. I guarantee that's your problem. Gad the same issue when I made a mistake and clicked it
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intruda119 said:
I have your answer
That damn samsung vingo voice control App(don't know name) while driving. I guarantee that's your problem. Gad the same issue when I made a mistake and clicked it
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this.
You could always just turn the GPS off.
That program I mentioned auto switches GPS on.
drm111 said:
this.
You could always just turn the GPS off.
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intruda119 said:
I have your answer
That damn samsung vingo voice control App(don't know name) while driving. I guarantee that's your problem. Gad the same issue when I made a mistake and clicked it
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I have run it a couple of times myself, and then a couple of times to impress women, over the course of a few days - never had GPS issues with it, or excessive battery drainage.
just checked my battery useage and was kinda shocked: gps status uses most battery
i get _decent_ battery life out of my sgs2. 60% after ~24h with moderate useage. so it does not drain the battery but
i never did turn on gps since the last charge so its strange why gps status uses battery... the process is not shown as running which is also strange...
i have german sgs2 with KE2 (no updates in Kies shown for my device so far). unrooted phone.
edit: i dont want deinstall the program as i get extreme fast gps fix (< 5 seconds) so i wanted to hear if anyone else is having similar experiences with the program first...
My Galaxy S2 has been working great until today. Suddenly Google Maps will not open. I've cleared the cache, data, removed it from the phone rebooted and then reinstalled the application. It starts up, freezes for a moment and then crashes.
The other problem is my phone no longer get's a GPS signal. Before and after rebooting it. I downloaded a GPS tester and it's showing 1 satellite in range, which makes no sense.
My phone is rooted, stock.
Anyone have any ideas? I googled the google maps crashing issue and there's hundreds of threads but no real solutions.
I just uninstalled the Chainfire3D Pro drivers and google maps now opens. Why would those two conflict?
Edit: Still not picking up any satellites.
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My Galaxy S2 has been working great until today. Suddenly Google Maps will not open. I've cleared the cache, data, removed it from the phone rebooted and then reinstalled the application. It starts up, freezes for a moment and then crashes.
The other problem is my phone no longer get's a GPS signal. Before and after rebooting it. I downloaded a GPS tester and it's showing 1 satellite in range, which makes no sense.
My phone is rooted, stock.
Anyone have any ideas? I googled the google maps crashing issue and there's hundreds of threads but no real solutions.
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t Have you tried flashing back to stock rom and modem?
Edit:Hmmm glad you got it working
Edit2:Nvm xD
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HTC Chris said:
Have you tried flashing back to stock rom and modem?
Hmmm glad you got it working
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No. I would like to try to solve the issue before I give up and resort to that.
My old phone used to be able to download the satellite positions to help improve the speed at which it got signal. Does Android have anything like this?
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My old phone used to be able to download the satellite positions to help improve the speed at which it got signal. Does Android have anything like this?
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Yes download gps fix
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Yes download gps fix
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Seems to be working, I will update if I get anywhere. It's at least showing more than one satellite now.
Didn't work.
The only solution was to take out the battery and re-insert it.
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My old phone used to be able to download the satellite positions to help improve the speed at which it got signal. Does Android have anything like this?
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Yeah. Use GPS Status and Toolbox.
Hi I'm havin a problem with the location services when using mobile networks. Sometimes, google maps can't give me my location and it will show, location is temporarily unavailable. Any ideas why? Gps works fine but it only works when there's a clear view of the sky. My iPhone can show my location all the time whenever I request it like Facebook check in etc.
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Hi I'm havin a problem with the location services when using mobile networks. Sometimes, google maps can't give me my location and it will show, location is temporarily unavailable. Any ideas why? Gps works fine but it only works when there's a clear view of the sky. My iPhone can show my location all the time whenever I request it like Facebook check in etc.
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Suggest backup data and factory reset . Still a problem return under warranty .
jje
Saw someone with a problem here too... similar to this.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-galaxy-s-iii/198118-location-using-mobile-network.html
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Saw someone with a problem here too... similar to this.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-galaxy-s-iii/198118-location-using-mobile-network.html
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Ask that forum then .
jje
Ok now maps is working fine with mobile networks but the only problem left is applications like Facebook/weather using mobile networks to attain the location. Any ideas?
Bump... Anyone facing this issue too?
the location/gps in this phone is pathetic.. i try to "locate" in weather app and it's using data/cellular to show location and it's wrong, it looks like it's using the cell tower as my position.. i don't understand why this phone needs data to locate a position.. isn't that what GPS is for?
even my old windows touch pro 2 found location without using internet data and it was very accurate.
Okay guys, silly old me. Dont disable background data for google services if you want it to work!
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Okay guys, silly old me. Dont disable background data for google services if you want it to work!
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I have this same issue but only after going to CM10 or any AOSP based ROM.
I can't find the setting to renable the background data services. How is this done?
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I have this same issue but only after going to CM10 or any AOSP based ROM.
I can't find the setting to renable the background data services. How is this done?
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Ah sorry, i havent used any AOSP rom or CM before, try asking the devs where is it located?
Hello all,
I am more than happy with my SIII but I'm finding a wakelock rather disturbing. It happens as soon as i turn on the "Use wireless networks" under the Location services settings.
If it's turned off, the wakelock disappears. But you know, it's hard to live with it turned off, as it greatly helps the GPS set a location way faster than it would do on its own... So using location based apps while it's off is a pain in the ass.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Alphadan said:
Hello all,
I am more than happy with my SIII but I'm finding a wakelock rather disturbing. It happens as soon as i turn on the "Use wireless networks" under the Location services settings.
If it's turned off, the wakelock disappears. But you know, it's hard to live with it turned off, as it greatly helps the GPS set a location way faster than it would do on its own... So using location based apps while it's off is a pain in the ass.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Nothing can be done about it really. Applications poll location data constantly when this option is ticked. It even tells you data is collected in the background regardless of what you are doing. To be honest many can cope with the 5-10 second wait for a GPS fix. Either deal with the drain or disable it.
5-10 seconds?? Most of the time I get message saying current location is temporarily unavailable, especially when I'm indoors.
I can't believe I have to deal with this problem. Am I the only one with this problem?? I was expecting a better answer.
just deactivate it. if you use a gps-app it will tell you to activate GPS anyways and while doing that you can then activate the network location as well.
with lbe privacy guard you can Block it if you are rooted
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So basically there's no proper fix for this. All I can do is work around the issue? Coming from an iphone I feel this is a bit frustrating.
Thing is that the option I have to disable does not use GPS. It uses mobile signal and WiFi radios, so turning off GPS is useless.
Can anybody else help?
disable Google now,I think you will find that is what is polling your location
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disable Google now,I think you will find that is what is polling your location
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It's been disabled all along, as I am Spanish and the current support for that language is nonexistent.
Any other ideas guys?
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So basically there's no proper fix for this. All I can do is work around the issue? Coming from an iphone I feel this is a bit frustrating.
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coming from iPhone then you should know that the 4S had a similar problem when it came out, and the workaround was about the same...how you felt back then??
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how do you check if you have partial wakelock on an iphone btw??
Disable location in general and use Tasker or make a profile on AOSP rom to turn on location service when you're going out. After all you don't need location indoors right?
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Disable location in general and use Tasker or make a profile on AOSP rom to turn on location service when you're going out. After all you don't need location indoors right?
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Well, in theory, your solution sounds awesome. But as i stated earlier, there's a small problem: battery drain is not caused by the GPS itself, but by the other "tricks" the phone has in order to find a location (wifi and radio).
I don't know about that problem with the 4S, but as you said, it occurred when it came out. The SIII has been out for 6 months now, and there's been several updates, yet the issue is still there.
BTW, i check the partial wakelocks with Better Battery Stats (you can find it for free here on the forums)
Just a general question... Does anyone else have this issue? If any of you guys do, then i'll learn to live with it, but being the only one would really make me feel silly.
Well, I just don't use that option, AFAIK the new cm10 build changed the GPS so that it no longer favor the North America but search for the nearest satellite instead. I notice this change already make my gps quick enough so I don't bother..
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I have the same problem. The only solution I found was to disable networks location. Is there any app to identify clearly what is the app that it's requesting location from Google services? It is not maps because with 3g watchdog installed it reports separated (maps and Google services) the leak is on Google services.
Ps: I have found that this problem only exists when connected to a WiFi network. On 3g the requests are less intensive.
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Well I've just been doing some investigating with Better Battery Stats to find out why my battery was so bad with JB compared to ICS, then googled the NetworkLocationLocator as that seems to be the problem which brought me here (I'm a member anyway).
I must say it's pretty disappointing that this problem is occurring because surely the same option was being used in ICS and it never drained my battery back then. The only thing I can think of is Google Now has something to do with this. I have Google Now disabled anyway as (although it's a brilliant feature) it doesn't really benefit me as I don't travel around much, but I get the feeling that is the root of this problem because that's the biggest change in coming from ICS to JB (other than cosmetics and UI) right?
This is not even a problem.
People tick all kind of options or fail to go to see their apps properly starting from Facebook, Google+ , Google now, weather apps... And then complain how come they get excessive polling.
Problem lies in those same people wanting those services to record their location , but don't want any battery drain... At least case with all those around me that asked.
Trust me without WiFi and network triangulation the same services when allowed waste way more power using real GPS.
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This is not even a problem.
People tick all kind of options or fail to go to see their apps properly starting from Facebook, Google+ , Google now, weather apps... And then complain how come they get excessive polling.
Problem lies in those same people wanting those services to record their location , but don't want any battery drain... At least case with all those around me that asked.
Trust me without WiFi and network triangulation the same services when allowed waste way more power using real GPS.
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Thanks for the sweeping generalisation but I had the exact same option ticked in ICS and it was never a problem. Fact is in JB it causes a problem for some reason. It may be Google Now, who knows, but one things for sure, I should be able to have that option ticked and not have it keep my phone awake all night.
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Maybe I misunderstood. Sorry.
I use Google now and maps for network location as well as fancy widget polling every 2 hours. All other apps I individually where permitted set to off.
This setup does not keep my phone all night. I see where it wakes the phone in intervals and does its thing and goes back to sleep. Combined with my exchange email polling every hour overnight, I don't see any excessive battery usage compared to what I had with ICS.
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Turn of location history, leave the rest on. Wakelock is still there but less.
Hello,
my Honor 7 shows up since some days with the GPS searching icon in the statusbar. After dragging down the information panel it shows that the Google play store is searching for GPS signal... That process will never end...
I was afraid of a high battery consumption ... but it seems that there is no battery consumption at all...
Nevertheless I want to get rif of that issue..
Does this problem has got anybody else ?
Yes but for me it's weather app
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Select which apps use GPS, Mobile or Wifi location services, at the Location settings. For example, Mobile or Wifi is fine for weather.
millhaus1985 said:
Hello,
my Honor 7 shows up since some days with the GPS searching icon in the statusbar. After dragging down the information panel it shows that the Google play store is searching for GPS signal... That process will never end...
I was afraid of a high battery consumption ... but it seems that there is no battery consumption at all...
Nevertheless I want to get rif of that issue..
Does this problem has got anybody else ?
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Disable Location services altogether if you don't need it.
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Some apps require location access.
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Factory reset
Hey,
I did a backup and a factory reset. After that time that problem was solved. Thank you for your help.
millhaus1985 said:
Hey,
I did a backup and a factory reset. After that time that problem was solved. Thank you for your help.
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Good to hear that you solved it by yourself.