My GPS is draining my battery
For some reason every now and then it turns on to check on my location, and when it can't find it, keeps on checking forever.
I usually turn my GPS off after use but sometimes I forget, and blam, gone is my battery.
Is there any way to check on what's using it? I tried betterbatterystats, but it only shows me that the GPS is responsible for my battery drain (duhhh).
Thanks!
I would really like an answer on this, I've been struggling with this for a while now. Is there any way to check which apps have permissions to use the GPS?
"permission manager" or "permission explorer" from market.
Probably adware that tries to get your position.
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d4fseeker said:
"permission manager" or "permission explorer" from market.
Probably adware that tries to get your position.
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Thanks, I was hoping there was an option in Android itself, but I did it the app way.
I made a list of apps that have access to my GPS (none of them are adware, people here aren't that stupid, are they?), and I froze them one by one with titanium backup. It seems that my purchased TomTom Europe is the problem, which really sucks because I use that daily and I can't block it from GPS or it won't work
he helped you, hit thanks to thank him
I'll be the judge of that, thank you.
It turns out that it didn't work after all: I've frozen all apps that have access to the GPS, yet the GPS still searches for my location for some reason... I'll try out some other stuff but if anyone has any good ideas.. I'm open to suggestions
It seems to be HD widgets which is causing the problem. Dunno yet why it kept on after the last freeze, but on the current freeze the problem seems to be gone... I found other threads here that indicate the same problem with HD widgets, so it's probably that.
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I'll be the judge of that, thank you.
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you're funny
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It seems to freeze up a lot. I will select apps and they do nothing, same with downloads from the market. They just hang at showing them as downloading.
I use SPB Shell and sometimes when it does this it will also stick between pages rather than just flinging to the next it will actually just stop in between pages until you continue to scroll though.
When I select links to open, it does nothing until I actually open the browser. I have only had the phone for a few days and it worked fine, now its doing all these weird things.
Anyone got any suggestions or ideas, let me know otherwise I'm afraid I may be taking it back...
Something may be wrong with the phone. I haven't experienced none of that. Even out the box. Actually its been so fast for me that if I experience the littlest bit of lag it drives me nuts. Might be hard ware related.
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It seems to freeze up a lot. I will select apps and they do nothing, same with downloads from the market. They just hang at showing them as downloading.
I use SPB Shell and sometimes when it does this it will also stick between pages rather than just flinging to the next it will actually just stop in between pages until you continue to scroll though.
When I select links to open, it does nothing until I actually open the browser. I have only had the phone for a few days and it worked fine, now its doing all these weird things.
Anyone got any suggestions or ideas, let me know otherwise I'm afraid I may be taking it back...
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LOL dude you have the data guard enabled. There is a setting in their that holds downloads and other things in a queue until you are using WiFi in order to save battery. Just disable that and you'll be on your way And the SPB Mobile Shell problem is probably a problem with the app. Contact the developer and tell them about it. There aren't many nVidia Tegra 2 phones out there so it's not very likely they have done much testing on the architecture. Also, what kind of links are you talking about? Like a link you receive in a text message?
Hey buddy aren't you from Hero Land??
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LOL dude you have the data guard enabled. There is a setting in their that holds downloads and other things in a queue until you are using WiFi in order to save battery. Just disable that and you'll be on your way And the SPB Mobile Shell problem is probably a problem with the app. Contact the developer and tell them about it. There aren't many nVidia Tegra 2 phones out there so it's not very likely they have done much testing on the architecture. Also, what kind of links are you talking about? Like a link you receive in a text message?
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I used to have the same problem with apps not responding after pressing. I was using adw launcher I reverted back to stock and everything is good now. Emailed the developer about the compatability and waiting for an answer but the photon is good otherwise
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Yeah it really sounds like you have Data Saver enabled which is located under Battery & data manager in the phone settings. If not you may want to exchange the phone as faulty. I have a lot of issues which my Photon: stuttering during music playback, random reboots (twice in 2 weeks so far), and feedback when using the audio out (buzzing / static). These seem to be common problems but the performance issues you are mentioning do not seem normal from what I have read in these forums.
iazv8 said:
I used to have the same problem with apps not responding after pressing. I was using adw launcher I reverted back to stock and everything is good now. Emailed the developer about the compatability and waiting for an answer but the photon is good otherwise
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Been using ADW launcher pro for 4 days now without any issues
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radrian92 said:
Hey buddy aren't you from Hero Land??
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You would be correct. Although i went from the Hero to an LG Optimus S, and now the Photon.
No problems like that with SPB Shell here. Check the data saver mode. You can also try changing the vm heap to 48 or 64. Mine is on 64 but never had an issue with the stock setting either.
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It does appear that it was SPB Shell which sucks because I was really liking it. I will send a message to the dev and see what happens. The funny thing is that is was working great the first few days that I was using it and then started acting up which was why I didn't thing it was SPB
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No problems like that with SPB Shell here. Check the data saver mode. You can also try changing the vm heap to 48 or 64. Mine is on 64 but never had an issue with the stock setting either.
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How do you get it that high? I am using VM Heap Tool and the highest it will let me check is 48.
It's not data saver. Or it shouldn't be. It's an Android flaw.
I've had an Incredible, Thunderbolt and then Photon. Which means I've used a few Android phones over a couple of networks (more if you consider the 4G's as their own networks).
99% of the time my phones work fine. Every so often it will stall downloading an app, or an email will just sit on sending for a longggg time. Unless I am recreating the same conditions over three phones and two networks I think this just happens every once and a while.
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It seems to freeze up a lot. I will select apps and they do nothing, same with downloads from the market. They just hang at showing them as downloading.
I use SPB Shell and sometimes when it does this it will also stick between pages rather than just flinging to the next it will actually just stop in between pages until you continue to scroll though.
When I select links to open, it does nothing until I actually open the browser. I have only had the phone for a few days and it worked fine, now its doing all these weird things.
Anyone got any suggestions or ideas, let me know otherwise I'm afraid I may be taking it back...
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I'm glad you found the issue, this right here always tells me it was something you installed that caused the problem. When it worked fine out of the box and then....
Just watch what you install, install one app at a time and see how it flows for awhile after each app. Yes, it may take awhile to get all your apps on but you will know what apps are causing you issues! Like a previous poster said, there aren't many T2 phones, so just be careful what you install!
Glad you found the problem!
-DJ
Hi was wondering if anyone has similar problems to me with the GPS not getting a fix. Most of the time it functions fine with Google navigation but there are times like tonight when it cannot get a fix. I downloaded the GPS status app from the market which showed only a couple of satellites where visable and it would lock on to any of them. I then went in to the tools part of the app and reset something called a-gps data (whatever that is?) Then I clicked the download link and it received some data. After that the GPS got an instant lock and has been fine since.
I just wondered if anyone else experiences these problems and if so how do you fix it. My nexus s never had a problem getting a fix I'm just curious as to why I'm having problems with this handset
Edit to say I updated to the latest maps yesterday so I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
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I have been experiencing some delay in google maps, but i think that is because i am traveling right now, and i don't have Internet access every where. But you should have clear view to the sky has well
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this thread.
helped a lot of us out. agps is assisted gps iirc. instead of doing calculations itself, your phone downloads data instead (i think).
Thanks ill have a look at that thread. Seems to be working well for the time being but for how long I'm not sure
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makes a world of difference. get a lock within 5 secs normally as opposed to upto 5 minutes!
just remember, if you flash a new rom, the conf file gets replaced. i was convinced that the rom i was on was causing poor gps until i replaced it with a backup off my sd card
So does this require root tommo? I haven't had chance to go through the whole thread yet as I'm not at my computer. I'm not rooted so would have to go through that procedure too
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yeah, you need an app like root explorer to get access to the "etc" folder where the gps.conf file is.
very easy to do mind.
Thanks buddy ill give it a try once I get home
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Does anyone know a way to keep GPS running when the phone goes to sleep? There are times when I want to have my location continuously reported to Google Latitude, and it's a terrible waste of battery to keep the screen running just to do that.
I'd thought there would be an easy answer to this, but I'm not finding one. There's a two-year-old XDA post on this question here without any real answers. And I found a post elsewhere that suggests that Tasker can make the phone keep GPS working when the screen goes off, but I don't see any function in Tasker for this.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Alan
carrot34 said:
Does anyone know a way to keep GPS running when the phone goes to sleep? There are times when I want to have my location continuously reported to Google Latitude, and it's a terrible waste of battery to keep the screen running just to do that.
I'd thought there would be an easy answer to this, but I'm not finding one. There's a two-year-old XDA post on this question here without any real answers. And I found a post elsewhere that suggests that Tasker can make the phone keep GPS working when the screen goes off, but I don't see any function in Tasker for this.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Alan
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I found Tasker sucked the hell out of my battery, but nevermind... It depends on the app some of them will just pull GPS data when it is asked for, which im sure Latitude would do... What are you trying to achieve exactly?
EDIT: If you do try Tasker you can set it so certain apps will activate the GPS and certain screen times, hours of the day etc...
Thanks! I'm trying to find a way for Google Latitude (which I think just runs within maps) to record my path via GPS (say when I'm on a hiking trip) without the screen needing to be on constantly, which is the only way I've found to do that so far. But if you are saying that I can make a tasker profile which will tell my phone to keep the GPS on when Maps is running, then I think that would solve this! Or do you have a better approach in mind?
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Thanks! I'm trying to find a way for Google Latitude (which I think just runs within maps) to record my path via GPS (say when I'm on a hiking trip) without the screen needing to be on constantly, which is the only way I've found to do that so far. But if you are saying that I can make a tasker profile which will tell my phone to keep the GPS on when Maps is running, then I think that would solve this! Or do you have a better approach in mind?
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There is an app specifically for that on the market I can't remember what its called though sorry just search hiking or something
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OK -- I found a really nice app for this: Latify. (There's also the unfortunately named Backitude, which looks like it would get the job done.)
Thanks for the tips, everyone!
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Sorry to bump this, but I thought you might like this better if you want to keep your GPS receiver always on when your screen is off (will drain your battery of course)
https://market.android.com/details?...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImcuYW5kcm9pZC5ncHN0cmFja2VyIl0.
GPSTracker Lite, specifically made for what its name is. It tracks your path. I use it in my car, in which case the phone is always on the charger when this is running.
Hope this helped.
carrot34 said:
Does anyone know a way to keep GPS running when the phone goes to sleep? There are times when I want to have my location continuously reported to Google Latitude, and it's a terrible waste of battery to keep the screen running just to do that.
I'd thought there would be an easy answer to this, but I'm not finding one. There's a two-year-old XDA post on this question here without any real answers. And I found a post elsewhere that suggests that Tasker can make the phone keep GPS working when the screen goes off, but I don't see any function in Tasker for this.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Alan
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I've read in the changelog from the new version of Google Maps something about battery saving with latitude. Just go to the market and try to read yourself the details.... I don't use latitude, so I didn't go into details....
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For some time now this weird icons are appearing on my home scream, is this some sort of spam/virus/adware i got onto my tablet? I don't really know what to do about it, any ideas?
I found this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/245305/sneaky_mobile_ads_invade_android_phones.html
Not sure if it will get you going in the right direction or not... hope you can get rid of them!
BethyM, thank you for the link it was very informative. It looks like "Media Player Classic" was responsible for unwanted ad-ware. I'l get back to you in few days to tell if deleting the app solved the issue.
Thanks again,
Cheers.
You're welcome. I learned some things in the process myself
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BethyM said:
I found this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/245305/sneaky_mobile_ads_invade_android_phones.html
Not sure if it will get you going in the right direction or not... hope you can get rid of them!
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Wow I didn't even know this was happening. This is pure crap and I hope Google puts a stop to it quickly. This is nothing more than malware when installed without notification or consent and hijacking the browser to boot even after uninstalling offending app. As for the developers using these services and not disclosing it as such you deserve the low ratings and poor feedback receive!
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I've learned over the past 2 months of owning an Android device is to always check the reviews before installing any app from the google play store.
Hi everyone!
Im using Galaxy S3.
From time to time, after unlocking the screen, i see installation page of app named "iClock"
it does not come up every time, but about once every 2 days.
it really annoy me because i don't know what app is that. It keep pushing me to install, this behavior is like a malware.
I tried google about this, but no luck.
what should i do? how to trace what process trying to install the apk? how to trace the apk location?
btw, i installed once but never run it. i uninstalled it, but few days after that the installation page start to come up again.
the app was scanned by AVG but not virus alert was given.
somebody please help, thank you very much for reading!
same problem here! iClock keep trying to install sometimes 2x a day... GRRRR
I would be very interessted to find the program that causes this....
eddiegeerts said:
same problem here! iClock keep trying to install sometimes 2x a day... GRRRR
I would be very interessted to find the program that causes this....
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Me too on Nexus 7 - can't identify the rougue app if that's what it is.
HELP!
iClock
I had the same problem with my SGS3. I used ROM toolbox Pro, in the running apps settings i found iClock. After uninstalling iClock the problem dissapeared..
Zzfff said:
I had the same problem with my SGS3. I used ROM toolbox Pro, in the running apps settings i found iClock. After uninstalling iClock the problem dissapeared..
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path: /mnt/Shell/emulated/0/joy/app
it was a game called Dice that started the program
Trustgo ad detector from Google play will let you know what all your installed apps are doing behind your back.
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