Google Play Services update breaks location accuracy - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Phone settings: Location : Battery Saving (GPS off, using Wifi/network location only)
On Google Play Services 4.0.x - I get very accurate location small circle around where my house is.
After updating to 4.2.25 - I get a large circle - maybe the radius of an entire block / surface area of a cell tower coverage roughly
Uninstall the update to play services (back to 4.0.x) - get very accurate location again.
I am using a RAZR HD with 4.4.2 kit kat thanks to CM11.
Is there a way to resolve this issue? Did play services update broke my specific phone?
I would stay on the older Play Services but Hangouts and Maps keep *****ing about needing to update it.

syl0n said:
Phone settings: Location : Battery Saving (GPS off, using Wifi/network location only)
On Google Play Services 4.0.x - I get very accurate location small circle around where my house is.
After updating to 4.2.25 - I get a large circle - maybe the radius of an entire block / surface area of a cell tower coverage roughly
Uninstall the update to play services (back to 4.0.x) - get very accurate location again.
I am using a RAZR HD with 4.4.2 kit kat thanks to CM11.
Is there a way to resolve this issue? Did play services update broke my specific phone?
I would stay on the older Play Services but Hangouts and Maps keep *****ing about needing to update it.
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Same here, on a HTC One X running Slimkat... you're not the only one experiencing this! No solution found yet...

rkuijpers said:
Same here, on a HTC One X running Slimkat... you're not the only one experiencing this! No solution found yet...
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Hmm, That's good to know. Do you have any other links to more information on it?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...ssues-for-htc-owners-google-working-on-a-fix/
Seems like it might not just be HTC users...

syl0n said:
Hmm, That's good to know. Do you have any other links to more information on it?
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Here is one, look at the last posts:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=57707
I've read more about it elsewhere, but as not everyone uses only network but mostly the more precise GPS for location purposes, most people probably won't even notice the problem exists [emoji6]
Verstuurd vanaf mijn One X met Tapatalk
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es0tericcha0s said:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...ssues-for-htc-owners-google-working-on-a-fix/
Seems like it might not just be HTC users...
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It's not the same bug, that one was an issue almost a year ago [emoji41]
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Oh it isn't 2013 any more, is it? LoL My how time flies...

Same issue here. Network location appears to work (very low accuracy), but WiFi location doesn't. If Play Services update is uninstalled WiFi location works again.
It's a pain in the ass to use aviate or cover whitout network location working properly.
Phone: RAZR HD GSM XT925
ROM: CM11 nightly.
So... Any news?
Sorry for my english, it's not my native languaje.

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google maps using a lot of my battery

This is the second day in a row google maps is the top app user of battery (behind screen of course).... the kicker is I have never even opened the app! Overall the battery life is still very good, but I don't get why maps is using my battery if I never use the app... I did open it up to see if I could force it to close, but I didn't see anything. Anyone else have this issue? I have the phone on wifi most of the day if that matters.
I noticed that too. Be sure you're signed out of the latitude layer. Also consider disabling geo tagging in the camera app settings...
Holy cow, there are a bunch of settings to turn off in maps. Who knew? Been noticing maps using battery also, but it didn't occur to me to go into its menu and look around.
i was curious about that.. the only thing i could think of was its the gps from the weather widget and it was labeled as maps instead of gps
tmuka said:
I noticed that too. Be sure you're signed out of the latitude layer. Also consider disabling geo tagging in the camera app settings...
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that might be it, I signed out of lattitude and fixed the setting so it so it didn't update my location. Thanks for the tip, hope that fixes it
You should be able to report the app from the battery usage screen. Tap Google maps and report should be on the top right.
I do that whenever one of my app is misbehaving. It will help the devs fix the bug.
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Mine was super dead and wouldn't even turn on when Received mine, I let it charge all night and unplugged it this morning and am down to 64% after 3 hours and 30 minutes of heavy use. I notice that it also was at 92% when I unplugged it so far better than the 3d but we shall see after a weeks worth of use or so.
NCRoadster said:
You should be able to report the app from the battery usage screen. Tap Google maps and report should be on the top right.
I do that whenever one of my app is misbehaving. It will help the devs fix the bug.
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I just did this, for a while I had location detection off.... but I like to be able to google search a business or place and have it show me the nearest locations of that business.... and that doesn't work if you turn off location detection... not to mention the weather lock screen doesn't work.... so right now my only solution is to leave the location detection on and live with maps eating my batter in the background.... I'm waiting a few more months to let the various dev created roms mature a bit before I try something other than stock sense
This happened to me several days in a row I don't use latitude and I reported it...I'm confused to be honest.
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I am having the same issue and I am curious if you fixed it. I have Sony Xperia Twith ICS but I guess this is not related to the mobile. What settings are needed to stop this high battery consumption?
Thanks,
Mugur
http://mugur-ionescu/tag/xperia
If you use ROM toolbox, you can go to auto-starts and disable all the receivers for Google maps (or most of them, you choose which specific receivers). I think there are like 16 different receivers.
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.
scottspa74 said:
If you use ROM toolbox, you can go to auto-starts and disable all the receivers for Google maps (or most of them, you choose which specific receivers). I think there are like 16 different receivers.
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.
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+1...I have every start up event disabled for Maps in autostarts (available in play store) and it doesn't start unless I launch it myself. You could freeze it with titanium backup also, but then you'll need to defrost whenever you wanna use it which can be annoying.
Sent from my EVO LTE
iamkoza said:
I just did this, for a while I had location detection off.... but I like to be able to google search a business or place and have it show me the nearest locations of that business.... and that doesn't work if you turn off location detection... not to mention the weather lock screen doesn't work.... so right now my only solution is to leave the location detection on and live with maps eating my batter in the background.... I'm waiting a few more months to let the various dev created roms mature a bit before I try something other than stock sense
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Viper 4g 2.0.2 is very mature and stable. And its a sense ROM. It was my 1dt custom ROM very easy until I went to CMX and pa which I use daily!
Is that a hemi? No silly its Paranoid Android!
EVO 4G LTE S-OFF;-]

Google Finance not working

I have the Google Finance app on my Defy+. In the last few days I noticed that the ticker had stopped updating. Tapping on the widget gets me an incomplete share price page and the title line says "Loading" continuously - it never finishes loading
I tried uninstalling Google Finance and re-installing it from Play. The result of that was that I couldn't add a share to the ticker list at all
Fortunately I had a Ti backup of the app so I restored that, with its data, and I now have the share back in the ticker - but it's still not updating. I've tried adding a different share to the ticker and it just sits there with the sync icon in the notification area, achieving nothing.
It's as if Google Finance can't talk to Google any more. All my other network apps, including eg Google Maps, work fine.
Anyone got any ideas?
I have the same problem, but my prob only started midday today
I also have the same problem. No idea what to do.
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Its like Finance has been dying a slow death. I haven't been able to get my widget to auto update at all for months on multiple phones. Now this. I really wish there was another compact widget that would simply give me the current dow. Time to move on. Anyone have any suggestions?
The app called "stocks" uses your google finance portfolios and seems to work still (indicating a server-side problem for google). I don't like it as much as Finance, but at least it works. Doesn't come with a widget, though
Thanks but I really need a home screen widget
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I think it says something that we are the only three people across the world making noise after Finance goes non-functional for about 3 days now.
I thought it was surprising that no one complained when the widget quit auto updating months ago. Here it goes completely dead and hardly a word.
If anyone is interested, I tried most of the widgets and this one is the only one that seemed to work and auto updated in as little as 1 min increments per the settings.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inox.inostock&hl=en
I have the same problem
For the past few days It didn't update any stock quotes. I deleted data and uninstalled then reinstalled and now it doesn't even update my portfolio from Google Finance server and can't add new stocks or do nothing. It is completely non-functional now.
I'm also having the exact same problem on HTC Evo 3D.
- App wasn't syncing
- Deleted data and lost my portfolio
- Reinstalled and still not working
- Sync icon stays in the left hand corner but it does not update
The portfolio is still available on the full/mobile websites.
Same problem here with my motor RAZR Maxx. Widget stopped updating so I uninstalled and reinstalled. Now I can't get it to sync with my saved stocks.
Hmmm... yesterday I needed to rebuild my Galaxy S2 phone (had tried a different OS and had problems restoring the original). I had deleted google finance 2 days ago.
Today I reinstalled Finance, just to see.... and it's working fine! Got my portfolio reloaded and replicates prices nice & fast!
Soooo either Google Finance just started working again for everyone, or the solution to the problems reported here is some sort of delete..wipe..reinstall cycle
Good luck ladies & gents.
davisan1 said:
Soooo either Google Finance just started working again for everyone, or the solution to the problems reported here is some sort of delete..wipe..reinstall cycle
Good luck ladies & gents.
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Apparently no reinstall needed. Wonder if by some miracle auto update started working also. We'll see when the market opens.
I sent an email to the support email address in the app and now it's working. Maybe they do read those emails.
Yup, working for me again now. Must have been a Google problem. (I did e-mail them about it twice but didn't hear anything back.)
Now all I have to do is find the RBS stock mnemonic which gives me the real current price of RBS ordinary shares. I know they're not great but 7.45p sure ain't right...
Google's Problem
I second ejstubb's assessment. I initially uninstalled / reinstalled with no resolution. As of last night, it seems to be working fine, so i can only assume it was a problem on Google's end.
Does anyone except me care about the fact that the stock monitor widget has quit auto updating months ago? I guess no one uses it?
NCguy said:
Does anyone except me care about the fact that the stock monitor widget has quit auto updating months ago? I guess no one uses it?
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I just checked the settings and mine was set to 4 hours. Maybe that is why I thought it wasn't auto updating. I just set it to 30 minutes.
Notyours said:
I just checked the settings and mine was set to 4 hours. Maybe that is why I thought it wasn't auto updating. I just set it to 30 minutes.
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I'd be very surprised if it updates. Please let us know.
NCguy said:
I'd be very surprised if it updates. Please let us know.
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Yes it did. I wish it would update in shorter increments, but this is better than before.
Notyours said:
Yes it did. I wish it would update in shorter increments, but this is better than before.
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What is your phone and rom?

Google Maps

I have tried to find any information about this but to no avail.. My issue is that when use Google Maps Navigation when driving the Maps will crash in a way where the whole map screen vibrates as if its not able to recognise my position and obviously its impossible to tell when i should be turning next. I have Stock ICS XXBLH3 Firmware rooted with latest Maps update and Maps Beta Navigation and Siyah Kernel
Your not using satellite view are you?
slaphead20 said:
Your not using satellite view are you?
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Yes, why?
Alienatrix said:
Yes, why?
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Because the data load to display the maps is huge! Take into consideration you are on data connection, jumping between cell towers.....it's a foregone conclusion that it can't keep up
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it might be possible to work around this by pre-cacheing the route at home on Wi-Fi, never tried it but it might work
Although I don't have an answer, this also happens to me. I can use satellite view, and if the data collection slows down I get missing tiles. However the fault I think being described is that the screen starts to vibrate rapidly, flashing between two views and the only solution is to close maps from task manager and restart.
This does it on normal map view too (not satellite), and had only happened since JB update.
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[Q] Wrong weather

I have a problem with weather widget that is found on blink feed. The problem is that it displays the wrong weather information and also from time to time ill also get wrong gps cordinates. I live in texas but for some reason it keeps getting weather information from arizona. (also with the gps) I noticed that it had happened after the ota update that tmobile sent out . Was wondering if anybody has been having the same problem? And if so can you help??
skinybones said:
I have a problem with weather widget that is found on blink feed. The problem is that it displays the wrong weather information and also from time to time ill also get wrong gps cordinates. I live in texas but for some reason it keeps getting weather information from arizona. (also with the gps) I noticed that it had happened after the ota update that tmobile sent out . Was wondering if anybody has been having the same problem? And if so can you help??
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Are you rooted or working with any Sense Rom other than the real stock?
Do highs e mock locations enabled in the development options of the phone?
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megabiteg said:
Are you rooted or working with any Sense Rom other than the real stock?
Do highs e mock locations enabled in the development options of the phone?
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
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None of the above. Not rooted or no mock locations are activated.
I should also say that for some reason it only happens around my neighborhood.but when i leave to go to school or anywhere else then it will change back to the normal weather.
I have had the same issue for a couple of months. When I go to Walmart down the street, it shows I am in Taylorsville, Utah. Every single day I drive past Walmart and BAM... I am in Utah. It changes back to my correct location (Deer Park, TX) after a certain distance. It's ridiculous. That's quite a far drive. I think over 1000 miles. So I don't understand this glitch.
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Google Maps location "My Timeline" data all messed up

Google Maps has location tracking data under "My Timeline." Historically it has been super accurate, showing the roads I used even when driving long distances. I also always use Google Maps. Ever since I switched to the Mate 10 Pro, this data has been straight lines across 20-40 miles of distance and highly inaccurate arrival times. I thought it was just Google, but I switched back to an Essential Phone and it became perfectly accurate again. I'm back to the Mate 10 Pro and I hope it'll work now, but I'm not holding my breath.
I often use the departure and arrival times in My Timeline for work data, so I'd love if it worked. Any thoughts?
Haloruler64 said:
Google Maps has location tracking data under "My Timeline." Historically it has been super accurate, showing the roads I used even when driving long distances. I also always use Google Maps. Ever since I switched to the Mate 10 Pro, this data has been straight lines across 20-40 miles of distance and highly inaccurate arrival times. I thought it was just Google, but I switched back to an Essential Phone and it became perfectly accurate again. I'm back to the Mate 10 Pro and I hope it'll work now, but I'm not holding my breath.
I often use the departure and arrival times in My Timeline for work data, so I'd love if it worked. Any thoughts?
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Did you try to accurate your GPS with any GPS app on the store??
I have same experience. I believe it's to do with Huawei battery saver. Pls let me know if you find a solution
sonydesouza said:
Did you try to accurate your GPS with any GPS app on the store??
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I have not, but I use Google Maps extensively and never had even the smallest problem with accuracy. Always follows the road accurately and instantly recognizes turns (unlike the built in GPS in my Lexus sometimes). The "My Timeline" data is often just a straight line between my house and my destination, even if it's across a bridge.
pixielott46 said:
I have same experience. I believe it's to do with Huawei battery saver. Pls let me know if you find a solution
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That's unfortunate. Will do.
Same here, whatever i tried didn't solve it (even clean cache and data).... Even tried disabling battery optimization settings on Maps and Google Services... Nothing. I also have indications that is has something to do with multiple google accounts (i find some locations being reported in some of my other accounts). Are you on a single account? But yes, same problems, straight lines, lost stops, no routes, getting stuck in one location for hours etc...
im only on one account. is there a bigger huawei users forum than this one and the huawei subreddit?
i feel like theres so many questions with no answers and nothing being done about it
biggest forum is here dude !
off_d said:
Same here, whatever i tried didn't solve it (even clean cache and data).... Even tried disabling battery optimization settings on Maps and Google Services... Nothing. I also have indications that is has something to do with multiple google accounts (i find some locations being reported in some of my other accounts). Are you on a single account? But yes, same problems, straight lines, lost stops, no routes, getting stuck in one location for hours etc...
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Keep battery optimization managed by Huawei in all applications
mikeazores said:
Keep battery optimization managed by Huawei in all applications
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What for? Any particular reason? I have put everything to manual in Launch settings, and also almost every program to Ignore Battery Optimization. Battery is working perfectly, SOT time is still amazing, and i believe programs are working fine (except Maps and Garmin Connect)... If your reasons are RAM, then i believe RAM exists to use it, not having it free all the time...
mikeazores said:
Keep battery optimization managed by Huawei in all applications
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So, Settings>Battery>Launch>Maps then select Manage automatically?
people having same issue with other huawei phones for 1 year
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/timeline-google-maps-properly-t3458526/page2
doesnt give much hope
off_d said:
What for? Any particular reason? I have put everything to manual in Launch settings, and also almost every program to Ignore Battery Optimization. Battery is working perfectly, SOT time is still amazing, and i believe programs are working fine (except Maps and Garmin Connect)... If your reasons are RAM, then i believe RAM exists to use it, not having it free all the time...
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Because manual battery optimization is buggy right now.
Settings>Battery>Launch>Manage automatically all apps
In other thread here in XDA I've user said that putting chrome to be managed automatically did the trick.
You can try both ways and comment here the results...
mikeazores said:
Because manual battery optimization is buggy right now.
Settings>Battery>Launch>Manage automatically all apps
In other thread here in XDA I've user said that putting chrome to be managed automatically did the trick.
You can try both ways and comment here the results...
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I had everything automatic the first week and Maps History started having those problems from day 1... So, automatic doesn't do the trick for sure. Same goes for Garmin Connect...
sonydesouza said:
biggest forum is here dude !
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sorry to be offtopic. do you know of an official huawei forum where we can officially report these bugs? thanks
pixielott46 said:
sorry to be offtopic. do you know of an official huawei forum where we can officially report these bugs? thanks
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You can report bugs by phonecall to huawei or on twitter or go on hicare app on your phone.
Don't know an official forum...
https://www.android-hilfe.de/forum/...itachse-zeigt-nur-sporadisch-orte.842496.html
potential solution
I checked TimeLine today and since 27/01/2018, journeys are recorded with the correct level of detail again! Google Maps app last updated 04/01/2018 and I'm still on C432. No idea what changed to start TimeLine working again properly but obviously I'm really happy. Can anyone else report that journeys are being correctly recorded again?
Nope no change.
I've got the same issue. I tried all of the tips and tricks I found online to no avail. Mine just says No Visited Places. ONce is awhile it does show a place. It pisses me off tremendously. Google Timeline is a great tool to remember where you've been
If you can't remember where you've been then you have bigger problems than Google Maps not working properly!
Personally, I try to turn everything OFF that records location(s).
jaseman said:
If you can't remember where you've been then you have bigger problems than Google Maps not working properly!
Personally, I try to turn everything OFF that records location(s).
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Just because it isn't useful for you doesn't mean it isn't useful for anyone else. I use it for work. Exact driving distances and times at clients house are very important.

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