If this is the case, thanks. Anyone else who might also know something on this subject matter - please chime in. Saves me the trouble of enabling GPS off and on all the time.

 

he is right... i have read articles about this... i leave mine on all the time and have no impact on battery unless something is using it

 

If you don't like a thread or you're not going provide a helpful response, don't post in it!

 

so if you go indoors doesn't the GPS constantly try to reacquire the satellites and use battery life ?

 

appreciate the hint. I turned it on indoors and it was active hit the old task killer and boom it nice and quiet. One less thing to turn on and off.

 

But don't some apps not exit right away? If you 'close' out of an app but it doesn't get truly closed for several hours would the GPS be active?

 

Ok. Sounds good.where do I find Google maps exit or close application? Since I can only seem to get out by backing out or the home key which doesn't seem to "exit" the app

 

Take a look at your taskbar from time to time and see if the "GPS Active" Icon is present. If so, and you know that you're not actively using an app which should require GPS, then examine your running apps and nail down the offender. If the icon is not up there in the taskbar, then you're golden.

I've never turned off my GPS since activating my phone, and I've had STELLAR battery life compared to most. I constantly see the GPS Icon present when I'm using it and can't recall ever seeing it at a time when I've thought "Gee, what's causing that?".

Even when I use it heavily with Nav and Maps (and a ballistics/shooting app I use for hours at a time) it shows a relatively low percentage of battery use under statistics in comparison to other functions. The bright side is that when I do decide to use one of these apps which require GPS functionality, the process is seamless - It just flat works...


(One other note regarding the GPS in the incredible, it's sensitive enough to work effortlessly in my Jeep and the Ambulance, due to the fiberglass tops. I can use it for hours on end and never worry about positioning it with LOS to a window. I couldn't accomplish that with either of my 3 Garmins or my previous Palm Pro, at least not in the ambulance...)

 

Cool. Thanks. How do I close the app not gps. Maybe I'm asking in the wrong thread.

 

According to ATK, my Maps application opens by itself every couple of hours or so. To my knowledge, I don't have any apps active that might cause this. So I'm hesitant to turn on the GPS.

Does anyone else have this issue?

 

I've noticed some intermittent behaviors.............

Without a change in configuration, on SOME days it appears that GPS tracking is on relatively constantly (White Dish with lines). On those days, battery drain is very high. Other days, it doesn't seem to be on much and battery drain is very good. It's not a weekday/weekend thing either. Nor is it travel oriented.

As far as I can tell, the only apps that might be regularly hitting the GPS are Weatherbug with locator and Google Latitude. Neither should be "on" all the time but these are the only ones run in a "widget" mode. Certainly latitude can't be the problem since the updates/refresh are really crappy (editorial comment).

I do have the regular suite of "localized" apps (Yelp, Where!, etc) but they are not running or even started on most days when I have the drain issue.

Rebooting the phone may or may not cause a difference which is interesting.

Using a Droid Incredible.

No solutions..just observations...sorry!

Jim

 

Then why does it say right in the Android software menu (uncheck to conserve battery)?

 

I don't have ATK, so not sure exactly what it is showing for you - but keep in mind that there is a difference between apps being "active" and consuming resources versus an app being resident in memory but "inactive", simply for the purpose of being available if needed...

I did a "end all" using System Panel a few hours ago, and GPS does indeed show up in my running processes at the moment, but it does not appear to be consuming any resources... I'm currently at 14 hr and 9 minutes of "up time", with 3 hr and 46 min of "Awake Time". 42 minutes of Voice Calls, 2h37m of "Display On", 1hr11m of "Wi-Fi" surfing and downloading and a crapload of time configuring GDE home apps - all the while I'm at 26% battery remaining (which is low for me at this time of day).

Check your statistics on battery use... Does GPS/Maps or anything similar even register a % figure for you? If not, then it's a non-issue... If it does show a significant figure, then stress over it.

 

because apps like weather and other location based apps will use it and use battery... so thats why it tells you

 

Im pretty sure there is a potion in lattitude online (browser) to only share your loction with certain people, (friends you can trust/family) etc... In fact im pretty sure you can decide this for every contact you have... Specificly

*edit*

Sharing options
Share best available location
Share only city level location
Hide location from this friend

Found in the Igoogle Lattitude widget

You can do this for every contact you have...

 

I edited past for where those options are, if you ant find them let me know and i'll screen them... Yes im coming from an omnia , and i loved my omnia and yes i was on modaco under this same name



*edit* here is the option on Igoogle latitude

 

haha im from modaco too with my omnia

 

I just checked, and the Maps app has indeed been on (for no more than 30 minutes) and within the Settings->Battery menu, it shows that it's responsible for 5% of the battery's depletion. The GPS option is off though.

I'm using Beautiful Widgets, although it's set to retrieve results based on zipcode, NOT geolocation (which uses GPS). Even when I hit "Refresh", this does not turn the Maps app on, so this can't be the issue. The only other possible app that's always open is "News and Weather", but that's set to update every 6 hours. I've previously used the stock HTC weather widget instead of Beautiful Widgets, and I still had this same issue.

In short, I have no idea what the source of this issue is.