| My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | Sarath Chandran | 6/29/11 8:44 AM | My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery .i am not able to find which application needed locaion basrd service, how to stop google maps running in background, Help. Always include: Device: Galaxy S (v2.3) Carrier: Countr |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | hack.operon | 6/29/11 9:47 AM | Is that what you read out of settings > about phone > battery use? Consider disabling latitude in the maps app. Once disabled, a background map service might run but It should not take up more than 1% of battery unless brought to foreground. Post b |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | XplosiveBacon | 6/30/11 2:52 AM | Background app steals 11 megs of ram. Enjoy manually 'force quit' after using google maps settings applications manage applications running maps force quit It would be better if the application background- or otherwise could be terminated with th |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | hack.operon | 7/1/11 4:58 AM | Background apps are kicked out if foreground app needs space. Read official blog [1][3] and a group thread [2] with replies from Diane Hackborn, an Android engineer in Google. |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | Quatrix | 7/17/11 8:01 PM | There have been bugs since 5.4.0. Maps accounts for a chunk of my battery usage with Latitude turned off and when I don't even run the app after restarting the phone. The phone says that Maps uses the GPS even when in the background. I have to for |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | SubzeroHK | 7/17/11 8:55 PM | Seems the problem just with Nexus S 2.3.4 The problem doesn't exist on my Incredible S 2.3.3. |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | Mark Micallef | 9/11/11 1:16 AM | I'm having the same problem. Maps is always running and consumes 25% + of the battery sometimes more than the display. I have never used Latitude and I always turn off gps when I don't need it. I have tried killing it and force closing it. It always |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | dylanzhao | 11/10/11 10:03 PM | I have the same problem. Samaung Galaxy SII. |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | cocoon77777 | 11/14/11 7:04 AM | I have the same problem. Samaung infuse. even worse, multiple google map apps are running! |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | neobie_net | 1/5/12 7:12 AM | Same problem. i9003 running android 2.3.5 |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | MaayanB | 3/15/12 1:57 AM | Hi,I had the same issue on my galaxy s, and I think I solved that.First, sign out of latitude (in the Maps app, Settings... ). Note that even if you just re-installed your Android, you may still be signed in (from the past) - that's what it did to me |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | sweatyrich | 3/16/12 8:52 AM | MaayanB - Great tips there buddy !!Followed your suggestions and it's now removed the FOUR instances of Google Map Virus that were eating up my phone memory. |
| Re: My google maps is always running it consuming ~40% of my battery , | sdive | 7/23/12 8:13 AM | This might be due to Maps offline caching. It cannot be disabled. But apparently when you delete all Maps data, it removes cached maps and stops that background activity. That's my guess. |