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So after updating to Lollipop, I'm having a similar issue, but it isn't the exact same. Still lots of waking of my GPS and battery drain, but now stopping IQ Agent does nothing, while turning off my GPS does stop it. This is the reverse of what was going on with me on KitKat. Since I'm rooted...

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That fix is specifically for a ZTE phone that looks pretty old. I doubt it'd work on a new HTC phone, but you're welcome to try.

To clarify, what I did to "fix the problem" didn't do anything to get me a stronger phone or GPS signal. All it did was get rid of Carrier IQ. And the reason I didn't jump right into the explanation is because I didn't want to spam the board if no one here even has rooting as an option for them...

Another way the GPS issue is related to poor cell phone service is that they're both symptoms of the same situation. If you're deep in some concrete jungle like Vegas, you're not going to have great cell signal, and a GPS satellite isn't going to be able to find you to get a fix. My office...

Best Buy's black tie covers literally anything other than a phone that you no longer have. By the terms of their service, I could probably walk in, smash the phone in front of them, and ask for a new one.

I have Best Buy's black tie coverage on my phone, so I could get it exchanged with them, but that would take a week or more, and it wouldn't be a guaranteed fix. I think I'll try rooting first. And if that doesn't work, I'll wait it out and have an excuse to get an altogether new phone.

Well FYI, I pursued my non-rooted attempt at fixing this problem, and got to a dead end. So at this point I'm strongly considering rooting my phone just so I can turn off Carrier IQ, which appears to be the only fix that has worked for anyone... I've always been mildly curious about rooting and...

It's probably a bug, but it's a bug that involves Carrier IQ, which is legitimately spyware. So I think we can reasonably attribute both incompetence and malice to AT&T. As far as I know, they're one of only a couple carriers that didn't get rid of Carrier IQ crap a few years ago.

That's a lot of hassle... Anyone want to volunteer to be the guinea pig? I'm currently chasing down a possible option that's kind of a halfway point between n00b and rooted. I have low level access to my phone, and a possible way to disable anything related to Carrier IQ (which is definitely on...

Madelman, now that you mention it, I'm seeing that always-awake too. I've been resorting to just keeping my phone in airplane mode while I'm in the office (where a gps activity goes from being a couple second activity to a several minute activity), but battery has still been draining faster than...

How do I find an AT&T service center?

To be fair, I think most users, even those who are not particularly tech-savvy, would notice if their battery started having significant issues. My battery lost at least 30% of its efficiency pretty much overnight.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I still put the blame on AT&T instead of HTC. Why? Because through all of my looking, I've only heard of AT&T M8 customers having this issue. I guess it's possible other carriers' customers just haven't noticed, but that seems unlikely.

So I've been having this same issue, and I tried the drive mode fix... It didn't seem today like it was working, but I'll give it a full day to get an idea of if it looks any better or not.