[smooth4lyfe]

Out if these 3 settings which saves the most battery?



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[chezm]

I'm very sure the second one saves more battery, that's what I've got set. On my nexus 5 the first was labelled high accuracy, while the second was called battery saving mode. Weird how they aren't labelled the same on nexus and Samsung.

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[Jaycemiskel]

Yeah, I wonder why yours says that. This is what mine shows

[smooth4lyfe]

Yeah I remember it was called that too and kinda wish it still was. I'm gonna take your word and leave that on for a day or 2 and see if ti makes a difference

[skinneejay]

Location off completely is the best. Second is the WiFi / network.

[smooth4lyfe]

Yeah, I wonder why yours says that. This is what mine shows

Thanks! My previous phones were labeled like that but not sure why mine isn't...must be a carrier thing

[smooth4lyfe]

Location off completely is the best. Second is the WiFi / network.

I would turn location off, but I need it on so the weather on my widget can update

[skinneejay]

Power saving is the new Wifi/network setting

[STEVESKI07]

I wish there was a setting so you could do the most power efficient setting for things like Weather where an exact location isn't needed and you could only use the GPS when exact location is needed like for Navigation. Anybody know of a way of doing this?

[Jaycemiskel]

I wish there was a way to do that. I haven't found one though. I was disappointed that weather needed GPS on. I just set a location so I could keep mine on power saving.

[chezm]

Yeah, I wonder why yours says that. This is what mine shows

Mine is exaclty like smooth4lyfe, maybe its based on your carrier model? I have a Rogers Canada model.

[Jaycemiskel]

Yeah, I'm with Verizon. I guess they decided not to change that.

[robinhelenehebert]

Well I'm testing that second setting

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[sjaduae]

I wish there was a setting so you could do the most power efficient setting for things like Weather where an exact location isn't needed and you could only use the GPS when exact location is needed like for Navigation. Anybody know of a way of doing this?

You do not need GPS on for the weather just WiFi/Mobile, when I run Navionics I have to switch GPS on

On some weather widgets you can manually type the location and only need WiFi for updates on weather

[leeborden1]

I'd love to have location setting completely off. But when I do that, I get a notification every few minutes telling me to turn it on! Very annoying. Not sure why it's doing it. Must be some app asking for the location, but I can't figure out which one. Ideas?

[jcp007]

I would turn location off, but I need it on so the weather on my widget can update

Turn it on to update the weather widget and turn it off. Does the TWC widget not update via the network?

[Cobravision]

The only reasons I need location services are for weather and navigation. I can live without the weather and turn in location for navigation as needed. Right now, with location services off, my battery is 100% better, on par with my S5. Hopefully, 5.1 will fix whatever is killing the battery with location services. I had the same issues when I first got the S5.

[player22]

You can set the weather to one location like your home town and have it updated every hour or two or three without having the GPS on at all. The only draw back is it will only update it for that one location. That's how I have mine so I can have GPS off.

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[Cobravision]

My average SOT before turning off location services was 2-3 hours. Now I have 1:30 SOT at 80% battery.

[Jaycemiskel]

You can set the weather to one location like your home town and have it updated every hour or two or three without having the GPS on at all. The only draw back is it will only update it for that one location. That's how I have mine so I can have GPS off.

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This! That's what I've done.

[Scott Wallace]

I wish there was a setting so you could do the most power efficient setting for things like Weather where an exact location isn't needed and you could only use the GPS when exact location is needed like for Navigation. Anybody know of a way of doing this?

I have this on my phone. I use Tasker (net.dinglisch.android.taskerm) and an app called, Secure Settings (com.intangibleobject.securesettings.plugin).

By default I have Location set to 'Battery Saving Mode' and when I start an app that I've designated as requiring GPS, it changes the value to 'High Accuracy'. When the app exits, Tasker switches it back.