android system is draining my battery

[Jaramie10]

Hey guys, I've had my g4 for a little over 2 months. This is my 3rd one and I'm not sure what's going on with my phone. I know there are threads about this topic but I haven't found a solution. Im getting around 2 and a half hours of SOT which is not very good.

I've done a factory reset within the last few weeks because of this and it hasn't fixed my issue. I've deleted many apps to see if one of them was causing this issue and no luck.

Here are my current stats:

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[anon(782252)]

Click on Android System and post that screenshot.

 

[Jaramie10]

Here it is:

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[anon(782252)]

Your GPS is running out of control. What setting are you using for location?

 

[Jaramie10]

I had it on high accuracy. But now it's not.

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[anon(782252)]

I personally prefer GPS only and then I use access lock to remove location permission from anything that doesn't really need it. Navigation still works perfectly.

 

[KPMcClave]

I've gone as far as now having Location as one of my toggles in Quick Settings. I keep it off unless I specifically need location for some reason (tagging location in Instagram,, Maps, etc.). This now seems to me to be the "right" way to use GPS for me. Instead of turning it off when I don't need it, I turn it on when I do. Sounds like the same, but in practice it isn't.

 

[greydarrah]

For my phone, it was an app called RunKeeper (to track my runs). It wasn't shutting itself off after closing it, or even after doing a Clear All from looking at the most recent apps. I discovered this by going to settings>battery>battery usage, then scrolling down to my apps. In my case, RunKeeper was always showing up as one of those apps that has a Stop button beside it, implying that it was running. So I finally just deleted it and replaced it with StravaRun, which never shows up with a Stop button enabled. It's the location services of one of your apps that's eating up your battery. I don't think this is a G4 problem, I think it's related to how 5.1 is dealing with location calls, and some apps not really closing themselves on this newer OS, but that's just my opinion.

I typically only have about 1 hour of screen time each day (always sitting at my PC), but I went from having to charge my phone up around 3 PM every day, to now plugging in around midnight with 30% to 40% battery left.