AT&T HTC ONE X: Maps using high battery power?

[mooechili]

Thanks, that's what I thought you meant, just wanted to be sure. Just checked usage again, my 4G Maps is at 2%, her HOX is at 15%. Both running all but Bluetooth, neither one of us has opened Maps today, and neither has left the house.

Quick off topic question. What exactly is AT&T marks the spot? Just seems to be an app that enables you to report any problems with dropped calls, no data, etc. It appears in notifications at times and cannot swipe it out, so I force quit it. Wonder why it runs like that? My first AT&T phone so don't know much yet about their bloatware.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

Not everyone. AT&T One X

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[mooechili]

No screen shot, so I will list what I have on Maps use.
Battery used by Maps 14%
CPU Total 23s
Keep Awake 3m 18s
Data sent 18.04 KB
Date received 24.26 KB

 

[icebike]

Quick off topic question. What exactly is AT&T marks the spot? Just seems to be an app that enables you to report any problems with dropped calls, no data, etc. It appears in notifications at times and cannot swipe it out, so I force quit it. Wonder why it runs like that? My first AT&T phone so don't know much yet about their bloatware.

That is exactly what it does. It use to be something you could just launch when a call dropped, but later it started running all the time, and that's when I parted company with it.

If I get a few dropped calls, I will install it from market, report the dropped calls and then uninstall it again.

 

[icebike]

Not everyone. AT&T One X

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Kevin: Are you in a LTE area with your AT&T One X(L)?

See where I'm going with this?

 

[icebike]

No screen shot, so I will list what I have on Maps use.
Battery used by Maps 14%
CPU Total 23s
Keep Awake 3m 18s
Data sent 18.04 KB
Date received 24.26 KB

Are you in a LTE area Mooechili?

 

[mooechili]

No, but currently have full bars and 4G.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

Kevin: Are you in a LTE area with your AT&T One X(L)?

See where I'm going with this?

I sure am not. Just wanted to provide extra data.

 

[scottymomo]

Here's mine (not in an LTE area, wifi is on, ATT version), rebooted the phone around 6:30AM this morning and haven't opened maps

Battery used by Maps 30% (was at 36% a short time ago)
CPU Total 0s
Keep Awake 0s

 

[oshogg]

Herr is what I saw today.

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[icebike]

If anyone is still having this problem.....

My International HTC One X quad core came with an app called Locations (which has a bunch of different .apk installed). Some parts of this can't be removed or disabled. Location picker, Locations, and Locations Launcher can't be disabled. Locations navigation and widget can be disabled.

Its a paid service with a free evaluation period. I don't know if it comes on the AT&T version.

If you accidentally wander into that app, it will do some minimal configuration, (even if you bail out) and if you leave the data unchanged, it will consume some background battery which appears to get attributed to maps. If you go into Applications and clear all data and cache it will stop consuming battery.

So if you still see maps consuming over 10% with no usage, clear this app's data and see if it helps.

I accidentally hit that app yesterday, bailed out, and my maps usage jumped to 14% even when I never used maps at all.

 

[oshogg]

On AT&T HTC One X, I could only find Location picker - I cleared all its data yesterday. Let's see if Maps usage is improved by the end of the day today.

Osho

 

[oshogg]

Update: clearing data for Location picker still did not help me. I had high battery usage by Maps today as well.

Osho

 

[icebike]

Update: clearing data for Location picker still did not help me. I had high battery usage by Maps today as well.

Osho

Well, if you can't find all the parts and disable them, then its likely it will continue.

I've disabled a boat load of far east market stuff from my international version, some of which hinted at reporting location to contacts and websites. I've only seen maps take lots of battery one time after I accidentally fired up the HTC location app.

Sent from my HOX

 

[say anything]

it's happening to me today, too. map usage is at 22%.

 

[oshogg]

The only way I have found to get rid of excessive high usage of maps is to disable all 4 location options in Settings -> Locations. Then, it did go down. I may just do that as mostly I don't really need my current location unless I travel away from home or need to navigate.

Osho

 

[Valdeck]

It does not even show up on my battery usage for me...

 

[oshogg]

This is my theory: I think the high battery usage of Maps depends on whether one has some app/widget that is constantly asking for location info. If there is some app then it calls some Maps API - which in turn makes it look like the high battery consumption is from Maps but it really is not. It is just really hard to figure out which app/widget is doing this except by trial and error.

Osho

 

[icebike]

This is my theory: I think the high battery usage of Maps depends on whether one has some app/widget that is constantly asking for location info. If there is some app then it calls some Maps API - which in turn makes it look like the high battery consumption is from Maps but it really is not. It is just really hard to figure out which app/widget is doing this except by trial and error.

Osho

That's my guess as well.

Could be anything, such as a check in app, a weather app, news app, etc.
Even some twitter apps.

Anything that shares your location, or uses your location.

Sent from my HOX