What the heck is "Weather Daemon?"

[cbreze]

Re: What the heck is "Weather Daemon?"

I'm using Weather & Click widget and it's great as usual, I've been using it for about 2 years now and it's great.

The key in most, if not all Weather widgets is to set it with specific Cities, and prevent using the Detect my location and GPS options, if you set your specific city it practically doesn't use any battery as it will be updating just at your specific Update Intervals.

So my advice is that if you want to keep using the stock weather widget, just go to settings and disable all GPS and Detect Location settings and set your city or cities manually, besides the obvious battery savings there you may also begin to use your Location with the Quick toggles and turn it on only when you really need it.

This is also what I have always done and get an update every 2 hours almost zero battery use. Disabling location is what seems to do the trick. If your in your city all day long there is no need for it anyway. I notice GPS is my biggest battery sucker.

 

[chezm]

Weather apps and widgets are NOTORIOUS for eating up batteries. Many of the damn things try to use fine location (i.e. GPS) to get location, which is idiotic unless you are using one of those hyper-accurate weather predictors like Arcus... for general weather, rough network based location is MORE than enough. Yet there they are, pinging your location service all the time.

The good ones allow you to at least fuss with the settings. I typically turn off 'follow location' and just set a static location.

I'm using the stock weather app, had the location shut off since yesterday and haven't really noticed an improvement with the battery...and I was using hourly updates. In reality I see why it makes sense it would kill the battery but it doesn't look so obvious right now.

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[moheeb]

The GPS drain some battery power but the problem is in the mechanism of how the developer uses the GPS. In addition, every app in your phone has a tracking mechanism that is used by developers to track how you use their applications. For example, when a weather widget is updated, a packet of data is sent to Google Analytics. This packet includes but not limited to, your IP, GPS coordinates, some system metrics and if you clicked on any part of this widget. Some developers use excessive tracking mechanism to track every single move in your phone which causes battery drainage. When you plug your device to "Android Studio", which is used to develop android applications, you will be amazed with the amount of data that is being monitored, collected and sent to several places.

 

[Vivianita1333]

Battery life wasn't great today and the only thing I can see that's out of the ordinary is this "Weather Daemon" under location settings. And it said "high battery usage." So I disabled it.

Does anyone know what this thing is and what it's supposed to do???