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[The Soup Thief]

Here's a strange one. Just looked in battery stats - the biggest consumer of power over the past 6 hours has been "Fused location" (35% of total consumption)
Anyone know what that is?
Phone's been on charge for part of that time of that's of any significance

[Paul77]

 The Soup Thief, on 08 March 2013 - 07:30 PM, said:

Here's a strange one. Just looked in battery stats - the biggest consumer of power over the past 6 hours has been "Fused location" (35% of total consumption)
Anyone know what that is?
Phone's been on charge for part of that time of that's of any significance

Not sure, maybe it's been constantly switching between WiFi and mobile.

[Stuart_f]

From a random thread on XDA, "According to android source code (FusedLocationProvider), Fused Location is actually a location service which combines GPS location and network location to achieve balance between battery consumption and accuracy."

Why its using your battery is anyone's guess...

[Paul77]

Probably a weather or widget app that's causing it then.

[The Soup Thief]

Thanks for the suggestions - I saw that xda thread; will monitor things and let you know what happens next!
FWIW,  "Fused location" now stands at 48% of  total battery consumption with minimal further power used
I've had location services turned off since previous post
I'll turn my widgets off and report back
Edit - most odd. Same level of usage reported this morning, presumably from last night. Just rebooted and it's gone from the list (maybe because I switched location services off last night). I turned location services back on and will keep an eye on it to see if it arises again. If not I'll turn my weather widget back on see if that was the culprit
Edit 2 - ok - "problem" solved. Turned the weather widget back on (Fancy Widget) and Fused Location app suddenly began guzzling juice. Now I remember why I don't use weather widgets usually. Good spot, Paul77!
Edit 3 - so, it's not that straightforward afterall. Fancy Widget is uninstalled, Location services off, yet in the past two hours (while the phone's been in my pocket, turned off) "Fused location" consumed 78% of the total power used. Though I have turned gps and location stuff off, I can see that gps has been active for the past 2 hours. Admittedly, the overall battery level dropped only 3% in that time, so that 78% of all consumption doesn't amount to much,  but it's more than 0 and very perplexing...

Edited by The Soup Thief, 09 March 2013 - 02:24 PM.

[paulihunter]

Hey guys.
Just would like to know which kernel you're using.

On Jr9 I used the _motley because of the msm_hsic_host wakelock. But it's seems not to work on r8. So I switched to enhanced stock kernel by faux123.

And you?

[tphs]

 paulihunter, on 09 March 2013 - 08:04 PM, said:

Hey guys.
Just would like to know which kernel you're using.

On Jr9 I used the _motley because of the msm_hsic_host wakelock. But it's seems not to work on r8. So I switched to enhanced stock kernel by faux123.

And you?

_motley working fine for me with r8...

[paulihunter]

 tphs, on 09 March 2013 - 09:32 PM, said:

_motley working fine for me with r8...

Ah,  my fault. I forgot that there's a specific version for CM... Tried the AOSP version... *dumb*

[tphs]

 paulihunter, on 09 March 2013 - 09:51 PM, said:

Ah,  my fault. I forgot that there's a specific version for CM... Tried the AOSP version... *dumb*

It's all about such small details...

[duderuud]

Paul, got an ETA for the next update?

[paulihunter]

How often does MCMCR get updated?

[jmagee]

Weekly on a Friday is when its normally updated

[comicbookguy]

Anyone else using NFC active when screen is off? Can you confirm if its working or not pls?

[paulihunter]

 jmagee, on 11 March 2013 - 12:25 PM, said:

Weekly on a Friday is when its normally updated

Ok. But I downloaded my ROM last Saturday but build date is March 1

Edited by paulihunter, 11 March 2013 - 01:16 PM.

[jmagee]

 paulihunter, on 11 March 2013 - 01:14 PM, said:

Ok. But I downloaded my ROM last Saturday but build date is March 1

I'm not sure Paul guarantees it'll be every Friday, some times things will come up, other times he'll update it mid week if there's an important fix.

[Sp4rkR4t]

 jmagee, on 11 March 2013 - 04:57 PM, said:

I'm not sure Paul guarantees it'll be every Friday, some times things will come up, other times he'll update it mid week if there's an important fix.

Fair enough just a little annoying for me since the gesture typing isn't working and this is the first time I've had a real issue with this ROM since I started using it.

[the.real.lantesh]

Any word on the next update Paul?

[123nexus]

He do not seem to care ...
Cause he message but not in this section ...

Edited by 123nexus, 18 March 2013 - 07:54 AM.

[comicbookguy]

He said the next update would be more major. It'll be worth the wait as always!

[The Soup Thief]

 123nexus, on 18 March 2013 - 07:13 AM, said:

He do not seem to care ...
Cause he message but not in this section ...

Not sure it's that he "doesn't care"!
He's posting like a mad thing in the News forum - plus a few new devices to explore
Bear in mind he's supporting a lot of different devices here so we shouldn't be too surprised that there's been a brief hiatus
He's obviously very busy at the mo so best cool your boots for the minute!