Re: lumia 920 Battery Issues
Guys, I think I found the problem.
I've been lurking these threads and reading tons of troubleshooting steps and possible solutions. I disabled Nokia Drive, NFC, etc. but my phone would still randomly become hot around the camera area and the battery would drain dramatically, although not always, but as soon as I felt the heat, I knew it was draining.
Today I was having great battery life all day, the phone had been cool to the touch, then suddenly my battery started draining at a rapid pace and the phone began to get warmer and warmer, here we go again! I traced back some of the things I had done recently that could've caused this, Nokia Drive is still disabled and I didn't touch any settings, so what the ****?
Not much people know this but tapping on the top edge of the screen reveals some icons that MS decided to hide for some reason, the LTE bars, WiFi, Vibrate/Ring, battery meter, etc. After hitting the power button to put my phone on stand by, I had left it at 63% battery, 5 minutes later it's at 57%, something's definitely going on, I went back to the home screen, then I tapped on the top edge and something else was up there next to the battery meter, the location target icon which should only stay on when using GPS for navigation because although some apps that use location services bring it up briefly, it goes away in about a second but it wasn't going anywhere, the target was there and the phone getting hot and draining, of course! it makes sense now, when I use any smartphone as a GPS the battery drains like mad and the phone gets hot, this was the case with my iPhone and this phone as well. Apparently some app called for the GPS to track my location but it failed to shut off and just kept running, I believe it was the PEOPLE app since it was the last thing I opened but not entirely sure.
I haven't been able to replicate it but most apps I have set up to track my location. Bing search? bam, there's the target, Weather, maps, just about anything could turn on the GPS at the risk of it not shutting off. Now we can just go ahead and turn off Location which shuts off GPS, but then your maps and navigation won't work which is fine if you don't use those things, but I do and I'm sure most people here do, but do we need Bing or People to track our location?
Under Settings, Applications I leave Maps on but I turn off just about everything else starting with People "Use my location" Off. Photos + Camera: I unchecked "Include location info in pictures I take" just imagine your GPS kicking in every time you take a picture, the damn thing glitches and stays on for the rest of the ride and you're screwed. Lastly we have "Search", search anything and you kick off the GPS unless you shut off "Use my current location" for searches.
I'm pretty much convinced that's the issue, why would the GPS be on when I put my phone to sleep? and the solution is not necessarily to turn off all of your features, you can either just turn off locations services, fine tune as suggested above, or leave everything on but if you feel your phone is getting hot or the battery is draining quickly, tap on the top edge of your screen and if you notice the target next to the battery meter, then something set off the GPS and it's draining your phone, at least that's what happened to me and I'd be curious if anyone else is having the same issue, at least it won't hurt to tap and check ;-)
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