GPSD drain battery live

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beatlexx

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A couple of months ago I had this issue with my Samsung S4. A process called GPSD is eating away the battery live. The battery only lasted half a day. I tried all the suggestions mentioned on the web from switching off every possible application or uninstalling about everything but nothing worked. The only solution I found was to switch to GSM ONLY network .

I then saw someone wrote that the problem started when the service provider (MTN) made changes to the cell phone network. I wrote a long mail to MTN trying to find out what is going on, and they obviously deny everything, then as mysterious as it appeared it went away.

Now again, yesterday the GPSD process started up again and eating the battery live. I am back to GSM ONLY network. I had all auto updates switch off and hasn’t installed or changed any application.

I know that MTN again is going to deny any problems in there network.

My question is has anyone else experienced something like this or am I missing something that I don’t know about?
 
Stupid question, is your gps off?
2. Is locations disabled?
3. Do you have any gps routing software installed? I had a problem with Here not releasing gpsd.
4. Are you rooted? If yes, you can turn off the executable flag on gpsd.
 
thanks for the suggestions.

I will go thru all the settings again. I have now cleared the memory and will monitor to see if something wasn't stuck in memory.
 
Yup lots of times mentioned on this site, just one example from search
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/653036-GPSD-Issue-on-Gs4?highlight=GPSD
The problem is related to the the network and not your device, you could circumnavigate the problem by limiting your device to 2g only in the Mobile Network section. But probably good luck getting MTN to verify the problem does exist on their network.
 
Hi, just want to know, did anyone figured out a solution to this GPSD problem? I have tried everything again and it always comes back at around 3 months interval. The only solution still is to switch to GSM mode only.

This is very frustrating because it just started today again on my phone without any changes made to it.
 
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