{"id":798,"date":"2017-07-11T19:40:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/?p=798"},"modified":"2017-07-11T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T19:40:17","slug":"tip-battery-saving-for-android-6-and-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/tip-battery-saving-for-android-6-and-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Battery Saving for Android 6 and 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I noticed the location icon sporadically appearing on my Galaxy Note 4 phone for no apparent reason. Something was pinging location. This has a double-whammy on battery: using the GPS (or attempting to without a clear sky), and waking up the phone from sleep. The battery usage screen showed <strong>Google Play services<\/strong> as a primary consumer.<\/p>\n<p>The fix took a while to find but it was simple: Google Location History. This is an Android service that periodically checks and logs your location. Google uses this to improve various services like search and maps.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care about this. Search results and maps work just fine, well enough for me, without having my location history. And I don&#8217;t use Google Now. And I don&#8217;t like the idea of my phone constantly tracking my location.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to disable this, which noticeably extended my battery life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to <strong>Settings<\/strong> \/ <strong>Location<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the <strong>Location Services<\/strong> section.<\/li>\n<li>Tap <strong>Google Location History<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tap the slider in the upper right hand of the screen to turn it off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I noticed the location icon sporadically appearing on my Galaxy Note 4 phone for no apparent reason. Something was pinging location. This has a double-whammy on battery: using the GPS (or attempting to without a clear sky), and waking up the phone from sleep. The battery usage screen showed Google Play services as a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/tip-battery-saving-for-android-6-and-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tip: Battery Saving for Android 6 and 7<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}