google maps and factory reset question

[funstuffalex]

my google maps is allways running i cant se it running in "running proceses" but if i check wats eating my battery in "batery use" google maps is top of the list whit 35%

also if i do a factory reset will it delete the preinstaled programs that the phone came whit also(google maps,youtube etc)?


and in running proceses it shows 78 mb used and 214 mb free.....wasent it suposed to have 512 mb of ram?

 

[distortedloop]

my google maps is allways running i cant se it running in "running proceses" but if i check wats eating my battery in "batery use" google maps is top of the list whit 35%

also if i do a factory reset will it delete the preinstaled programs that the phone came whit also(google maps,youtube etc)?

No, the pre-installed programs like Maps and YouTube shouldn't be impacted, they're in the /system/app folder, not the /data/app folder (where user installed apps go). Even if the Google apps were deleted, they're all available in the Market, so no big deal to download them manually if necessary.

The DATA for the pre-installed apps will get erased, though.

Your battery usage pointing to google maps may be related to running the Latitude portion of google maps...it's constantly on and tracking your position. go into the settings for google maps (layers perhaps) and make sure Latitude is turned off.

and in running proceses it shows 78 mb used and 214 mb free.....wasent it suposed to have 512 mb of ram?

The missing memory is used by the system and not available to you; this confuses many people, but you should be okay.

 

[funstuffalex]

google latitude is not on

i cant clouse maps even in battery use if i click on maps and force stop it then refresh and its still there

 

[distortedloop]

google latitude is not on

i cant clouse maps even in battery use if i click on maps and force stop it then refresh and its still there

Non-rooted, you might try going into Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/ All then finding Maps and uninstalling updates. Also, clear data, clear cache, etc. This might help you out.

Are you rooted?

The way Android works, killing tasks isn't advised. One of the reasons is exactly what you're seeing (I think what you're seeing)...if you kill an app that Android thinks you're going to use again any time soon, it just re-opens it in the background. It shouldn't be sucking up any significant resources in that state, though. Android doesn't like a lot of free memory..the linux mantra is "free memory is wasted memory".

Anyways, if you're rooted, you can try getting Autostarts off the market and tell it to keep Google Maps from autostarting on boot.

Also, if you're rooted, you could use Titanium or Root Explorer to delete the Google Maps apk and then re-download it from the Market.

 

[j.bruha]

What he's experiencing is a growing problem with Google Maps. There's currently a ton of people commenting about it in the market and I've seen it first hand.

I sat down with a bunch of friends the other day (all of whom have one Android device or another) and we all checked our battery usage has Google Maps at either the first or second position on the list. In the group was my Nexus S, a Captivate, a Nexus One, and a G2. It appears to be a problem with the newest update, probably related to the caching its doing with the map data, but that's just a guess.