Motorola Droid :: Google Latitude - Running In Background?
Feb 25, 2010
I use Google Latitude with several friends, but have noticed that when I run it in the background, my last know location on the friends phone shows where I "stopped" but never updates. Example: I leave my house with Google Maps/Latitude running and decide I want to listen to DroidLive. Once I switch to DroidLive it appears that Latitude stops broadcasting my locations and my friends see that I'm in the middle of a highway for 30-40 minutes until I kill my music and go back to the maps. Is this a known "bug" or is it something that just doesn't work? I thought that the processes would continue to work, but I might be wrong. I also notice that when launching another app while in Google Maps that my GPS indicator also stops until I get back into the Maps.
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Jul 23, 2010
When I had Google Latitude on my Crackberry it updated my location on a timed interval in the background, on the Droid X it only updates when I open the Google Map app, is there anyway to have it update in the background?
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Apr 3, 2010
Anyone use google latitude? I have been messing with it and since 2.1 it will not update friends location. Anyone else have that issue.
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Mar 31, 2010
Latitude works if you open google maps, however the widget won't work. I signed back into my google account, not sure if the gmail is working or not because I haven't gotten anything.
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Nov 7, 2009
It seems like whenever I play around on the phone for a bit and the go to close my apps with TaskPanel the following are always running even though I didn't touch them:
Alarm Clock
Corporate Calendar
Calendar
Settings
Messaging (even though I have not used it at all)
and one other that isn't showing up right now but was something like mobile.? or
Some of these I don't care if they're running (I assume the Calendar is running since I need it to run for my Google calendar widget to work), but why is Alarm Clock and Corporate calendar always running? Is there a way to turn these off?
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Oct 22, 2010
I've been running UD 1.0.0 since the day it dropped, when I installed it I was on vacation and wasn't using my droid much other then playing around with the setting and some internet browsing, like all good things my vacation came to a end at work my phone is used all day texting, incoming and out going calls all day, listening to my scanner app. That's when I found out UD 1.0.0 wasn't going to work for me, I have two batteries and by the end of the work day ( 8-12 hrs) one battery would be dead and the other down to 20%.
I tried different kernels, running only the basic's (no GPS, no WiFi no background light) still got the same results. UD 1.0.0 is a great ROM, but it just doesn't gel with my droid. So I'm back to UD 8.0 with slayher's 1100 kernel set at 800 mhz (1380 quadrant)and the Black N Bold theme running smooth and fast with no problems at all. Best thing is after 8-12 hrs of phone use texting and listening to my scanner I still come home with 20% - 40% battery without even using the spare.
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Jan 11, 2010
Apps like Corporate Calender and Alarm clock. I have deleted them and they still continue to show as running every time I use Advanced Task Manager. They are not showing on my home screen but must be running in the background, right? How do i permanently get rid of them?
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Jul 1, 2010
After the update my Google Talk keeps running in the background DESPITE having auto sign in and stuff unchecked.
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Feb 12, 2012
this is an issue that I have always noticed but just decided now to create a thread for it as to a question of why Google Maps is running in the background and how can I make it stop? It takes about 5mb of RAM which I care about since I am using a very low memory device, The Motorola Droid 1.
Here's a pic:
how I can make it stop running in the background? It is confirmed that GPS if off and im not signed in to Latitude or anything like that.
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Aug 21, 2010
I used to really love the Latitude interface, when I clicked on a friend in Latitude, I got a screen with many options, including Navigate to, send text, etc.
One really cool feature on this screen was "what's nearby" which showed stores etc. that were near my friend.
Also, the background was black and the text was white.
NOW (after the last update): I lost the "what's nearby" feature AND the background is white and the text is black.
What can I do? Is there a way to revert maps to the older release?
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Dec 29, 2009
I have the moto droid and my girl has the eris. I was trying to get latitude to work on her eris, but when you click menu when in google maps and you hit latitude, nothing happens. All the other icons works, e.g. when I tap my location it takes me to the current location on google maps. I even tried downloading google maps again and setting up latitude and requesting her to join latitude but it says 'i already have latitude - launch it' which again, doesn't work.
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Jul 15, 2010
Is there any way around 2 Droids Eris' sharing the same gmail account but being able to show up as different locations with google latitude?
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Aug 28, 2010
I am new to android development and i have started working on an android application to perform following tasks.This application is to monitor the sales team of a company. write a service to run in background and get the current latitude and longitude of android device after getting a specific SMS from any number and then upload the latitude and longitude to a PHP web server without any notification to the user. Your thoughts or any code will be a great help for me as this is my first project of this kind..
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Sep 4, 2010
I need to write a background service to get latitude and longitude values. I have an android application in which it has to find where the user is currently.So i seemed of getting the values of latitude and longitude values. Is there any way programatically to get the values from the system services or even program giving the values of lat,long is better for me. Any suggestions on this will be appreciable. I am in real help,so i am in fond of your suggestions soon.
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Aug 22, 2010
Both listed under applications->running services as always running. I don't need/use either so how do I get rid of them?
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Oct 19, 2009
I noticed that if i dont use the app to kill running apps after i exit them they are still running in the background is this normal for the Android? I am coming from Pre so not sure if they are killed when exited.
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Aug 20, 2010
I am writing an android app which must be always running in the background untill user exit it from the app's menu. But now I notice that in Android after some time my app is stopped by itself without user intervention.
Any idea how to make sure my app will always be running in the background?
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Aug 19, 2009
I am trying to get the list of process running in the background.
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Mar 5, 2009
Is Google Latitude available in the UK or not, because it doesn't seem to be working for me? I have received the RC9 update for G1 and have Google Maps 3.0. Is there an a Google Latitude application that I should have or do I access everything through Google Maps? When I go the www.google.com/latitude on my G1, it offers me the option of "launching" Latitude but it just takes me to Google Maps. From there, I cannot see the locations of my Google "friends" (who have agreed to show location), neither does my own location show up on the Latitude homepage on the web (I have settings turned to "detect my location automatically").
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Jun 30, 2009
I can run an application in background but i want to know how many applications are running in the background.Like in some mobile while pressing the center button a list of currently running applications are displayed.Is this is possible in android.If possible means give some code snippets and steps to achieve this.
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May 14, 2010
Lately I've been noticing that some apps are running in the background when I've not opened them. Footprints, Voice dialer, Messages (I use handcent), Peep and Music are the ones I've noticed and (coincidentally) are all apps I don't use. I only notice them when using Advanced Task Killer and have to kill them. It's a new issue so is it possible another app I downloaded recently is to blame? Am i maybe just insane?
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Apr 27, 2010
How to find what service running on background on Android? Maybe I have to ask in another way? Does the service be presented as one "process", then we can use "ps" or "top" command to find it?
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Aug 21, 2009
I have an android main activity which starts a service (class extending service).
The services onStart creates a Mediaplayer and starts playing an mp3 file.
Then when you click something in my main layout (from the main activity), I call startActivity to fire another screen. I would assume my music background service keeps running, however it finishes. How can I achieve my goal then? code...
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Jan 19, 2010
I've read that s ome have turned off Sense and have seen an improvement in performance and battery life running vanilla ANDROID.
If one uses Home Switcher does that accomplish the same thing, or is Sense still running in the background?
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Jul 31, 2010
It used to work fine but about 3 months ago it had just stopped updating on either of our phones. I have a friend on my friends list and his latitude position updates on my phoned fine (although her has disappeared also in the last few days also). The only way I can get too see my wifes location oon my phone is for her to open google maps on her phone to update her position. The same is true for her to see my location on her phone. No settings have been changed so I don't know what had happened, does anyone know how to fix this bug?
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Apr 8, 2010
How do you get other friends to show up with their locations?
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Oct 12, 2010
Folks there is a nice new app called *** Latitude Update *** on Google Market, that lets you update Google Latitude as frequent as you want (even when Google's own app is down), see your locations history on map etc
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Feb 8, 2010
Anyone had any problems with this in last week, my friends locations are not updating and they are also having the same problem as me
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Aug 1, 2010
Ever since the last couple of Google Maps updates my Latitude no longer updates on its own. All settings are set correctly to autodate and use GPS but no go. Only updates when I open Latitude manually.
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Mar 14, 2012
I lost my phone on a night out google latitde has pinpointed 5 days ago where my last location was known and is 5 - 10 mins away from the location i went.
I have an address from google latitude, not sure how accurate this is?
I hope its accurate ill be knocking on their door for my phone back.
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