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Asked: 2026-05-23T19:31:08+00:00

I have an application that is running as a background service and constantly listens

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I have an application that is running as a background service and constantly listens to network updates (course location). The service itself doesn’t hold any wake locks. The listening part looks like this:

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, 120000, 3000F, this);

My onLocationChanged() method is doing some very simple stuff (just calculating distance to a pre-configured location using Location.distanceTo():

When looking into the battery stats, the application is a rock star – sometimes even more than the display.

CPU is not that bad but the “Stay Awake” part is very high.

Is there a way to prevent this?

I thought to use the AlarmManager to request an update every 2 minutes and then go to sleep after I get it, but I’m not sure that this is a good approach.

Also, I thought to detect when the device is in motion, but this will most probably be even a larger killer.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you answered your own question.

    I thought to use the AlarmManager to request an update every 2 minutes
    and then go to sleep after I get it. Not sure though that its a good
    approach.

    That would be the best approach. But don’t set it to two minutes, set it to 10 minutes intervals.

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