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Google services draining battery's

Is Google services draining anyone's battery's can't seem to turn it off or comes and goes anyone else having this problem
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It's probably a wakelock. Use BetterBatteryStats to check what cause it.

Maps is continuously using 10% battery power on my s4 and I haven't even started maps yet, Google now probably uses it but don't know how to turn it off
edit: as I'm looking at the screen shot that I just uploaded I notice that the information about the battery life is incorrect i usualy last a day on a charge like this.
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Turn off the bat K ground data on it.... I actually do that to all my apps... Saves battery..
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Is staying awake
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I wrote a tasker skript to disable sync when not connected to power, that solves it perfectly...
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I think it might be the google play. Since the new version 4.0.25 I've seen drain like this when I left the app open in the memory. Maybe this is the problem.

Click the blue google icon
open it
click settings
and you can switch Google Now off from within there
Interestingly enough, I've heard a lot of iPhone users complaining about battery drainage with the Google Now as well!

There are a few gremlins at the moment, I've had a 32 minute audio wake lock despite the phone being silent on my desk and my cpu got stuck at 1350mhz for over an hour.
Both problems solved by clearing the apps via the task manager so maybe it's an app doing similar.
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This is what Google service is using I'd anyone knows anything about this
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Quite simply maps is running or you have Google now tracking you. Probably have locating settings to use your phone and Wi-Fi to determine where you are. Turn them off
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I had google services kill my battery. It only happened once but on that day it took 63% of my battery

if maps keeps draining you battery try this:
maps->settings->locations settings-> and take off "report from this device"
i had this problem on GS3

Got the problem now too, all sync and location based stuff are off and it still happens. Android really sucks when these things happen.. will report back If I solve it.

I had the same problem but now i don't get the battery drain anymore. I deactivated google now by holding the "settings" button(the left softkey). There you can deactivate google now
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I updated Google Services to the latest update through the play store and the drain has stopped.

Google Now/Maps causes huge wakelocks, as every so often it checks where you are to give you location based information, or record your location history.
If you don't need this information, turn all the options off in Map settings like someone above suggeste.

recklesslife85 said:
I updated Google Services to the latest update through the play store and the drain has stopped.
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Care to elaborate? I see that Google Maps is available for updated [bug fixes] so I assume that's what you are talking about.

llcooljayce said:
Care to elaborate? I see that Google Maps is available for updated [bug fixes] so I assume that's what you are talking about.
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I found turning off the GPS worked...

[Q] Help!!!! gallery showing hundreds of random pictures

one day I went into the gallery app to review a picture and there were hundreds of folders with random pictures in the gallery and the app is incredibly slow to load pics. I downloaded quick pic and I could hide these albums but I would like to work this out if it's possible, I would like to post a picture to show you but gallery is completely unresponsive. some of the album names are active user, assets,. com. samsung

You could try to plug it into your computer and delete the pictures through the directories.
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im thinking the os needs some of the pictures , some are promotional pictures for samsung some are pieces of a animation
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You could try to plug it into your computer and delete the pictures through the directories.
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akatheproducer said:
im thinking the os needs some of the pictures , some are promotional pictures for samsung some are pieces of a animation
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Find the folders involved, and put a file named ".nomedia" in them. Then download "Rescan Media" (or other app) from the play store, or clear data for the gallery and let it rescan.
Should clean it up.

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im thinking the os needs some of the pictures , some are promotional pictures for samsung some are pieces of a animation
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I used to get that on my s3 and i deleted them with no ill effect
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did you delete from the phone or from computer and would they come back ???
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I used to get that on my s3 and i deleted them with no ill effect
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They seem to be connected to one of your accounts. I'm not sure why they did this but lets say if you sign in to facebook, or dropbox, all your pictures from those accounts will show up in your gallery. Its stupid and it does make the phone lag when opening the gallery app

polish_pat said:
They seem to be connected to one of your accounts. I'm not sure why they did this but lets say if you sign in to facebook, or dropbox, all your pictures from those accounts will show up in your gallery. Its stupid and it does make the phone lag when opening the gallery app
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Drop box shows in gallery? How did you get this to happen, it's not even an option that I can see.

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I don't know how it happened but I just deleted 1406 folders and gallery was still slow so I also went into app management and cleared cache and 69 gb of data which is weird because I only have a 16 internal 32gb mem card, but that seems to have done the trick

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Drop box shows in gallery? How did you get this to happen, it's not even an option that I can see.
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Yup. Dropbox, Facebook, instagram , Picasa...and a bunch of other apps that host pictures. They all show up in my gallery, I've never done this on purpose and it does seem to make gallery load a little slower
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Edit: I just saw it's an option. If you press menu button while in gallery app you have the option to display different content
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rkennison said:
Drop box shows in gallery? How did you get this to happen, it's not even an option that I can see.
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Yup. Dropbox, Facebook, instagram , Picasa...and a bunch of other apps that host pictures. They all show up in my gallery, I've never done this on purpose and it does seem to make gallery load a little slower
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polish_pat said:
Yup. Dropbox, Facebook, instagram , Picasa...and a bunch of other apps that host pictures. They all show up in my gallery, I've never done this on purpose and it does seem to make gallery load a little slower
Edit: I just saw it's an option. If you press menu button while in gallery app you have the option to display different content
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Yup. Dropbox, Facebook, instagram , Picasa...and a bunch of other apps that host pictures. They all show up in my gallery, I've never done this on purpose and it does seem to make gallery load a little slower
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when u add any account in settings to the add account page then u get the option of seeing those pictures in the gallery..Viz i have a 100gb drop box account so it even shows all my HD movies in the video section

great now the same has happen with Google play music and this time I can't delete or hide it
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start all over. Factory reset using recovery
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I feel dizzy
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I opened Samsung player and in there I see I could delete the files but can anyone confirm if the system needs these sound files?
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guess I'll delete them too since nothing went wrong with deleting the pictures
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Listen to command not working

Hello guys. I am having a problem with Google now in my nexus 4. I had a galaxy nexus where I could say to Google now play/listen to queen and it will appear the option to play songs on my phone from queen. And if I don't have any it just opens the YouTube app to play the songs. So I tried it now but it just appear a Google search. All other actions work fine like directions, set alarms, ask about stuff, but for songs is not working anymore. I have all three apps updated to the last version. So anyone is having the same problem?
Thanks in advance.
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Try checking Play Music in Google Now>Settings>Phone Search.
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Is already checked.
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leandronb said:
Is already checked.
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Wiped Google Now cache and data?
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Yes. And entered again and made all that initial setup. And tried to play a song but nothing happened, just a Google search. Is it working to you? I saw some people with this problem.
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Try doing "Play [Song Here]".
It works fine here.
You have to type the name of the song not the artist and then it will appear in the search area in the other half of the screen or after searching.
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I tried with no success. This is what happens
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I will try PA and see if it have the same problem.
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Tried PA and now I am on cataclysm and I have the same problem. Is it because of my region?
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leandronb said:
Tried PA and now I am on cataclysm and I have the same problem. Is it because of my region?
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Possibly, what region are you in?
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Brazil. South america.
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It was working fine for me too a while ago and then suddenly stopped working after one of last updates. Maybe it's only working for US residents?

Not really one to talk to my phone, but just tested and it works here -- US.
Don't get the option for youtube but I do get play music, play store, and pandora.

Hmm, mine stopped working too. I don't use this often but I remember when Google Now first got released it was working for me.

You're using an older command. If you say "listen to" then the song, it may start working.
I had the same issue and switching commands seems to have worked.
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I tried with no success. This is what happens
I will try PA and see if it have the same problem.
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lmorenoe said:
You're using an older command. If you say "listen to" then the song, it may start working.
I had the same issue and switching commands seems to have worked.
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Nope, No cigar

Mihir1997 said:
Nope, No cigar
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I have the same problem it is on a samsung galaxy s4

You need to be in the right country
My work's wifi IP looks like it comes from the US. "Listen to x" works there, but not at home. I think that may be the issue.
Edit: I just tried it with my VPN service, and it started working again. It really looks like it filters by IP.

It took me a while to figure out what was going on. But, this solution worked for me. Check it out at http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1rislc/how_do_i_make_google_now_play_music_on_nexus_5/
Google should make it more noticeable about what we needed to do to set Play Music as the default action for this.

Best RSS Reader and what to have.

So I am pretty much new to android, first android was the N1 then i Switched to Windows Phone and now back on android. What is the best RSS Reader and what sites should I have linked to the reader?
I like reading world news, economics, finance, anything involving science/astronomy and technology.
Thanks.

Feedly. Circa. Umano.
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caribouxda said:
Feedly. Circa. Umano.
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Neither Circa nor Umano are RSS readers

KidTech said:
So I am pretty much new to android, first android was the N1 then i Switched to Windows Phone and now back on android. What is the best RSS Reader and what sites should I have linked to the reader?
I like reading world news, economics, finance, anything involving science/astronomy and technology.
Thanks.
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Feedly. Press. Flyne.
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Dragooon123 said:
Neither Circa nor Umano are RSS readers
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And you are who? The moderator of the thread?
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caribouxda said:
And you are who? The moderator of the thread?
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Ehh..no, I was looking for RSS readers myself and turns out those two aren't so it kinda wasted my time
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Another vote for Feedly! It's an awesome app.
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+1 to feedly

KidTech said:
So I am pretty much new to android, first android was the N1 then i Switched to Windows Phone and now back on android. What is the best RSS Reader and what sites should I have linked to the reader?
I like reading world news, economics, finance, anything involving science/astronomy and technology.
Thanks.
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I use Press For Android, I find myself reading more articles on Press.

Would it be overboard if I also voted for Feedly?
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Dragooon123 said:
Ehh..no, I was looking for RSS readers myself and turns out those two aren't so it kinda wasted my time
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Well if you are that smart you should know there only is one rss reader in android and its name is feedly. Peace.
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caribouxda said:
Well if you are that smart you should know there only is one rss reader in android and its name is feedly. Peace.
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What are you so burned about? And there's also Press, gReader, Digg's RSS Reader (I think, no idea what happened to it) and a whole bunch of others....

Press here. Feedly is good but I personally find it too busy.

Feedly to handle my subscriptions and Press to read them. Flyne looks interesting though.
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I keep coming back to Taptu. It's not the slickest or fastest, but I love the interface once set up.
Flyne is very polished, but lacking in some customisation options at the moment.
gReader and Reader+ are worth a look (the latter I use on my tab) and both have tons of options and are similar to Press. Paperboy is also worth a look.
I use Feedly on my desktop and I think you can sign into all of the above (bar Taptu) with your Feedly account.

I vote for Press.
One of the best designed apps. Its the app I actually miss the most when I use iOS devices.

IMHO the best combo for replicating Google Reader on Android these days is gReader Pro which has an awesome Google Reader style scrolling widget (which can also display pictures), fed by Feedly.
I have my install setup so that when I tap on an article in the widget it brings me to the 2nd/3rd attached screenshot, some feeds will show an article summary, others will show the full article, at this point I can tap the article title, web button or link button to read the article in the built in browser or double tap to load the article into an external browser, the configuration options are endless.
Edit: Added a few more screenshots which show app and feed/web views. I rarely open the app directly, generally I just interact with the widget, after you load an article in feed or web view you can then swipe between the articles from there. Themes include light, dark, black and sepia.

News 24 is also pretty cool.

I'm still p*ssed at Google for canning what was a perfectly functional RSS reader. Their iPhone interface was clean, fast, and the interface I used on my iPhone, iPad, and my desktop, then on my Nexus 4. I was lured to gReader and even registered it... Two days before Google announced they were canning Google Reader.
I didn't know that gReader would connect to Feedly... Does that work just like it used to when it connected to Google Reader? ie. Read articles are synced back to the cloud? I read news on my desktop, iPad, and Nexus 5, and don't want to have to re-read things if I switch platforms.

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I'm still p*ssed at Google for canning what was a perfectly functional RSS reader. Their iPhone interface was clean, fast, and the interface I used on my iPhone, iPad, and my desktop, then on my Nexus 4. I was lured to gReader and even registered it... Two days before Google announced they were canning Google Reader.
I didn't know that gReader would connect to Feedly... Does that work just like it used to when it connected to Google Reader? ie. Read articles are synced back to the cloud? I read news on my desktop, iPad, and Nexus 5, and don't want to have to re-read things if I switch platforms.
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I've tried pretty much all the readers out there and gReader is the only one I've found that comes close to and has surpassed Google Reader, not as fancy as some but way more functional for reading.
I think the setting you're looking for is: Settings/Synchronization/2-WAY SYNC (BETA) Server Reads: Sync read articles from server to app
Edit: gReader is in steady development these days, beta apk are located here: https://github.com/noinnion/greader/tree/master/beta

App not working with 4.4

I thought it would be a good thing to follow app that didn't work well with kitkat so far...
- ebay - Force close
-break - freeze randomly
-bitstrip - Force close
Feel free to continue the tread with you own app list..
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GSam battery...wakelock detector... they wont work either... bitstrips works for me tho

I use ebay.

Bitstrip is fixed.... I confirm...
Is you xda force close often? Is this a kitkat issue?
After reinstall. EBay works great too!
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As for ebay... Fixed!
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Xda has been cr*p since before KitKat. Some issues currently known. But they is a special thread for it. I might be server related though.
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Capital One app crashes
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iHeart radio..... No sound.
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XDA force closes on me more than any other app!!
Facebook freezes all the time.
GSam Battery. Can't use this at all.
Everything else has been perfect so far (including bitstrip)

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I thought it would be a good thing to follow app that didn't work well with kitkat so far...
- ebay - Force close
-break - freeze randomly
-bitstrip - Force close
Feel free to continue the tread with you own app list..
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Dvalik or ART?
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Is UCCW working? I've tried several widgets and none of seem to work. In particular I'm trying to add the Flat Sense widget and it doesn't display properly. This is what is should look like
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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This is what I get
Media Utilities (also by MyColorScreen) doesn't work either. I don't get any album artwork

Art of course!
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Facebook will freeze randomly. Media Utilities doesn't work.
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Spotify - doesn't display album art

HBOGo doesn't work. It force closes. It's probably listed as not compatible but I restored from TiBu to try. They took forever to update for 4.3 too.

Viber closes when I try to send a photo..
Also XDA app doesnt work perfect. When I want reply to some post, it chooses one post above to (quote).
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Anything which tries to call media scanner. E.g music player or Media Scanner ROOT.
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Wakelock Detector is now working on the Nexus 5. I love that app and was disappointed it wasn't working before.
Enjoy it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48149239&postcount=338

Coast 2 coast am
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EBay works perfectly for me.
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