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Google services using battery

Hey guys, I just noticed that Google services has been using up a good deal of battery for the past few days... My autosync is off, gps off but still has it using up a fifth of my battery.. Anyone else have similar problems?
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sameer1807 said:
Hey guys, I just noticed that Google services has been using up a good deal of battery for the past few days... My autosync is off, gps off but still has it using up a fifth of my battery.. Anyone else have similar problems?
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Same here. I wonder if it's the new Gmail.

Yep same here
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They better fix it.. I'm losing battery lol.. Dropped 15% in 2 hours standby
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They better fix it.. I'm losing battery lol.. Dropped 15% in 2 hours standby
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I have noticed that even in flight mode and screen off, there is a significant amount of battery drain (i saw 20% less in 6 hrs). With previews phone.. would be 2 to 5 %. I think that the key would be to underclock it in iddle mode

Do you have Google Now and maps location reporting enabled? Those two are major battery hogs.
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This worked for me and a friend. Go to Application manager then Google Play services and click uninstall updates. After uninstalling launch Hangouts. It will tell you that you need to update at which point do so. Hope that helps you out like it did me.

I am willing to bet these drains all occur after Google app updates? It seems that most Google apps want to eat battery the first cycle after they were updated. What I have noticed though, is that even though the "battery" stats report Google services as using a lot of percentage, the actually time the phone takes before it needs charged is about the same as when battery stats doesn't report Google services as eating battery.
So, see if "Google services" or Maps or any other Google app doesn't settle down after a cycle and also check to see if it really is shortening the time your phone needs between charges. I suspect it might just be temporary or maybe reported to the phone wrong.
Except for Google Music, freeze it, it will eat your data.

i uninstalled the play services update, and i disabled location services..seems to be fine now. ill turn it back on after a while to see if problem is caused by updates.

sameer1807 said:
They better fix it.. I'm losing battery lol.. Dropped 15% in 2 hours standby
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I've had this standby battery issue with three s4s now. Really annoying. My nexus four with a smaller battery lasts way longer
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Google Services Battery Drain

Today I noticed that Google Services is draining battery by using some services but unlike before it is using it a lot.
Did any one experience this strange issue?

Turn off GPS and auto sync.
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Turn off GPS and auto sync.
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I'm pretty sure that's one of the ways we can take in order to save a bit more battery, but then again, why are we buying high-end devices with GPS tracking for whatever apps or security as I have (cerberus app) or real-time mails of work, social feed, etc.
Someone will say that they don't need instant mails on the device or don't want the GPS; point is, having GPS/push notifications should not be an issue for any user since those are the features we can, want, could use..
Only thing I really miss on blackberry devices...

This did not happen before which makes it strange, well at least not having that much percentage.
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andyabc said:
This did not happen before which makes it strange, well at least not having that much percentage.
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X2. I agree, google services wasn't that bad for me before. But the last week or 2 its been quite bad. Im running rootmax v4 and am struggling to make my phone last 24 hours on one charge now, whereas before I could do it. GTALK_ASYNC_CONN.... is the bugger thats causing wakelocks for me!

Razuddin said:
X2. I agree, google services wasn't that bad for me before. But the last week or 2 its been quite bad. Im running rootmax v4 and am struggling to make my phone last 24 hours on one charge now, whereas before I could do it. GTALK_ASYNC_CONN.... is the bugger thats causing wakelocks for me!
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Just to update on this. I done some reading online and found a few people mentioned that it was the latest play store update causing the battery drain. I went ino the app manager and deleted the update an went back to the original playstore apk that came with the rom.THis seems to have reduced my google services drain and my phone is lasting longer now

Razuddin said:
Just to update on this. I done some reading online and found a few people mentioned that it was the latest play store update causing the battery drain. I went ino the app manager and deleted the update an went back to the original playstore apk that came with the rom.THis seems to have reduced my google services drain and my phone is lasting longer now
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Awesome, thanks for the update.
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Cache Update Service not letting phone deep sleep

It is a Google service and I have disabled location services and Google Now. Does not seem to make a difference. I have looked everywhere and have come up with nothing. I have the phone set up basically the same apps as my N4 and my Nexus is crushing my G2 in battery life. Any ideas would be great on what is causing this.
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Are u talking about google service that you see when you go into battery usage options? If yes, im in the same boat as you.
What percentage of battery doew the google service use?
I would like to know how to take care if this problem as well
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I am using better battery stats and it is partial wake lock I guess I did not bother looking at the overall usage. I am trying a few more things and will report back later.
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add me to the list of people this is driving nutzo.
Question, when you go to google sync under settings/accounts and sync, does it show that 'sync is not available at this time?'
I wonder if that could be causing it?

I am waiting for my case to make it my daily driver but last night I tinkered and went and set up all my Google apps and changed my Google plus photo to only upload on charger. When I turned it off it was deep sleeping and and that wake lock was no where to be found. If anyone wants to try this and see if it helps.
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Panzerapple said:
I am waiting for my case to make it my daily driver but last night I tinkered and went and set up all my Google apps and changed my Google plus photo to only upload on charger. When I turned it off it was deep sleeping and and that wake lock was no where to be found. If anyone wants to try this and see if it helps.
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Thats how i've had mine set from the beginning. weird. I'll mess around with it and see if it changes things.

Well my phone seems to be deep sleeping once again. My guess is setting up all my Google apps fixed it Still have some work to do get my deep sleep better but it is not awake all the time now.
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Battery tips

Alright. I'm getting horrible battery life. Do you guys have any tips? Even after a data wipe its still bad. And tips specifics to this phone or general ones? Thanks
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Are you in an area with poor reception?
You can try turning GPS and WiFi off when not in use.
You can also root your phone and feeeze/remove bloatware.
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Get wake lock detector and you can find what is draining your battery
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Well I had good service but had to wipe it and now it seems like my service is terrible and it drops all the time
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XzxBATTxzX said:
Well I had good service but had to wipe it and now it seems like my service is terrible and it drops all the time
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I had the same issues after my update. I then went and froze mobeam, all Knox services, enterprise.knox, knoxs.eventmanager, and a Security wipe apk. Let my note drain all the way until it powered down. Let it charge full cycle while turned off. So far work 1hr and 45 mins of on screen on time I'm down 15%. I feel like that's decent. Been on xda app pretty heavy and 2 different games straight with no screen timeouts

XzxBATTxzX said:
Alright. I'm getting horrible battery life. Do you guys have any tips? Even after a data wipe its still bad. And tips specifics to this phone or general ones? Thanks
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Best tip I can give in general, whether you're experiencing bad battery life or not, is to learn how to bring down the Google based wakelocks across play store, youtube, account sync, maps, hangouts/talk etc
So how does one do this? First, do the obvious by going into each Google app - Menu key - settings - and untick things such as annoymous usage data, google mob ads etc. Delete apps you don't use if you're rooted too.
Disable Account Sync altogether if you can, location services in gps settings, bluetooth, nfc
More advanced things you can do is learn about "wakelocks" here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827676

MicheleJ said:
I had the same issues after my update. I then went and froze mobeam, all Knox services, enterprise.knox, knoxs.eventmanager, and a Security wipe apk. Let my note drain all the way until it powered down. Let it charge full cycle while turned off. So far work 1hr and 45 mins of on screen on time I'm down 15%. I feel like that's decent. Been on xda app pretty heavy and 2 different games straight with no screen timeouts
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thanks, i have 30min of screen time and down 15%

What's up with my Battery life?

Is this bad, Seems like its way worse than it used to be. Wondering if I need to get a new battery.
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kickenwing13 said:
Is this bad, Seems like its way worse than it used to be. Wondering if I need to get a new battery.
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Same thing here.
As of like 4 days ago the battery life went from "pretty good" to "absolute garbage".
I'm thinking SOMETHING updated and is causing this massive drain.

After the second day on the room of my choice my battery life tanked. I found the issue to be a few apps which begin to sync in the background for location. Go to location services and check it out. Some you will have to disable in location services and some in the apps themselves. Happy hunting.
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sdglenn said:
After the second day on the room of my choice my battery life tanked. I found the issue to be a few apps which begin to sync in the background for location. Go to location services and check it out. Some you will have to disable in location services and some in the apps themselves. Happy hunting.
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Whats odd is i've been running 4.4.2 day it hit OTA, and it was okay, was not till the last 4-5 days that "Android System" is eating up more then screen-on time.
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Glad I'm not the only one. I'll turn location services off
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