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[Q] Fresh Install, Google Services massive battery use

Hi all, I have an i9023.
I've just installed Peter Alfonso's latest Bugless Beast.
After the first boot I flashed Air Kernel 3.2.
Then I continued with the setup wizard, signed in with my gmail account.
After the initial setup, I went into Settings and turned off sync, I also have backup, NFC, GPS disabled.
After 1 hour leaving the phone idle, I noticed that I lost 5%. I only use 2G with good signal.
I went into Battery use and saw that Google Services is on top of the list with 30%.
I also found that my phone was awake most of the time, even when the screen was off.
What is wrong with my phone here?
I have turned off all syncs but Google Services keeps waking phone up.
I need a google account because I need market and Gtalk for keeping in touch.
But this last 1 hour I just didn't touch gtalk at all.
My phone is completely idle.
I checked with CPU spy and saw that my phone was in deep sleep most of the time.
How can I disable this Google Services from waking my phone up?
I see people having normal to great battery life, and they don't have this Google services massive battery use.
Anyone can help?
Thank you very much.
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I think an hour of use is a little premature to worry about battery life.

I know, I'm just trying to do a fresh install after having serious battery drain yesterday.
I'm just curious about this Google Services.
Why is it keeping my phone awake while I didn't use any of its services at all (i.e. automatic sync)?
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[Q] Google Maps is consuming lots of battery

Over the weekend I bought a new Galaxy S4 on the Bell network in Canada (model SGH-I337M). I used it Saturday and Sunday without any problems, getting about 4-5 hours of screen on time per day. On Monday I went to work and used my phone a lot less, but noticed I only got about 2.5 hours of screen on time before I had run down the battery. I looked at the battery stats and saw that Maps was consuming a lot of battery (considering I had not opened Maps that day), but thought little of it. Yesterday my battery life was even lower, after 1 hour of screen on time I had about 50% battery left and Maps was responsible for 70% of battery usage.
Here are screenshots I took at the end of yesterday to show the battery consumption:
End of day screen on time
Battery graph (note that Maps is using about 70% of my battery)
Usage details for Maps
Why did Maps keep the phone awake for almost 2 hours when I didn't even open it? This morning I've been off the charger for 1.5 hours and Maps has already had 10 minutes of stay awake time.
I've rebooted the phone, disabled location sharing (Latitude), disabled GPS (as you can see though, Maps only used the GPS for 2.5 minutes) and I don't know what to do now to fix this. Does anyone know how I can stop this?

disable the map's app if u don't use it

Blackwolf10 said:
disable the map's app if u don't use it
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I do use Google Maps fairly often, I'd rather avoid disabling it if I can.

Go to settings / more / application manager / maps >> force stop >> clear data & cache >>> reboot
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UpInTheAir said:
Go to settings / more / application manager / maps >> force stop >> clear data & cache >>> reboot
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It seems like that's helped, for now at least...Maps still claims to be taking up most of the battery but stay awake time has only been about a minute and a half. Thanks!

In google maps app setting disable location reporting and enable location sharing.
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Did you use a widget that uses maps on your homescreen.
I added a go home button to my homescreen. It drained my battery. Took me a while to find the culprit.
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Vosje986 said:
Did you use a widget that uses maps on your homescreen.
I added a go home button to my homescreen. It drained my battery. Took me a while to find the culprit.
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I was using the weather widget that was already on the homescreen but I removed it to see if that was the problem, it wasn't.
Interestingly enough however it still says Maps is responsible for 63% of my battery usage...with 7 minutes 26 seconds of stay awake time after 10 hours. Screen (with 1.5 hours screen on time) is at 24%, and I have 52% battery remaining. I installed BetterBatteryStats but I don't see any unusual wakelocks or anything like that.

Sadly I do not have any advice to you. Just posting to let you know that I am also in the same boat.
For the past three days, Maps has done this. Today, it was fine. I changed nothing in between then and now. Weird.

got_milk said:
Over the weekend I bought a new Galaxy S4 on the Bell network in Canada (model SGH-I337M). I used it Saturday and Sunday without any problems, getting about 4-5 hours of screen on time per day. On Monday I went to work and used my phone a lot less, but noticed I only got about 2.5 hours of screen on time before I had run down the battery. I looked at the battery stats and saw that Maps was consuming a lot of battery (considering I had not opened Maps that day), but thought little of it. Yesterday my battery life was even lower, after 1 hour of screen on time I had about 50% battery left and Maps was responsible for 70% of battery usage.
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Got my t-mobile UK 9005 yesterday and after just 30 mins Maps was using 14% of my battery second only to the screen. That's default just turned it on. Something very wrong here. (rebooted a few times and rooted)
Left the device over night first thing this morning checked battery. Maps 63% battery usage and battery had gone from 99% to 82% while just on standby. Something very wrong here!
Now I noticed that i have app like DailyMotion and Deezer installed for me that cant be uninstalled without a root app like debloater. Wondering if the issues here are less android OS and more badly behaving apps grabbing location data. (made all the more difficult by Plays auto download of old apps, hard to diagnose which app is the culprit)
Ive reset to factory settings and prevented any auto installs and after 3 mins theirs is no sign of Google Maps being used... wonder if we need to factory reset our device to wipe this issue out?
Can we start to collate the problem? Please state which handset model you have, firmware and network.
GT-i9005 / UAMDD / T-mobileUK (EE)

Perhaps some of the new Samsung services?

JmJ17 said:
Perhaps some of the new Samsung services?
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About one hour in since i factory restored the handset, setup G+ and a few other known location hogs and Google maps has NOT returned to my battery stats! as I said earlier it was their from the moment I turned the device on when I got it.
Give a factory reset a try and see if you get the same result as me folks...
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androidizen said:
About one hour in since i factory restored the handset, setup G+ and a few other known location hogs and Google maps has NOT returned to my battery stats! as I said earlier it was their from the moment I turned the device on when I got it.
Give a factory reset a try and see if you get the same result as me folks...
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I've created a video explain the problem I had in more detail and show the fix that worked for me, hope it helps others:

I tried a factory reset last night but again this morning Maps was keeping the phone awake (about 5 minutes of stay awake time after an hour and a half off the charger). I disabled Location History in the Maps app and now Maps has dropped right off of the battery stats screen, and it's been gone for a couple of hours now. If anyone else is having this issue, it might be worth a shot - I don't use/care about Location History anyway.

HOW TO:
Go to : [Phone setting => Accounts => Google => Location setting => and TURN IT OFF!!]
Fully charge your phone and job done... no more maps on stats.......
enjoY!!

djembey said:
HOW TO:
Go to : [Phone setting => Accounts => Google => Location setting => and TURN IT OFF!!]
Fully charge your phone and job done... no more maps on stats.......
enjoY!!
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But it's this setting supposed to be turned on if I use Google Maps or Google Now? I use these two quite often.

Disabled auto location updating and sharing, etс but maps are giving me headache constantly. Once they ate 30% of batter overnight and currently network location passive collector wakelock is troubling me.

Al Gore said:
Disabled auto location updating and sharing, etс but maps are giving me headache constantly. Once they ate 30% of batter overnight and currently network location passive collector wakelock is troubling me.
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Damn. This is giving me huge headache. If I hold my phone for 10 mins using internet, battery drains about 5%. Insanity.

henrykkim said:
Damn. This is giving me huge headache. If I hold my phone for 10 mins using internet, battery drains about 5%. Insanity.
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Well it's about right mathematically. 5% = 10 mins so 100% = 200 mins = 3.3 hours of onscreen time. Personally max I've managed to get is 4 hours, very disappointing battery life so far for me.

There is another Maps / location power sucking app called Story Album ....Samsung Bloatware I guess. Anyway when you open the app, goto settings, click Home City > Select Method > set to None. In the lower part called Album content de-select City information, Location etc..

Turn off lication reporting and tick location sharing in maps app settings->location
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Massive battery drain

Hey guys. Recently my battery has been dying at an alarming rate. According to BBS it's from a process called diagnostics.client.Wakelock, does anyone have an idea what could be causing this?
I started noticing the drain after setting up my Galaxy Gear, don't know if that may have something to do with it.
Thanks!
Dan
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dankind64 said:
Hey guys. Recently my battery has been dying at an alarming rate. According to BBS it's from a process called diagnostics.client.Wakelock, does anyone have an idea what could be causing this?
I started noticing the drain after setting up my Galaxy Gear, don't know if that may have something to do with it.
Thanks!
Dan
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Same issue here. Not sure what it is. Google didn't help much either (besides finding this post)

schwiing said:
Same issue here. Not sure what it is. Google didn't help much either (besides finding this post)
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I am seeing the same wakelock keeping my device awake and hence draining the battery while in standby. Found nothing else on the web other than this forum

Why don't you ask in the BBS thread, i think you'll get more responses there.
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uf21 said:
Why don't you ask in the BBS thread, i think you'll get more responses there.
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Thanks! I'll give that a shot.

I am facing a huge battery drain as well after the recent update was pushed. I don't have the "diagnostics.client.Wakelock" in BBS but Samsung Push Service was hogging a lot so I turned that off. It was 80% at 11PM and today morning it was down to 59% .. that's 21% in standby mode. Is it not going into sleep mode or is something else causing this? I have almost everything turned off. Any ideas guys? Thank you.

MJ7? (not sure why but like other people remarked - the battery life looks to have somewhat declined - 30-60% less?)

svyr said:
MJ7? (not sure why but like other people remarked - the battery life looks to have somewhat declined - 30-60% less?)
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Yes MJ7. I hope this is a bug that can get fixed sooner than later. It's horrible. I just got 1h 37mins of screen time and now I am down to 12%. Just a few calls and some Instagram. Nothing else. Would removing the battery for a while or something help? I haven't installed any app since updating to MJ7 (2 days ago).

I've had this issue with MI7 and MJ7 so the update is not the problem. My guess is me freezing most of the samsung bloat on the phone through Titanium is causing this. Maybe there's a process trying to find something thay I froze?
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I fixed it by charging my battery up to 90% then removed the battery and kept it aside for a while ~10 mins and then plugged it back in and charged it to 100%. Now it seems to be normal again. No drain last night. Moved only 1% from 12AM to 9PM. Cheers!

I have the same issue with MJ7 firmware; the phone sometimes doesn't get into deep sleep while the screen is off.
A possible cause of the issue: switch off wifi when data are off.
So now I switch data on before turning wifi off.

Anyone ever find a solution to this? It's killing me.

Same here, my battery declines almos 1% every 5 minutes just texting via Whatsapp and I know Whatsapp is not the guilty. Using Wakelock monitor shows 30% Android System usage with a lot of entries in Gpslocationprovider (even with GPS off and everything on Location settings off), SyncloopWakelock and AlarmManager... MJ7 here too... My Note2 wasn't like this... I finished the day with 5% of baterry after heavy use from 8am til 10pm (including 45' watching videos)... With my Note3 at mid-day I have my battery death!! I can't believe it! and I don't know what is happening (I only have 4 days with my new Note 3) and I have tried almost everything (deactivating) except wipe data/factory reset (I've tried soft reset and nothing)

Anyone ever find a solution to this wakelock?

anyone find a solution?

Delete Google search from system apps and deleted Google play services. Redownload both from play store. Seems to help.
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pham818 said:
anyone find a solution?
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I noted that my GN3 would have great and then poor battery drainage. It seemed to happen right after my first long call of the day. I noted in my wakelock app that diagnostics.client.wakelock was using a lot of time.
I decided to take more drastic action by doing a factory reset and restoring apps one by one. I first used Kingo Root to root my GN3. I had to uninstall Kies and the Samsung driver to get the rooting to work.
Then I backed up with Helium and Titanium backup.
After a factory reset, my battery usage was about 0.2 percent per hour. I use only data and no wifi.
I have now restored most of my apps and still have 0.3 percent per hour usage. I have not updated any Samsung or ATT apps.except for ATT code scanner. i have not "used" any of the google apps except for gmail, search, google+ (signed out). Google music is turned off.
Diagnostics.client.wakelock still shows up but with low time now.
After twelve hours, the GN3 is at 96 percent including a two minute phone call and email updates.
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After a long phone call, I once again saw my battery usage increase and stay up after the phone call.
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I re-started with a factory reset and only restored the minimum apps that I use to browse, email, text, phone, and backup.
So far it is performing well in battery usage.
I will be adding more apps until I find the one that breaks the good performance.
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So far I have been able to make it through 24 hours using only TEN percent battery usage. I have added TextPlus, BofA, drippler, Helium, Titanium Backup Pro, CPU Spy Plus, Wakelock Detector, System Tuner Pro, Battery Monitor Pro, AutoBluetooth, Maps, Youtube, YP, Total Commander, Visual Voicemail, Quick Boot, Root Checker, Turn Off Screen. Everything else is stock without updating AT&T apps or Samsung apps.
I am seeing an idle usage of less than 0.3% and that is with two widgets for Battery Monitor and System Tuner. They and Textplus use up the most power. I also talked on the phone via bluetooth for about 30 minutes.
I still get the diagnostic.client.wakelog but only getting about 5 percent awake time.
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I did another factory reset. This time I did not allow any app updates.
I installed Titanium Backup, CPU Spy Plus, Wakelock Detector, Battery Monitor Widget Pro.
I have not seen a diagnostic.client.wakelock at all after one hour of use.
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I added TextPlus, System Tuner Pro. I put the widgets to System Tuner pro and Battery Monitor on the home screen.
I have not updated any apps since the reset.
I have counted about 7 diagnostic.client.wakelocks for a total of 4 seconds of wake time. My wake time percentage since yeaterday is around 1 percent.
I plan to update apps one at a time to see which one kills the battery usage with wake locks.

I just added AT&T Visual Voicemail, PayPal, BofA, and Evernote to my GN3.
The diagnostics.client.wakelock started climbing and keeping my phone from sleeping.
Uninstalling the four apps did not help.
I think that the problem is with the Visual Voicemail.
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Factory reset my phone and am back to 1 percent wake state and very low battery drain.
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The cause of the bad wakelock was due to restoring APP+DATA in Titanium Backup. I did that to save setup steps.
I had restored BofA and Shazam with data and the wakelocks started up.
After I factory reset again, I installed apps the normal way and have been seeing a 0.3 percent use per hour.

Samsung's own software is most garbage in my opinion.
If you use ChatOn and Samsung Hub, etc, disabling this may have an impact.
Here's how I've solved the problem with this pig of an app.
1) go to application manager under settings.
2) go to the "ALL" tab
3) find that "samsung push service"
4) uninstall - this will only uninstall the updates. Once all the very useful updates are gone, the option changes to disable.
5) disable and good riddance.
On a side note, search for this on the playstore. the reviews are hilarious.
c.

Nothing I had tried up to today has fixed my battery drain and diagnostics.client.wakelock issue.
However, today, I got a software update OTA (nb4) on my phone and it appears the problem is fixed.

Google Services Battery Drain Stats

I noticed a week or so ago that my battery suddenly started draining quite fast. I saw other threads that imply that something has happened with Google services is the culprit, but no real details as to why. This morning, after a day outside in the cold and snow and of almost no use of my phone I looked at my battery and it was down to 59%. Looked at stats and found the following use numbers:
Screen use: 9% - So phone hardly used
App use: 67%
Google Services: 29%
Under Google services I found the following and wonder if this is the problem and what could be causing it?
Wake locks: 19,983
# of times waking device: 2789
Thanks.

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I noticed a week or so ago that my battery suddenly started draining quite fast. I saw other threads that imply that something has happened with Google services is the culprit, but no real details as to why. This morning, after a day outside in the cold and snow and of almost no use of my phone I looked at my battery and it was down to 59%. Looked at stats and found the following use numbers:
Screen use: 9% - So phone hardly used
App use: 67%
Google Services: 29%
Under Google services I found the following and wonder if this is the problem and what could be causing it?
Wake locks: 19,983
# of times waking device: 2789
Thanks.
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Try clearing cache partition in recovery. Worked for the other person that has a similar thread
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Where is Recovery and Cache Partition? I don't see any of that on my phone.
Do you see the wake stats I posted as normal?

Will_T said:
Where is Recovery and Cache Partition? I don't see any of that on my phone.
Do you see the wake stats I posted as normal?
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Google booting into recovery with note 3, then scroll down into clear cache partition. Don't do a full wipe cause that will delete everything
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Still waiting for a solution to this problem. I even wiped my whole phone, unrooted, and went back to stock. Android OS is still the highest on the battery consumption list and I did not have anything signed in or logged in. Something is going on in these Google apps it's funny cause again I have nothing installed and my android os is taking so much battery.

I am having the same problem as well. Android OS and Google apps suck the life out of my phone. I have tried different ROMs as well but I still don't get good batt life even with SYNC GPS off.

[Q] Google Services battery drain anyone?

I'm running stock/rooted kitkat and for the last few days I have had dramatic battery drain. I go from fully changed to 10% in less than 4 hours. Has anyone else noticed this lately?

I had this as well. I had to disable location services to get my phone to actually go to sleep.
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disabling location services and trying that. thanks

I've had awful battery since i upgraded to 5.0 and Google services are killing the battery. I'll try location services. Will update.

It's definitely not a problem with Location Services. My location is completely turned off 99% (since always) of the time and I also have that topping my battery consumption. Even though, my phone has been deep sleeping without major problems. There's an unknown wakelock that is slowly draining the battery, but anyway I've been getting 4h of SOT everyday without making any sacrifices. If somebody finds out what's the root cause, keep me posted, please.

I've been occasionally getting this for a few weeks too.
If I turn off location, the problem continues for a day or so but then goes away.

This morning I took the phone off charger first thing. I restarted and didn't open screen for two hours. When I checked battery usage it was down 80% and the big consumer was Media and SDcard. Anyone see this before?

It just occurred to me that I may have a corrupt file on internal storage. I'm going to back everything up and start deleting.

Well..I did a factory reset and I still have a major battery drain. It has to be some rogue app but I haven't installed "new" apps lately. Plenty of updates though.