Hey all, new poster to xda here, in need of some expertise
A little while back I noticed that the battery life on my wifi xoom took quite a dive. I experimented with removing and reconfiguring several suspect apps, but wasn't able to pinpoint the issue. Then in the battery status screen in settings I noticed that the device is constantly awake, even through all hours of the night. Then in the android system screen within the battery usage section, I noticed a line "Keep Awake.....XXh XXm XXs" almost looks as though there's a setting somewhere telling tthe xoom not to go to sleep. Of course I cant find aany such setting.
Anyone have any thoughts??
there may be an app keeping it awake...
Of course, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. I've been using SystemPanel to check out app usage over time.
Is getting rid of each app individually the only way to accurately troubleshoot this?
ODog2323 said:
Of course, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. I've been using SystemPanel to check out app usage over time.
Is getting rid of each app individually the only way to accurately troubleshoot this?
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You always want to check to make sure your device is sleeping properly after EVERY new app you download AND after EVERY update to existing apps on your device. That way you are never forced to try and figure out which one is causing problems like this in the future.
I once got an update to WeatherBug Elite that kept my Nexus One from sleeping. Since that exprience I give every app update or new app install a half hour on my device before I download a new update or app so in case this sleeping issue happens I can quickly know which app/update is causing the problem.
There are a few threads on the Motorola forums, here's one I started:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/51485?tstart=0
Think I may have pinpointed the CNN app as the culprit. I force stopped it last night and saw this morning the device slept like a baby. I started the app at that time when I left for work. When I got home it had been awake all day. Force closed the app again and it seems to be sleeping again.
Anyone else have the CNN app to check this out?
ODog2323 said:
Think I may have pinpointed the CNN app as the culprit. I force stopped it last night and saw this morning the device slept like a baby. I started the app at that time when I left for work. When I got home it had been awake all day. Force closed the app again and it seems to be sleeping again.
Anyone else have the CNN app to check this out?
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I stopped using the CNN app for this very reason. The culprit appears to be BangoAnalyticsService holding a wake lock. (It also seems to use a lot of background data)
Shame cuz it's a pretty nice app. I'd like to keep it. Just need to remember to fc every time...
Yeah the CNN app is a POS.
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Google maps is keeping my phone awake, I cleaned the cache and forced stop but keeps running, It used 12% of my battery in 2 hours so is a issue, any way to fix it?
Uninstall the Google Maps update. Others have had the same issue.
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Check if you have Latitude running. It can restart google maps. Also, you might want to do a search on your own, you're not the first one with this problem.
I ripped out crap I didn't use and it helped with speed and responsiveness. Maps was definitely one to go. I can always install it later if needed.
I'm pretty sure it's Latitude that's causing the problem.
dmora01 said:
Google maps is keeping my phone awake, I cleaned the cache and forced stop but keeps running, It used 12% of my battery in 2 hours so is a issue, any way to fix it?
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I've had this same problem. For me, Latitude was the problem. I don't use it, so I used Ti Backup to get rid of it.
However, my wife uses Latitude and the way she solved the problem is by going into the Latitude settings and turning off the auto-update location feature, which was waking her phone up every 10 mins or so to update her location. Now she has it set so that she has to manually update her location and the battery use issue has gone away.
Latitude was the problem for me also. I turned off Latitude and it was fixed.
How do you keep it shut off? I have the same problem with Latitude but it just keeps starting up again. Only thing working is unchecking using both wireless networks and gps but then no applications can use that stuff which isn't super cool. Latitude is ofc still running doing this but at least it's not draining my battery.
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How do you keep it shut off? I have the same problem with Latitude but it just keeps starting up again. Only thing working is unchecking using both wireless networks and gps but then no applications can use that stuff which isn't super cool. Latitude is ofc still running doing this but at least it's not draining my battery.
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This is what worked for my wife:
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My wife uses Latitude and the way she solved the problem is by going into the Latitude settings and turning off the auto-update location feature, which was waking her phone up every 10 mins or so to update her location. Now she has it set so that she has to manually update her location and the battery use issue has gone away.
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In Latitude > Settings > make sure "Do not update your location" is checked and "Enable automatic check-ins" is not checked. Then sign out of Latitude and you should be good to go.
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Latitude was the problem for me also. I turned off Latitude and it was fixed.
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That's not a solution, though, is it? FWIW, I made a bug report: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17356
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However, my wife uses Latitude and the way she solved the problem is by going into the Latitude settings and turning off the auto-update location feature, which was waking her phone up every 10 mins or so to update her location. Now she has it set so that she has to manually update her location and the battery use issue has gone away.
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Can I ask what good is latitude without the auto update feature? So your wife keep on manual updating everywhere she go?
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Can I ask what good is latitude without the auto update feature? So your wife keep on manual updating everywhere she go?
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I don't use it, so I can't say. I imagine she uses it to check in places, kind of like foursquare, which would be easy enough to do manually, I suppose.
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Can I ask what good is latitude without the auto update feature?
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Not much, really. Well, if you sign out completely you can't even see where your friends are.
Anyway, disabling the updates for my own location in Latitude's settings didn't make any difference for me.
As of 4.1.2 Maps is running permanently unless I disable Google Apps Location Access. LAME.
this has been an issue with me since ICS. I've uninstalled maps several times because I was getting such horrible battery life. I've seen my phone die in 3 hours in standby because maps was constantly running. Couple the map issue with your phone searching for a data signal, and it's easy to kill your battery from a full charge in just a few hours. Something needs to be done, severely!!
You can notice an instant, DRAMATIC increase in battery life after uninstalling/freezing maps, btw....I'd recommend giving it a shot to anyone having battery life problems.
heinrich said:
As of 4.1.2 Maps is running permanently unless I disable Google Apps Location Access. LAME.
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I read that all location requests by all Apps goes through Google Maps, when WiFi and Mobile network location is enabled.
I too have been experimenting with different ways to boost my battery life, trying out disabling:
1. Signing out of Latitude
2. Turning off WiFi and Mobile Network Location
3. Turning off Google Now
4. Manually disabling Wifi and Mobile network etc...
So far I realize that its actually #2 that causes battery issues for me. Keeping latitude signed in doesn't seemed to have much impact if #2 is turned off.
I have ended up just uninstalling it because it was by far the most battery draining app on the phone, on the days where I was barely using it maps kept the phone awake for 3+ plus hours, making me charge the phone every day when I didn't even use it!!
My advice is when you need it, install it OR the day before, input the route/address/location you need and after the use for it ended, uninstall it. It'll be in your play store app list anyway so the above process, wont take too long.
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I have ended up just uninstalling it because it was by far the most battery draining app on the phone, on the days where I was barely using it maps kept the phone awake for 3+ plus hours, making me charge the phone every day when I didn't even use it!!
My advice is when you need it, install it OR the day before, input the route/address/location you need and after the use for it ended, uninstall it. It'll be in your play store app list anyway so the above process, wont take too long.
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You can also freeze it with Titanium Backup or similar. More practical way to do it, IMHO.
By the way, if you freeze it, location services will be in their own process.
Just disable Location access.
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polobunny said:
You can also freeze it with Titanium Backup or similar. More practical way to do it, IMHO.
By the way, if you freeze it, location services will be in their own process.
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Good advice! I'll try it that way in the next couple of days when I have a few job interviews coming up. However, I DO wish EL goog sorts this problem out sooner or later, it's only maps in the core Google apps that really has this problem.
So as I'm checking my email from my phone a minute ago I notice that all of the sudden apps are auto updating. Assuming from Google Play. I absolutely never allow any auto updating because of crappy updates. And i backup app versions that are reviewed favorably usually. I quickly shut off my phone to stop any more updates. Before I did that I checked my Google Play options first and auto updating was not checked. I did update to the newest version of Google Play manually the other day. Was that my mistake? I'm somewhat afraid of turning the phone back on for fear of it auto-updating again. I have most good versions of apps backed up but not all. I don't know if this is related or not, but my phone was fully charged at 7:30am so I unplugged it. When I checked my phone at noon while not having used it one bit since 7:30, the phone had only 57% battery life left. Which has never happened before. Thanks to anybody that can shed light on this issue.
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Jersey846 said:
So as I'm checking my email from my phone a minute ago I notice that all of the sudden apps are auto updating. Assuming from Google Play. I absolutely never allow any auto updating because of crappy updates. And i backup app versions that are reviewed favorably usually. I quickly shut off my phone to stop any more updates. Before I did that I checked my Google Play options first and auto updating was not checked. I did update to the newest version of Google Play manually the other day. Was that my mistake? I'm somewhat afraid of turning the phone back on for fear of it auto-updating again. I have most good versions of apps backed up but not all. I don't know if this is related or not, but my phone was fully charged at 7:30am so I unplugged it. When I checked my phone at noon while not having used it one bit since 7:30, the phone had only 57% battery life left. Which has never happened before. Thanks to anybody that can shed light on this issue.
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you probably did not to shut your phone off - just kill the data connection.
but not sure why the auto-updating was occurring.
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you probably did not to shut your phone off - just kill the data connection.
but not sure why the auto-updating was occurring.
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It looks like when I updated to the new Google Play it may have auto checked the auto update selection. But even when I changed it back it continued to attempt to update. So I restarted the phone again and it still tried updating. So as quickly as I could, I cancelled each update manually. A real pain in the ass. I caught everything that I didn't have backed up. I did kill data and wifi before I figured it out. And then reverted back to old Google Play. Hope this never happens again.
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It looks like when I updated to the new Google Play it may have auto checked the auto update selection. But even when I changed it back it continued to attempt to update. So I restarted the phone again and it still tried updating. So as quickly as I could, I cancelled each update manually. A real pain in the ass. I caught everything that I didn't have backed up. I did kill data and wifi before I figured it out. And then reverted back to old Google Play. Hope this never happens again.
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Well, when you give the store permission to auto update, it just checks the box for each app to auto-update. If you install the new store again, disable auto-update in the main settings, then go to each app and uncheck the auto-update box on each app's main page. That should stop it.
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Well, when you give the store permission to auto update, it just checks the box for each app to auto-update. If you install the new store again, disable auto-update in the main settings, then go to each app and uncheck the auto-update box on each app's main page. That should stop it.
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Well that's the thing, I never gave it permission to begin with. Which was why it was baffling initially. Everything seems to be unchecked now though so hopefully I don't run into this again.
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So I get these wakelocks for some reason, about 2-10 minutes of Audioout_2 and Audioout_3 per hour when idle, with screen off.
And they seem to show up as wakelocks, even if I have my phone active. So I get like 47minutes of this wakelock, but awake time is 56:27minutes and screen on 54 minutes. And this is not the problem until you see how much of this wakelock has kept your phone awake after 24 hours, I had like 3-5 hours. Should I be worried?
APP - Wakelock Detector, BetterBatteryStats.
What I have tried - Uninstalling Viber, no difference. Disabling all lock sounds, touch sounds, dial pad tones, not much difference either.
I didn't have this before, what could it be?
Android 4.3 Stock, not rooted
I seem to be having the same issue. I'm running on stock 4.3, no rooting, I do not have Viber, and while I do have Skype installed, I almost never use it. I have haptic feedback disabled as well as touch sounds.
Rebooting the phone seems to fix the issue, but that's obviously a bit of a pain to do every time.
Other than maybe blaming Poweramp for keeping the wakelock going, I can't think of any other apps that could be causing the issue.
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I seem to be having the same issue. I'm running on stock 4.3, no rooting, I do not have Viber, and while I do have Skype installed, I almost never use it. I have haptic feedback disabled as well as touch sounds.
Rebooting the phone seems to fix the issue, but that's obviously a bit of a pain to do every time.
Other than maybe blaming Poweramp for keeping the wakelock going, I can't think of any other apps that could be causing the issue.
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After you reboot when does the issue seem to come back? What apps are you usually using?
Do you have any of these apps - Light Manager, DashClock Widget, Smart Wifi toggler.*
*These apps have no deal with audio wakelocks whatsoever, but still, maybe 4.3 has caused one of those apps to use the audio wakelocks somehow.
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After you reboot when does the issue seem to come back? What apps are you usually using?
Do you have any of these apps - Light Manager, DashClock Widget, Smart Wifi toggler.*
*These apps have no deal with audio wakelocks whatsoever, but still, maybe 4.3 has caused one of those apps to use the audio wakelocks somehow.
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My main apps are Gmail, Chrome, Facebook, Twitter, BaconReader and Poweramp. After rebooting the length of the wakelock time definitely isn't as long. And yes, I do have DashClock Widget. I didn't consider that one to be a potential culprit.
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So I get these wakelocks for some reason, about 2-10 minutes of Audioout_2 and Audioout_3 per hour when idle, with screen off.
And they seem to show up as wakelocks, even if I have my phone active. So I get like 47minutes of this wakelock, but awake time is 56:27minutes and screen on 54 minutes. And this is not the problem until you see how much of this wakelock has kept your phone awake after 24 hours, I had like 3-5 hours. Should I be worried?
APP - Wakelock Detector, BetterBatteryStats.
What I have tried - Uninstalling Viber, no difference. Disabling all lock sounds, touch sounds, dial pad tones, not much difference either.
I didn't have this before, what could it be?
Android 4.3 Stock, not rooted
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I have the same problem.
I noticed that audioout_2 only runs when my screen is on.(most of the time)
The audioout_2 run time and SOT are always close.
The audioout_2 and audioout_3 will not run (very minimum) when your cell goes into deep sleep.
I have mostly Google apps installed.
Edit: After searching on internet,Many users told these wakelocks can be caused if there is a corrupted mediafile (picture,music,video)..
Need a solution for this.
l33ttroll said:
I have the same problem.
I noticed that audioout_2 only runs when my screen is on.(most of the time)
The audioout_2 run time and SOT are always close.
The audioout_2 and audioout_3 will not run (very minimum) when your cell goes into deep sleep.
I have mostly Google apps installed.
Edit: After searching on internet,Many users told these wakelocks can be caused if there is a corrupted mediafile (picture,music,video)..
Need a solution for this.
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What do you mean corrupted mediafile, like unsupported MP3 file? Could that be a problem? God dammit, this is too complicated.
I have only a few pictures that I have taken with the phone, no videos. Only music could be related.
So I yesterday turned on location services, the results I got were pretty bad. I am not 100% sure that the issue is location services, but I did not have this bad screen_on - awake ratio before. Here are some screens.
I didn't do anything unusual, I might report back tomorrow about results w/o location services.
I left only GPS setting active in location settings. Here are the results.
6hours phone on, Battery left 87%.
55:31min awake, 38min screen on.
1013 wakelock usage 32:12min.
I played a few games, made some calls for the time when screen was awake.
I would call this a success, because usually I could barely make through a day, almost 3hours screen on in 12hour period. And the battery is dead.
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I left only GPS setting active in location settings. Here are the results.
6hours phone on, Battery left 87%.
55:31min awake, 38min screen on.
1013 wakelock usage 32:12min.
I played a few games, made some calls for the time when screen was awake.
I would call this a success, because usually I could barely make through a day, almost 3hours screen on in 12hour period. And the battery is dead.
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What was your solution? So far my current one is to reboot when I wake up in the morning.
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What was your solution? So far my current one is to reboot when I wake up in the morning.
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I disabled Wi-Fi & mobile network location in Location access settings. But I am not entirely sure that this is a solution.
I am very confused with all this Android and Nexus 4 problem amount and uncertainty, I am not even sure what to believe anymore. I am starting to wish I had bought an iPhone. Maybe it was because I was at just at home and in a city mainly, and the cellphone just didn't have to look for different cell towers, I am not sure what should I even think anymore.
But currently this has helped me, I guess. Disadvantages of this might be that the phone will not be able to select the best server available when indoors... I'm just so tired of Android.
I can't shake off this stupid wakelock, it keeps my phone awake, Android is soo annoying, I would probably never notice this if it weren't for the battery usage apps, but I would notice the horrible battery life on Nexus 4.
Has anyone had this problem and made it go away? Or is still having, and just got through with it and ignores it? Please help me!
I think I had 0 amount of this wakelock in the first few days I got these battery status apps, I had only a few Media, Caldendar, Gmail etc. wakelocks
The wakelocks are caused by the touch sounds that are enabled by default.
Everytime you touch a button on your phone it will make a sound, which will initiate the wakelock. Turn off these sounds in:
Settings -> Sound -> Touch Sound
You can also 'hear' the wakelock, because when you hold the back speaker of the phone to your ear when a sound was just played, you will hear some static noise for ~2-3 seconds after the sound finished playing.
When you listen to music or watching a video you will also get these wakelocks, but that's completely normal.
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The wakelocks are caused by the touch sounds that are enabled by default.
Everytime you touch a button on your phone it will make a sound, which will initiate the wakelock. Turn off these sounds in:
Settings -> Sound -> Touch Sound
You can also 'hear' the wakelock, because when you hold the back speaker of the phone to your ear when a sound was just played, you will hear some static noise for ~2-3 seconds after the sound finished playing.
When you listen to music or watching a video you will also get these wakelocks, but that's completely normal.
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+1 to that
Even if u have ur dialpad to sound off. Go ahead and type numbers in like crazy then check the wakelocks!
Even if u have turned that option to OFF.
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WasifSal said:
+1 to that
Even if u have ur dialpad to sound off. Go ahead and type numbers in like crazy then check the wakelocks!
Even if u have turned that option to OFF.
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Right, did You have that before? Or it just turned up recently, I don't remember having this much wakelocks, and why are ''wakelocks'' wakelocks when you are using your phone and the screen is on?
I noticed that if I don't have internet access, the wakelock doesn't come up as much. It's some kind of app, maybe, it very much could be one of Google's, It ain't Viber (for me), I have tried disabling, turning it off, no change in wakelock amount.
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Right, did You have that before? Or it just turned up recently, I don't remember having this much wakelocks, and why are ''wakelocks'' wakelocks when you are using your phone and the screen is on?
I noticed that if I don't have internet access, the wakelock doesn't come up as much. It's some kind of app, maybe, it very much could be one of Google's, It ain't Viber (for me), I have tried disabling, turning it off, no change in wakelock amount.
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I just checked that now
To be honest i'm in the same condition u are in. I don't know whats causing these. Try greenifying Google+, Google Now etc. They have helped me a bit in saving some... Google+ updates/syncs, and that makes a wakelock as well.
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I just checked that now
To be honest i'm in the same condition u are in. I don't know whats causing these. Try greenifying Google+, Google Now etc. They have helped me a bit in saving some... Google+ updates/syncs, and that makes a wakelock as well.
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I have set syncing and updating google apps to the minimum already. Google Now is not active.
Does other android phones like Galaxy S3, S4, HTC One also have this bad battery life, or is it Nexus 4 specific?
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What was your solution? So far my current one is to reboot when I wake up in the morning.
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Do You have Flash Player installed on Your Android device?
This is really weird, I restart the phone, use gmail, and some other apps, turn off screen, check for wake locks, no Audio wake lock at all, I open Chrome, use it a little and then check for wake locks and it has appeared and is at at the top, also other wakelocks have increased count.
Also another matter, I notice a little pop in the speakers sometimes, even though I have set to vibrate only mode.
EVERY TIME I TOUCH THE SCREEN THE SPEAKER TURNS ON, it is just quietly hissing, you need to be in complete silence to hear this. This is definitely causing a big battery drain, I need to fix this ASAP. Anyone has a clue?
Turned off touch sounds, hissing has disappeared. But it literally started hissing after I press anywhere on the screen, even though only a few buttons make a touch sound.
Got to stop typing now, my hands are burning when I'm using Google chrome on my nexus 4...
I disabled Google+ Notifications through Google+(app) > Settings > google account > notifications
And I turned off all Sounds, from Dial pad touch tones to screen lock sound and vibrate on touch. Now I had tried this before the Google+, but I still had the issue with the wakelock.
I get little to none of this wakelock, also turned off google+ backup feature. Disabled some sync options in google account.
But basically I get a lot less of this wakelock now, I am not entirely sure it was Google+, but I have been using the phone casually, as usual for 30+ Hours, charged once, and I get better battery life and much less of this wake lock, phone is mostly in sleep mode when screen is off, about 1-4 Minutes awake.
Now I don't guarantee anything, maybe it's some service that didn't start up this time, but I'm pretty sure that I had opened every app that I was using when I had the problem, this seems to have fixed the problem, see if it helps, if you are experiencing the same issue, and please let me know, thanks!
Oh and I have been using the phone's speaker indeed, for games, Youtube app, Chrome etc. and Received calls, messages, notifications.
Any solution? I'm still having this 1013 wakelock without apparent cause..