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Weird battery drain: Google services

Hello!
I received my nexus on Monday and so far I've only noticed one problem: there's a mysterious "Google services" process draining my battery. Just from leaving the phone unplugged over night the battery is already half drained. Looking at the battery stats I get this data, which I really can't understand. With this wake and cpu times, it makes no sense at all that this is draining the battert, does it? What's going on?
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I have the exact same thing google services has taken 43% but battery life had been ok not great not bad but just ok

I've had that.
Fixed by disabling location history.

Are you using Google currents. When the nexus 7 came out many had issues with drain when they had Google currents installed. For me it didn't even master if I had it synced. I uninstalled it and problem solved. Since I don't have mine yet that's the only thing I can recommend.
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Disabled Google Currents (can't be uninstalled) and unchecked Location Reporting and Location History from the maps app. Will report later this night
Thanks.

hallucynogenyc said:
Disabled Google Currents (can't be uninstalled) and unchecked Location Reporting and Location History from the maps app. Will report later this night
Thanks.
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Any news?

None. I've moved to the wierd wakelock thread to discuss the battery problems btw
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not fully related, but on my N7, I was getting crazy battery drain from google wallet after updating it. Reverting wallet back to the stock version that came on the N7 fixed it. (even stranger was that I never setup wallet for NFC to begin with, and I keep NFC off)

disable sync from your gg account. gg services include gg book, magazine, music, map, chorme, gmail...

Having the same issue. Didn't start draining till about 4 hours off the charger...

I am also having this issue. Google Service is the number 1 battery eater. Right now it is at 56%.

Did anyone find the cure?
I'm having this problem. Cleared all data, installed a new kernel etc. A ton of Google stuff disabled, currents included. Only sync I have to both my connected Google accounts are gmail to my knowledge.
Help!!

Disable Location Services, especially the Wifi one.

ace7196 said:
Disable Location Services, especially the Wifi one.
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Both are off and have been off.

Also having the same problem - after doing a quick search, seems to be affecting a lot of people. Has anyone found a solution?
I am NOT rooted, completely stock. Had phone about a week, and today was the first day I noticed significant battery drain (down to <10% in 8 hours) under very minimal use at work (sat in desk drawer most of the day)
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chopstxnrice said:
Also having the same problem - after doing a quick search, seems to be affecting a lot of people. Has anyone found a solution?
I am NOT rooted, completely stock. Had phone about a week, and today was the first day I noticed significant battery drain (down to <10% in 8 hours) under very minimal use at work (sat in desk drawer most of the day)
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I have the same problem, I dont know when it started, I think after updating from 4.1.2 to 4.2.x. Anyone found a solution?

I'm just now having the same issue here even after trying turning off those different things. There doesn't seen to be anything definitive out there online when I searched. It's probably something Google will have to fix, or will fix hopefully.

Same here. I went through all of the google settings and switched off everything (Contacts and Calendar were the only things I left ticked). Nothing seems to work...
I uninstalled Maps entirely and made sure none of Google's features were enabled but for some reason, Google Services is still eating its way through my battery.

and its not only on nexus.iam suffering the same drain with my xperia T too

I noticed this after the Google Services Update which includes a lot of new API's.
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Stock ROM Google Services eating battery

So I've been using this phone for a little over 3 weeks now, and I am loving everything about it (except being stuck on MF3.. thanks Hash!)
My question is how do I stop Google Services from eating so much battery? It seems that whenever the play store decides to update apps.. or sometimes just no reason at all it decides to take up a chunk of the battery?
I'm quite happy with the battery life on the stock ROM.. but when google services starts to take over my phone while it's in my pocket it sucks any advice? Here is my most recent battery life with GPS and WiFi used when needed.. normal day but it had 37 minutes of wakelocks due to google services.
Thanks
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go into settings>accounts>google>then click on your email. turn off syncing for anything you dont use.

guaneet said:
go into settings>accounts>google>then click on your email. turn off syncing for anything you dont use.
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I've been through this... I only sync the things I used to sync with my other Androids nothing has changed. But thanks!
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if youve used google maps before it turns on automatic gps, so you gotta turn that off too. for that
youll have to open google maps>google location>then turn off acess location
there are a number of factors that play along it as well. ie: nfc, and the samsung features.

Google Services draining battery?

So, I'm rooted on VZW with no OTA and suddenly had abnormal battery drain today. Any idea why this may be happening?

Mine is kinda high today as well. I saw something about Google having issues today with email and other applications. This could be related, or phones can't connect to Google so it just keeps on trying.
Sounds nice but don't know if it's true or not.
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Install Greenify. Hibernate all the APPs that you don't want notification from first. This app doesn't allow APPs to Wakelock you're phone. Once you find which offending account is the issue you'll be ok. I found that Facebook woke up my phone thousands of times and I have up notifications. Best choice ever ?
This app requires root and free in the app store.
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Greenify can't touch system apps to my knowledge but yes, it is an excellent solution for rogue apps that take up resources when they shouldn't. :good:
As far as the google services battery drain, I eliminated that by simply turning off google location services. The actual GPS is so quick to lock that I haven't run into a scenario yet where I'd absolutely need to turn it back on.

My location services are off. Doesnt seem to help me much. I also bought donation greenify and greenfied Google Play services and Google Play Store
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With 15:34 for time on, and 1:45 of screen on time, I'm currently at exactly 50% battery. I feel it was something awry with Google Services yesterday and an isolated issue. Location services were off today, but I did nothing with Greenify, yet at least.

nismology said:
Greenify can't touch system apps to my knowledge but yes, it is an excellent solution for rogue apps that take up resources when they shouldn't. :good:
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Donate version is able to greenify system apps.
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Yeah I had the same problem, yesterday. I was having Google services use ~60% of battery life. Surprisingly I still got all day battery life.
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heffzilla said:
Donate version is able to greenify system apps.
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Didn't know that but knowledge is good! :good:

shekinahsmoke said:
My location services are off. Doesnt seem to help me much. I also bought donation greenify and greenfied Google Play services and Google Play Store
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How is that working? Considering doing the same as I've already tried removing the sytem app and replacing with Play Services from the play store. That seemed to work for a few days but the nip wake locks are worse than ever right now. Killing the otherwise stellar battery.

iowabowtech said:
How is that working? Considering doing the same as I've already tried removing the sytem app and replacing with Play Services from the play store. That seemed to work for a few days but the nip wake locks are worse than ever right now. Killing the otherwise stellar battery.
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works great today..... google services error has gone away today and my battery life seems longer. :good:

I just froze google play services and will look at the battery stats later to report the difference. What apps are affected by freezing this though? It seems Hangouts is one.

I don't know why, but all my days are pretty much exactly the same location-wise and some days have huge wakelocks, others don't.
Aside from installing the play store services which seemed to help quite a bit, I've also noticed a nice drop in wakelocks since I went on to Google's Location History dashboard (https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/dashboard?hl=en) and deleted all my history so maybe it could re-create it.
One thing I've noticed is that on high-wakelock days, my GPS is going nutso. My point markers on that dashboard will have me moving ALL OVER the place, even while I'm just sitting at my desk at work.
This leads me to the conclusion that signal plays a huge role, and I do have bad signal at work (1 bar, and can't get a good GPS lock at my desk).
Also, you can minimize these wakelocks without the use of Greenify by simply turning off Location Reporting and Location Using WiFi and Mobile Networks. This dropped my wakelocks to pretty much 0, immediately. But you'll lose things like weather widget geolocation and some Google Now features. On the other hand, this is a more viable option than freezing services which can cause you to lose push notifications for GMail among other things.

I've been messing with this throughout the day today and the problem is high NIP wakelocks originating from Google Services...specifically the Network Location process. So the fix for me appears to be disabling newtork location while leaving GPS location enabled. This is usally the reverse of how I do things but for this phone, it may be the better solution. Google Now is still working for me, as is maps/navigation. There may be some casualties of disabling newtwork location but I haven't run across them yet. I've always viewed these two options as coarse (network) vs.fine (gps) location. So I'm hoping GPS picks up the slack and I don't lose any functionality. What I could see happening is that it just takes longer for location to be confirmed because network location is faster. I'll take that in lieu of battery drain however.
Still need to run like this for a couple days to see how things go but I was getting hundreds and even thousands of NIP wakelocks in a run cycle prior to disabling network location. I'm now getting zero.

iowabowtech said:
I've been messing with this throughout the day today and the problem is high NIP wakelocks originating from Google Services...specifically the Network Location process. So the fix for me appears to be disabling newtork location while leaving GPS location enabled. This is usally the reverse of how I do things but for this phone, it may be the better solution. Google Now is still working for me, as is maps/navigation. There may be some casualties of disabling newtwork location but I haven't run across them yet. I've always viewed these two options as coarse (network) vs.fine (gps) location. So I'm hoping GPS picks up the slack and I don't lose any functionality. What I could see happening is that it just takes longer for location to be confirmed because network location is faster. I'll take that in lieu of battery drain however.
Still need to run like this for a couple days to see how things go but I was getting hundreds and even thousands of NIP wakelocks in a run cycle prior to disabling network location. I'm now getting zero.
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I believe disabling network location will disable Google Now location cards, such as weather or places.

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I believe disabling network location will disable Google Now location cards, such as weather or places.
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You are correct, there's the first casualty confirmed. I'm going to run like this for a few days and see what gives. I don't use the cards anyway so no issue there. If anyone knows of other functionality loss, please speak up.

Like some of you have said, I don't rely on Google Now cards, and I don't leave the city I'm in, so for things like weather, I am find with the hourly syncing of my weather app. If I do need GPS/location services, it's not hard to toggle and battery life is incredible. I feel it was just something going rogue the other day. Today, with locaiton off, I've been off the charger for 15:34 with 1:24 screen on time and I'm at 58%. I spent a good portion of today in a sub-basement on airplane mode, with wifi active in the background though. Walking around campus, I used Songza via 4G due to some wifi weak spots. I can't be happier with this phone, as my GNex would have long since been dead, even on airplane mode.
EDIT: Holy ****, 15:34 sounded familiar, checked my post from yesterday, I responded then at the same time off the charger...

Okay so I may have fixed it on my phone.
I forced closed "Google Play Services" and "Google Devices Framework" then rebooted.
Google services was using it 50% of battery consistently through the day and now its down to using 2% of battery. I'll come back at the end of the day with battery stats.
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this night was a pain.... the phone was on 83 and when i wake it was on 76..... google services was draining all my battery, who could fix this?

[Q] google services

can somebody explain to me what google services do?, ca it be turned off? what is its importance? all this queations because it drains battery a lot, about 30%, I had a S3, and google servs took 11% more or less, why such difference? thanks in advance

winol said:
can somebody explain to me what google services do?, ca it be turned off? what is its importance? all this queations because it drains battery a lot, about 30%, I had a S3, and google servs took 11% more or less, why such difference? thanks in advance
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I think among other things it does the "location" and Google Now stuff - some of the recent builds have been quite bad and a lot of people had problems. Since I don't use Google Now (for the moment is useless in my country) and I rarely update I keep the services greenified and Play Store and Maps frozen - problem solved

winol said:
can somebody explain to me what google services do?, ca it be turned off? what is its importance? all this queations because it drains battery a lot, about 30%, I had a S3, and google servs took 11% more or less, why such difference? thanks in advance
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I think google services do the following things
Syncronising contacts to Goggle+
Syncronising Gmail for Gmail app.
'Would think google MAPS wont work either, just a hunch?'
Controls services inside Google Play/App store. Without it, google play wont work.
I've tried disableing it. Everything seems ok, except the above features are kinda disabled.
I have a hunch that google services and android system ui, works together.

Do you have network location services checked? I unchecked that and google services doesn't show up on my battery usage list anymore. And i now have about 20% more battery everyday. My phone seems to be locating me ok without that checked ie maps and nike running app. Its under settings/connections/location services/uncheck 'use wireless networks'. I hope that helps.

Nlpwackelock and Nlp.collector.wakelock

Google play services is kepping my device awake more than before (like 1 hour). Never had this kind of issue. The wakelocks are the ones from the tittles. This started happening after the upgrade on google play store. Don't know if them upgrade play services too or it is related to a particular app. Stock room, latest version.
Any ideas? Someone is having the same problem?
Thanks in advance

NahuelMS said:
Google play services is kepping my device awake more than before (like 1 hour). Never had this kind of issue. The wakelocks are the ones from the tittles. This started happening after the upgrade on google play store. Don't know if them upgrade play services too or it is related to a particular app. Stock room, latest version.
Any ideas? Someone is having the same problem?
Thanks in advance
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Do not double post, your previous post is quite visible to everyone, but you are not saying anything that would be enough information for most people to respond to, particularly "staying awake more" doesn't really say ANYTHING without some kind of context.
What you are seeing is quite normal under some circumstances... did you Google the wakelocks you are referencing?

Sorry, didn't do it on purpoise. The browser get stuck and it come double.
Yes, did google the wakeclock, it is related to de sync/notifications of apps. The thing is before the update y didn't get that wake up time, it was around 3min per charge. Now i get 1hour. I am trying to find is it related to one app or is a google play services problem.

NahuelMS said:
Sorry, didn't do it on purpoise. The browser get stuck and it come double.
Yes, did google the wakeclock, it is related to de sync/notifications of apps. The thing is before the update y didn't get that wake up time, it was around 3min per charge. Now i get 1hour. I am trying to find is it related to one app or is a google play services problem.
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Google services and such often vary because of server side issues, not always a device thing... but my device averages 1.5 hours awake for every 8 hours of idle time (assuming no doze, but my average usage is 60-90 minutes of doze per hours), been that way since I got this device, so what you are talking about is pretty normal for me.

Problem fixed!
Uninstall play services and reinstalled. Also wipe cache, delete data from playstore, playservices, etc. Dissabled smartlock and activated later.
The wakelocks dissapears, i think it was a problem with play services tryin to sync something and get stuck.

NahuelMS said:
Problem fixed!
Uninstall play services and reinstalled. Also wipe cache, delete data from playstore, playservices, etc. Dissabled smartlock and activated later.
The wakelocks dissapears, i think it was a problem with play services tryin to sync something and get stuck.
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That worked for me too! Wakelock went from 30% to 5%. Thanks!
Edit: Well, after 24 hours, it seems the fix was only temporary