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Solution to Google Services and Android System battery drain [UPDATED Nov 23, 2013]

Google Services Battery Drain
To all of you having Google Services battery drain, I think I found a fix.
With last Google Services update and the last Google Maps update, sometimes it drains almost half of total battery.
I myself have spent the last week trying to see what is happening with this topic, trying to find in every thread or forum across the internet: XDA, HTCMania, AndroidCentral and even Google official forums for this annoying topic. Posted in every forum I could and tried to find an easy way, but for some people, this bug doesn´t exist.
When I write "No Google Services battery drain", I mean that this is not appearing in the battery graph.
I made a clean install of my ROM with no sync from Google, so I could see what´s the source of such battery drain. I started to disabled the "Location Access" at Settings.
I started to install only Google Search and use device a couple of hours with it. Google Search/Google Now ask for the Google Services, so I installed and used it. The Google Settings app(the one with the green icon) had disabled the "Location History" and "Reporting Location". No Google Services battery drain.
I enabled the last two to see if this could be the culprit of the battery drain and used device for a couple of hours more. No Google Services battery drain.
Then I installed Google Maps and just enabled GPS in "Location Access" and used the device again. No Google Services battery drain.
After that, I enabled "Wi-Fi & Mobile Network Location" on "Location Access" and then... Voilà!. Google Services started to appear in the battery graph.
I discovered that the drain come specifically from this option in Location settings: Settings > Location Access > Wi-Fi & Mobile Network Location.
I left GPS Satellites checked and even with that, no more Google Services drain. All the drain come from the other option, and is more noticeable when you are connected to WiFi.
No need to disable other Location services nor other settings about locations, just leave that option unchecked and Google Services won´t even appear in the battery graph.
I have been running my device with all Locations settings enabled except the "Wi-Fi & Mobile Network Location" and Google Services is not even show on battery graph.
Hope it helps.
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Android System Battery Drain
About Android System battery drains, I have found 2 posts that could help of people who made tests and possibly resolved the issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44537106&postcount=7
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44541018&postcount=5
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UPDATES
Aug 01, 2013 - I tried to install new Google Play Store and new Google Services framework and still is the same.
Aug 07, 2013 - Updated Google Services Framework to 3.2.25(Although Play Store says 3.0.25 is the last one) to test if enabling WiFi location has impact on battery. Reporting Location and Location History are disabled for this test.
Aug 08, 2013 - The battery drain has decreased a lot with latest update, it is now just 5% of total battery life until now(22hrs since charged). I ´m going to leave battery discharges and then make a new battery cycle with Reporting Location and Location History enabled to see if the problem is totally gone about location battery drains.
Aug 09, 2013 - It´s been 5 hours since I unplugged phone from charger, I have Google Services at 10% of my battery and my Screen with 30 mins. At first, Google Services drain showed 20% on the battery graph for the first hour I think, and then it seems to decrease and stay normal again. I will post tomorrow the final results. Remember that for this test I´m having enabled all the possibly Location settings on phone(both Google Now settings and Location Access settings).
Aug 10, 2013 - The first battery cycle was ok, with all the Location settings enabled both in Settings and in Google Now, gave me a total of 8% battery drain in a full day, most of the time in 3G and not in WiFi like the other tests I did. It seems that new update of Google Play Services helped a lot with this drains, because the drain of Google Services is still below of the System itself. I will report later when the battery life improve, because first cycles are always bad in terms of battery life.
Aug 12, 2013 - It seems that the battery drain problem is fixed with last update. I made 2-3 battery cycles and the drain at the end is the same, around 7%-10%, something that looks normal and below when comparing to the "Phone Idle" or "Android System" battery drain. Of course you can disable the Location options, specially the WiFi Location option to make the Google Services battery drain be lower, but people is reporting Google Now and other apps not working properly. Maybe is the way that Android 4.3 works now. Still the battery is still improved from Android 4.2.2, so I´m quite happy right now with the tests and the results.
Aug 13, 2013 - Here are the results for the tests. I maybe should call these results the final ones, until something else happens. The screenshots are pretty self explanatory. The first one is about the battery drain over night, and the other two about the battery life at the end of the day.
Aug 21, 2013 - I made a full wipe and clean installation of PA 3.97 to test if drain could be also ROM sided fro any reason, but the news is that with a clean installation and latest updates for every Google product, the drain is the same fro Google Services(around 5%-8%). For all the previous test I was using pure AOSP build.
Sep 09, 2013 - Some users reported that latest updates are making the problem reappear, so I link the post with the latest free drain version of Google Now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45332135&postcount=161.
Sep 13, 2013 - I have installed PSX ROM with PSX GAPPS(based on BaNkS) and the Google Services drain is the same, around 5%-8% after a normal usage day. I don't report any problem.
Sep 20, 2013 - I have flashed Purity ROM and Purified Kernel and the Google Services drain is a little bit higher, around 10%, but still have good battery and performance.
Sep 24, 2013 - The opportunity now is for PSX v7 with default kernel(SiMa). Google Services drain is behaving normally, around 10%. It seems that the last update from September increased a little the Google Services wakelock. Still is performing well and it is a decent drain.
Sep 30, 2013 - Added some useful information and solution from user 511pf: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46054200&postcount=227
Oct 24, 2013 - I flashed PSX 8.2 with default kernel, a very battery friendly and balanced kernel. Google Services drain is good, around 8%.
Oct 30, 2013 - I make a clean install of PSX 8.5 with new kernel and Google Services still are around 8%. No major problems with them.
Nov 12, 2013 - I came back to stock to wait for the Android 4.4 update, and the Google Services remain the same: around 7%. No major issues presented and battery drain over night is around 5% for 9 hours.
FINAL UPDATE: Nov 23, 2013 - I flashed stock image for Android 4.4 and Play Services drain reappeared. The problem is, after some researching, that KitKat has "modes" for location settings. There are 3 modes: high precision, battery friendly and device only. The first two drain battery as hell, but the third one makes the Play Services drain completely gone. With this in mind, widgets and Google Now are still fully functional, just Near Places is not available as well as some apps that need location, because it will work with just the GPS. My battery has greatly increased after I made this change.
I won't be continuing with this thread because I already sold my Nexus 4 and I got a Nexus 5, so I'm moving on. I will ask a moderator if it possible to make this thread a sticky thread so it will continue to be available to all the Nexus 4 users.
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NEW GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gms
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sweet! i'll test and confirm that soon.
i'll leave the GPS on, but the wifi off. (GPS will stay off even if checked because i barely use it)
and yes, you are right, in betterbatterystats, i get alot of location checking, and my country doesn't even support location reporting

Is your device running latest 4.3 ? I remember reading that 4.3 has a fix for this issue.
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Srikks said:
Is your device running latest 4.3 ? I remember reading that 4.3 has a fix for this issue.
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mine no, I'm waiting for the stable versiob of PAC ROM.
So meanwhile, I'm going for this solution
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Srikks said:
Is your device running latest 4.3 ? I remember reading that 4.3 has a fix for this issue.
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Riro Zizo said:
mine no, I'm waiting for the stable versiob of PAC ROM.
So meanwhile, I'm going for this solution
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Yesterday I did a full wipe of my phone(even sdcard) and restored everything from scratch to stock 4.2.2 image, and then update came to 4.3 few minutes later.
As far as I know, the problem still persists because in the time I was making wizard and setting up all the options for every app I have, I was seeing battery drain with the WiFi Location option enabled and when I finished setting up all, the Google Services drain was about 20% in a time of 2 hours.
I disabled the option, and currently I don´t have this drain again, but it is just the first day, so I will enable it today and will report tonight with results.
It is 9:00AM exactly now, I´m enabling the option now.
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Srikks said:
Is your device running latest 4.3 ? I remember reading that 4.3 has a fix for this issue.
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mine no, I'm waiting for the stable versiob of PAC ROM.
So meanwhile, I'm going for this solution
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These are the results, the drain is still there although it is not much in 4.3. I have say to say that battery improvement is huge in this new version, so maybe this could matters directly with the drain.
I think still that is better to uncheck that option is not needed, so 10% of your battery or more won't be affected by this wakelock.
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Guys I am facing such extremely annoying Google Services (DownloadManager in BBS) battery drain + mobile/wifi data usage issue and I have been searching for some hours.
First of all I have tried the most answered solution - clearing the data of all those stuffs related to Google Services - well it did not work so well.
Then I don't think freezing download manager / factory reset / restrict background data / disabling google services framework are good solutions as I myself did not make changes related to this recently so a factory reset should not be needed, plus the other mentioned solutions would cause syncing issues with Google and this doesn't suit my lifestyle of heavily depending on various google services.
Many of you have proposed that the massive download / repeated downloads are related to downloading the 4.3 OTA and that might be possible according to the similar file sizes as well as logcats you have found. But on the other hand one of the solution - disabling Network Locations settings has also stopped the "download" triangle from constantly staying there when my wifi is on. Therefore we can conclude that it is partially related to the 4.3 OTA download which cannot be disabled on our custom ROMs, as well as partially about the stock Network Location settings.
Fortunately after many posts that do not provide a feasible answer I have found this xda post which addresses the issue related to the Google Play Store 4.1.6. Some of the users have reported that 4.1.10 has fixed the issue and some even said the newest version 4.2.9 is over the internet since 25/7 together with 4.3 update.
Not sure why such critical update did not roll out to the unluckily bunch of us from Google, but I have found the Android Police source about 4.1.10 fixing the "Network Location bug which hogs the battery" and hopefully this will stop the DownloadManager wakelock as well as the crazy battery drain + data drain by Google Services.
I haven't tested this thoroughly because I will probably need a day to check out whether it stops the crazy behaviour but I would just like to share with you guys my founding as soon as possible so you guys can try it out together with me. The latest Google Play Store 4.2.9 apk can be downloaded from Android Police here.
Hope I have helped! Good luck to you and me!
PS sorry for the duplicating post in the same Q&A forum of N4 but I really want to help as many people as possible.

downloading latest playstore... will test... and btw, greenifying google services won't break sync
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Miasmic said:
Guys I am facing such extremely annoying Google Services (DownloadManager in BBS) battery drain + mobile/wifi data usage issue and I have been searching for some hours.
First of all I have tried the most answered solution - clearing the data of all those stuffs related to Google Services - well it did not work so well.
Then I don't think freezing download manager / factory reset / restrict background data / disabling google services framework are good solutions as I myself did not make changes related to this recently so a factory reset should not be needed, plus the other mentioned solutions would cause syncing issues with Google and this doesn't suit my lifestyle of heavily depending on various google services.
Many of you have proposed that the massive download / repeated downloads are related to downloading the 4.3 OTA and that might be possible according to the similar file sizes as well as logcats you have found. But on the other hand one of the solution - disabling Network Locations settings has also stopped the "download" triangle from constantly staying there when my wifi is on. Therefore we can conclude that it is partially related to the 4.3 OTA download which cannot be disabled on our custom ROMs, as well as partially about the stock Network Location settings.
Fortunately after many posts that do not provide a feasible answer I have found this xda post which addresses the issue related to the Google Play Store 4.1.6. Some of the users have reported that 4.1.10 has fixed the issue and some even said the newest version 4.2.9 is over the internet since 25/7 together with 4.3 update.
Not sure why such critical update did not roll out to the unluckily bunch of us from Google, but I have found the Android Police source about 4.1.10 fixing the "Network Location bug which hogs the battery" and hopefully this will stop the DownloadManager wakelock as well as the crazy battery drain + data drain by Google Services.
I haven't tested this thoroughly because I will probably need a day to check out whether it stops the crazy behaviour but I would just like to share with you guys my founding as soon as possible so you guys can try it out together with me. The latest Google Play Store 4.2.9 apk can be downloaded from Android Police here.
Hope I have helped! Good luck to you and me!
PS sorry for the duplicating post in the same Q&A forum of N4 but I really want to help as many people as possible.
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downloading latest playstore... will test... and btw, greenifying google services won't break sync
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Don't lose your time with that article. Drain happened to me with Google Play Store 4.1.10 and also with Google Play Store 4.2.9. I was a completely week trying to install every Play Store I could and never worked.
Indeed most of test were made with 4.2.9, and the only way I could stop Google Services to appear in the battery graph was unchecking the option I mentioned before. At least for me, this is the only thing it worked to stop this.
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Galaxo60 said:
Don't lose your time with that article. Drain happened to me with Google Play Store 4.1.10 and also with Google Play Store 4.2.9. I was a completely week trying to install every Play Store I could and never worked.
Indeed most of test were made with 4.2.9, and the only way I could stop Google Services to appear in the battery graph was unchecking the option I mentioned before. At least for me, this is the only thing it worked to stop this.
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Same here. Only way was to disable the WiFi location. No fix in sight until Google decides to fix it themselves
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Turning this off means Google Now will stop working.
It is useful sometimes though...so if anyone knows of an alternative way...
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aeoveu said:
Turning this off means Google Now will stop working.
It is useful sometimes though...so if anyone knows of an alternative way...
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Google Now won´t stop working, because it still has access to location, but not being pushing and receiving data all the time, what makes the wakelock and the battery drain.
I have only that option unchecked and still having functional Google Now, but just to note that there will be a warning saying that locations settings are not optimized or something like that. Also in Google Maps happens the same, but still we have the GPS if app uses any location.

Galaxo60 said:
Google Now won´t stop working, because it still has access to location, but not being pushing and receiving data all the time, what makes the wakelock and the battery drain.
I have only that option unchecked and still having functional Google Now, but just to note that there will be a warning saying that locations settings are not optimized or something like that. Also in Google Maps happens the same, but still we have the GPS if app uses any location.
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Well, for me, it asked me to enable location settings in order to use maps and Google now (I don't use GPS cause it doesn't work indoors here...we have houses and buildings made of concrete).
Did you enable WiFi location scanning after disabling Google apps location access? I can't get a location in Google now.
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Here's what I get.
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put access to my location on, the untick wifi and keep gps on.
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But for that, GPS needs to work indoors, right?
My GPS chip was fired up. :s
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aeoveu said:
Well, for me, it asked me to enable location settings in order to use maps and Google now (I don't use GPS cause it doesn't work indoors here...we have houses and buildings made of concrete).
Did you enable WiFi location scanning after disabling Google apps location access? I can't get a location in Google now.
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Here's what I get.
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This is correct:
Riro Zizo said:
put access to my location on, the untick wifi and keep gps on.
swipe this away
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aeoveu said:
But for that, GPS needs to work indoors, right?
My GPS chip was fired up. :s
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About the GPS, you are right in the part that GPS won't easily lock indoors, but this is maybe the price we have to pay to have a really good battery. Remember that this is just a work-around to this bug, not a fix. Google is the one who should make a fix in future releases for this insane battery drain.
With 4.3, I'm able to obtain a full day without a charge leaving all the location settings enabled, but although Google Services drain is around 15%, it constantly keeps the device active and consume battery .
You should consider enabling the Wifi Location option just when you need it, because is what I do. I barely use the location settings for anything, but when I need it for any app, I just enable the option, make what I have to do, and then disabled it to keep battery.
Below I share my battery stats with the tip I just wrote.
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Anyone tried the latest version. It doesn't show on updates so you have to go to direct link. Touch wood it has improved things for me so far.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gms
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stuart0001 said:
Anyone tried the latest version. It doesn't show on updates so you have to go to direct link. Touch wood it has improved things for me so far.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gms
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I´m testing right now the new version and see if there is any change about the drain to make the feedback.
One weird thing I noticed is this link is showing 3.0.25 as the latest, but I have on my phone 3.2.25 installed.
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@stuart0001
It seems that new Google Services update helped a lot with the drain. Right now, the drain is only 5% with 22 hours of battery life.

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.

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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:
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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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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 play services battery drain..

Anyone having trouble with over normal battery drain from google play services? I haven't had any issues with this unntil now
I do not have google now on, location services is off, so what is it that drain so much?
Might be a stupid question, but anyways thanks for all answers!
Edit: the images is in norwegian.. Sorry about that!

Norside said:
Anyone having trouble with over normal battery drain from google play services? I haven't had any issues with this unntil now
I do not have google now on, location services is off, so what is it that drain so much?
Might be a stupid question, but anyways thanks for all answers!
Edit: the images is in norwegian.. Sorry about that!
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try these settings.
Settings -> Location access -> Off
Google Settings ->Location -> Location Reporting Off, Location History Off
with those settings, i can have google now On, and still not battery drain.

I have google now and location settings on. I don't have battery drain. I average 22 hours with 6 hours screen on time.
Sorry, Gsam says my average is about 18 1/2 hours. Play services uses 0.1%

nlpwakecollector under google services is wake locking my device like crazy. Trying different settings to see if I can reduce the wakelocks

If you are rooted, uninstall play services and reinstall it from the play store.

Im going to try that last thing cash. . So thanks for that
Anyways, have 17% left and only used the phone for 11 hours and 3.45min screen on time, not that
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And im not rooted yet, has not felt the need for it like with my old galaxy s2..

MoNsTeReNeRgY22 said:
If you are rooted, uninstall play services and reinstall it from the play store.
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Tried that, didnt help. Still getting decent battery life so I am not that upset

Bobaroo said:
nlpwakecollector under google services is wake locking my device like crazy. Trying different settings to see if I can reduce the wakelocks
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Location.
1. Disable location reporting from both Google Settings and the Settings menu of the phone.
2. Clear data of the Google Play Services app.
3. Reboot.
Let us know if it helps.
On another hand, on Android Police there is an article about how Play Services drained the batteries of numerous people across the world. So it might be something temporary over on Google's side.

Norside said:
Anyone having trouble with over normal battery drain from google play services? I haven't had any issues with this unntil now
I do not have google now on, location services is off, so what is it that drain so much?
Might be a stupid question, but anyways thanks for all answers!
Edit: the images is in norwegian.. Sorry about that!
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Before blaming Location services, people should do some googling. On 11/19, there's been reports that Google Play Services is causing a good number of people to have battery issues. It seems to be an issue on Google's side.
Wait a day or two before making any changes.

robogo1982 said:
Location.
1. Disable location reporting from both Google Settings and the Settings menu of the phone.
2. Clear data of the Google Play Services app.
3. Reboot.
Let us know if it helps.
Nope above instructions do not work. Just tried them May be we just need to wait for the next update to google play services
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Sucks that its happening, but glad to see that other people are experiencing the same issue with Google Play Services that we have seen the last couple of days. Its not horrible, but it is draining the battery an extra 10-15% during the work day so i get home with 70% instead of 85%
Hopefully google fixes it or someone figures out the actual cause !

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...lay-services-seems-to-be-a-battery-hog-today/

vween said:
Before blaming Location services, people should do some googling. On 11/19, there's been reports that Google Play Services is causing a good number of people to have battery issues. It seems to be an issue on Google's side.
Wait a day or two before making any changes.
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You are right. Today I do not have a battery drain like how it was draining yesterday Only thing that I did yesterday was to uninstall Goolge Play Services and reinstalled it from play store. After full nite's recharge it is doing really good on battery like always. Today I'm still left with 77% of battery after 11 hours on battery. So in fact my battery is better than ever.

I hate to bump an old thread, but I am having this issue as well. My phones been on for 11.5 hours and Google play services has kept it awake for 10.5. I thought it was from listening to music, but I didn't listen at all today and still the same.
One thing I do notice is it keeps popping up saying keeping requested music in the notification bar even though I haven't selected any new songs in a couple days and they are all downloaded already.
I'm not rooted yet
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Latest Google play services update is pissing me off

This is what I'm getting now since it updated just after Google i/o. I don't even know how to stop it. My battery has gone from 1+ days of usage to just about 16 hours with no other change. No new apps nothing. And these screenshots were taken after a reboot so I would imagine I'd have well over 1000 wakelocks from this thing. What's more look at the time stamps on the second and third images. Taken 7 minutes apart but I have 21 wakelocks in that short space of time.
Compare that to the wakelock crazy Facebook with only 11 in that same space of time. I don't even know what to do about this. Has never been this bad in my 2 months of owning the phone.
Any advice or recommendations to fix this? It's driving me crazy.
Also:
No I have no new apps.
No I didn't flash anything else.
My kernel was the same this entire time.
The phone gets mad hot for no reason.
Tried wakelock terminator on it but it only made it not want enter deep sleep all together.
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If you have a look around the forum and the internet, you'll notice every device from every brand has this issue. Sony has it worse, they dont even last 7 hours.
Turn off Google data backup, opt out of personalized apps and turn off location services.
You could always just disable Gplay services for now. I'm not rooted and I've done it.
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ShadowLea said:
If you have a look around the forum and the internet, you'll notice every device from every brand has this issue. Sony has it worse, they dont even last 7 hours.
Turn off Google data backup, opt out of personalized apps and turn off location services.
You could always just disable Gplay services for now. I'm not rooted and I've done it.
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How did you disable it ?

JJbdoggg said:
How did you disable it ?
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Settings --> General --> Application Manager --> All --> Google Play Services --> Disable.

Google Battery drain

Got my mate 7 A few weeks ago. Love it. Getting awesome sot (8.5) the last charge mainly using mobile data..
But today google contact sync is draining so much battery. I've exported and deleted all contacts from google. Disabled back up my phone in settings and even disabled the app in settings and it still opens... I don't really want to have to root it. Any ideas I may not have tried?

Also wonder,my phone is rooted though, well, didn't want to freeze any Google services but some features like backup system is stubbornly running even after disable in settings. Don't know any good medicine from this issue.
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brack11 said:
Also wonder,my phone is rooted though, well, didn't want to freeze any Google services but some features like backup system is stubbornly running even after disable in settings. Don't know any good medicine from this issue.
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man u NEED g services to run .. jeezz

XDADEVX said:
man u NEED g services to run .. jeezz
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Yes I know that. The thing that drives me crazy is that I have no control over running background apps, like backup, that were disabled via Google provided interface. This is type of cheating to have an interface that doesn't do much.
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brack11 said:
Yes I know that. The thing that drives me crazy is that I have no control over running background apps, like backup, that were disabled via Google provided interface. This is type of cheating to have an interface that doesn't do much.
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u do not need to gave control over g play services .. you need to leave g services bee otherwise u won't get notifications or gmail syncs etc..

I am having the same problem. Contact sync is draining my battery!

Itsme93 said:
I am having the same problem. Contact sync is draining my battery!
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well why u leaving unnecessary apps running ?? that is only your fault

XDADEVX said:
well why u leaving unnecessary apps running ?? that is only your fault
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Closing or deactivating Google contact sync doesen't change anything.

Itsme93 said:
Closing or deactivating Google contact sync doesn't change anything.
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don't u see power consumption..? just close them all and in protected apps untick them all and leave just gservices and gmail..

XDADEVX said:
don't u see power consumption..? just close them all and in protected apps untick them all and leave just gservices and gmail..
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I already tried that. After closing Google contact sync it disappers from the list but a couple Minuten later it is back.

Itsme93 said:
I already tried that. After closing Google contact sync it disappers from the list but a couple Minuten later it is back.
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that is fine .. it runs only when u using phone.. that process doesn't drain a lot..

XDADEVX said:
that is fine .. it runs only when u using phone.. that process doesn't drain a lot..
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It drains more than chrome which I have been using all day.

Itsme93 said:
It drains more than chrome which I have been using all day.
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I've got same ... even more 40mAh
you know what you can do go to setings -> google account -> tap account where numbers are synced from -> disable sync contacts
see if that helps

I froze with TB google app, then defrozed it and converted to user app, also didnt enable google now service, after all I have drain 10% per 6 hours at night, while phone is on extreme battery mode and just laying on the night stand without anyone touching it. Screen on time is impressive but battery drains while screen is off.

brack11 said:
I froze with TB google app, then defrozed it and converted to user app, also didnt enable google now service, after all I have drain 10% per 6 hours at night, while phone is on extreme battery mode and just laying on the night stand without anyone touching it. Screen on time is impressive but battery drains while screen is off.
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Mine is also draining too much energy while screen is off. Like 100% to 55%!! All in a matter of 10 hours and a half.
Have you fixed this particular issue yet?
Please see my case here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62870579&postcount=12
Thank you!

It's happening exactly the same to me I've installed OS monitor app and everything seems to be perfect but it's happening to me the same.
I've been the hole day looking for a solution but nothing, new phone I got Motorola 360, I do t k of if maybe because of that...

Sw33t_Lov3r said:
Mine is also draining too much energy while screen is off. Like 100% to 55%!! All in a matter of 10 hours and a half.
Have you fixed this particular issue yet?
Please see my case here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62870579&postcount=12
Thank you!
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It did solve the problem temporary, however my phone died (not related reason) warranty replaced the phone and new one, uprooted, doesn't have that issue any more.
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One million question
brack11 said:
It did solve the problem temporary, however my phone died (not related reason) warranty replaced the phone and new one, uprooted, doesn't have that issue any more.
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How did you fixed it temporarily?
But the one million dollar question is: How much battery is lost while idle overnight?
This is the real question I think, because in all my tests, no matter the build version, I have got l least 5 hours of SOT (17 hours of use in total), which is not bad,
but most people get at least 7 hours SOT (in some 30+ hours) I guess I use it too frequently.
So, that would be the main question.
Please, do try to answer and tell us. Thank you!
- Leonardo.

Sw33t_Lov3r said:
How did you fixed it temporarily?
But the one million dollar question is: How much battery is lost while idle overnight?
This is the real question I think, because in all my tests, no matter the build version, I have got l least 5 hours of SOT (17 hours of use in total), which is not bad,
but most people get at least 7 hours SOT (in some 30+ hours) I guess I use it too frequently.
So, that would be the main question.
Please, do try to answer and tell us. Thank you!
- Leonardo.
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I have already told it in this discussion, I have frost (later removed actually) google app system application, and fresh installed it from the market as user app.
As I said earlier though, now I use unrooted phone with locked bootloader, in completely original state (except I use tsf shell and disabled all unused system apps) and no longer have any problem with battery.
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Guys I noticed that now phone drains battery faster when just browsing internet..
Had 20% and after 10 mins got 15%
Why it is so draining .. it is just browsing pages.. no video no audio at all..