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[Q] Google Services huge GPS usage draining battery. Device always looking for GPS.

Guys, have any of you ever seen this???
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My device is ALWAYS searching for GPS. Google Services is draining my battery and consuming GPS for more than EIGHT HOURS.
I know you may tell me to disable GPS, or disable location settings, and etc. But I need to keep all these things enabled because they are pretty useful on Foursquare, Maps, finding a taxi, and, mainly, for finding my device if something bad happens!
This never happened to me on Galaxy Note II or any other device. Has anyone ever faced this?!

viniciusrsouza said:
Guys, have any of you ever seen this???
My device is ALWAYS searching for GPS. Google Services is draining my battery and consuming GPS for more than EIGHT HOURS.
I know you may tell me to disable GPS, or disable location settings, and etc. But I need to keep all these things enabled because they are pretty useful on Foursquare, Maps, finding a taxi, and, mainly, for finding my device if something bad happens!
This never happened to me on Galaxy Note II or any other device. Has anyone ever faced this?!
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You could try and clear data and cAshe

Disable google location in the google settings app
Google settings app -> location -> disable
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What "app" are you using for monitoring your battery?

jaythenut said:
You could try and clear data and cAshe
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Already did this inside Google Play Services.
Killberty said:
Disable google location in the google settings app
Google settings app -> location -> disable
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Yeah, that's a workaround, but Google Now stops working if I disable this. I'm trying to understand what's happening, since this is not normal and everybody needs the location settings enabled to get all features of a lot of apps.
For example, this never happened to me or other devices. Seems like an Android 4.3 and Google Services issue.
henklbr said:
What "app" are you using for monitoring your battery?
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GSam Battery Monitor
Here you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/..._medium=organic&utm_term=gsam+battery+monitor

viniciusrsouza said:
Already did this inside Google Play Services.
Yeah, that's a workaround, but Google Now stops working if I disable this. I'm trying to understand what's happening, since this is not normal and everybody needs the location settings enabled to get all features of a lot of apps.
For example, this never happened to me or other devices. Seems like an Android 4.3 and Google Services issue.
GSam Battery Monitor
Here you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/..._medium=organic&utm_term=gsam+battery+monitor
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Thanks; far more info than "Battery Stats"...
Thanks-button hit!

Yesterday, I got an update from Google Play Services (dated 22 nov 13)...
You can also install it via the web:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gms

Didn't noticed this update, but I also got here, just checked now.
How did you noticed that? Is there any notification for you?

viniciusrsouza said:
Didn't noticed this update, but I also got here, just checked now.
How did you noticed that? Is there any notification for you?
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Pure luck: I went to the Play Store online and saw there was an update. On my S4 it was updated automatically...

Was it solved?
Seems the problem came back. Did you solved this by the time it was posted here?
Thanks

[GUIDE] Save battery using PrivacyGuard

A useful function of PrivacyGuard of CyanogenMod is the ability to block applications that awaken our phone or actions that require costly in terms of battery as the location.
In fact it will be curious (and you will see it yourself) such as facebook has awakened a really huge number of times your phone (for me 826 times to be exact)
- For start go on "Settings" and then "Privacy".
-Once entered, click on the 3 dots vertical and then "Advanced".
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- Click on applications that do not interest you and put on "denied" to "Keep awake," "Awaken", "Auto Start" position and if you do not need.

Just keep in mind that disabling these features has the potential to cause problems on the device, especially if you do it to the wrong apps.
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Just keep in mind that disabling these features has the potential to cause problems on the device, especially if you do it to the wrong apps.
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For third-party applications (such as facebook, google plus, whatsapps, etc.) and not system app, no

gabryoryn said:
For third-party applications (such as facebook, google plus, whatsapps, etc.) and not system app, no
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Yes, but altering the permissions for those apps can affect the notifications for those apps.
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Yes, of course that is

Pretty much a in built Greenify

MrPhilo said:
Pretty much a in built Greenify
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Oh really? Can I use this instead of greenify?

In my opinion is even better

Thanks for INFO

Thank you Sir, definitely gonna try that out

For an even better experience, use Xposed and the module Xprivacy. Is actually the better version of this function in cm11.
Though I don't think this is exactly the same as Greenify, cause Greenify hibernates apps and I thought the dev said that's not exactly the same, but not sure.

I'm curios about that, if there is a difference. Also, there are so many apps that use location that i would of thought otherwise. Clock, gallery and contacts for example. Does anybody adjust this large amount of apps?

Bigbruise said:
I'm curios about that, if there is a difference. Also, there are so many apps that use location that i would of thought otherwise. Clock, gallery and contacts for example. Does anybody adjust this large amount of apps?
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I only adjust the ones that I installed from playstore (Facebook, Twitter, etc). But I don't have the option, "Denied", only "Ignore". It's normal?

Greenify:good:

It seems like lollipop's privacy guard doesn't work for this and Slimsaber KK doesn't have advanced settings for privacy guard either. Do only some roms have this option?

kalani91 said:
It seems like lollipop's privacy guard doesn't work for this and Slimsaber KK doesn't have advanced settings for privacy guard either. Do only some roms have this option?
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For me it works on Blisspop.

I am on stock cm11s 05Q and can't get this working.
Here's what I did...
I enabled shield next to google play service.
I long pressed and found automatically:
- read contact: always ask
- read calls always ask
- read calendar: always ask
- read sms: always ask
I set all the above manually to off plus:
- wake up: deny
- keep awake: deny
I went back and found the shield icon off

Is there a way privacy guard settings can be set via adb?

mayur.3.92 said:
Is there a way privacy guard settings can be set via adb?
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Why do you need it? Are you on kitkat?

Mr.Ak said:
Why do you need it? Are you on kitkat?
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No, i find it a pain to set everything after installs.
Like set everything to not start at boot, run in background etc etc.
Imagine toggling everything for 60-100 apps that too after long pressing>Change toggles >Hit back and repeat.

Google Play Services Battery Drain - Feedback Needed (Solved)

Solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60274726&postcount=24
After making some research and trying to find out why Google Play Services is one of the top battery draining apps in Lollipop, I could see that somehow WiFi keeps enabled and trying to find "something" with the Google Play Services.
Before start, I should say that I made a factory reset and updated the apps that comes with the phone, so no possibility for an app behaving in weird manner.
I left my phone overnight with just the signal enabled, this means no data, no sync, no WiFi, to see if the drain it´s the normal one from the phone itself:
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The red part is something strange I noticed it, it seems that "something" awake the device and mysteriously activated the WiFi.
I usually keep my WiFi and sync all my accounts through WiFi when being in home/work, and disable sync and activating data when I have no WiFi range. For the half part of the day, the phone behaved good. After I left work, I go to some place for around 2 hours when I have no WiFi connection; after 2 hours of being there, I checked my phone and it almost drain about 10% and Google Play Services became the top application on the battery graph.
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After getting home, I checked again the graph and notice some important facts: it seems that WiFi never was disabled and Google Play Services made a great impact on the battery for the couple of hours I wasn't connected to WiFi.
Moreover, disabling all the connections (except cellular signal) doesn't work and still keep the WiFi enabled and Google Play Services consuming a lot of battery; finally, the only way to interrupt this WiFi insanity was to put the phone to airplane mode for a couple of minutes and then turn WiFi on in my home.
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Have you guys checked this behavior or have any problem with Google Play Services?.

I also have this behavior in lollipop. It seems to be related to lollipop, not only to this phone.
forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/google-play-services-draining-battery-t3026138

mirdones said:
I also have this behavior in lollipop. It seems to be related to lollipop, not only to this phone.
forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/google-play-services-draining-battery-t3026138
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Thanks so much for the answer, I already checked the thread and it seems is the same behaviour.
By the way, are you experiencing this drain with your phone?, would be really nice to know if all users or just some of us are experiencing this problem.
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Poll added to see if users are having this problem.
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I was having this problem on kitkat as well. Never figured out how to fix it and eventually switched to a nexus 6. Verizon moto droid.

hockeyplayr said:
I was having this problem on kitkat as well. Never figured out how to fix it and eventually switched to a nexus 6. Verizon moto droid.
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Does the Nexus 6 has this problem also?, I'm wondering if it is because of Lollipop in general or just for the Motorola devices.

Galaxo60 said:
Does the Nexus 6 has this problem also?, I'm wondering if it is because of Lollipop in general or just for the Motorola devices.
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i bought the nexus 6 straight from verizon. With 5.1 google play services only shows up draining 1% of the battery. It may be the earlier build of lollipop causing the problem.

hockeyplayr said:
i bought the nexus 6 straight from verizon. With 5.1 google play services only shows up draining 1% of the battery. It may be the earlier build of lollipop causing the problem.
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Thanks so much for the answer, I think the only thing we can do is wait for the 5.1 update.

Galaxo60 said:
Thanks so much for the answer, I think the only thing we can do is wait for the 5.1 update.
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Its a problem in 5.1 as well. Its dependent on the version of.play services running.

adrynalyne said:
Its a problem in 5.1 as well. Its dependent on the version of.play services running.
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But if this was the case, all we have the same problem, right?, because Play Services always update itself to the last version, no matter if we are on 5.0.2 or 5.1.

Galaxo60 said:
But if this was the case, all we have the same problem, right?, because Play Services always update itself to the last version, no matter if we are on 5.0.2 or 5.1.
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Yup. Same issue across OS versions.

Following setting worked for me:
Go to Settings > Accounts > Ads and enable "Opt out of interest-based ads"
And now Google Services is not the top battery consumer on my MotoMaxx

soprano77 said:
Following setting worked for me:
Go to Settings > Accounts > Ads and enable "Opt out of interest-based ads"
And now Google Services is not the top battery consumer on my MotoMaxx
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Ads is not a typical Android account, that is something you have installed.

Oops! I input incomplete path:
Go to Settings > Accounts > Google > at bottom is Ads, click on it and then enable "Opt out of interest-based ads"

soprano77 said:
Oops! I input incomplete path:
Go to Settings > Accounts > Google > at bottom is Ads, click on it and then enable "Opt out of interest-based ads"
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I'll try that.
Thanks!

adrynalyne said:
Ads is not a typical Android account, that is something you have installed.
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I think he means Go to Settings > Accounts > Google > Ads and enable "Opt out of interest-based ads"
edit: He beat me to it

soprano77 said:
Following setting worked for me:
Go to Settings > Accounts > Ads and enable "Opt out of interest-based ads"
And now Google Services is not the top battery consumer on my MotoMaxx
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adrynalyne said:
I'll try that.
Thanks!
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InternetExplorer11 said:
I think he means Go to Settings > Accounts > Google > Ads and enable "Opt out of interest-based ads"
edit: He beat me to it
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Thanks to all of you for the output, but if this works, I think it would be the most stupid bug on Android ever, I will try it.
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Nope, it ain't ads
I have battery issues related to Google Play Services, and I have had that box ticked since day one.

Google released an you update on Google play services, update and check if its fixed

Velcroman35 said:
I have battery issues related to Google Play Services, and I have had that box ticked since day one.
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It's not working for me neither, I think this is not the culprit.
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Google released an you update on Google play services, update and check if its fixed
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I read somewhere that version 7.3 is rolling out, so let's wait for the app to update and see if this got fixed.

Let's try and solve the Honor / Huawei 'missing notification' problem

I suspect most of us have seen the issue with 'missing notifications' on Honor / Huawei devices. When you add an app to the protected apps list, make sure the various battery and startup optimisations are disabled, do everything you can... still the system seems to shut the app down and notifications don't happen.
Why? I don't think anyone knows yet.
The problem seems to be mitigated in some cases by moving the app manually to the /system partition, but this doesn't always work I don't think - for example Hangouts sometimes misses notifications for me and that's a system app. There's another nuance too - why do some apps not appear in the protected apps list (e.g. gmail)? That's not technically any different to Hangouts... is there a whitelist in the ROM somewhere?
Now I have my custom ROMs and deodexed ROMs, I'm going to be having a good poke around so hopefully we can fix this once and for all for all Honor / Huawei devices, but it would be super useful for anyone to contribute their findings so we can try and establish a pattern of behaviour while I look for clues.
Cheers all.
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PS: Topic also mirrored here at MoDaCo

Hi Paul, very nice to see how much you contribute to Honor 7 community...
Your topic is on-point, just wanted to start thread alike.
Yes, from very quick research these problems are common to all? Huawei, not only H7
Anyway I am a newbie to my H7 and a novice at EMUI, I am also not even a hobbyist programmer. But will try to help.
ps. could you look here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66407836&postcount=6
I had similiar thoughts on, this time - Google, not EMUI 'whitelist' - Ignore optimisations

The Google settings don't accept notifications generally, and the problems - which I've seen on all Huawei and Honor devices - aren't limited to Marshmallow.
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I had a problem with Tasker continuously being killed in Lollipop even though I marked it as a protected app, but I found that the issue only occurred if I used the "Smart" Power Plan, since switching the "Performance" plan the issue appears to have been resolved. I now see the same issue with Whatsapp on MM and have again selected the same plan to see if that solves the issue also

dws199xda said:
I had a problem with Tasker continuously being killed in Lollipop even though I marked it as a protected app, but I found that the issue only occurred if I used the "Smart" Power Plan, since switching the "Performance" plan the issue appears to have been resolved. I now see the same issue with Whatsapp on MM and have again selected the same plan to see if that solves the issue also
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So I'm making some good progress digging around with this. I've had some interesting feedback suggesting that this is less of a problem in 'Performance' mode than 'Smart', but it is still an issue. Interested to hear thoughts on that.
App closure behaviour seems to be managed in 3 places on device...
in Marshmallow doze (this obviously isn't the cause of our issues)
in HwPowerGenieEngine3 (com.huawei.powergenie)
In HwSystemManager (com.huawei.systemmanager), also known as the 'Phone Manager' app
Sure enough, disabling the latter 2 packages seems to make notifications work 100%, but there are other things hooked into the Phone Manager app, so disabling it completely is a bit of a blunt instrument, it'll be better to try and tweak the behaviour, which is what I'm looking at now.
If anyone has clear*notification issues they can replicate and there*use to help me test fixes, please post below.
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google hangouts, almost always fail to receive notification.

Small question for everyone having notification problems. When you look into the "automatic launch records" menu in Phone Manager, are these Apps with problems listed as restricted or as allowed? Aquamail and WhatsApp are working fine for me even with smart Power plan

mrengineer said:
google hangouts, almost always fail to receive notification.
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After installing the phone manager extension from the Play Store?
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Where could I get autostart apk from? I dont have it
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Here in the Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.huawei.pmplus
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paulobrien said:
After installing the phone manager extension from the Play Store?
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unable to install it on my honor 7.

Which android version are you running?
I am now on the final version of Android 6 and my notifications are finally working flawless. (I got a EU Honor 7 running PLK-L01C432B330 - EMUI 4.0)

I'm still having reports of issues in B330. Especially in the 'Smart' power mode.
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After 330 Update I got some problems, especially with WhatsApp. After checking auto start menu I recognized WhatsApp autostart was disabled and aquamail was not listed in this menu, I activated both before. Both were listed as restricted in the records menu. So they wanted to work but system blocked them. I turned it back on and aqua got the menu back after reinstall.

Which autostart menu? Screenshot please?
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anyone can upload apk? i can't download from play store.

So I've made some changes on the Honor 7 to these power optimisations with a view to sorting this out. You can test in the latest release of MoDaCo Custom ROM (r4.1).
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I will try pm plus upload later, you can also try to download it from aptoide store.
After installing PM PLUS and it's two plugins start the Phone Manager, swipe to the right, open APP AUTO LAUNCH and you can see the apps with their permissions. By clicking the clock symbol located right top you can see the past recorded launchs and if they were restricted or allowed.
Sry for bad english

I find that I keep notifications active on those particular apps by clicking on the square for the running apps, and then pulling down on the window of that app, which will highlight a lock above it, that way it is never closed. Survives a reboot as well. In other words the opposite of sliding up to close the app.
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Google Maps 6 gets killed running in background

Hi guys, is anyone here still using Google maps v6?
It is still working fine, except that on this phone (s10+ Exynos) the app gets killed when running in the background.
At first i believed it to be because i had added the app to the sleep list. I had done that because the system keeps saying the app is eating up battery, even when not running.
So I removed the app from the sleep list, but it keeps getting killed.
How can i make sure that an app never gets killed when running in the background?

Try this go into settings and search optimize battery usage, and then press optimize battery usage listed. You have the options to see what is not optimize battery usage or all click all on top left and see If maps is toggled on. If so toggle off.

latino147 said:
Hi guys, is anyone here still using Google maps v6?
It is still working fine, except that on this phone (s10+ Exynos) the app gets killed when running in the background.
At first i believed it to be because i had added the app to the sleep list. I had done that because the system keeps saying the app is eating up battery, even when not running.
So I removed the app from the sleep list, but it keeps getting killed.
How can i make sure that an app never gets killed when running in the background?
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I have those settings now, and removed the app from the sleeping apps (again). I'm afraid the system will put it back on the 'sleep' list again because it uses a lot of battery in the background (I get regular warnings about that).
Anyone have an idea why this app would be so active while not even used?

latino147 said:
I have those settings now, and removed the app from the sleeping apps (again). I'm afraid the system will put it back on the 'sleep' list again because it uses a lot of battery in the background (I get regular warnings about that).
Anyone have an idea why this app would be so active while not even used?
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I have the same settings as you have.
What happens is that i get warnings about the old apps eating battery. I guess i then put it to sleep without noticing.
I restarted my phone, did NOT start mapsD, but its still doing something on the background.

latino147 said:
I have the same settings as you have.
What happens is that i get warnings about the old apps eating battery. I guess i then put it to sleep without noticing.
I restarted my phone, did NOT start mapsD, but its still doing something on the background.
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It's a modded maps correct? It eats alot battery not even sure it's worth it. What use it ?

fearbasel04 said:
It's a modded maps correct? It eats alot battery not even sure it's worth it. What use it ?
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It's v6 of Google Maps. It had a much simpler interface, and easier to use when looking for alternative routes.
And it doesn't have all that commercial baggage of the new version, which is way slower too btw.
The only thing is, why does it use battery when not even started....

latino147 said:
It's v6 of Google Maps. It had a much simpler interface, and easier to use when looking for alternative routes.
And it doesn't have all that commercial baggage of the new version, which is way slower too btw.
The only thing is, why does it use battery when not even started....
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Being it's an old version I would think you downloaded it from the net and not the play store. Maybe it has hidden spyware etc?

fearbasel04 said:
Being it's an old version I would think you downloaded it from the net and not the play store. Maybe it has hidden spyware etc?
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I actually got it here from XDA, posted by a senior member.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2566159