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Battery drain issues on froyo (possible reason)

I think I know what might be causing the battery drain. I did the full charge/power off/full charge/reset stats thing last night. Then I left it off the charger starting at 11pm. Woke up at 5am and the battery was almost drained. That's horrible. Yes I had turned off mobile data as well. It was on wifi only. Add to that, I had JuiceDefender installed to see if it would help. It didn't. What was interesting though was what JuiceDefender's log was reporting to me. JuiceDefender was set to bring connections online every 15 min. However, the log showed a process activating EVERY minute and using the data connection. WTF!? Every minute! This has to be what is draining the battery. So I downloaded a network traffic analyzer (Network Counter is what it's called) and checked what it said was the data usage for all the apps. My Exchange AOSP email client was using a huge amount, 135MB in total compared to the rest and I didnt receive any emails last night. None! So I removed my exchange account temporarily and suddenly, those every minute hits stopped. I noticed that the device charged faster too. This morning, I googled and found this thread on xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868993
I think this is the culprit, at least for me. My question to everyone else seeing huge drains is: are you on exchange email as well? Post your comments here, I'm pretty sure this is the culprit but more testing needs to be done today.
Btw, I'm on superclean 1.0 just fyi.

phispher said:
I think this is the culprit, at least for me. My question to everyone else seeing huge drains is: are you on exchange email as well? Post your comments here, I'm pretty sure this is the culprit but more testing needs to be done today.
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Sounds like you could be onto something. My battery has actually been quite good (~36 hours of moderate use), but I don't use Exchange at all. It'd be great if you narrowed the problem down to those using Exchange.

Just an update:
I installed an app from the market called 'Enhanced Email', it's a Touchdown competitor but only cost 1.99, much better then 20 bucks and it integrates with stock calendar and contacts, which I like. Push email is working great, I'm getting emails instantly. However, the every minute polling isn't occuring still, as it did in the AOSP email client.
I'm curious if anyone still on 2.1 who uses Exchange email (Push) would care to install Juice Defender and check the log out for the every minute data usage and report back here, would be a nice test. Make sure you remove exchange first, check the logs and verify that the polling either exists every minute or not. Then setup exchange and check again. Report back with results. I may do this myself evenutally. Easier if someone else is still on 2.1 though.

phispher said:
Just an update:
I installed an app from the market called 'Enhanced Email', it's a Touchdown competitor but only cost 1.99, much better then 20 bucks and it integrates with stock calendar and contacts, which I like. Push email is working great, I'm getting emails instantly. However, the every minute polling isn't occuring still, as it did in the AOSP email client.
I'm curious if anyone still on 2.1 who uses Exchange email (Push) would care to install Juice Defender and check the log out for the every minute data usage and report back here, would be a nice test. Make sure you remove exchange first, check the logs and verify that the polling either exists every minute or not. Then setup exchange and check again. Report back with results. I may do this myself evenutally. Easier if someone else is still on 2.1 though.
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I am going to look into this. Just curious. Originally, how was your exchange setup? When on DL09 super clean 0.4 I had a 30 minute email check frequency, contact and calendar sync OFF and was seeing moderate battery drain where my phone wouldnt make it though a whole day if i had more that normal usage. Watching logcat, it seemed that my corporate email account would be doing something much more often then 30 minutes though. Will try this and see what happens.
Just upgraded to Superclean 1.0 DL30. Will try JuiceDefender.

Which version of juice defender are you running? I just installed "Juice Defender - battery saver" but i cant seem to customize anything. I want to set it to every 15 minutes like you do but all this app lets me do is pick pre-made settings. Do I need to get the paid (Ultimate Juice) or something else?

I encountered the same problem... I use several email account types (Exchange / IMAP / POP) and it ate my battery alive after going to DL30.
On a hunch that it may be caused by some glitch when Titanium Backup restored my old 2.1 email account information over 2.2, I deleted all email accounts and re-entered them manually. A pain in the backside to do, but the problem hasn't reappeared yet.
Hope this helps!

Retsik said:
I encountered the same problem... I use several email account types (Exchange / IMAP / POP) and it ate my battery alive after going to DL30.
On a hunch that it may be caused by some glitch when Titanium Backup restored my old 2.1 email account information over 2.2, I deleted all email accounts and re-entered them manually. A pain in the backside to do, but the problem hasn't reappeared yet.
Hope this helps!
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Did that include google accounts?

fifreak said:
Which version of juice defender are you running? I just installed "Juice Defender - battery saver" but i cant seem to customize anything. I want to set it to every 15 minutes like you do but all this app lets me do is pick pre-made settings. Do I need to get the paid (Ultimate Juice) or something else?
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I do have the paid version, yes. I believe that by default, it's set to 15 min, so you should be ok with the free version. However, that won't stop the polling I saw occur with the AOSP email client. The JuiceDefender log showed me that that was going on. Once I disabled my exchange account, the polling stopped. Since I changed my email program, I haven't seen it come back. The verdict is still out on if this solves my battery issue, as I'm at work and 'plugged' in lol. Could be multiple issues here, but again, the more info we have out there, the better right?
I would try what Retsik did, I didn't import my settings though but maybe reapplying the settings will work.
fifreak said:
Did that include google accounts?
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I haven't seen this occur for gmail accounts. Just exchange.

I have my exchange server set up on my phone and have it set to do push notifications. I get my email just fine and my battery lasts all day with no problems.
The phone drains a bit faster when in use than it used to but I think that's because it was under-volted before.

fifreak said:
Did that include google accounts?
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Yes - I'm not sure if it made any difference, but I deleted all account information and re-added them just to be sure.

phispher said:
I do have the paid version, yes. I believe that by default, it's set to 15 min, so you should be ok with the free version. However, that won't stop the polling I saw occur with the AOSP email client. The JuiceDefender log showed me that that was going on. Once I disabled my exchange account, the polling stopped. Since I changed my email program, I haven't seen it come back. The verdict is still out on if this solves my battery issue, as I'm at work and 'plugged' in lol. Could be multiple issues here, but again, the more info we have out there, the better right?
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Where do you see the polling in the JD log? Im looking at the Activity Log under the status tab but I dont see anything about email in there. Mostly just looks like JD activities.

Wonder if this has anything to do with battery drain?
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Every 10 seconds, my phone is either downloading or uploading something. Its always at a 2kb/s rate. I killed every task I could on my phone, one by one and cant kill this off. So it must be a system process.
But sometimes I will look at the widget and it shows no transfer, no heartbeat like this... then it starts up again. Only way I have been able to stop it is to turn off wifi and mobile data.

What widget is that?

Has anyone done tests with wifi off? I'm not positive, but I seem to get much better battery life, along with no clock lag when I have my wifi disabled.

1 thing I know for sure is that when I have Bluetooth on (DL30) my battery drains like crazy.
I just installed the app OS Monitor and its showing /system/bin/sensorserver_yamaha is consistently using a high amount of CPU. I am using Screebl, so I may disable it to see if that helps.
UPDATE: Yeah, it was screebl that was causing sensorserver to use high CPU. Gonna disable that for now to see how things go.
That app is network speed monitor widget. At idle, my phone shows nothing - 0 KB.
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I've also found disabling AutoRotate from the notification menu to help with battery life and eliminate the sensor from my list of top battery users...
Guessing Samsung has a bug in the latest version of the sensor...

phispher said:
Just an update:
I installed an app from the market called 'Enhanced Email', it's a Touchdown competitor but only cost 1.99, much better then 20 bucks and it integrates with stock calendar and contacts, which I like. Push email is working great, I'm getting emails instantly. However, the every minute polling isn't occuring still, as it did in the AOSP email client.
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Thanks for the recommendation on Enhanced Email. I've been using Touchdown for about a year because the stock mail app doesn't support my company's Exchange policies but I hated having separate calendar and contacts. I just installed Enhanced Email and removed Touchdown. I'm a little concerned that Enhanced isn't actually supporting all the policies and is only reporting that it does, but I'll play dumb for now.

I installed the EnhancedEmail as suggested. I think I am seeing an improvement using it but only when using push email. When I had it set for poll every 15 minutes, I was getting a lot of drain. I need to give this setup more time to test though.

Better with Enhanced Email
I installed the "Enhanced Email" at 10 this morning. It's now 2:30 and i've only lost 5% battery. Using Juice defender and wifi off. This is much improved for me and similar to what i was getting with DL9.
I'm using stock DL30.

fifreak said:
I installed the EnhancedEmail as suggested. I think I am seeing an improvement using it but only when using push email. When I had it set for poll every 15 minutes, I was getting a lot of drain. I need to give this setup more time to test though.
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Now Im not so sure this was a great improvement. My battery drained quickly yesterday evening. I'm pretty sure that the network speed monitor widget was the main culprit but I disabled that and still saw a lot of drain. Also the system process mmcqd is by far taking up the most cpu. Trying to investigate that.

Google Services draining battery

Hello, in the last couple of days googleservices drain my battery more than screen. In the battery usage stats ,googleservices is everytime around 25-30%.
I disabled location settings (in the phone settings and in the google settings). im not using google now, nor any other google apps (books,games,music). nothing. What could be the reasons and is there any way what app or process causes so much "googleservices" activity?

Same issues here as well. 4.3 is very heavy on google services. had this issue on 4.3 note 2 as well but never had it on 4.1

sohebq said:
Same issues here as well. 4.3 is very heavy on google services. had this issue on 4.3 note 2 as well but never had it on 4.1
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Don't synch Gmail.
Use samsung email client and you'll see a BIG difference in terms of battery life

EliaAlberti said:
Don't synch Gmail.
Use samsung email client and you'll see a BIG difference in terms of battery life
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u mean, not to use gmail application and use integrated client for google emails instead or u mean disabling sync emails within google account sync options?

ixinho said:
Hello, in the last couple of days googleservices drain my battery more than screen. In the battery usage stats ,googleservices is everytime around 25-30%.
I disabled location settings (in the phone settings and in the google settings). im not using google now, nor any other google apps (books,games,music). nothing. What could be the reasons and is there any way what app or process causes so much "googleservices" activity?
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Try this delete your Google account and sign back in worked for me

ixinho said:
u mean, not to use gmail application and use integrated client for google emails instead or u mean disabling sync emails within google account sync options?
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Yes I actually mean both
Don't use Gmail and use integrated email client AND go to accounts > google > untick Sync Gmail.
Let me know how it goes! Ciao

EliaAlberti said:
Yes I actually mean both
Don't use Gmail and use integrated email client AND go to accounts > google > untick Sync Gmail.
Let me know how it goes! Ciao
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Ok i disabled gmail sync so my gmail app doesnt work anymore, but i have a problem with adding gmail acc to my native email client. As far as i know it should work automatically when i enter username and pass and click next (i added my yahoo acc like that) but it says authentication failed.
I checked in my gmail settings, imap is enabled , so is there anything else i need to enter manually?

ixinho said:
Ok i disabled gmail sync so my gmail app doesnt work anymore, but i have a problem with adding gmail acc to my native email client. As far as i know it should work automatically when i enter username and pass and click next (i added my yahoo acc like that) but it says authentication failed.
I checked in my gmail settings, imap is enabled , so is there anything else i need to enter manually?
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Do you use a two-steps log in for Gmail?
If so enter the Gmail app password. I do have 2 steps verification system and rather then entering my Gmail password I use the password I've got for my app account.
I'm sorry I can't be more precise but I reckon that is why you're not able to log in.
Ciao

EliaAlberti said:
Do you use a two-steps log in for Gmail?
If so enter the Gmail app password. I do have 2 steps verification system and rather then entering my Gmail password I use the password I've got for my app account.
I'm sorry I can't be more precise but I reckon that is why you're not able to log in.
Ciao
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Hm, yes i activated 2 steps maybe few weeks ago, but im not quite sure which app password you mean. I have only one gmail password.
Oh, found it under google settings for 2 step verification. will try now.

ixinho said:
Hm, yes i activated 2 steps maybe few weeks ago, but im not quite sure which app password you mean. I have only one gmail password.
Oh, found it under google settings for 2 step verification. will try now.
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thanx , it worked : ) will see if it reduces battery drain and will post here.
can you just explain me what does sync under native email client mean? i have now 2 accounts in native email client and they both have only sync option under account settings. should that be disabled as well even though i disabled it under google account settings?

If I disable gmail sync, should I keep the contacts sync on with gmail? or use the samsung contacts sync?

Same issues google has big sync to drain battery. Mine was 334mb today just for auto backup image
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Terrible results.
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Google play services is draining too much battery. Is anyone else experiencing this? It's really not normal to have more battery drain from this instead of screen on. On my note 2 this never happened and from 7:00 am to 11:00 PM my phone was at 50% with 3 hours of screen on and about 300 apps. Now with GN3 with this rom stock kernel and fresh install with about only 20 apps I can hardly go until 10:00 PM with only 2 hours screen on.
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I am near to find solution. Hold on.
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From 700+ wakelocks, I have reduced it to 340 after playing with autostarts. Also its not appearing in battery stats.
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I actually had some results by going to Google settings and disabling some stuff from there including Google now etc. I will test tomorrow and if I see some good results I will explain in detail the settings I changed.
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Update google play services to fix it. Dont forget to thanks
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I had same thing, what I done just switched off location reporting and "use wireless networks " under location settings. Now it is all fine
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ALERTas said:
I had same thing, what I done just switched off location reporting and "use wireless networks " under location settings. Now it is all fine
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I hate having to turn that off because I want the Goggle Now services to work, and I've found on mine I keep all of that on and still get rid of the Google Services drain. The problem comes from the fact that even when you switch WiFi off, network location keeps it running all the time for location purposes. In 4.1 there was nothing you could do about it, but under 4.3 if you set the following:
Keep Wifi on during sleep > Never
Scanning always available > Unticked
This allows WiFi location to work when you're actually using Wifi, but not if it's only keeping Wifi on for location purposes. I have been running this for a while now, and the Google Services drain is pretty much gone, but full Google Now and Location Services are still available.
Just as a footnote - I'm not actually using the "Wifi during sleep" setting, I use DS Battery Saver Pro with a custom profile that just forces Wifi off when the screen is off, but the settings above should have the same effect.........

[Q] Disabled *checkin, *gtalk previously, re-enabled *checkin services, no syncing?

I disabled them as an effort to minimize wakelocks (similar to what is listed in this post)
It's definitely helped with getting better battery life but I prefer to have my email sync and LinkedIn sync back. They're all enabled but just don't sync unless I manually do it.
Can anyone advise? Screen caps of current enabled/disabled Google Services Framework attached
Edit: I've tried turning Sync off and turning back on, logging out and logging back in to the account, turning sync off and back on via the menu in Data Usage screen

bo8 said:
I disabled them as an effort to minimize wakelocks (similar to what is listed in this post)
It's definitely helped with getting better battery life but I prefer to have my email sync and LinkedIn sync back. They're all enabled but just don't sync unless I manually do it.
Can anyone advise? Screen caps of current enabled/disabled Google Services Framework attached
Edit: I've tried turning Sync off and turning back on, logging out and logging back in to the account, turning sync off and back on via the menu in Data Usage screen
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Sorry, those screenshots are slightly incorrect. I did in fact re-enable the *checkin receivers and have rebooted the phone but still no "real time" syncing happening with my Gmail app.

Finally revisited this as my phone is still unable to sync notifications in "real time" at all.
I'm finding that checking all the "checkin" services/receivers under Google Services Framework via ROM Toolbox does not actually keep them checked (confirmed via refresh).
Any idea what is going on and how I can fix it?
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[SOLVED] Gmail after last update (5.0.1 - Dec 16)

Gmail has been killing my battery for almost 2 days, I haven't changed a single setting in the Gmail app or any account info, but it seems that with the new update Google messed up the Gmail app.
I charged the phone before going to sleep, and then went to bed to see the drain overnight (I usually do this to see if something is wrong), and when I woke up, I had a drain of about 15% overnight when usually I have around 5%.
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Besides this, it seems that the app itself is behaving real bad, I usually turn off sync when I'm not on my home or work, and today I received a mail when sync off.
Have any of you guys have a similar experience?.
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Solution
It seems that there are some problems with no Gmail accounts and sync, so I deleted manually all the accounts, deleted the cache and the data of the Gmail app and re added everything. It has been a day and it seems that the problems is gone.
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I'm using Inbox and no problems with battery drain

fabioccoelho said:
I'm using Inbox and no problems with battery drain
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I tried to use Inbox, but it lacked of support for another kind of accounts (Outlook, Yahoo).
It seems weird this update, everyday is the same, and although battery life in Maxx is really good, this still is a big problem.
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You likely have an account that is stuck in the syncing/refreshing phase. I'd suspect its a non-gmail account.
Clear data from Gmail and then force stop it. Then open it up and let it resync.

adrynalyne said:
You likely have an account that is stuck in the syncing/refreshing phase. I'd suspect its a non-gmail account.
Clear data from Gmail and then force stop it. Then open it up and let it resync.
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I already tried to do that since the last update, also rebooting the phone and more over, to force the stop in the app and cleared the cache also.
Besides, this shouldn't be happening, I mean, the only change in the last few days was the update, so it's likely that the problem is that.
I have also researched on internet, and it seems that couple of people is also reporting it.

Galaxo60 said:
I already tried to do that since the last update, also rebooting the phone and more over, to force the stop in the app and cleared the cache also.
Besides, this shouldn't be happening, I mean, the only change in the last few days was the update, so it's likely that the problem is that.
I have also researched on internet, and it seems that couple of people is also reporting it.
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I use Gmail and no problem so far. I always leave sync off and swipe down to refresh. Here's a screen shot from this morning.

emgo said:
I use Gmail and no problem so far. I always leave sync off and swipe down to refresh. Here's a screen shot from this morning.
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Problem is that even with sync off, I'm still receiving mail; that's why I think that the update is messed up.

Galaxo60 said:
Problem is that even with sync off, I'm still receiving mail; that's why I think that the update is messed up.
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I have the update but I have HD voice turned off, don't know why that would matter. I almost forgot, I also removed most of the apps listed in the "Apps to Remove for Pure Android" thread.

Try uninstalling gmail reboot then install gmail once back booted up.

Galaxo60 said:
I already tried to do that since the last update, also rebooting the phone and more over, to force the stop in the app and cleared the cache also.
Besides, this shouldn't be happening, I mean, the only change in the last few days was the update, so it's likely that the problem is that.
I have also researched on internet, and it seems that couple of people is also reporting it.
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How many other accounts do you have synced with Gmail? Maybe try removing the accounts one by one until your battery drain goes away.

wadamean said:
Try uninstalling gmail reboot then install gmail once back booted up.
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I can´t uninstall Gmail because is a system app.
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emgo said:
I have the update but I have HD voice turned off, don't know why that would matter. I almost forgot, I also removed most of the apps listed in the "Apps to Remove for Pure Android" thread.
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I also disabled many apps that I don´t use, but I don´t think this matters for the problem I have.
upther said:
How many other accounts do you have synced with Gmail? Maybe try removing the accounts one by one until your battery drain goes away.
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I have 1 Gmail, 1 Outlook and 1 Yahoo account, I will try to see if this could fix the problem.

Galaxo60 said:
I can´t uninstall Gmail because is a system app.
:cyclops:
I also disabled many apps that I don´t use, but I don´t think this matters for the problem I have.
I have 1 Gmail, 1 Outlook and 1 Yahoo account, I will try to see if this could fix the problem.
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Use App Master and uninstall it

Galaxo60 said:
I can´t uninstall Gmail because is a system app.
:cyclops:
I also disabled many apps that I don´t use, but I don´t think this matters for the problem I have.
I have 1 Gmail, 1 Outlook and 1 Yahoo account, I will try to see if this could fix the problem.
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You do know gmail now allows to link other emails right? u can use hotmail, outlook, and yahoo via gmail app.

What I have done, is install a third party app (cloud magic) and use it for all my email accounts.
I actually have both my email and gmail apps disabled.
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Galaxo60 said:
I can´t uninstall Gmail because is a system app.
:cyclops:
I also disabled many apps that I don´t use, but I don´t think this matters for the problem I have.
I have 1 Gmail, 1 Outlook and 1 Yahoo account, I will try to see if this could fix the problem.
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Do you tried uninstall updates of Gmail app?

fabioccoelho said:
Do you tried uninstall updates of Gmail app?
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Yes u install the update and then disable

mathab said:
Use App Master and uninstall it
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I´m not root, so I think it won´t work.
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You do know gmail now allows to link other emails right? u can use hotmail, outlook, and yahoo via gmail app.
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That´s what I meant, I have all my 3 accounts on the Gmail app.
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gimpy1 said:
What I have done, is install a third party app (cloud magic) and use it for all my email accounts.
I actually have both my email and gmail apps disabled.
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I prefer to use the stock apps, just to feel the stock Android experience.
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fabioccoelho said:
Do you tried uninstall updates of Gmail app?
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Yes u install the update and then disable
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I tried to delete cache and the data, re added the accounts again and it seems that it solved the drain.
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Google Play services draining 70% of my battery!!

Lately, I'm getting less SOC (3hr), until one day it caught my eye. I found Google Play services using at least 50% everyday! I know there's a module on magisk to disable it, but I have important messages to respond. How do I fix it? I've tried turning off location, deny unnecessary permissions, restrict most apps from running in background.

Check to see is you have a sync issue, Play Services will keep trying to sync: Settings > Accounts see if any errors.
Next try setting your GPS to device only as a test, apps request GPS through Play services so although unlikely just test it to so if it improves battery life.
Also try clearing the Play services data.

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Check to see is you have a sync issue, Play Services will keep trying to sync: Settings > Accounts see if any errors.
Next try setting your GPS to device only as a test, apps request GPS through Play services so although unlikely just test it to so if it improves battery life.
Also try clearing the Play services data.
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I always have account sync off, and I always have the GPS set to device only. I've tried disabling GPS for the Google app, and it help somewhat. Any other tips?

Jt380p said:
I always have account sync off, and I always have the GPS set to device only. I've tried disabling GPS for the Google app, and it help somewhat. Any other tips?
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Do you have all categories of sync turned off, sms, chrome, contacts etc etc?
You do not mention data, did you do the last suggestion of clearing data and cache in Google Play Services?
My only other suggestion would be to aslo clear Google Services Framework, it is usually advised not to do this can take a few days to settle due to a new store token which some apps can take a while to update, you might also have to log into Google again. Due to your issue I think it is worth it.
(you need to press "show system" to see GSF)

Found the culprit
It's the auto sync that drains the battery. The backup does not drain battery. Tried it and it works, now I get two days worth of battery on my redmi note 8 pro and a whole day of battery on my mi a1 with moderate usage. Some games, facebook, Netflix etc.