Hi All
For the last week or so my S5 has been draining it's battery really quickly.
Having looked on GSam battery Monitor I can see that most of the usage is App Usage and of this the bulk of the usage is from Google Play Services. Looking deeper the culprit seems to be a wakelock from: *sync*/com.google.gms.auth.api.credentials/com/google/eM_ADDR
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As you can see in the pictures in a mere 36 1/2 minutes it's thrown up 10,000 wakelock requests, which seems little (hugely) on the high side!!
I've tried googling this and not had much luck finding anything which might help.
One thing I have noticed is if I go into settings>Accounts when I go to my Google account, I get the name of the account and it shows that it's syncing but unlike usual when it syncs quickly, it remains saying syncing and basically hangs and none of the buttons or options etc react. I'm guessing this is at the root of the issue but I'm at a loss as to what I can do to sort it out.
Has anyone experienced this in the past or have any thoughts how I might fix the issue?
Additional info:
Model: SM-G900F
Android Version: 4.4.2
Kernel version: 3.4.0-2089850
Build Number: KOT49H-G900FXXU1ANG2
Oh and it's rooted.
I had a bit of a play yesterday evening and discovered that if I went into data usage and switched off autosync, then switched off wifi and mobile internet and the turned auto datasync back on, I could go into the account setting and actually get into the area for my google account and enable and disable syncing of various items (Drive, Docs, news, weather, gmail etc etc).
After a fair bit of testing of one item at a time, it seems the problem is with my gmail account (or at least it definitely occurs when I select for my gmail to sync). As soon I selected this and renabled my wifi, when I went into accounts and selected the google account it constantly showed as syncing, at no point saying "last synced" as it had with some of the others I tried.
Obviously I want it to be syncing my gmail so I get emails without having to manually check my emails all the time. I've had a bit of a search about but not managed to find anything much (or at least anything much that is less than about 3 years old!) Has anyone else had this issue and fixed it?
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Hey everybody,
For about a week or 2 i noticed that my calendar is really using a lot of cpu power and draining my battery.
Below you see a screen shot..
I don't use my calendar very much.. just sometimes.
do sync it of course but i have always done this but all of the sudden it started to demand so much..
anyone else have this???
stock rom... no updates installed from htc because i dont want to loose my root.
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that sample you see there is only for 1 minute 45 seconds, in that time the calendar could have synced, and used 60% of the total battery used during that 1 minute 45 seconds.
I expect if you check after being unplugged for a few hours the calendar will appear normal again.
If you want to look at more detailed battery stats enter *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer and goto battery history.
No, this is a real drain, I had the same thing.
This is what i did to help it:
- Go to calendar
-press the menu button when you are in calendar
-press more in the menu of calendar
-go to Calendars
- when there you see all kind of things like facebook pc sync hollidays, sync with your google account
Just deselect them al, and the problem is gone.
I had the same thing. To fix it I cleared the data for all calendar apps and widgets.
The four I cleared are called Calendar, Calendar Storage, Calendar Sync Adapter and Calendar Widget.
Try pressing menu and selecting sort by size, then again to go to sort a-z. This should refresh the list again in alphabetical order and group them all together.
This worked for me perfectly.
download another calendar then
Ok thanks everybody..
Will try it to see if this works for me..
Will post it when i have some results!
Success..!!!
I went to the applications settings menu and cleared everything that had the word calendar in it.
then reopened the calendar, it took a second to load and then worked again like normal.
and now its not showing up as a memory hog anymore!
Thanks for the help!
Hi guys,
I'm just curious if is normal to get so many Awake locks, while the phone is on idle:
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If is not, can you please tell me how I can fix this?
Thanks.
That don't look normal to me. Do you use latitude?
Latitude off, clear data and cache
Diced it here ... Too bad cause its a nice feature
I had this too.
Uncheck 'Use wireless networks' in the Location and security menu
and make sure you are signed out of Latitude
Ya I use latitude all the time so my friends know where I am.
I use latitude as well and I have the same issue. Maps gives a TON of wake locks with it activated. Problem is, I want to use latitude. I really don't understand the need for the constant awake time. It only updates the information every so often, it shouldn't be constant...
There is a defect for this bug that has been declined: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15057. I hope google will get to it at some point.
Thanks for the link. I did a test and I get like 24 of battery with the phone on idle... IMO is an amazing time... I might be wrong. On my old Pre2, I could of only DREAM of such specs. Still, if there is a fix to improve the battery with Latitude on, I'll take it.
Let's see how 2.3.5 update goes. Anyone knows when is it scheduled on generic firmware?
Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy with my XXKG3.
I got a Map update couple days back and the issue seems to go away. Will keep an eye on it.
Too bad, latitude is nice.
Had the same issue about one month ago , and solved it by uninstalling one of the google map update via Titanium Backup and everyting went back to normal .
May be it's related to one of those "updates" , and as mentioned before you should try updaing to latest version ( if available ) or downgrade to lower version .
Hello. Since my stock nexus 4 updated to KitKat OTA Exchange services has been using up a huge amount of my battery. I use the standard email app and have 2 accounts, a hotmail account and my college email. If I set these email accounts to sync manually, my battery usage is exactly as expected, but when I re-enable push, the battery usage of Exchange Services comes to the top of the list very quickly, and Email works its way pretty far up the list as well. I use my phone quite a bit, so usual battery life for me is probably about 8 hours, but my email brings it down to just a few hours. Is this a common problem? Or is there any way to better diagnose the problem?
Thanks
schneiderm3709 said:
Hello. Since my stock nexus 4 updated to KitKat OTA Exchange services has been using up a huge amount of my battery. I use the standard email app and have 2 accounts, a hotmail account and my college email. If I set these email accounts to sync manually, my battery usage is exactly as expected, but when I re-enable push, the battery usage of Exchange Services comes to the top of the list very quickly, and Email works its way pretty far up the list as well. I use my phone quite a bit, so usual battery life for me is probably about 8 hours, but my email brings it down to just a few hours. Is this a common problem? Or is there any way to better diagnose the problem?
Thanks
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Here's my battery graph for last 12 hours, it mostly are standby, Display only consumes 20 minutes.
Android version: 4.4.1, Exchange service and Stock Email (2nd and 3rd) are draining battery somehow.
Do you guys have any other battery graph to share?
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Having installed the latest Samsung update I have noticed a significant increase in battery usage and possibly an increase in running temperature.
My phone is now;
Android 8.0.0
Samsung Experience 9.0
Baseband G935FXXU3ERJ8
Kernel 3.18.91-13438344-QB20147431
Build R16NW.G935FXXS3ERJ8
Anyone else experienced the same or know if there are any general rumblings on this?
Mine recently updated in Australia
Security patch
Everytime happens I wipe device cache via recovery and such
Seems normal to me and finally Google Drive device backup is working
Finally got a Google based backup
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Just to add my experiences
I turn off all cloud backups, auto sync
I have two Google accounts, I do the backup to one and keep other disabled for backups in the settings which I use as my daily.
Is stupid that if you disable the backup the cloud phone backup is deleted from Google Drive
Samsung Cloud auto sync turned off but backups still work
So I essentially turn off all auto sync for backups and Google drive
Google Drive and all auto sync from backups or whatnot seem to increase battery use including Google Play
I get so much better battery life once auto sync is disabled
I also use Blockada
Bluetooth always on but data saver and mid power saving mode
Great phone and battery
Sent from Samsung S7 Edge [Oreo]
Hi, thanks for the thoughts there.
Since my first post I have been trawling through the phone and many of my "Off" settings had been turned back on, including some of the auto syncs.
Therefore, I've done the same as you suggest including the phone cache clear which had forgotten about.
I now have a marked improvement.
Today was the first day in the one week I've had my oneplus 6t that I've had high google play services battery drain. It is at 11%
Has anyone experienced this, and what could have caused this?
My battery life wasn't that good today
Yes, same here today only, never noticed before. I kept wondering if I installed some app or may be some beta app sign up.
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Could be one of these several updates from Google too, may be Google app? I am beta too.
Getting it here too, 20% when other apps are like 2-3%s. It must be a service issue then.
+1. Not as high as you guys but it definitely higher than normal.
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This happens with all phones, even the Pixels. Update all your apps then clear the google services data. Reboot and usage should be about normal now.
Are you sure? That would reset all accounts and other info.
I tried Files by Google to clean up system files and that seems to clear it for now.
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This happens with all phones, even the Pixels. Update all your apps then clear the google services data. Reboot and usage should be about normal now.
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I remember reading something about this last week. I have the newest app don't see any issues...yet.
This has started happening to me now, first couple of days it was fine then it kicked in. The battery stats say it's running when in active use for 2hrs 2 mins but my screen on time is only 1hr 50 so I'd don't really understand that?
I had high Google Play Services drain too (about 12%). Turning off wifi and bluetooth scanning in Settings -> Google -> Location -> Scanning. Also disabled "Improved Location" under Google Location Accuracy in that same Location page. It brought my standby drain from 2% an hour to 0.5%. Google Maps is still fast as ever at locking my location.