[Q] Google Services consuming significant portion of battery - Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Q&A, Help & Troublesh

Lately I feel like my battery life has gotten worse. If I check my battery stats, it shows Google Services consuming a major portion of the battery, typically 25%-35%. I've also found my battery life has gone down to about 25% left after 16 hrs being unplugged and only 1.5hrs of screen time. Any suggestions as to what could be causing this?

I have this occasionally happen with Google Services. For some reason, it just starts holding the phone awake all day and the only cure I have come up with is a reboot (other than opting out of everything Google).

Try disabling GPS for the day and see if that helps.

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Bad battery after update

Is anyone else having bad battery life after the update? Cell Standby and Phone Idle used to draw most of the power before the update, now they're low on the list however Android OS is eating all the juice now. Android OS gets up to almost 70% usage overnight and the battery drains a good 30% or more just sitting idle for 6 hours.
I installed a program called watch dog and it's telling me that "Base System" seems to be the culprit with lots of CPU use, particularly when the phone is idle. I've tried a variety of things like uninstalling recent apps I downloaded, disabling the 4G and 3G radios, trying airplane mode, changing settings, etc. and nothing has made a difference. Really want to avoid trying resetting to factory default.
Have you tried recalibrating the battery or tried bump charging?
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Since I use my nav dock in my truck to stream Pandora over my stereo, it gets charged several times a day; however, Android OS is now my big drain as well, where it used to be idle or screen using the most. Since unplugging exactly two hours ago, it has drained down to 70% on the stock battery. (I only use my extended battery when I will be away from a charger for a long time. Makes the phone too thick for my pocket to be comfortable.)
On a seperate note, Google Voice now hangs my screen as well when listening to voicemail. Hey, at least I don't get the random reboots and power ups... :what:
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I doubt calibrating will fix the issue because I don't think that's the problem. A system process appears to be hanging and causing the CPU to run constantly. Maybe a bad update install?
Either way I used to get much better battery life before the update. Never had any of the random reboots or many issues with data like others.
My battery life seems somewhat worse after the update. Everything else seems somewhat improved.
My battery seems about the same if not slightly better after the update.
I do a few things to conserve battery which really conserve the battery.
1. 4G off unless I need it.
2. Battery mode set to 'maximum battery saver'.
3. WiFi sleep policy: When screen turns off (although I think the maximum battery saver will turn it off automatically)
4. Display brightness: 0% unless I need it.

[Q]Calendar eating battery

Hi Guys,
How do I get rid of this calendar thingy eating my battery.
It's showed up after installing gregbradley's package.
I managed to stop Facebook and Google Services (they are still there but the no wakeup anymore... but still I'd like them to disappear not to loose functionalities) however Calendar this is very stubborn.
I wiped all remembered dates and nothing, I keep stopping it but it comes back.
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Witek
Odp: [Q]Calendar eating battery
I see you use your phone not too often, 17h on battery and still 65% and the stat for the screen is only 5% so it means it was on for 51 minutes. Don't worry about the calendar, the amount of your processes that use the battery is so low that the stats show only the process that used the most battery. So it means that the calendar might have caused only 10 minutes of wakelock. So nothing to worry about.
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It will only be an "issue" for a while until it has finished syncing.
Give it a day or two (Preferably) a week to settle down
For the last battery charge-discarge cycle Calendar stopped waking up at some 32 wakeups. Now after charging it's 39 wakeups already and increasing... I really want to get rid of it There is nothing to Sync on my callendar.
Do you suggest still to wait a couple of days more?
It's soon about to be the top drainer in my battery stats.

Absurd battery stats

I'm currently on 5.0.2 and after doing a full refresh and giving the phone a few days post-upgrade to settle down I'm getting absurd battery usage stats. Battery life itself is fine (after taming the runaway Google services), but at 50% battery the stats suggest my screen time is responsible for 3% (despite 4+ hours of SOT), Android system 30% and K9 email for almost 30% (K9 kept the phone awake for less than 2 minutes, and Android System kept it awake for about 35 minutes). Those % figures are absurd and I now use GSam to see what's really happening. Needless to say, it gives far more believable stats.
I have no rogue wake locks, I use Greenify to kill errant apps when not using them, wif-fi turns off when screen is off, and my wireless signal is green 90% of the time. Anyone experiencing the same, or know what's going on? I do have stamina mode enabled, so could that perhaps be interfering in some way?
pipspeak said:
I'm currently on 5.0.2 and after doing a full refresh and giving the phone a few days post-upgrade to settle down I'm getting absurd battery usage stats. Battery life itself is fine (after taming the runaway Google services), but at 50% battery the stats suggest my screen time is responsible for 3% (despite 4+ hours of SOT), Android system 30% and K9 email for almost 30% (K9 kept the phone awake for less than 2 minutes, and Android System kept it awake for about 35 minutes). Those % figures are absurd and I now use GSam to see what's really happening. Needless to say, it gives far more believable stats.
I have no rogue wake locks, I use Greenify to kill errant apps when not using them, wif-fi turns off when screen is off, and my wireless signal is green 90% of the time. Anyone experiencing the same, or know what's going on? I do have stamina mode enabled, so could that perhaps be interfering in some way?
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Try this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/general/post-lp-battery-usage-t3056775 (about batteries and related such)

Excessive battery drain

Usually my phone will drain around .5% an hour, but sometimes it'll drain massive amounts of battery over a short period. I have a 16hr idle log where it was awake for approx 1hr and it drained almost twice the normal at 1%
xeropressence said:
Usually my phone will drain around .5% an hour, but sometimes it'll drain massive amounts of battery over a short period. I have a 16hr idle log where it was awake for approx 1hr and it drained almost twice the normal at 1%
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Happens. Certainly not "excessive" given your largish app portfolio and sync activity.
I have the same device also running stock. Typically idles around 0.6%/hr avg with full push mail and several other disruptive services enabled. On occasion that will dribble up towards 0.8%/hr. Meh.
Use Greenifyto selectively target Google apps that start in the background, at boot, spontaneously or on some other trigger. Maps, Photos and YouTube come to mind. Check box that says "ignore background free". Should see a modest improvement. Don't go nuts; only target apps that have no need to start/run while device is sleeping. Use aggressive doze at your peril (I don't). Stock nougat handles timers just fine if you don't go OCD over a few tenths.
Good luck.
Thanks for taking a look, this was on the milder side of the drain I've seen so I'll keep an eye out and try to get a log for the more aggressive ones. Still kinda unhappy that the e4 idle performance is worse then the g4 play which is essentially the same phone.
xeropressence said:
Thanks for taking a look, this was on the milder side of the drain I've seen so I'll keep an eye out and try to get a log for the more aggressive ones. Still kinda unhappy that the e4 idle performance is worse then the g4 play which is essentially the same phone.
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Also own a pair of G4 Plays. Idle performance with E4 has been similar/better than G4 with similar stock 7.1 ROMs. Be sure to keep the finger print scanner clean on the E4. No indication that was a problem but can trigger drain if dirty. Rest boils down to firmware nuances which can vary between installs on the same device type.

Android 10 batterylife

So did anyone else get terrible batterylife with andeoid 10?
I went from 8h SOT to about 5h.
Am thinking of downgrading cause before it was the best phone ive ever had
There isn't 10 for my csc yet
Anybody else confirming bad battery life on 10?
how where you getting 8hours sot... i was getting 6 and now 5 but i do have a lot more idle cause of the quarantine
nekos95 said:
how where you getting 8hours sot... i was getting 6 and now 5 but i do have a lot more idle cause of the quarantine
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Wish I could tell you. All I know is it was the best battery I've seen. Was using it 'normally' and throughout 24 hours I got 7-8 hours battery life always, every single day for half a year. With music streaming for 1-2h, some browsing, location on, bluetooth on, and all apps like facebook, instagram etc. disabled.
Now I get 2 hours 20 mins and its already on 48%. Android 10 was a garbage and I wish I could downgrade without much hassle. I cannot find out what is draining the battery, there is no app. If I account for the apps it has used around 1000mah or less, which is 1/3rd, wihc would put me at around 70% - that would be my old battery life. But there is something else draining 20-30% battery and it is not shown in the battery reports, I am using accubatterry.
I really hate it, now I hate this phone
Battery draining mainly depends on how device is used, means how much CPU/GPU are stressed. Has NOTHING to do with Android OS itself: an OS is a piece of software, nothing else, an OS doesn't consume electric power. It are all the running apps/services - either running in foreground or in background, for example Location Providers & Google Play Services - that drain the battery, as also the activated hardware components like the screen, WiFi, GPS, SIM-cards, BlueTooth, etc.pp. even if device is in standby mode. It are the device's power management settings what control the behavior of Android phones that could affect the system's power consumption, such as adjusting lighting, handling the phone's sleep, and the wake-up, idle, turn-off timing, back lighting or display brightness of the device. It are the device implementers who define the related constants suitable to their devces, it's NOT Google , the developers of Android. With regards to Samsung S10 devices it's worldwide known that it has a very poor power management compared to others.
BTW: Since Android 9, the platform can monitor apps for behavior that negatively affects the battery life of devices.
No matter what you do to your device, it will never stop draining the battery.
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...Garbage...
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You have no idea what you are talking about and should stop wasting everyones time talking about that
So I simply reset my phone and I am back to 8h SOT and happy again.
3h42mins with 62% of the battery at like 8h usage
And after about 15h usage at 51% with 4h10mins SOT ?
I also got terrible battery life after the 10 upgrade.
What do you mean by reset? How?
Maveric-Romeo said:
I also got terrible battery life after the 10 upgrade.
What do you mean by reset? How?
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A simple factory reset, type reset in your settings in the search bar and do a factory reset.
It will delete everything, so make a backup before

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