You've probably seen a ton of complaints on the bad battery life after KitKat upgrade. Google Services is seen at 90+% in battery stats, and the battery is discharging very quickly.
Factory reset is reported to cure the problem. Many are disabling Google Location services. There's also a workaround suggested by Sony, to disable backup and interest-based ads, or uninstall the latest Google Services.
[edit Jul-1-2014]
New Google Play Services 5.0 is now out, and its APK can be downloaded and installed just by searching for it in Google. It's reported to cure the problem for some, temporarily or permanently. It's recommended to try it first, before going with the suggestion below.
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However, there's no need to resort to the above, a much "lighter" solution may work. I've attempted it on my father's ZR and it worked.
Thanks to grim_ripper for mentioning steps that I forgot.
What needs to be done:
1. Go to Settings / Security / Device Administrators, disable Android Device Manager, if enabled.
2. Go to Settings / Apps, disable Google Play Services. It'll ask you to uninstall all updates, agree to it. After disabling it, some of other phone services might crash. Don't mind it.
3. This step might not be required according to the feedback from grim_ripper, however I'll list it "just in case": press "Clear data", or "Control data usage" and then "Clear all data". Make sure that in the Google Play Services app page, it's listed as disabled and has 0kB data usage.
4. Re-enable Google Play Services. Hangouts will immediately ask for its upgrade, get into Google Play Store and upgrade it.
5. Reboot the phone. You should see no crashes at this point.
6. In case you want Android Device Manager to function - go to Settings / Security / Device Administrators and enable it.
That's it, Google Play Services battery usage will be back to normal, and battery life seems even improved over JellyBean.
[edit Jul-13-2014]
The fix might stick for some, and some will find the battery drain coming back after several days. I'm over a month with it, and everything is still fine. However, the results are mixed.
Jack_R1 said:
You've probably seen a ton of complaints on the bad battery life after KitKat upgrade. Google Services is seen at 90+% in battery stats, and the battery is discharging very quickly.
Factory reset is reported to cure the problem. Many are disabling Google Location services. There's also a workaround suggested by Sony, to disable backup and interest-based ads, or uninstall the latest Google Services.
However, there's no need to resort to the above, a much "lighter" solution may work. I've attempted it on my father's ZR and it worked.
What needs to be done:
1. Go to Settings / Apps, disable Google Play Services. It'll ask you to uninstall all updates, agree to it. After disabling it, some of other phone services might crash. Don't mind it.
2. Press "Clear data", or "Control data usage" and then "Clear all data". Make sure that in the app page, it's listed as disabled and has 0kB data usage.
3. Re-enable Google Play Services. Hangouts will immediately ask for its upgrade, get into Google Play Store and upgrade it.
4. Reboot the phone. You should see no crashes at this point.
That's it, Google Play Services battery usage will be back to normal, and battery life seems even improved over JellyBean.
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I confirm that this works, I didn't even clear data.Just disabled android device manager, uninstall google play services, enabled android device manager, re-install play services and finally reboot
Thank you, I completely forgot about Android Device Manager blocking the app disable. With your permission, I'll update the instructions.
I have just tried that thing you posted, will see how the results are in a few days.
One thing I noticed after upgrading to KK is night time for about 8 hours the battery drains 10% while in JB 4.3 it drains about 20% or more.
But the usage draining is similar to JB in KK. Will see if this thing works. Don't like to go to barebones CM11 cause I will be missing on the many features of the phone.
Let's see
It s working here too!
At first, I didn't even thought I had a problem but I looked in the processes and saw this f... Google service running.
Now my batterie last even better than when I was on 4.3.
Thanks
Jack_R1 said:
Thank you, I completely forgot about Android Device Manager blocking the app disable. With your permission, I'll update the instructions.
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No Problem. I found out that this method only works as long as you don't reboot the phone after the fix, otherwise you'll need to do the whole process again. Mine went well until I waited till my battery was fully discharged before charging, hence forcing a reboot which play services started misbehaving again
I just realized a new battery drain problem, the Xperia social services keeps draining my problem
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I just realized a new battery drain problem, the Xperia social services keeps draining my problem
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Oh yes, I have all these disabled. Perhaps this is why I had to restart the phone a couple of times already (changing SIM cards back and forth), and the original Google Services problem didn't come back.
Jack_R1 said:
You've probably seen a ton of complaints on the bad battery life after KitKat upgrade. Google Services is seen at 90+% in battery stats, and the battery is discharging very quickly.
Factory reset is reported to cure the problem. Many are disabling Google Location services. There's also a workaround suggested by Sony, to disable backup and interest-based ads, or uninstall the latest Google Services.
However, there's no need to resort to the above, a much "lighter" solution may work. I've attempted it on my father's ZR and it worked.
Thanks to grim_ripper for mentioning steps that I forgot.
What needs to be done:
1. Go to Settings / Security / Device Administrators, disable Android Device Manager, if enabled.
2. Go to Settings / Apps, disable Google Play Services. It'll ask you to uninstall all updates, agree to it. After disabling it, some of other phone services might crash. Don't mind it.
3. This step might not be required according to the feedback from grim_ripper, however I'll list it "just in case": press "Clear data", or "Control data usage" and then "Clear all data". Make sure that in the Google Play Services app page, it's listed as disabled and has 0kB data usage.
4. Re-enable Google Play Services. Hangouts will immediately ask for its upgrade, get into Google Play Store and upgrade it.
5. Reboot the phone. You should see no crashes at this point.
6. In case you want Android Device Manager to function - go to Settings / Security / Device Administrators and enable it.
That's it, Google Play Services battery usage will be back to normal, and battery life seems even improved over JellyBean.
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I confirm that it works. At least for a week or so - after that the GogglePlayServices problem appeared again....
Dont helps in my case too.
At first it seems that it works, but after a day the google services are again over 75 prozent or so.
Thinking of going back to 4.3 or hoping that a fix will come soon.
Is it necessary to factory reset after update to kit kat to encounter the battery drain problem?
I had these problems and the only save cure is to disable the location services. Some times you would think a solution helps but stucked with an empty Phone suddely is a bad thing.
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Is something known of a fix from Google for the google services?
I ask cause since yesterday evening the akku works normal in my case. Dont see the google services as first in line of accu consumption like before. Seems that everything works fine again.
Lemmi1 said:
Is something known of a fix from Google for the google services?
I ask cause since yesterday evening the akku works normal in my case. Dont see the google services as first in line of accu consumption like before. Seems that everything works fine again.
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After I disabled the location service I see the android system in the second line. And the google services almost at the bottom line. The battery usage still not very good.
Been through several reboots by now, everything enabled, location is used, the problem didn't return, on both mine and my father's phones.
The only thing worth noting is my phone configuration - not rooted, STAMINA mode disabled, Low battery mode disabled, Queue background data disabled, Location-based WiFi enabled.
Waiting patiently for the next Sony update.
OK, the method seems to be obvious.
Does it need to be repeated after every reboot?
I also do not understand why installing the latest Google Play (after removing it the way it is written here) is not bringing the problem back .
Thanks anyway.
By the looks of it, the issue might be caused by user data being present already in Google Services since before the KitKat upgrade, but this is some type of data that's not necessarily present once it's deleted. Maybe some sort of duplication / overloading of data from multiple places, and this changes the order of loading.
one word: AMAZING
after this all the lagging of UI and keyboard is removed.
I was intending to install CM11, but after this fix I think I will stay with stock ROM
Ok this worked well for a couple of days including the UI lag fix but now Play services is destroying my battery again. I'm fed up with my ZR (Bluetooth issues and all) Just ordered a Nexus 5 yay!
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New Google Play Services 5.0 is out, if it didn't reach you yet - you can install it. It stops the battery drain.
I've been running Lineage 13 for 6 months, but the phone mysteriously got into a boot loop yesterday, so I had clear the local data and re-install the apps from the Playstore
However I found that every time I installed the nRFToolbox app (by Nordic Semiconductors) (Who are a reputable company), that when the App installed, it crashed a load of internal OS services e.g. PlayServices and all sorts of Google services.
If I rebooted the phone it appeared to work OK, but if I went into the "Apps" in Settings, the phone hung again, and I had to reboot it.
I tried updating to the latest unofficial Lineage 13, but that didnt help, so I've now installed the official Lineage 14, and this seems to have solved the problem.
But I don't quite see how a single app can kill so many core services, and I prefer to stay on Android 6 (Lineage 13), because of XPosed and specifically XPrivacy.
(BTW. I know XPosed is now supposed to work on Android 7, but I didnt think XPrivacy will every get ported to work with the updated version of Xposed - at least according to the developer)
Does anyone have any insight into why this app can hang the phone
I don't know, why this APP makes your phone crash, but i had similar problems when installing greenifys latest app and two days ago, i updated some apps ending in bootloops.... I am using unofficial Lineage 13 with xposed and xprivacy too
I run stock OS but have this same issue when updating any big and heavy apps such as Snapchat, Google app and FB Messenger for the past 6 months at least. The app starts to update but then will crash in the installing phase often giving an error such as "503 can't be updated", at which point multiple Google services will crash endlessly the only way to stop the crash is hold down power to force the phone to reboot.
I have reset the phone several times but after setting up the phone and updating all the apps the first update to one of those apps the issue happens again (the app always installs from scratch ok it's only it's updates that cause it)
A sort of fix I have been using (because it doesn't 100% always work) is when you see an update for the app you know will cause the crash first update all the other apps manually leaving only the problem app, then close all apps go to Settings > Storage & USB > Internal storage and clear the Cached data, then power cycle the phone, let the phone boot and complete all it's background tasks it does after booting, then open Play Store and click Update on the offending app then put the phone down and leave it until the app either updates or causes the crashes. If this doesn't work then waiting 24 hours and doing the same steps seems to work.
I am certain it comes from either an app update (probably from Play services or the Play Store app) or maybe from having the phone encrypted which does make the phone run slower especially over time. (May or may not be related but I've noticed on my phone if I factory reset it then after setting it up and updating all the apps I try to encrypt the phone the phone will 'break' and will boot loop forcing a reset from the boot loader, however if I set up the phone, don't update any apps then encrypt it completes successfully, all the apps will then update ok and the phone then functions as you would expect)
All in all this issue is incredibly frustrating!
Hi everyone,
I am on essential phone oreo 8.1. Ever since updating magisk from 16 to 17,1 my google play services keep crashing. Has anybody experienced the same thing? Any insight is appreciated. Thank you.
For me it started happening with youtube and now google services, deleted cache, rolled back and upgraded google play service many times but nothing fixed it, it removes your accounts too wo now im frozen on checking info, it starts working after a while but takes a long time sigh. I'm on xperia z2 tablet, gonna look how to downgrade magisk if possible because I don't know what else it could be, google led me to this post, it's last thing I updated before this all started happening
Edit: seems to have stopped with new magisk manager update