Is this normal battery drain for Google play services? It seems a bit high to me. I have turned off some of the syncing for my accounts and location is off.
Kelari said:
Is this normal battery drain for Google play services? It seems a bit high to me. I have turned off some of the syncing for my accounts and location is off.
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I have the same problem (ww firmware), the usage seems to be very high even if Google Play Services is known to be draining battery. Even if I disabled GPS usage related to some of my apps, the problem seems to be somewhere else. Will try with Better Battery Stats to see if I can find the culprit.
albireox said:
I have the same problem (ww firmware), the usage seems to be very high even if Google Play Services is known to be draining battery. Even if I disabled GPS usage related to some of my apps, the problem seems to be somewhere else. Will try with Better Battery Stats to see if I can find the culprit.
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Yeah I'm on ww firmware as well. Please let me know if you find anything.
same problem here since yesterday tried everything but nothing works.
Kelari said:
Is this normal battery drain for Google play services? It seems a bit high to me. I have turned off some of the syncing for my accounts and location is off.
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After last update i face this issue.
suganesan said:
After last update i face this issue.
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Yeah mine looks even worse now....
Mine is only 3%
Kelari said:
Is this normal battery drain for Google play services? It seems a bit high to me. I have turned off some of the syncing for my accounts and location is off.
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After i disable location service it came back to normal. I download movie and watch full movie. My battery drains 15% only. The culprit is gps. I hope it will help you guys
suganesan said:
After i disable location service it came back to normal. I download movie and watch full movie. My battery drains 15% only. The culprit is gps. I hope it will help you guys
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Well it is already off and has been for the entire time of that picture. It must be something else but no idea what.
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Well it is already off and has been for the entire time of that picture. It must be something else but no idea what.
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No my friend i can clearly say gps is the problem. Now you see my screenshot. I send movie to my friend through xender, that time i enable gps because xender asked permission. So that I enabled it, and forget to disable. Again it drains my battery around 20%
If you are rooted you might try GMS Doze Magisk module.
For me it has recently changed, it's the Google play store, not even play services which is causing the battery drain. I did not even use the play store or update apps or anything like that.
i got rid of it by clearing data and cache of google play services.
Yes that might be the problem for you. I'm certain that's not the case for me. Today I have over 50% battery drain from Google play services and GPS has been turned off the entire time.
Any update about this issues?
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So since the latest Google Play Services update, I have been suffering some serious battery drain issues. There are various mentions all around the internet and most point to the issue being 4.2.1, which, we aren't running.
I spent some time over the last few days trying to figure out what the issue is and have some observations. But, for some background, last few days I have been getting no more than 10 hours battery with no more than an hour or two screen time.
Google Play Services is listed as the biggest battery drainer with 49%, so I started looking into that.
First off, I noticed in battery stats that if Wifi is on, the device doesn't deep sleep, even though wifi is set to never on when sleeping, the wifi never turns off and the phone never deep sleeps.
First thing to try was turning off wifi, so, I turned off wifi, straight away, phone deep sleeps again.
Next I began messing with Google related things, first of all I "uninstall updates" on GPlayS, tested with Wifi on, great, no more battery drain, phone sleeps, BUT, phone keeps bugging me with notifications to update.
Next was to update, battery drain returns. So, disable Google Now in its own settings, battery drain remains when on Wifi, however, if I kill "Google Search" after disabling Google Now, the battery drain stops.
Various mention on the internet has attributed it to location history and location services in the "Google Settings" however I have had those disabled for a few days now and they seem not to be the issue in this case.
My conclusion so far is that the link between the latest GPlayS and Google Now is the real killer.
At present, I have Google Now disabled, and no battery drain, Wifi turns itself off as it should and the phone sleeps. This isn't a great solution since I use Google Now regularly.
I'm hoping that unless someone has come up with a realistic solution that doesn't involve disabling services, Google will release an update to fix the issue.
Currently without access to another device other than my N10, I'm unable to test whether this particular version of the issue is specific to the XZ or the GoogleNow/GPlayS versions.
My next test is to install Network Info from F-Droid and Better Battery stats, and see if I can attribute the thing preventing wifi from turning off during sleep, and hence the failure for the device to deep sleep, to a particular activity going on.
Further, I have already tested the GPlayS related services by disabling everything such as Calendar and Contact Sync, disabled all of books, movies, photo sync, disabled Google Plus, none of these had any effect on the issue, which all but rule them out of the equation.
Has anyone else got observations on this, is anyone else suffering the issue, or has anyone got a real solution?
I'm off on Holiday on Saturday and would really like to have access to Google Now back, but not have the battery drain that's going to kill my battery while roaming the streets of Rome without access to a charger.
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So since the latest Google Play Services update, I have been suffering some serious battery drain issues. There are various mentions all around the internet and most point to the issue being 4.2.1, which, we aren't running.
I spent some time over the last few days trying to figure out what the issue is and have some observations. But, for some background, last few days I have been getting no more than 10 hours battery with no more than an hour or two screen time.
Google Play Services is listed as the biggest battery drainer with 49%, so I started looking into that.
First off, I noticed in battery stats that if Wifi is on, the device doesn't deep sleep, even though wifi is set to never on when sleeping, the wifi never turns off and the phone never deep sleeps.
First thing to try was turning off wifi, so, I turned off wifi, straight away, phone deep sleeps again.
Next I began messing with Google related things, first of all I "uninstall updates" on GPlayS, tested with Wifi on, great, no more battery drain, phone sleeps, BUT, phone keeps bugging me with notifications to update.
Next was to update, battery drain returns. So, disable Google Now in its own settings, battery drain remains when on Wifi, however, if I kill "Google Search" after disabling Google Now, the battery drain stops.
Various mention on the internet has attributed it to location history and location services in the "Google Settings" however I have had those disabled for a few days now and they seem not to be the issue in this case.
My conclusion so far is that the link between the latest GPlayS and Google Now is the real killer.
At present, I have Google Now disabled, and no battery drain, Wifi turns itself off as it should and the phone sleeps. This isn't a great solution since I use Google Now regularly.
I'm hoping that unless someone has come up with a realistic solution that doesn't involve disabling services, Google will release an update to fix the issue.
Currently without access to another device other than my N10, I'm unable to test whether this particular version of the issue is specific to the XZ or the GoogleNow/GPlayS versions.
My next test is to install Network Info from F-Droid and Better Battery stats, and see if I can attribute the thing preventing wifi from turning off during sleep, and hence the failure for the device to deep sleep, to a particular activity going on.
Further, I have already tested the GPlayS related services by disabling everything such as Calendar and Contact Sync, disabled all of books, movies, photo sync, disabled Google Plus, none of these had any effect on the issue, which all but rule them out of the equation.
Has anyone else got observations on this, is anyone else suffering the issue, or has anyone got a real solution?
I'm off on Holiday on Saturday and would really like to have access to Google Now back, but not have the battery drain that's going to kill my battery while roaming the streets of Rome without access to a charger.
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I shut it off it was draining my battery!
I had the same problem.
And here's a solution for you: Factory data reset
After that there will be no problems with battery drain.
NXT3 said:
I had the same problem.
And here's a solution for you: Factory data reset
After that there will be no problems with battery drain.
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I did a factory reset and have the problem.
So the amount of battery drain has lowered significantly, but it is still there. I attached a screenshot from before the change and a screenshot from after.
use link 2 sd ( root required ) search at playstore
open it and seacrh google play service
option and sleep it..and u done
echopark15 said:
use link 2 sd ( root required ) search at playstore
open it and seacrh google play service
option and sleep it..and u done
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it must be a way without root
Update Google play Service to version 5.x
Trying to get the most out of the battery. Tried turning as much as I could off. Any suggestions for optimal settings while not cutting all the good out. Currently running 5.1 pure. Rooted greenify everything that says running NFC off BT off location set battery saving. Google now cards off. Still getting extremely high Google services percent. Phone currently at 30%
Also under security and apps with usage access what is this MotoCarelnt.
What SOT are you getting?
OK here is today's still at 64% but barely used the phone and google services still seems high considering I've tried to basically disable everything possible. Also SOT yesterday was about 2hrs.
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Here's today's still getting high Google services
Is it just normal or what
I having the same issue. battery draining like mad since I installed 5.1 leak rom. I'm on pure version, not rooted.
Post pics of battery info is your Google services really high
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I've been having the same issue the past couple weeks. Phone seems to be staying awake (reported under Android OS). I've tried uninstalling a bunch of apps, turning off BT and location services, etc. Doesn't seem to be doing any good. I used to go to bed with about 50% battery. Now I'm lucky if I have 10% left. Maybe 2 hrs SOT with 50% brightness.
Ok I found this from another thread from another site but I think this might finally be fixed. So go settings->app->all-> then scroll down to google play services. Select uninstall updates and then clear dalvik cache and regular cache and bam! Google services no longer killing battery. Also turn off all the location reporting from Google and anything else you can find and turn off syncing that isn't needed. 2hrs sot at 69% not too bad and also turn LTE preferred to H+ still plenty fast and saves more battery.
so here's the stats after these settings
Definitely better but Google services seem to come creeping back later in the day.(which was said may happen). SOT still pretty dam good but will be interesting to see tomorrow. Obviously there's some little bug going on but I can live with it. Maybe one day someone will actually figure it out. Still an awesome phone. 5hrs SOT at 10% can't complain to much but would be nice to get through a day
I have exactly the same problem! But this didn't happen before. As you can see on my screen. Everything was OK, than I used my phone for a little while and from that point it started draining the battery like crazy. And I din't touch it most of the time! ...
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Ok I found this from another thread from another site but I think this might finally be fixed. So go settings->app->all-> then scroll down to google play services. Select uninstall updates and then clear dalvik cache and regular cache and bam! Google services no longer killing battery. Also turn off all the location reporting from Google and anything else you can find and turn off syncing that isn't needed. 2hrs sot at 69% not too bad and also turn LTE preferred to H+ still plenty fast and saves more battery.
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gonna try this method, its seems a real improvement.
and I have a question, does playing music from a usb otg drain battery?
How do you clear cache and dalvik on unrooted moto x
pagep said:
I have exactly the same problem! But this didn't happen before. As you can see on my screen. Everything was OK, than I used my phone for a little while and from that point it started draining the battery like crazy. And I din't touch it most of the time! ...
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I have also noticed that this insane battery drain happens only when I have gps enabled.
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How do you clear cache and dalvik on unrooted moto x
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https://motorola-global-portal.cust...prod_answer_detail/a_id/101078/p/30,6720,9197
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Thanks
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Ok I found this from another thread from another site but I think this might finally be fixed. So go settings->app->all-> then scroll down to google play services. Select uninstall updates and then clear dalvik cache and regular cache and bam! Google services no longer killing battery. Also turn off all the location reporting from Google and anything else you can find and turn off syncing that isn't needed. 2hrs sot at 69% not too bad and also turn LTE preferred to H+ still plenty fast and saves more battery.
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Hey did you update google services after this? Or you are using old version?
I know this has been asked numerous times but I still can't seem to fix the battery issue with google play.
I've tried the normal tweaks (use battery saving location, clear cache, disable google now, only sync what need to be synced, etc) but does anyone else have any other ideas?
btw I've already disabled VoLTE which helped some (not with google services but general battery)
My SOT is like 30 min today. Other days I've had better battery but it is always after google services and sometimes after android.
I'm stock and non rooted. Any help would be appreciated.
Check themes and apps for my thread and download the latest version. Other than that there isnt much you can do.
SilkyJohnson said:
Check themes and apps for my thread and download the latest version. Other than that there isnt much you can do.
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I haven't changed the stock theme and I'm running the latest version...
Surely there has to be something I can do. I mean 30 min Screen on time and already at 50% is horrendous
My Google Play Service is sitting at like 3% with over 12 hours off the charger. I turned off Google Now and location history. They'll suck your battery dry if you let them.
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¿Will-it-Blend? said:
My Google Play Service is sitting at like 3% with over 12 hours off the charger. I turned off Google Now and location history. They'll suck your battery dry if you let them.
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What does location history do? I've never really understood it.
It doesn't affect location, does it?
I'm having this issue too. It's always in the top 2 apps in battery use. I've tried to keep everything updated, but it's always over 10%, so I have no idea how to fix it.
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I haven't changed the stock theme and I'm running the latest version...
Surely there has to be something I can do. I mean 30 min Screen on time and already at 50% is horrendous
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I meant the latest version of Google Play Services.
riahim said:
What does location history do? I've never really understood it.
It doesn't affect location, does it?
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In combination with Google now abs other google apps, it keeps track of everywhere you've been to present new information to you (like travel time to places you go to frequently). As you can imagine it polls your location a lot and drains battery. Disabling will not affect location however.
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I meant the latest version of Google Play Services.
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How do I check for the latest version? I currently have 7.5.71(1955121-440) which I think is up to date, no?
¿Will-it-Blend? said:
In combination with Google now abs other google apps, it keeps track of everywhere you've been to present new information to you (like travel time to places you go to frequently). As you can imagine it polls your location a lot and drains battery. Disabling will not affect location however.
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Gotcha. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
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How do I check for the latest version? I currently have 7.5.71(1955121-440) which I think is up to date, no?
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Yeah, that's current. Go into your app drawer and open Google settings. Click location history at the bottom of the first screen then turn off. That'll help. Also check advanced WiFi scanning, as Google's "always scanning even when WiFi is off" turned itself back on for me. That'll murk a battery.
I am having this issue in EVERY ROM I use. Thought it might be caused by Google Now Launcher, but it isn't. What is going on???
Maybe try a different Gapps package? I use TK's Nano package and havent seen high GP battery usage.
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I am having this issue in EVERY ROM I use. Thought it might be caused by Google Now Launcher, but it isn't. What is going on???
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There is a thread about disable Google Play services.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2999821
And: settings - Data usage - <per app setting>
Restrict app background data
Must be a rom, gapps or dirty installation problem cause doesn't happen on stock 5.1.1.
Got an Android Wear device connected?
first off, 3% used for google play services with that amount of use is not much, as is not an issue, at all. if you showed something like 15%+, id say yea, that a bit much for battery use..
simms22 said:
first off, 3% used for google play services with that amount of use is not much, as is not an issue, at all. if you showed something like 15%+, id say yea, that a bit much for battery use..
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Yup. Get an IPhone and won't have that problem.
Sometimes sync causes a problem for me when it comes to the wakelock, but then again my university's Wifi is set up weird so drains my battery for some reason and usually makes gapps act up. Anyways, manually managing sync seems to have decreased my google play services battery useage about 4% on an average charge.
Hi all,
Is anyone facing an issue with google play services draining the battery...I get so angry when I see that damn app draining my battery...the battery stats says it's running in the background...why, I don't know! It's recent phenomenon and has been running since the past 20hrs or so...how do I solve this? I'm not sure cleaning the data/ cache would be ideal as this would only lead to more drain since play services will try to download all the info that it has previously....any help will be greatly appreciated!
So 1% battery loss from a system service running for 20 hours in the background is a big problem...?
I'm a bit confused here...
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So 1% battery loss from a system service running for 20 hours in the background is a big problem...?
I'm a bit confused here...
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Actually, it's a bit more than 1%...more like 23% over the past 6 days or so...here's the screenshot...I don't know if this apt battery usage or if google play services need to be given a knock on its head...
amirage said:
Actually, it's a bit more than 1%...more like 23% over the past 6 days or so...here's the screenshot...I don't know if this apt battery usage or if google play services need to be given a knock on its head...
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Ah, so 0.16% battery per hour. So a bit more than normal. What version of the phone do you have (which processor) and what apps do you have installed that weren't listed?
Also, how do you keep charging your phone so slightly as shown in the picture?
Oh yes, GPlayS will eat up the battery...
Download Karma Firewall and block Google Play Services. It may be shown by it's UID, on my 10+ it's 10044.
You can unblock it as needed like for Gmail or Playstore (block Playstore as well*).
Block Android Services as well, UID 1000.
It's pretty useless but polls the internet 2 times every minute, GPlayS is 4 times a minute.
On Pie Karma's logging feature works so I can see what each apk is doing or not... Q and up sucks.
*disable if you have a package blocker except when needed. A reboot is required and GPS must be unblocked too for Playstore.
Clear Google Play Services, Backup Transport and Framework data as well. Best to disable the latter two. Someone told the latter two aren't present in Q... I can't verify that either way.
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Ah, so 0.15972% battery per hour. So a bit more than normal. What version of the phone do you have and what apps do you have installed that weren't listed?
Also, how do you keep charging your phone so slightly as shown in the picture?
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Hi, I have the 21Ultra 12/256. The funny thing is that play services started acting up only lately...I have been using the phone for 1 week+ and this app starting going berserk just 20 hours ago! It's very likely a rogue update could have caused this issue and I'm sure if I uninstall the update all should be fine...let me do that and see how it performs...
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Hi, I have the 21Ultra 12/256. The funny thing is that play services started acting up only lately...I have been using the phone for 1 week+ and this app starting going berserk just 20 hours ago! It's very likely a rogue update could have caused this issue and I'm sure if I uninstall the update all should be fine...let me do that and see how it performs...
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My AT&T Note 10+ did the same thing and it wasn't an update that triggered it.
Power management was part of the problem.
I run now with all power management disabled except for fast charging and Optimized screen/cpu setting.
When I turn this phone off it goes into deep sleep...
blackhawk said:
My AT&T Note 10+ did the same thing and it wasn't an update that triggered it.
Power management was part of the problem.
I run now with all power management disabled except for fast charging and Optimized screen/cpu setting.
When I turn this phone off it goes into deep sleep...
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Power management, you refer to the ones that show in the battery settings right? But I don't know how the battery power management settings relate to google play services drain...I have betterbatterystats and it shows that google play is the top most draining app...why I can't understand...
I have a feeling it's the feb update that's messing with the battery settings..Jan update was cool...is there a way to roll back to update before AUB6?
Here's an update...I uninstalled the updates to google play services and cleared the cache. Rebooted...and all's going well so far.
Definitely try out the suggestions made by @destz0r in the video that he left. I guess that I don't ever experience the same problem as I always leave location services disabled unless I'm directly using them for navigation. But I never would've guessed that GPS occasionally leads to more GPlay Service specific battery consumption (as I had thought that GPlay Services were primarily for inner-Google app data communication)...
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Definitely try out the suggestions made by @destz0r in the video that he left. I guess that I don't ever experience the same problem as I always leave location services disabled unless I'm directly using them for navigation. But I never would've guessed that GPS occasionally leads to more GPlay Service specific battery consumption (as I had thought that GPlay Services were primarily for inner-Google app data communication)...
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I already had all those suggestions in place right at the time of setting up the device initially..but yes, uninstalling the play services update cleared the issue...for the moment...
amirage said:
Power management, you refer to the ones that show in the battery settings right? But I don't know how the battery power management settings relate to google play services drain...I have betterbatterystats and it shows that google play is the top most draining app...why I can't understand...
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Power management seems to create conflicts after a few days running. GooglePS includes Backup Transport and Framework. Even when turned off they continue to run in the background on my device.
Play with it, see what you find but don't ignore and let this trashware toast your battery.