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Not sure if this is a phone problem or a google problem, but my Z1 is no longer showing up in the play store from the browser. I'm still able to use it on the phone, but it was just there 5 minutes ago and now no longer showing, even in the settings with my list of devices. I am stock rooted.
Earlier I was trying to force the OTA of the new walkman app earlier and cleared the data on the google services framework and update center. I'm guessing it had something to do with this.
Although the Snapdragon Battery Guru just finished its analysis this morning, but I doubt that had anything to do with it.
Any suggestions?
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Not sure if this is a phone problem or a google problem, but my Z1 is no longer showing up in the play store from the browser. I'm still able to use it on the phone, but it was just there 5 minutes ago and now no longer showing, even in the settings with my list of devices. I am stock rooted.
Earlier I was trying to force the OTA of the new walkman app earlier and cleared the data on the google services framework and update center. I'm guessing it had something to do with this.
Although the Snapdragon Battery Guru just finished its analysis this morning, but I doubt that had anything to do with it.
Any suggestions?
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Did you use anything that may have modified how your device appears to the play store?? that could have done it, but it shouldn't disappear like that at all, could be a glitch, maybe clear data on play services and play store and reboot and hopefully it'll find it, google normally catches on pretty quickly so shouldn't take long to show up, also try a different browser.
dladz said:
Did you use anything that may have modified how your device appears to the play store?? that could have done it, but it shouldn't disappear like that at all, could be a glitch, maybe clear data on play services and play store and reboot and hopefully it'll find it, google normally catches on pretty quickly so shouldn't take long to show up, also try a different browser.
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Thanks. Back on!
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Lately, Google updated all their system apps like Google Play, Google "Services" and all that stuff. The problem I had been having was that it was eating away about 60% battery every 4 hours on standby. My phone was really hot all the time. At my job, I'm on my feet and walking around for about 12 hours a day and need to always have my phone on me and be able to receive phone calls. So this was getting really annoying.
I tried numerous methods all over the internet to get it fixed but non of that stuff really did anything. I tried using LBE to deny GPS permissions and that didn't fix it. LBE doesn't have the ability to deny the wakelock or run-during-standby permissions so it wasn't able to help me much more.
I even tried buying the full version of Greenify to hibernate Google Play, Google Services, as well as all the individual apps that spam-sync everything. It worked for like a week but then Google must of updated everything and now it seems to bee immune to Greenify.
Since Google Play services is the one doing most of the battery spamming, I tried to disable it in settings>applications>all but it's blocked from being disabled.
So I have to disable Google Framework. This makes my battery last forever on standby now but it causes problems. First, it makes the gps not seem to work, The gps icons will show, but no apps can get my location. I have checked LBE and it's not blocking anything anymore so that's no what's making gps not work. The other problem is that I get an annoying message telling me that google play services has stopped working. It's only a problem because it's annoying. The third problem is that Google play doesn't work but I don't care about that.
Does anybody know how to make Google Play services disable-able from the applications menu? If not, perhaps there's a way to make those error messages go away and re-enable gps?
I say "drain" because the phone is obviously not using as much battery as Android is saying it does. I'd need to tow around a car battery for this phone.
Anyway, ever since the update to 7.1.1, my Bluetooth battery reading says it uses so much battery, that the other apps dont even show up. I'm rooted but otherwise no mods. I've tried stock, Franco, and Elemental X kernels. I've even tried removing my Bluetooth headphones and car connection. No luck. I can turn bluetooth off, but that defeats the purpose of it when I want to use it.
The only thing I haven't tried is formatting the phone. Before I did that, I figured I'd ask and see if anyone has seen this or had ideas? Searching around for excessive bluetooth drain hasn't helped, and my battery life is just a little bit worse but it could be coincidence?
Ideas?
Well just a follow up, I tried resetting the phone...no luck. New and fresh now, still reading a huge battery drain.
FWIW, I'm seeing the same thing on the January 7.1.1 build and now the February one too. 32% today. A couple days ago it was between 40 and 45%.
It's been like this since 7.1.1 came out. I thought it was something to do with my Pebble but I guess not.
I went ahead and restored my original 7.1.1 backup. I tried flashing the 7.0 radio and no luck there either. My next change will be going back to 7.0. I'm assuming that will likely fix the problem
I see this as well on the latest Pure Nexus. I don't think I saw it on NitrogenOS since it was using older blobs.
EDIT: It might actually be caused the the new Instant Tether feature. Saw it mentioned on G+ and since turning Instant Tether off, I no longer have the battery drain or bluetooth having the highest percentage.
Same here on the 26Q version of 7.1.1. All my battery stats shows is bluetooth. Yesterday the "computed power use" value I swear was over 100K. I rebooted earlier today and it seems to be showing other items in that list now, but not what should be shown there. I have used apps and they arent showing up there.
Yep. This entire day that I've not had Instant Tethering, I've not had massive battery drain and bluetooth hasn't made the list of battery offenders.
Calling it fixed for me.
This was before instant tether and before 7.1. The first mention of bluetooth battery drain was as soon as 7.0 was released.
Try clearing cache, then open bluetooth share apk and clear data. (it's a temp solution)
What's instant tether?
@scoonie
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-rolling-out-instant-tethering-to-pixel-and-nexus-devices/
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What's instant tether?
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Ha! Not keeping up with your reading...
As it happens, I see it on the right-hand sidebar beside your post:
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-rolling-out-instant-tethering-to-pixel-and-nexus-devices/
Look right... "Analysis and Opinion".
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This was before instant tether and before 7.1. The first mention of bluetooth battery drain was as soon as 7.0 was released.
Try clearing cache, then open bluetooth share apk and clear data. (it's a temp solution)
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This temp solution fixed it for me. Thanks!
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I see this as well on the latest Pure Nexus. I don't think I saw it on NitrogenOS since it was using older blobs.
EDIT: It might actually be caused the the new Instant Tether feature. Saw it mentioned on G+ and since turning Instant Tether off, I no longer have the battery drain or bluetooth having the highest percentage.
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I turned my instant tethering off and everything is back to normal as far as what's showing in the battery stats. I might turn it back on to double check but I'm confident instant tethering was causing it for me.
Just an update but I've stayed on 7.1.1 and didn't give myself time to downgrade to 7.0. I began having problems with Google Now not populating and constantly being blank as well as the incorrect battery usage.
I went ahead, turned off instant tethering, cleared both the cache and data in the Google App, and installed the newest Google beta 6.13.21.21. Now my Google Now has been working great for 3 days but my battery usage reading are back to normal as well. It could be a problem with the google app? Or it could be an issue with the instant tethering as mentioned because that is part of the google app?
What can I do if instant tethering is nowhere to be found. Pure Nexus 711 dynamic Gapps full edition
I have this problem. It started on 7.1.1. When Bluetooth is on, but not connected to a device its constantly scanning. Its detecting hundreds or even maybe thousands of devices throughout my work day. I work and travel around Manhattan 5 days a week. Once I get home, I have a Bluetooth system I stay connected to all the time and the drain is totally absent. I've observed the same pattern for the past week. Is there any way to stop it from scanning? I don't want to constantly turn Bluetooth off and on when I need to use it. I would love to decide when it scans for Bluetooth.
.me said:
What can I do if instant tethering is nowhere to be found. Pure Nexus 711 dynamic Gapps full edition
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I have this problem. It started on 7.1.1. When Bluetooth is on, but not connected to a device its constantly scanning. Its detecting hundreds or even maybe thousands of devices throughout my work day. I work and travel around Manhattan 5 days a week. Once I get home, I have a Bluetooth system I stay connected to all the time and the drain is totally absent. I've observed the same pattern for the past week. Is there any way to stop it from scanning? I don't want to constantly turn Bluetooth off and on when I need to use it. I would love to decide when it scans for Bluetooth.
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Try what I did. Clear your cache and data from the Google app. Then find the 6.13.21.21 beta Google App apk online and install it. I rebooted from there and things have been great since Tuesday
Turn of Bluetooth Scanning in three dots menu under location. That solved several Bluetooth issues for me
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Try what I did. Clear your cache and data from the Google app. Then find the 6.13.21.21 beta Google App apk online and install it. I rebooted from there and things have been great since Tuesday
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My Google app is functional 100% I've had problems like you experienced with the Google app in the past but now it's loaded up just fine. I turned instant tethering off and I'm going to wipe every cache I can think of so Well see what happens.
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Turn of Bluetooth Scanning in three dots menu under location. That solved several Bluetooth issues for me
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Turned that off yesterday and today I still experienced 86% Bluetooth in the battery and nothing else over 10 hours.
Edit I just checked out the battery stats and it says 120% so there's definitely something wrong with Bluetooth here. I'm stock rooted from the tool kit. I'm going to wipe and flash something custom, hopefully it's better.
This might be the app itself but I didn't have any issue on my S20. Since I updated the phone it randomly cuts out. Any ideas? Never on WiFi though...
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This might be the app itself but I didn't have any issue on my S20. Since I updated the phone it randomly cuts out. Any ideas? Never on WiFi though...
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Is it when the screen is off? Check it's not been put to sleep in battery settings
it seems that latest ROM updates (I think I have this on all AUB* ones) is weirdly strict on background activities and cuts every one of them. my whole device acts strangely - apps not showing notification or showing them late (hours later than they were supposed to show), my apps are not updating: I have to repeatedly FC play store, then clear its cache so that currently installing app changes state from downloading to installing, than do it again to change state fomr installing to installed etc. worked fine on AUA* ones. it is really annoying. btw I tried to clear cache and dalvik/art cache from recovery, but that did not help. I have not tried factory seset yet...
It seems that it was data corruption during regular OTA. Factory reset seems to fix problems for me.
I'll try a reset.. thankyou
Let's be honest, the Spotify app has issues too begin with. On my S21 and Pixel 4 it can be playing songs to my earbuds then suddenly stop running in the background on its own! Unlock the phone and itis still open in the foreground.
Perhaps it's time for a new music app if this is a known Spotify issue... But if it's not a Spotify issue, then check in your battery settings (as others have mentioned) to see if your phone automatically started putting it into "Sleep Mode".