I don't know if it's been posted yet (I didn't see it in the first three pages of the forum nor in similar threads section), but Google Maps just released an update that promises improved battery life for users who use background locations.
Google Maps is one of the biggest battery-eaters on Android phones due to background processes and location services, so an update to Google Maps might make a noticeable improvement for some users.
It's too early to tell if it has made any difference yet, but I just figured I'd let you all know about it
Never had any issues with Google Maps draining battery, but updates are always nice
My Google maps always seems to show in the recent apps on my gnex. Will be interesting to see if this helps!
BPP! said:
My Google maps always seems to show in the recent apps on my gnex. Will be interesting to see if this helps!
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This.
I keep seeing maps startup without my permission, if this fixes it great news!
Auto run manager ftw.
EddyOS said:
Never had any issues with Google Maps draining battery, but updates are always nice
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The battery issue is apparent if you use location history and Latitude.
I am seeing a huge improvement. Overnight my phone went from 100% to 80% in 9 hours, with Maps using 7% of the battery, when normally it uses about 15-20%. I use Latitude and Location history as my "Find my Phone" feature.
I've also flashed the SC04DOMLA1 radio on to the device which also seems to be helping greatly.
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Never had any issues with Google Maps draining battery, but updates are always nice
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Google Maps is the biggest battery-draining default app on Android. This is because it's used for variety of location services in the background. Of course if you turn background location services off then it won't affect your battery life as much.
It's great that they updated this though since I do use Latitude with closest friends frequently.
I installed the new maps last night, and I tested out the battery consumption. Tasker sets the phone to airplane mode for 6 hours every night while I sleep, and my battery (which should be calibrated) went from 100% to 98% over 7 hours. I'll see how it fares at work today, but so far I'm pretty happy. I really like latitude, but I was pretty close to disabling it because of the battery drain.
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I just noticed that when i install the update for google maps 4.1.1 this app will drain my battery really fast. I have used it for aprox. 5 minutes and wihtin my battery comsumption info under settings it had used about 18% battery. With the previous version i had no problems at all. The same happend with google earth.
I also found this thread in google support forums:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=2a11fbd2ef43cf00&hl=en
Anbody else experienced this. Someone has a solution for the described probblem?
Right now i used to train my battery and discharge my phone before i go to bed.
But no way i would used it in the wild.
Uninstalling my be a cure to some battery problems people here seem to have.
Cheers,
Chaos42
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I just noticed that when i install the update for google maps 4.1.1 this app will drain my battery really fast. I have used it for aprox. 5 minutes and wihtin my battery comsumption info under settings it had used about 18% battery. With the previous version i had no problems at all. The same happend with google earth.
I also found this thread in google support forums:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=2a11fbd2ef43cf00&hl=en
Anbody else experienced this. Someone has a solution for the described probblem?
Right now i used to train my battery and discharge my phone before i go to bed.
But no way i would used it in the wild.
Uninstalling my be a cure to some battery problems people here seem to have.
Cheers,
Chaos42
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Getting the same. Looking at Task Killer, Maps and Stocks keep appearing on it even after killing them and leaving the phone on standby
not using the Maps live wallpaper are you?
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not using the Maps live wallpaper are you?
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i have not used gps, live wallpaper, layers, widget, ...
just the plain app.
OK, so this never seemed to be the case before, but when I check my battery use details, Maps always seems to be the biggest eater of battery. Even when I haven't even used the app. For example, as of right now, Maps has used 40%, while Cell Standby is 25% and Android System - 18%
what gives? has anyone else noticed this? why would this be? or maybe it's a function of my ROM?
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OK, so this never seemed to be the case before, but when I check my battery use details, Maps always seems to be the biggest eater of battery. Even when I haven't even used the app. For example, as of right now, Maps has used 40%, while Cell Standby is 25% and Android System - 18%
what gives? has anyone else noticed this? why would this be? or maybe it's a function of my ROM?
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I've seen this too, but it doesn't seem to actually be eating my battery life. It was happening on and off in CM6 (froyo), but now that I'm on CM7 nightlies, I have not seen it happen for some time.
ok, maybe I won't worry about it then, since I'll definitely be switching to CM7 when it's officially released.
Seems to happen on maps 5.0 if you can uninstall the update and go back to 4.5
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I'm running Cyanogen Mod 6.1 and Google Maps 5.0.
When I do use the maps or navigation, I do notice that the battery drain is quite significant. Its not a big deal though because I don't use it that often and have a car charger.
Just out of curiousity, are you using the stock Email app? I had mine setup with my work email and for some reason whenever I would access it, it would launch a handful of apps in the background as well (Gmaps, Market, XDA, FML, WeatherBug). I tested it many times. I would force close those apps and anytime I opened Email they would all be running again.
I switched to K9 mail and haven't had the issue occur again...
I have been using the GNEX for about 6 months and I never had any problems.
Since I updated to JB, the battery drain has been quite big. There is also some big lag sometimes, but I suspect that the lag can be tied to the market too.
I see that the market accounts for the battery drain now.
It should be noted that the market was not opened, no apps were updated and there were no notifications. So it must be running in the background.
I did not use the phone much today, read the news in the morning and made 1 phone call. So the drain is quite big for this using.
Has anybody had this problem and knows the solution?
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I haven't open the maps either.
You can force stop maps, maps can be started by any application that i has location services, Google search, twitter etc. Open play store under settings, uncheck all options.
I just had the same issue with Google Play Store. Plugged the N7 in to charge to get it to power up and the battery usage is showing the Play Store as "Keep awake" for 6h 46m, which essentially drained my battery overnight. I can't see any obvious reason it did this
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I just had the same issue with Google Play Store. Plugged the N7 in to charge to get it to power up and the battery usage is showing the Play Store as "Keep awake" for 6h 46m, which essentially drained my battery overnight. I can't see any obvious reason it did this
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I have exactly the same issue with my new LG Nexus 4 running JB 4.2 !!!
I removed it from charge this morning and after 5 hours in standby mode the battery was on 20%
ur best bet is to "don't keep activities" in the developer options
re: the maps draining, u'd have to turn off location services but it's needed for google now
^That kinda defeats the whole purpose of owning an Android device. I would at least start by uninstalling updates and opening the Play Store back up. Maybe it got stuck doing something it shouldn't have been. The Maps issue. Mine is always running. Never shows up in my battery stats. There are so many triggers that can cause it to run, so I've given up(There's always AutoStarts, though you need root for it) even trying since it isn't affecting my overall battery life. I leave GPS on, but turn off Google Location Services unless I need it.
Play Store and Play Music are really draining the battery in my Nexus 4...
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Play Store and Play Music are really draining the battery in my Nexus 4...
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I found out that it happens only after it automatically updates my apps.
I disabled the auto update apps from play store and seems to be fine now....
[UPDATE - 16-12-2012]
Today I checked manually for updates, Installed 26 of them and the battery drained again after couple of hours.
For some reason, it does not stop the application and it is constantly using the CPU thus draining the battery. My phone is very hot (temperature) at the moment and I have not used it for almost 2 hours and it was not on charge !!!
This is ridiculous.....
Hi,
How in the heck do I get rid of the google play services drain...The dang thing is the highest on my device followed by android system...Please help
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Hi,
How in the heck do I get rid of the google play services drain...The dang thing is the highest on my device followed by android system...Please help
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It's not the play services process that does the draining, but another app that uses the service. It's simply a vehicle. With well behaved apps, you'd rarely see play services in your battery hog list. You can begin by disabling Play Store's app auto-updating.
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It's not the play services process that does the draining, but another app that uses the service. It's simply a vehicle. With well behaved apps, you'd rarely see play services in your battery hog list. You can begin by disabling Play Store's app auto-updating.
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I have done it but I'm really not so hopeful. I don't know if its the auto-update feature that's hogging the battery or if it has anything to do with the google now feature. Apparently google play services is high on the list of activities that use the location services.
I'm really not in a mood to factory reset but then I'm not hopeful that this would really solve the matter...The phone was setup from scratch and all the apps were downloaded fresh... Besides, I don't have that many apps either just the usual gmail, google maps, chrome, Facebook, WhatsApp ...I have disabled movies, games, play stand and other rubbish apps...Can u please share your experience with the battery? What's ur setup? Do you have the google now feature enabled? How do I disable it?
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I have done it but I'm really not so hopeful. I don't know if its the auto-update feature that's hogging the battery or if it has anything to do with the google now feature. Apparently google play services is high on the list of activities that use the location services.
I'm really not in a mood to factory reset but then I'm not hopeful that this would really solve the matter...The phone was setup from scratch and all the apps were downloaded fresh... Besides, I don't have that many apps either just the usual gmail, google maps, chrome, Facebook, WhatsApp ...I have disabled movies, games, play stand and other rubbish apps...Can u please share your experience with the battery? What's ur setup? Do you have the google now feature enabled? How do I disable it?
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First off, I use the Dirty Unicorns ROM, but it shouldn't make a difference. Play services never bothered stock ROM either. I have 156 apps. Location, Bluetooth, WiFi are all enabled. I have 7 smart watches that are configured as well. NFC is the only sensor I disabled. I sync 4 mail accounts, 7 Google calendars, along with your FB, Twitter, Instagram crap. OK Google is always on. You can see in the screenshot that Play Services isn't on my list. I even use Gravity Screen that utilizes the gyro sensor instead of the built-in gestures. I like it better. I admit, my SOT is only about 4 hours a day on average, but my battery is off the charger for 26 hours. I do freeze marketing apps that came with the Pixel, unneeded keyboards, Verizon stuff (but leave the My Verizon app on though). I charge the phone in the car at 6:30am daily as I drive an hour and 20 minutes to work. If I were you, first, I would delete app cache in Settings/Storage. Then I would freeze a few apps at a time and narrow down your potential battery hogs.http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/586d32d248c9c/Screenshot_20170104-115902.png?
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First off, I use the Dirty Unicorns ROM, but it shouldn't make a difference. Play services never bothered stock ROM either. I have 156 apps. Location, Bluetooth, WiFi are all enabled. I have 7 smart watches that are configured as well. NFC is the only sensor I disabled. I sync 4 mail accounts, 7 Google calendars, along with your FB, Twitter, Instagram crap. OK Google is always on. You can see in the screenshot that Play Services isn't on my list. I even use Gravity Screen that utilizes the gyro sensor instead of the built-in gestures. I like it better. I admit, my SOT is only about 4 hours a day on average, but my battery is off the charger for 26 hours. I do freeze marketing apps that came with the Pixel, unneeded keyboards, Verizon stuff (but leave the My Verizon app on though). I charge the phone in the car at 6:30am daily as I drive an hour and 20 minutes to work. If I were you, first, I would delete app cache in Settings/Storage. Then I would freeze a few apps at a time and narrow down your potential battery hogs.http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/586d32d248c9c/Screenshot_20170104-115902.png?
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Thanks for the info...woah...you have a whole of lot of things going for and I must say you are really using your phone's potential...The only issue with the suggestion is that I need to unlock the boot loader and root the device..it's so very new that I'd like to have it running like this for a while till I get bored of the stock experience...but yes I'll surely try out all the suggestions u have made once I root.:laugh::laugh::laugh:
I have a regular Pixel, and Google Play Services is constantly at the top of my list. I'm often around a computer, so my phone primarily spends its time in standby or being used for calls. Even the times when I use the screen for hours, Google Play Services still reports as using far more battery than anything else.
EDIT: After using Tasker and Toggle Network Type 5.0 to switch to WCDMA only when my phone is in standby, Phone idle has went to the top of the list and Google Play services usage has went down significantly to second on the list.
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I don't know if its the auto-update feature that's hogging the battery or if it has anything to do with the google now feature.
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I have shut off Google Play auto-update and the Google feed. It's possible auto-update could be more aggressive than it used to be, but my previous phone with a smaller battery still could use about 1/3 the standby battery percentage as the Pixel, and I had auto-update over wifi on with that phone. I can't say how much affect turning off the feed had on battery life, but Google Play Services remains at the top of my list with it off. I haven't gotten around to seeing if something like Wakelock Detector could give me some clue about what is going on with my phone, but with auto-update and the Google feed off my battery usage is constantly being reported as primarily coming from Google Play Services.
I'm really not in a mood to factory reset but then I'm not hopeful that this would really solve the matter.
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The only suggestion so far that I haven't tested would be the idea about installed apps using Google Play Services, because a reset alone certainly did not solve my battery usage when I reinstalled my usual apps. It looks like I put a few apps on the new phone that I hadn't used on my previous phone, and I never tracked the battery usage without additional apps installed. I may try resetting and see if I get different behavior by installing apps over time, so I can check for changes in Google Play Services usage as apps are added.
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Thanks for the info...woah...you have a whole of lot of things going for and I must say you are really using your phone's potential...The only issue with the suggestion is that I need to unlock the boot loader and root the device..it's so very new that I'd like to have it running like this for a while till I get bored of the stock experience...but yes I'll surely try out all the suggestions u have made once I root.:laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Some suggestions provided here.
https://www.androidpit.com/google-play-services-what-is-it-and-what-is-it-for
The disable Auto-sync data suggestion from the link might save some battery, yet I've always turned that off, so it's not the cause of the issues on my phone. My prior Android phone had a short issue with Google Play burning through battery that was eventually fixed by an update, but I'm not sure what good it would do to uninstall Google Play Services updates, since all three OS versions have had the same issue. It's just silly that Google Play Services reports using more power than the screen, which is probably why I thought the iPhone 7 got a lot better battery life than the Pixel. Unfortunately Apple only provides Mac users a way to know notifications have been received without touching an iPhone, so hopefully I can eventually track down the Android battery usage to an app or some other similarly easy to correct problem. At this point I only have 5 apps from the Play Store installed, although it looks like safe mode also shuts off some of the default apps like Keep.
My phone reported about 200 mAh from Google Services while in safe mode over the past day, which is also labeled Google Play services when not in safe mode. The Pixel was mostly just idle with the screen off and not doing anything, so that may be around the minimum usage per day I can reasonably expect from Google Play services on the standard Pixel.
Edit: I flashed the January update and allowed the wipe. After shutting off most of the options for Google, like Google Assistant, the phone reported nearly 200 mAh from Google Play services in a day, so that seems around the minimum I can get by using the options the OS provides.
I seriously think it's a rogue app...I did a factory reset and so far it's been good.
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I seriously think it's a rogue app...I did a factory reset and so far it's been good.
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Good for you. Play services doesn't drain battery on its own. Some app has to misbehave or demand exclusive control of the play store app to cause play services to run wild.
So it all started when I decided to troubleshoot why google opinion was no longer working and found that it had no permissions and that it was using timeline from google maps. Then looking at timeline I noticed it was not tracking where I was going. I then started a chat with support and they noticed the same thing happening on multiple other phones. I asked if battery optimization would affect timeline and they stated no. I decided to disable it on google maps anyways and then found it to start working like it should. (Not sure if opinions is going to start giving me surveys but we will see) Since battery optimization was affecting maps it made me wonder if its affecting anything else so i stepped through each app and disabled battery optimization (would be nice if someone could write an app that does this because its quite tedious) Today I have not noticed any difference in battery usage and might actually be a little better.
Why have battery optimization if it causes issues with google's own apps preventing them from working correctly????
iirc, Doze only kicks in after the phone has been unused and stationary for a few hours. If you keep it in your pocket all day it doesn't have a chance to save power
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Well it made a difference because the app started tracking my location after turning off battery optimization.
Google Opinion Rewards is now working!
Makes me wonder how many other devices are neutered by battery optimization instead of helping
My optimisation is on. And the google local survey working without issue when i visit places.
Yes but do you see every place in your google maps timeline. Mine shows driving and every location I have been now. Also I am talking about google rewards that pays you for answering questions not the maps app questions.
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Yes but do you see every place in your google maps timeline. Mine shows driving and every location I have been now. Also I am talking about google rewards that pays you for answering questions not the maps app questions.
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Sorry then,
I never turn on location history.
thats a confirmed battery drainer, and i kinda hate it if google know about every places i go/visit. LoL