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[Q] Google Play Services draining battery

This is draining my battery. Kept phone awake for almost 100% on time. Anyone else noticing this? Not changed anything. Only thing that has changed is I now have Google Glass, but I dont have them with me today, so it wouldnt be using that.

droidkevlar said:
This is draining my battery. Kept phone awake for almost 100% on time. Anyone else noticing this? Not changed anything. Only thing that has changed is I now have Google Glass, but I dont have them with me today, so it wouldnt be using that.
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I was having a similar problem with Play Services and Media Services. I installed App Cache Cleaner and set it to auto wipe every hour or so. That fixed the problem (or at least stopped it from draining the battery).
Hope that helps.

Techngro said:
I was having a similar problem with Play Services and Media Services. I installed App Cache Cleaner and set it to auto wipe every hour or so. That fixed the problem (or at least stopped it from draining the battery).
Hope that helps.
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I have disabled use wireless networks in Location Services and all has gone back to normal. Maybe give that a shot and see if that fixes it for you.

Researched this a lot, found some solutions, bad and good fixes and after trying some different twists on it after two days this is what I found to be the best, and I decided since this is just as bad as 4.0/4.1 and the mediaserver battery drain I might as well try and help at least 1 person by mass posting this reply I wrote else where to other threads, so here you go:
"Hey- I don't know if you, or anyone else has found a working solution, but here is the way I found best:
Note- I am on galaxy s4 [sgh-i337] running a 4.4 KitKat rom. I have found the following work around to work best for me:
1 Google now & Hotword detection=OFF,
2 GPS = OFF and turned on only when needed, eg maps/checkin on facebook/whatever needs location.
3 Settings-> Manage Apps -> Google Play Services -> Manage Space -> Clear All Data.
**Optional:After this [root only] I go into KT tweaker and make sure my phone cpu is set to a max of 810 Mhz when screen off.**
This fix usually works until I reset the phone. I ALWAYS follow those 3 steps when rebooting. AND always check that after I've used GPS that Google Play Services isn't keeping my phone awake. [Eg, after 30 minutes I check if the phone ever went to sleep again when the screen was off.] IF it does act up, I repeat steps 1, 2 &3. I still get notifications and all, and this is the least feature disabling way I've found that works with the cost of a little micro-management of your phone.
With this fix I can idle for an estimated 5-6days. As I take off my phone from charge at 8am and at noon with minimal usage [maybe 4 or 5 texts] I am at 97%. With WiFi on & connected.
OTHER: I personally keep NFC&Android beam&Bluetooth OFF, and turn ON when I need it on. Other- WiFi is always ON, and "Scanning Always Available" & "WiFi Optimization" is checked ON for me. And for location mode when I do have it on, I keep it at EDIT: Device only. Using only gps to find my location.
All in all, I hope this gets fixed."
I can post screen shots and all if somebody wants them or if there is need for one
-icy

[Q] Google Services Draining Batery

Dear Community!!!
So Days ago i upgrade my Xperia ZL to kit kat, everithing ok a couple days, fantastic.....but, was suddenly my phone without battery, the problem? google play service was draining the 85% to my battery. When i upgrade to 4.3 firmeware i had the same trouble and then i maked to flash again. Also, this time i just did a factory reset and then everithing ok a couple days... but again, suddenly, google play service is draining all life to my phone...So, somebody knows whats the problem anda what can i do (whitout flashing again)... thanks buddies

The issue is a location wakelock, there are two ways around it disable location if you don't use it, or disable Google now.
If you are rooted, u can uninstall the Google search app from system and reinstall it from play store
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thanks
xyge said:
The issue is a location wakelock, there are two ways around it disable location if you don't use it, or disable Google now.
If you are rooted, u can uninstall the Google search app from system and reinstall it from play store
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Ok, if i understand, i must disable location? how i do that? yes i root i gonna unistall google serch and a itold you... very very thanks dude....

Nothing works
Nope.... google servicise going to drining my life.... sucks... check it

Prome7eo said:
Nope.... google servicise going to drining my life.... sucks... check it
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you have an option in settings to disable location
since you are rooted,look for "wakelock detector" and "disable service" in play store,
'wakelock detector' will tell you what apps or services are causing it, and then u can disable that particular service using the 'disable service' app

Thanks a lot
xyge said:
you have an option in settings to disable location
since you are rooted,look for "wakelock detector" and "disable service" in play store,
'wakelock detector' will tell you what apps or services are causing it, and then u can disable that particular service using the 'disable service' app[/QUO
A lot of thanks Xyge... I download the app than you sugest and AppOps to remove permissions at Google Search, especifically location and screen awake... apparently works better and services not drining the battery... Again XYGE thanks a lot
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Anytime brother, we are all here to help!
Sent from my C6502 using Tapatalk

I discovered something else.
I reinstalled my Phone again with Android 4.4.2. I installed all my apps. Using the Google Now Launcher.
Batterie consumptions seems normal. I see wake locks but acceptable.
But when driving to home from work I used Avertinoo (A radar notifying application that uses GPS). At home I closed the application. But suddenly I saw that the phone stays awake all the time. And Google Service is responsible for 86% of battery consumption.
Only solution, restart of the phone.
I did several test with this application. A short usage of the application does not seem to trigger the problem.
I did a test with Navigon (Navigation software) and I got the same problem.
So I think any application using the GPS for to long, will cause a problem with the Google service (endless loop due to time out ?).

xyge said:
you have an option in settings to disable location
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Instead of disabling location, setting the location mode to "device only" was enough for me.

dmeerpa said:
I discovered something else.
I reinstalled my Phone again with Android 4.4.2. I installed all my apps. Using the Google Now Launcher.
Batterie consumptions seems normal. I see wake locks but acceptable.
But when driving to home from work I used Avertinoo (A radar notifying application that uses GPS). At home I closed the application. But suddenly I saw that the phone stays awake all the time. And Google Service is responsible for 86% of battery consumption.
Only solution, restart of the phone.
I did several test with this application. A short usage of the application does not seem to trigger the problem.
I did a test with Navigon (Navigation software) and I got the same problem.
So I think any application using the GPS for to long, will cause a problem with the Google service (endless loop due to time out ?).
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it's actually a wakelock, whenever an app requires the phone to be awake(say use gps) it sets a wakelock until some condition is satisfied(as u said endless loop), point is its not due to time out but some weird issue that is coming up with the google apps of our particular device....that's why a restart solves it or at times it may not occur for hours of usage of an app and next time it may occur after a minute.
the disabling of services or location is a temporary solution right now.
I tried to clean up all google apps in system and install the latest gapps and odex them.....until now i havent seen any battery issues(in fact usage is not even visible).....i'll report the findings after a fair usage so i can be sure if it does fix the issue.

I uninstalled Google Search from system and installed from the Playstore, then disabled location reporting and my battery seems to go to normal draining

maxee23 said:
I uninstalled Google Search from system and installed from the Playstore, then disabled location reporting and my battery seems to go to normal draining
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How to I uninstall it from system.
I have root of course. I tried root uninstaller from the play store but it just replaced it with the factory version.
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Sirence said:
How to I uninstall it from system.
I have root of course. I tried root uninstaller from the play store but it just replaced it with the factory version.
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you don't have to uninstall or install anything
just go to sittings\ security and disable Google reporting
that's all

a little update is coming
On PTCRB there is a new Version certified .233
Maybe this will fix the battery draining.
http://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=22622

I was having this draining problem (happened out of nowhere, a full week after installing the 4.4.2 update).
Uninstalling Google Search and reinstalling it through the Play Store didn't worked (kept having Google Services draining more than 80%).
Setting Location mode to GPS-only didn't worked neither. Turning location off worked, but disabled my location-based apps, has expected.
What did worked for me was going to Setting -> Location-> Location Services (Google Location Report) and disabling both Location Report and Location History.
Now Google Services DOES NOT DRAIN more than 2% of my battery. CPU usage is always low (using CPU Spy Reborn, the 1512 MHz frequency step is pretty much around 2 - 3% of the time, as is the 1026 MHz frequency step - the remaining frequency steps are all at 0 - 1%, with 384 MHz (the lowest step) at 52% and Deep Sleep at 34% of the time).
All this with Location active on high-precision mode. Roughly 5h10min of usage (LTE always on), with PowerAmp playing for more than 4h straight, around 55min screen on and 15min or so of gaming (Zombie Gunship), and the battery is still at 72%.
With 4.3, with the same level of usage (moderate to heavy, I guess) the battery would absolutely be on the 60-65% range.
In other words, disabling both Location Report and Location History worked for me, with zero downsides with regards to location based apps (Google Maps, Waze and GPS Essentials all work perfectly).
Hope this helps. Best regards.

[Q] Has Google Play Services 5.0 solved 4.4.2 issues ?

Has Google play services fix the issues of 4.4.2 on the Xperia ZL ?
http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/07/0...it-solved-your-xperia-z-battery-drain-issues/

Boosted_01 R said:
Has Google play services fix the issues of 4.4.2 on the Xperia ZL ?
http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/07/0...it-solved-your-xperia-z-battery-drain-issues/
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DONT POST QUESTIONS IN GENERAL SECTION!!!
BTW. Yes its work

Boosted_01 R said:
Has Google play services fix the issues of 4.4.2 on the Xperia ZL ?
http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/07/0...it-solved-your-xperia-z-battery-drain-issues/
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nope. Google play services wasn't draining battery at all. only Sony has to fix it like they did it with Jelly Bean.

Boosted_01 R said:
Has Google play services fix the issues of 4.4.2 on the Xperia ZL ?
http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/07/0...it-solved-your-xperia-z-battery-drain-issues/
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Well, i dont know..
Because i stop that service and my xperia's battery now running absolutely great
With a lot of xposed module, some mod, 100%-20% is about 10 hours

Ah dam.... will be sticking with 4.3 for a long time it seems.... not going to mod my phone for no real benefit of 4.4

No, not here.

Phantom1275 said:
No, not here.
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I did a fresh .230 flash on my ZL and tried just about every combination possible of known fixes to avoid the battery drain on the 5.0 services release. I can confirm that the drain issue is still very much present and the only real way to get rid of it is to downgrade to another release.
I downgraded to .101 and now when I awake in the morning my phone's battery shows 99% full instead of the 86% I was receiving constantly on the .230 release with the exact same settings.

enrique71 said:
I did a fresh .230 flash on my ZL and tried just about every combination possible of known fixes to avoid the battery drain on the 5.0 services release. I can confirm that the drain issue is still very much present and the only real way to get rid of it is to downgrade to another release.
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Or... you can disable location services, or enable only location by GPS, and reboot your phone. And never allow Google to get your location with wifi or cell connection, in Chrome, Maps, weather widgets that try to locate automatically and so on.
This will also do the trick, without needing a downgrade. But still, you will lose some functionality.

5.0.88. http://4pda.ru/forum/dl/post/4881766/Google+Play+Services+5.0.88+(1297476-038).apk :good:

eduardkdrv said:
5.0.88. http://4pda.ru/forum/dl/post/4881766/Google+Play+Services+5.0.88+(1297476-038).apk :good:
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Has this version solved the problem?
How can I update? There's no update available in Play Store for Google Play Services. I'm still on 5.0.84.

Phantom1275 said:
Has this version solved the problem?
How can I update? There's no update available in Play Store for Google Play Services. I'm still on 5.0.84.
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Battery drain fix! ZL 4.4 (230) - :good:

eduardkdrv said:
Battery drain fix! ZL 4.4 (230) - :good:
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Testing now. Seems to be working.

Phantom1275 said:
Testing now. Seems to be working.
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What exactly are you testing ?

enrique71 said:
What exactly are you testing ?
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This new version of Google Play Services, 5.0.88.
I have installed it manually, and enabled location again, using GPS and wifi/phone networks. I have runned Google Maps, Chrome, Google Now and some other apps that ask for the location.
Until now, there's no abnormal battery draining. My ZL is not awake all the time, as it was with KitKat ROM and older versions of Google Play Services such as 5.0.84.

Need new download link folks, old one's busted.

5.0.88: http://d-h.st/qKw
Will be testing in a few hours.

does it work?
does it?
I did not have the battery drain problem with my ZR on 4.4.2 at all, untill suddenly last night, battery usage 91% google play services, phone awake time more than 7 hours while i was asleep and an empty battery when i woke up.
So, until this morning i thought i was lucky, but now i have the same problem as many of us, sooo: does it help this 5.0.88 update?
thanks
update after 3 hours: well, too bad i t doesnt. Battery usage 52% google play services, phone awake time 2,4 hours of 2.5 in total, battery drain 31% in 2,5 hours, so without doing anything. With activities like calls, internet etcétera my battery will last at most 5 hours at full charge.
so, worhtless update.
Who is going to bring the solution? .

Installed this morning version 5.0.88. After driving home, with GPS running and plugged to a charger, I did have again a wakelock.
It seems the wakelock starts after charging and I suppose even when charging and using the GPS at the same time.

A few days using version 5.0.88 now.
No, it doesn't solve the issue. It's better, actually, but I still get some wakelocks from Google Play Services that keep my ZL awake. I don't know what triggers them, can't find out. I have to investigate more.
What freaks me out is that sometimes, after a big period awake (let's say, two or three hours), the phone enters deep sleep by itself. But sometimes, even if I kill all Google Play Services and apps that must be using location, and disable location, my ZL still goes on awake. I have to reboot to get it normal again.

I just did a roll-back, I have the impression I do have again a lot more difficulties to get GPS locked. And often lose GPS lock.
I will see if GPS is better again with 5.0.84

CM11 Google Services eating battery

Haven't seen any other reports of this so I guess it may just be me, but when the latest CM update came out on 6/19, I installed superSU and flashed the latest update of CM and since then I've had intermittent problems with google services eating the battery on my phone.
It'll last for 30 or 60 minutes then go away but during that time battery app shows google services using 60% of battery, and it is draining around 1% of the battery every other minute. The only app I downloaded since the update was Hulu and that had already been on my phone, I just reinstalled to see if casting would work.
Anyone have any insight?

Known issue, but my issue had stopped (for now at least) since the latest GServices update (9.2.25 (036-124593566) but that might be a temp result of the update, only time will tell but it has been about 4 days.
The only way I have found to quickly stop the draining is go to the app details and force stop services. This will reset it to normal power consumption...until it starts again (no idea what triggers it).

I'm running 9.2.56 (a newer version?) Issue is happening now. Didn't give me option to force stop services in app settings though.

Quigly4000 said:
I'm running 9.2.56 (a newer version?) Issue is happening now. Didn't give me option to force stop services in app settings though.
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Sorry must have been a typo, running 9.2.56 (036-124593566)
When this issue started to occur I started using this app to quickly get to the App Info to force stop it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weberdo.apps.serviceinfo

I should have added that in order to Force Stop GP Services you need to disable it as a device administrator (which will disable Android Device Manager for that device I believe).

I had the same problem. Then i remove the update of g play services, i buy greenify donate version with xposed, i ibernate g play services. Now i haven't this problem

google play services

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

amirage said:
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.

quangtran1 said:
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?

amirage said:
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?
http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/586d33248b82f/Screenshot_20170104-120311.png?
http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/586d33514cbcb/Screenshot_20170104-120356.png?
http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/586d336274a12/Screenshot_20170104-120423.png?

quangtran1 said:
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?
http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/586d33248b82f/Screenshot_20170104-120311.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.
amirage said:
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.

amirage said:
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.

amirage said:
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.