This is a new problem, just started happening this past week or so. My battery is draining faster than normal and google Maps is in the top 2 spots every time I check. I've force-stopped it and an hour later it is running again somehow. How to I track down what app or apps is causing my maps usage, and once I find it how do I fix it?
There are several data tracking apps in the play store.
Regarding google maps...I think this is still true. I know it used to be. Almost every program that wants your location calls on maps to get it. You most likely have a program that is polling at a frequent interval. What have you installed recently?
kingston73 said:
This is a new problem, just started happening this past week or so. My battery is draining faster than normal and google Maps is in the top 2 spots every time I check. I've force-stopped it and an hour later it is running again somehow. How to I track down what app or apps is causing my maps usage, and once I find it how do I fix it?
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I had this problem... Disable the location settings options in Google maps settings... It completely fixed the problem for me.
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
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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!
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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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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
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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.
Hello everyone!
I have a situation here ... I have quite massive battery drain from Google Play Services on my HTC One M9. I check with my gf Samsung Galaxy S6 and her G play services were about 1%. My were almost 50%... The only difference is I use LG G Watch R paired to my phone but I tried disconnecting it and still same... I use Google Fit and also tried disabling it but not much of a difference. There was about 10% less of drain when I put my location on battery save. But it is still over the ruff with that drain. My device is not rooted so I can't check battery wakes ... I kinda don't know what to do any more. Has any one had problem like this and how did you solve it?
I am thankful for any responses or ideas. (Sorry for bad English)
Did you ever learn anything about this? My friend has the same problem on his M9.
While screen off mine used 63%
started happening for me too today, together with "system (adsprpcd)" (and no, I don't have google app installed, nor nuplayer enabled), rebooting didn't help.
I've same issue
I tried to turn off the data connection while screen off, and oddly the problem solved !
Also noticed that system use network as shown in picture in Wi-Fi packets received section.
the Gsam battery monitor shows that System use "Video On" for 16 hours in my last charging circle, honestly I don't know what's that mean.
I wonder if I stopped data connection for system process will solve the issue permenantly and we don't have to turn off the Wi-Fi, and why system and google play service use the network while screen off ?
I will try it and let you know
Best thing to do is set location to battery saving, turn off as much sync as you can, and wipe data on play services. I think this is an issue with Android. 5.1 should fix it.
For some reason Google play services is keeping my phone awake all day. This started happening after the 5.1.1 update. I even did a factory reset when I updated. All the fixes I found online require root.. Anyone have a solution?
a good ap to save battery power is called battery doctory.
Google Play Services (which I will abbreviate as GPS) began sucking a lot more battery than usual on my phone as of a week ago. GPS updates automatically and silently install without your knowledge every few weeks. Occassionally, they introduce a bug and everyone's phone begins freaking out, seemingly like magic. I think the latest version may have some sort of bug, but it's hard to tell for sure.
First, what version of GPS was installed on your phone? Go to settings-applications-all-Google Play Services and look at the version number under the app name.
The latest version is 8.3.00.
One way to see if the app version is bugged is to uninstall the updates and see if the battery life improves. With updates uninstalled, your Google apps will basically be useless though. This technique isn't fool proof though, because at any time, GPS may update itself again. This also means that you can't downgrade, because the app will update without your knowledge.
Try uninstalling updates to see if your battery improves. If it does, try using it like normal until GPS updates itself. At that point, battery drain should kick up again.
PS: Are you using any Android Wear?
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Yeah I reinstalled it after I made the post. It fixed it
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