Hi everyone,
My G4 always had an average battery life ( 1,5 day with 3,5 SOT). But it has now been 2 days since it began to drain its battery. It seems related to Google services and app. I think the recent Google app update has caused this.
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Just uninstall google services updates, make sure to untick android device manager in phone admin<security.
Thx mate I'll give it a try.
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Ok, so I tried to uninstall the Google Play services updates, but the option is greyed out, I can't do anything.
Not a direct reply to the question, but are rogue apps, especially Google's own services, frequent battery killers? It seems like with Android you've got to constantly watch background battery drain in a way that I am not used to from ios.
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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...
johnyu142 said:
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.....
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!
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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.
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
Hello. I've recently installed CM 13 on my phone (great ROM btw thx devs). The Android OS drain of the stock ROM has gone away and the performance is much better. It also uses approximately 3%/min when being used with medium load. However, the idle battery drain is atrocious (I believe this also applies to the stock ROM). The phone uses about 5% every hour when connected to 3G (displaying 4~5 bars), Bluetooth and WiFI on. Because of this, the battery life suffers greatly.
So the questions that I have are:
1. What cause this battery drain? Google Play Services? With clean flash, no Gapps, nothing installed doesn't have this drain. So I'm suspecting it's to do with Google Play Services or the background processes being managed incorrectly.
2. Is there a way to fix it? Custom Kernels? Amplify? (I know that you're supposed to clean flash and provide logs to devs, but the thread is more about how to fix it so yeah)
Thank you in advance!!
Battery drain happens mostly from Google Apps and Facebook and Messenger. I uninstalled most of Gapps and Facebook and installed Greenify, PowernNap, Amplify and the battery drain is gone.
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Since the latest update of Android 10, my phone will not even last me a day. I've asked Google Assitant if my battery is bad and it told me it's fine. But I can do 30 min of light new reading and it's dropped by 20%, previously I could easily get an hour of Reddit and reading and it would drop to 90-91%.
I've tried many things, like clearing cache of Google App and Google Play Service but it still drains. I have no apps running the background that I see are taking a lot of resources.
Try a custom kernel; there are a number of good ones out there. I use caesium.
I'm using latest: 10 factory image, EX kernel, twrp, and magisk.
Today I was at 2hr 55 min with 47% remaining, and my overnight drain is about 6%, which are both about the same as what I was getting on 9x.
IIRC "wi-fi and BT scanning" (location) were turned ON by default when I switched to 10, so I turned them off. Not sure how much, if any, additional drain that might cause.
Yes...this ^^^; I am experiencing the same as well...
I noticed I used to have such excellent battery life on my 2XL, but no longer... I used to use it pretty hard (SOT plus apps like GPS or streaming music/video), and still have a good percentage leftover at the end of the day (15-20%)....
I'm unsure what, if anything specific, might be causing such the drain, but I "chalked" it up to the new OS version....maybe it's inadvertently attempting to sense off-screen gestures for all i know (which would be an understandable loop with that being a Pixel 4 particular and makes sense of the drain)...
Just some basic info on my device: October patch, Magisk v20, custom kernel: Caesium (successor of the legend Flash kernel), AOD is enabled, manual brightness but usually at 80%-ish, “Saturated” color scheme, Dark theme enabled (in both Display settings and in Developers settings), “Optimizing battery use” is enabled for most apps….
Waibashi said:
Since the latest update of Android 10, my phone will not even last me a day. I've asked Google Assitant if my battery is bad and it told me it's fine. But I can do 30 min of light new reading and it's dropped by 20%, previously I could easily get an hour of Reddit and reading and it would drop to 90-91%.
I've tried many things, like clearing cache of Google App and Google Play Service but it still drains. I have no apps running the background that I see are taking a lot of resources.
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How old is your Pixel 2 XL? Google Assistant also says my battery health is fine but I definitely have battery degradation and I'm not surprised after 2 years.
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My Google assistant never tells me about my battery's health? What question do you guys ask??
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My Google assistant never tells me about my battery's health? What question do you guys ask??
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Just ask, "Is my battery bad?"
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EeZeEpEe said:
Just ask, "Is my battery bad?"
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Thanks my battery is good. Although it's only been 10 months. I hope dark mode is supported in more apps specially WhatsApp, Chrome and Facebook. That will help the battery even more.
October update is really buggy. I didn't like it at all
My battery life is about the same. But my phones takes WAY longer to charge esp if i am not using a google quick charger.
Waibashi said:
Since the latest update of Android 10, my phone will not even last me a day. I've asked Google Assitant if my battery is bad and it told me it's fine. But I can do 30 min of light new reading and it's dropped by 20%, previously I could easily get an hour of Reddit and reading and it would drop to 90-91%.
I've tried many things, like clearing cache of Google App and Google Play Service but it still drains. I have no apps running the background that I see are taking a lot of resources.
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Methinks it's time for the dreaded factory reset. 8:45 minutes of screen on time here according to Accubattery with wifi and location always on and not the greatest signal up here in the Mountains...
My screen on time is 3 hours at max...no apps running in BG... tried greenify also but no luck...12 months old phone
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