I've had issues with battery drain from Google Play Services since the day 1. I've turned off location and sync, disabled a "Keep awake" permission for Google Play Services with App Ops. I also use Amplify to limit the wakelocks and alarms. Literally everything I could think of, and I'm still experiencing this weird issue.
The phone is running stock lollipop. Screenshots below:
Battery Stats
Battery Stats 2 (Google Play services)
Wakelock Detector not detecting any wakelocks
GSam Battery Monitor showing only 1.7% drain from google play services, compared to the 16% from system's battery stats
Amplify - limited wakelocks (most of them are set to 420 secs)
Amplify - limited alarms
What else can I do to fix this?
Since about 4 months, I have been facing very bad battery drain due to Google play services. It emerged out of nowhere. And is now refusing to go back.
It consumes upto 1/3 of battery, always tops the SHOW FULL DEVICE USAGE section in battery stats, and often eats upto 3x the screen.
I face it on every custom ROM and sometimes on oos as well. It can't be a custom ROM issue, as no one else is facing them. I am sure of it.
I have 4G data on 24 hrs. Most of the apps installed are those which are famous or have good reviews on play store. Battery stats show no app behaving usually. I do not use location. I haven't disabled any apps. Wifi scanning is off as well.
I have tried greenify, naptime, gms doze magisk module, disabling several of the permissions of play services. Have also tried blocking one or 2 wakelocks and alarms. I have tried turning off find my device, Google account syncs, play protect, disability play services, uninstalling and reinstalling its latest version, clearing caches and other common suggestions spread over google. Someone suggested me using latest codeworkx twrp. I have tried that also..
You can see the apps I have installed in the attached ss.
Please help. I am really tired now. Don't know what to do.
Thank you.
Anyone please?
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
For me google play services keep running in the background.
Could you please share a pic of your entire battery drainage from the apps?
I disabled it (google app, not play services) since day one, along with other annoying pests via ccswe and package disabler pro, both complement each other perfectly, of course there is the ADB commands method, but I preffer the apps I mentioned, as they provide very useful widgets to enable/disable problematic apps as google, playstore, updates, chrome, etc, you can even disable services within the apps, to avoid background data access or runnig on boot
Subham jyoti said:
For me google play services keep running in the background.
Could you please share a pic of your entire battery drainage from the apps?
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This one?
winol said:
I disabled it (google app, not play services) since day one, along with other annoying pests via ccswe and package disabler pro, both complement each other perfectly, of course there is the ADB commands method, but I preffer the apps I mentioned, as they provide very useful widgets to enable/disable problematic apps as google, playstore, updates, chrome, etc, you can even disable services within the apps, to avoid background data access or runnig on boot
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Can you guide me what needs to be done with these apps? I never seen so much battery drain due to google app on my previous phones
atrix4nag said:
This one?
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Thnx. Yeah it's same like me. I don't know why it keeps running in the background
atrix4nag said:
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
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Firstly,
Look at my Google usage, screenshot
9 hrs background and only 0.1 % usage..!
So even if your Google is enabled in background
it should only take a minimum % eg 1 % ..?
So i would say that some settings in your
Google..?
that is enabled, eg syncing..... etc
I don't know all the tasks connected to Google.
I would rather cross check with battery
apps eg Betterbatterystats, Gsam battery monitor,
Wakelock detector lite etc
to pinpoint reason, than try and restrict Google.
Bottom line,
If you don't know what to do and you are desperate,
i would then factory reset device.
Should solve the problem..... hopefully.!
Good luck.
willcor said:
Firstly,
Look at my Google usage, screenshot
9 hrs background and only 0.1 % usage..!
So even if your Google is enabled in background
it should only take a minimum % eg 1 % ..?
So i would say that some settings in your
Google..?
that is enabled, eg syncing..... etc
I don't know all the tasks connected to Google.
I would rather cross check with battery
apps eg Betterbatterystats, Gsam battery monitor,
Wakelock detector lite etc
to pinpoint reason, than try and restrict Google.
Bottom line,
If you don't know what to do and you are desperate,
i would then factory reset device.
Should solve the problem..... hopefully.!
Good luck.
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Thanks for your suggestions.
I don't want to do factory reset. I will try with other options first.
atrix4nag said:
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
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Same happened to me. What I did was to delete Data from Play services app, then I deleted cache from phone an voila. I have all sync and functional.
Ps. I charge my phone to 90% and I can get 5-6 SOT at 30% left everyday.
The issue op mentioned is not about google play services, it is about the google app instead I think
The problem is I don't think any batter stat apps can get low enough level stats to indicate what is using the Google app in the background to determine what is causing the drain. Usually, the culprit is an app frequently using location service (your GPS) to check your location which I believe the Android location service coordinates for apps other than the native Android/Google apps are obtained through the Google app in the background. That latter point is purely a guess because as we all know the Google app is a "multipurpose" app and you can't see detailed enough battery usage to determine what function of the app is being used that causes battery drain.
On my S10 5G, for the first 2 weeks I've used it, Google never was in the top 5, taking like 1-2% over the course of a day. Then seemingly all the sudden, it was #1, consuming like close to 1% an hour in the background. So I think, what did I change recently? I enabled Google Discover, but set the option to mae it update less fequently (6 hours) to reduce battery (the option actually says this will reduce battery usage). It didn't make a difference. So I disabled Google Discover and installed Google News instead. My Google app battery usage is lower now. About 0.9% per hour (all background usage of course). I think for most people that's good, but not when you were used to it being more like 0.1-0.2% an hour before.
I think the bottom line is if you want to use more features on your phone you have to live with a bump in battery usage. The 4500 mAh battery on my S10 5G lasts me abotu 1.5 days. LOL. But I don't play games or check Facebook/Instragram all day. Just a few texts, weather alerts, maybe an hour or two of browsing. Mabe an hour total of talk time. So relative to other people I should be less concerned if my phone is lasting well over a day on a charge, actually close to 2 days many times. I know a lot of other more "frequent users" (probably a lot of people younger than myself) that are on social media a lot and or listening to music/watching videos would kill to have their phones last 20-48 hours without having to charge.
Still, I keep an eye on things and it bugs me Google has jumped up. A great app to use is Accubattery and monitor the "SCREEN OFF" discharge rate. You're not actively using apps when the sceen is off so this gives you a good idea of your total background battery usage. You can make changes to settings, charge your for for a while, and let several hours pass, then check the screen off discharge rate and compare it to other discharge periods before you made the settings to determine if the changes you made had much of an effect.
Of course background usage isn't going to be 100% consistent, so the longer you measure the better, as if you look at it over like a 1 hour period, it could be certain apps were just more or less active during that particular hour. But if you compare like half day or more (6+ hour) periods to previous periods, you can get a good gauge if apps setting changes or newly installed apps are eating more battery in the background.
I disable Google feedfack, all their data collecting junk and their data backup too. Google is a pig.
Some blocked Google apks like Playstore are enabled as needed.
Even when Framework and Google Transport are blocked it's sometimes periodically necessary to clear their data to get them from using excessive cpu cycles.
Battery Tracker reports Google Framework running when AOD is on but it's likely misreading as long as battery draw remains at around 1%@hour while phone is screen off.
I'm running on Pie... who knows what Q will do.
Most likely make a bigger mess.
I notice nu battery drain a lot now i see this? Anybofy a solution?
Could you post a screenshot of the app's battery usage (and preferably the full usage by tapping at the top right dots). That can help tracking it down.
I can see on your screenshot that it probably could be the Google Play services but I'd need more detail to be able to help you out.
is there any way to find out (debug) which app is causing google play services to drain battery in background ?
apart from trial and error of course ?
I got 1-2%/hour drain from this thing alone. even when deep sleep is enabled
disabled everything possible from location access
This also interests me. The battery is unbelievably bad no matter what I do.
this is my usage today. tried taking out truecaller. same drain.
no way to diagnose this? even tried betterbatterystats
nothing unusual there
anyone can post google play services drain on s22 exynos?
Only by rooting the phone can you get the play services to doze. This would take care of the issue.
strange. usually this is a very low percentage/day for my apps.
dont know what triggers it to consume this amount of resources on the s22
try resetting cache/data / wiped cache partition , nothing seems to work
I definitely ordered the snapdragon version from wondamobile....
gsam battery monitor with better battery stats permission given will give some information at least about Play Services wakelocks
That is killing my battery also. But I dont want to root. any other fix ?
Best fix in long term would be an OTA update I think. Providing Samsung is working on that
I have the same problem after using the Universal Android Debloater recommended list.