I've noticed lately that across all Roms including stock Google Services has been number one atop my battery eating list. I didn't have this problem originally, but I am using my phone differently now, I use the FM radio or iHeartRadio depending on the day for about 4 hours at work and light usage on my breaks. I have sync and location off so it's not those things. I thought this was a bug with Android 5.0 but it happens on CM and Slim as well. Before the job I used the phone mostly on wifi and at home and obviously the number one in battery was screen. Is there a way to stop Google Services from using the battery? I don't understand what it's syncing when I have sync turned off anyway.
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Turn off in privacy for Google play store and gps wake up and keep awake permissions.
Also turn on in app usage these two apps.
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May I ask you what ROM do you use?
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Ok so I know this has been discussed on many different forums many different times. But does anyone know what the deal is with maps. I have been off the charger for about 5.5 hrs and about to run out of battery. The phones settings show it has used 83% of the battery drained and spare parts shows maps almost completely full on sensor usage. Anyone have any info for me
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Take it you have latest gapps package.
Have you tried turning off the location services, allow apps to use my location ? and do you have latitude / location history turned on ? They keep maps running all the time
Where can i change those settings. I' ve gusta feeling that mapa mis eating muy battery away.
Thanks in advance.
Err location services is in the main android menu, im on ICS, and err its just called location services and untick allow apps/services to use data from wifi or mobile networks, and GPS if you want.
And latitude can be found in the Google Maps App, and you can either switch it off, and or go into the main google dashboard , find latitude, and switch off store location history.
I've been playing with random ROMs recently and have noticed my 'roids acting up.
Upon install of a new kernel/ROM, I bypass the Android/Google services setup pages that show up on initial boot. That gives me the baseline battery drain. It's only when I start to use Google services (like the Market) that it requires me to activate via a Google acct. After the activation, I see the increased battery drain.
Specifically, my battery discharge increases ~2.7x (idle) after I provide my Google account information to access the Market. After I provide the account creds, the GMail app starts working and I receive notifications of new emails.
I've got a theory that the GMail app or another Google app is polling/pulling instead of using the GMail/Google service to push the data and that this is using additional CPU.
Is this theory correct? Has anyone else seen this behavior?
P.S. My service provider, Verizon, uses a NAT (IP 10.xxx). I can't see how any external service can push anything through a NAT unless it has special access through the NAT. Can Google?
P.S.S. I know I can disable background data and auto-sync via Settings--> Accounts & Sync. It seems to fix the problem but I can't pin it down specifically to an app/service.
- Samsung Droid Charge
- Verizon Wireless 4G
- kernel 2.6.32.9 imnuts at virtualbox 1
- Humble 1.51 EE4 Android Froyo (currently)
Any help?
Anyone? I've received no responses and this seems like a question that could affect a large number of Android users.
Hi!
2 things I've done recently seem to have "removed" Google services from my battery usage when idle.
1.Using Titanium Backup/Menu/Market Tools/Market Auto Updates/Deselect all and Save auto Updates configuration.
2.Go Maps/More/Location History and then press the back button and go Menu/Settings /Location reporting/Location Reporting-Do not update your location+disable Location history+sign out of Latitude.The first 2 I've always done but signing out of Latitude seemed to make the difference.(Disable both Check ins).
There are obviously the other usual battery saving settings but these 2 got rid of Google Services.
HTH.
Galaxy S
Darky JW1 Base
Semaphore 2.2.0 Kernel
Modem ZSJPG
If you have no other regular apps working the background, google services as gmail or gtalk or contacts sync or calendar will surely increase battery usage, but it should be in the dimension of 2.7 times.
Battery life
Battery now down to 26% from full with 2d 1h 48m on battery.Google services has gone from 80%+ to 2%.Couple of screenshots attached.This Google services thing is not the only answer to battery life problems but there's always something running in the background doing the damage.HTH.
I've noticed that when I've got my EVO active on WiFi there's some significant network traffic between it and Google even when the device seems idle. I also have a cell phone repeater in my basement that shows activity when I so much as hit the power button to unlock the phone. Feels like there's stuff going on with some of those apps that maybe excessive and, yeah, that could impact battery drain. It certainly can't be good for it.
it is indeed.
Launcher?
Changed from TW Launcher to Go at about the same time as fiddling with Google Services above.Could it be that this has also made a difference.It has been a big improvement whatever it is.
Phone:Galaxy S I9000
Modem:XXJVQ
Romarky JW1 Base
Kernel:Semaphore 2.4.0
Launcher:Go
Theme:Honeycomb
After installing the latest edition of Google Maps, I noticed that it was using between 13-18% of my battery (after approx. 9 hours off the charger). I never opened Maps or Navigation, and when looking at its battery use, it's "stay awake" time was 0s.
I do have Google location services enabled, but as I said, I never used the Maps app or any other application that would require the use of standalone GPS services. And I always keep standalone (and VZW) location services off unless navigating. This was never a problem on older versions of Google Maps - is anyone else having this problem?
I also noticed my battery life was incrementally worse with this happening, which makes sense seeing as Google Maps ranks third behind Cell Standby and Screen on my battery usage log.
Any information or advice would be much appreciated!
minnysota said:
After installing the latest edition of Google Maps, I noticed that it was using between 13-18% of my battery (after approx. 9 hours off the charger). I never opened Maps or Navigation, and when looking at its battery use, it's "stay awake" time was 0s.
I do have Google location services enabled, but as I said, I never used the Maps app or any other application that would require the use of standalone GPS services. And I always keep standalone (and VZW) location services off unless navigating. This was never a problem on older versions of Google Maps - is anyone else having this problem?
I also noticed my battery life was incrementally worse with this happening, which makes sense seeing as Google Maps ranks third behind Cell Standby and Screen on my battery usage log.
Any information or advice would be much appreciated!
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All apps that use Location Services at all will show up as "Maps" in battery stats, so it can be really tricky to figure out which app is actually causing the problem. It's most likely an updated third-party app that has location permissions. Have you updated any other apps recently?
Recently, this happened to me with 1Weather - their update had some bug that caused the LocationServices service to run continuously, which led to Maps taking up the majority of my battery without using it. Uninstalled, and that fixed the problem.
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All apps that use Location Services at all will show up as "Maps" in battery stats, so it can be really tricky to figure out which app is actually causing the problem. It's most likely an updated third-party app that has location permissions. Have you updated any other apps recently?
Recently, this happened to me with 1Weather - their update had some bug that caused the LocationServices service to run continuously, which led to Maps taking up the majority of my battery without using it. Uninstalled, and that fixed the problem.
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That's interesting. The only apps I have that could have had location settings turned on were Facebook (chat), Flixster and Chrome. I turned off the location in Facebook chat, and the Flixster app says it uses network location only, so that shouldn't be an issue, right?
Also, I left location on for Chrome seeing as that would be the main benefit to keeping Google location services on.
I'll report back, hopefully the culprit was Facebook chat.
As a side not, uninstalling the Google Maps updates seems to have solved the problem, but I'd rather have the most up-to-date version of Maps.
If anyone else has any thoughts, I would really appreciate hearing them!
I froze maps and Google now and went from almost constant awake times overnight to nothing. Was losing 20% overnight sometimes. I don't use Google now and un freeze maps when I need navigation.
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scorchedsky said:
All apps that use Location Services at all will show up as "Maps" in battery stats, so it can be really tricky to figure out which app is actually causing the problem. It's most likely an updated third-party app that has location permissions. Have you updated any other apps recently?
Recently, this happened to me with 1Weather - their update had some bug that caused the LocationServices service to run continuously, which led to Maps taking up the majority of my battery without using it. Uninstalled, and that fixed the problem.
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Thanks for the info on this, I've been wondering what's up with the maps battery usage.
Just been at my desk in the office all day, no maps use, nothing at all that calls for location.
Google Play Services 39% of battery use
2 hours and 1 minutes of GPS use
Dunno what to do, but clearly Play services has hit up location services for almost 1/3 the time my phones been off the charger today.
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Just been at my desk in the office all day, no maps use, nothing at all that calls for location.
Google Play Services 39% of battery use
2 hours and 1 minutes of GPS use
Dunno what to do, but clearly Play services has hit up location services for almost 1/3 the time my phones been off the charger today.
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some report that this might be an issue with GNow. You might wanna turn that off/reboot and see if it helps. So far I didnt encounter that.
My google play services has been on for 22% . Keep awake time 8 hours 20 mins!
I have now turned google now off. Also note my location is set to battery saving mode too.
Disable Google location reporting and history. Saves a bundle.
Google now has never been enabled on my phone and location reporting has always been off as well.
Since I've totally disabled location services its used another 2 hours of GPS.
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How do you disable Google Now?
I think Google is doing something on the back end with google play services. I noticed it eating my battery and keeping my phone awake yesterday. I believe there is a google play services update that was pushed out as well. I hope this gets sorted out soon.
Hi, recently I have observed almost 3GB of Google Play Services usage.
I am reading in many threads that this issue is caused by OTA updates constantly downloading. The only solution reported is to download some application to disable it. However, apparently this causes a wake lock? Also, this is reported in version 4.3. I am on Cataclysm ROM on 4.4, so not sure if the solution would be applicable in this case.
Any help is appreciated.
Thx!
If you're running a custom ROM, it wouldn't be OTA downloading. If you have high accuracy on for your location settings, something might be trying to access GPS and syncing data.
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I had enormous data usage with google play store and android services while i was stock, i tried to find the culprit but i couldn't so im at a custom rom until we get an update. I don't have a problem on my custom rom right now (liquidsmooth) they still don't pull back tho, always at the top of my data usage list, google needs to look into that.
So for Google Play Services I have made it only to download in the background, so connected to WIFI.
I believe that this has disabled Push notifications, as Facebook Messenger no longer alerts me to a message.
Any other input would be greatly appreciated.
Thx!