Better Battery Stats - what's causing "NetworkStats" & related Partial Wakelocks?
I think I've isolated my battery drain down to a few things through BetterBatteryStats and GSam Battery Monitor:
1. "NetworkStats" as the longest Partial Wakelock and "RILJ" and "AlarmManager" as the highest count Partial Wakelocks in Better Battery Stats.
2. In GSam battery monitor "Android System" is almost always #1 for number of times waking devices, and usually followed in #2/3 by "Google Maps" and "Google+". Google+ sync'ing is turned off, but the "Sync Instant Upload" is turned on. I can't for the life of me figure out why Google Maps is always high on this list, even when I don't open the app all day.
Does anyone have any tips for how I can figure out what is triggering these NetworkStats/RILJ/AlarmManager/Android System/Google Maps wakelocks?
I'm thinking they are all related to each other through something like Calendar, or some other Android service gone awry. I don't know of any other way beyond Better Battery Stats and GSam to isolate the drain down to something more specific and measurable. Any thoughts or tips are appreciated.
Just wondering, is Google location services, gps satellites, location and Google search turned on?
erwaso said:
Just wondering, is Google location services, gps satellites, location and Google search turned on?
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I did not turn off Google Location Services.. what apps/services fall under that?
I also did not turn off Location and Google search, but that shouldn't be causing wake locks when I'm not using my phone, right?
GPS Satellites were turned off.
I have the same issue on my nexus. I have all three option disabled but get google keeps have the network location service running in the background. I even cleared maps cache and force stop. it really annoying
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I have the same issue on my nexus. I have all three option disabled but get google keeps have the network location service running in the background. I even cleared maps cache and force stop. it really annoying
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Sorry to hear - but glad to hear I'm not the only one that has noticed this. Are you running stock, custom rom, or what? One suspect is the HTC weather widget, I have that on my home screen but it's set to sync only once every 4 hours.
There must be some way to delve into what is triggering "NetworkStats".
So some of the things I've done so far that have helped:
Uninstalled the applications on{x} and Pageonce. Both were regularly showing large amounts of wake locks.
Disable Google+ sync'ing in BOTH Settings->Accounts AND within the Google+ application. Within Google+ there are separate Notification, Messenger, and Hangout sync settings. I'm not positive that disabling from within the app is necessary but I was still getting wake locks from Google+ after disabling it within Settings->Accounts. I'll know soon enough if that helps.
Disable redditnews from checking for new mail. I had accidentally set this to check for new reddit mail every 15 minutes!
Disable GPS satellites, Google Location Services, and Location and Google search from within the Settings->Location menu. I did this to see if it would eliminate the Google Maps wake locks that I can't seem to get rid of or pinpoint the cause of. It's only been a day but it seems the Google Maps wake locks have been cut down, but not completely. It's driving me crazy not knowing what is triggering Google Maps to wake lock my phone. The hunt continues...
I am on a custom rom LiquidSmooth 4.0.4 base.. I have tried removing anything that deals with maps but that stupid service still starts
Hey everyone, first I'm not really sure if this belongs in a Tasker forums. Seeing as I use a N5, I figured it could also go here. Anyway, I've been having some problems with Npl wakelocks. I downloaded wakelock terminator with xposed and it seemed to have helped, however something didn't seem right as my battery was draining the same amount as when the wakelocks were happening. The only time I wasn't having the drain was when location was set to device only, which makes sense.
I'm completely new to tasker. I've watched a few tutorials and I've messed around with it a bit but with not much luck. I wanted to do one of two things. Either have location set to battery saver/high accuracy when the screen is on, and have it set to device only when the screen is off. Another option is to have it set to battery saver/high accuracy when google now/maps is open and device only the rest of the time. I feel like this shouldn't be that hard but I messed around with it and got no where. Anyway, what are your guys' opinion about this strategy and would anyone be able to help me with implementing these tasks. Thanks!
I wouldn't go the route of using tasker for your problem. And I would ditch that xposed module for wakelocks too. I run rooted with xposed on high accuracy at all times. My battery life is great. You need to find the source of your battery drain and eliminate it. Don't look for a bandaid fix using tasker. My guess is you have some rogue app killing your battery. Give us a list of all your apps, or delete them all, and install them one by one to track down the culprit. Also, are you running stock Rom and kernel? What other mods do you have?
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I wouldn't go the route of using tasker for your problem. And I would ditch that xposed module for wakelocks too. I run rooted with xposed on high accuracy at all times. My battery life is great. You need to find the source of your battery drain and eliminate it. Don't look for a bandaid fix using tasker. My guess is you have some rogue app killing your battery. Give us a list of all your apps, or delete them all, and install them one by one to track down the culprit. Also, are you running stock Rom and kernel? What other mods do you have?
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I can run the phone as normal today with location and everything on and post my BBS log after. Basically, when I'm at home the battery is great. However, ever since updating to the new google search app I've been having extreme wakelocks from the Npl whenever I would leave my house. Which is why I found a thread on xda that was talking about that exact wakelock. You're right though. I'm going to get rid of the app because it seemed weird. The wakelocks weren't showing up on BBS but I feel like it didn't get rid of them. Who knows though, maybe you're right and it is something else that's draining the battery which is why the wakelock app didn't help.
Anyway, I'm running stock ROM/kernel with xposed. I use greenify module, appOpsX, snapshare, gravity box, and gesture navigation module. With gravity box I just use custom quick settings, smaller nav bars, some status bar mods like the day and double tap to sleep. However, again I have had the same GB mods since before the drain. I use a pebble however I've never had a drain from that and I've been using it since Dec. Most of my apps are greenified including facebook, instagram, as well as all my music streaming apps. A lot of the google services I don't use are disabled like books/magazines/movies. I have snapchat, but I don't use it too much, and facebook messenger that I don't greenify. When I check GSam stats though, android system and kernel take the most battery, followed by music players if I was streaming music that day. The rest of the apps are way down the list.
I posted in the battery thread asking if anyone had the same problem with the wakelocks after having the latest google play services. I noticed mine is still 4.3 for some reason so I might just update manually from androidpolice and see if theres a difference. But yeah, I will keep this updated with todays logs.
Try this. Use titanium backup to uninstall Google play services and Google search. Then launch maps, and reinstall both from the play store.
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Another option is to have it set to battery saver/high accuracy when google now/maps is open and device only the rest of the time.
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This is what I ended up doing. You will need the secure settings plugin for tasker.
Set up a new profile for application "Maps".
When on, launch task GPS On (Secure settings, configuration GPS enabled)
Exit task, launch task GPS On (Secure settings, configuration GPS disabled)
I used the app factory to create an app for this, and use that on my N5 and my second phone too. Works great. Enables GPS when I launch Maps for navigation, and switches to battery saving when I exit Maps
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I can run the phone as normal today with location and everything on and post my BBS log after. Basically, when I'm at home the battery is great. However, ever since updating to the new google search app I've been having extreme wakelocks from the Npl whenever I would leave my house. Which is why I found a thread on xda that was talking about that exact wakelock. You're right though. I'm going to get rid of the app because it seemed weird. The wakelocks weren't showing up on BBS but I feel like it didn't get rid of them. Who knows though, maybe you're right and it is something else that's draining the battery which is why the wakelock app didn't help.
Anyway, I'm running stock ROM/kernel with xposed. I use greenify module, appOpsX, snapshare, gravity box, and gesture navigation module. With gravity box I just use custom quick settings, smaller nav bars, some status bar mods like the day and double tap to sleep. However, again I have had the same GB mods since before the drain. I use a pebble however I've never had a drain from that and I've been using it since Dec. Most of my apps are greenified including facebook, instagram, as well as all my music streaming apps. A lot of the google services I don't use are disabled like books/magazines/movies. I have snapchat, but I don't use it too much, and facebook messenger that I don't greenify. When I check GSam stats though, android system and kernel take the most battery, followed by music players if I was streaming music that day. The rest of the apps are way down the list.
I posted in the battery thread asking if anyone had the same problem with the wakelocks after having the latest google play services. I noticed mine is still 4.3 for some reason so I might just update manually from androidpolice and see if theres a difference. But yeah, I will keep this updated with todays logs.
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Just run device only all the time, like everyone else does. It's a problem with Google's code, and the same bad coding is clearly seen throughout their entire app lineup.
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Try this. Use titanium backup to uninstall Google play services and Google search. Then launch maps, and reinstall both from the play store.
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What would that do though?
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This is what I ended up doing. You will need the secure settings plugin for tasker.
Set up a new profile for application "Maps".
When on, launch task GPS On (Secure settings, configuration GPS enabled)
Exit task, launch task GPS On (Secure settings, configuration GPS disabled)
I used the app factory to create an app for this, and use that on my N5 and my second phone too. Works great. Enables GPS when I launch Maps for navigation, and switches to battery saving when I exit Maps
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Thanks! So, how would I set this up using device only/high accuracy? I'm also super new to tasker so if you don't mind I might PM you asking for help.
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Just run device only all the time, like everyone else does. It's a problem with Google's code, and the same bad coding is clearly seen throughout their entire app lineup.
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Well, I actually like to use maps and google now. However, I don't actually need the location on when I'm not using either of the two services which is why I wanted to setup tasker.
It'll change them from being system apps to user apps. This has solved nlp wakelocks for many others experiencing the same problems.
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Thanks! So, how would I set this up using device only/high accuracy? I'm also super new to tasker so if you don't mind I might PM you asking for help.
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Sure.
It isn't that hard - install the secure settings plug in first, and when prompted, give it Superuser access. Then, create a new profile in tasker - call it whatever you want. Set up the profile for the application "Maps"
When Maps is launched, set it up to fire a new task (I called it GPS On) - this task just enables the GPS setting in the secure settings (under third party plugins)
GPS on -> high accuracy
GPS off -> battery saving mode
Set up an exit task (I called it GPS Off) - this turns the GPS settings in the secure settings off.
I can send you the apk if you want (but you don't really know me, so you probably shouldn't use an apk from a stranger! lol!), or you can try to import this attached xml into tasker (rename the file to remove the .txt extension - filename will be AutoGPS.prj.xml) - the xml option should be safe.
I haven't tried importing an xml, but it should be fairly straightforward (Save profiles in /sdcard/tasker/profiles and then, in tasker, long press the profiles "tab" and "import"). Before doing this, backup your existing profiles in tasker, just in case. Also, make sure you have secure settings set up before you import this.
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Sure.
It isn't that hard - install the secure settings plug in first, and when prompted, give it Superuser access. Then, create a new profile in tasker - call it whatever you want. Set up the profile for the application "Maps"
When Maps is launched, set it up to fire a new task (I called it GPS On) - this task just enables the GPS setting in the secure settings (under third party plugins)
GPS on -> high accuracy
GPS off -> battery saving mode
Set up an exit task (I called it GPS Off) - this turns the GPS settings in the secure settings off.
I can send you the apk if you want (but you don't really know me, so you probably shouldn't use an apk from a stranger! lol!), or you can try to import this attached xml into tasker (rename the file to remove the .txt extension - filename will be AutoGPS.prj.xml) - the xml option should be safe.
I haven't tried importing an xml, but it should be fairly straightforward (Save profiles in /sdcard/tasker/profiles and then, in tasker, long press the profiles "tab" and "import"). Before doing this, backup your existing profiles in tasker, just in case. Also, make sure you have secure settings set up before you import this.
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Cool, thanks I will give it a try. And it would be the same if I want to have location on when using google search/now?
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Cool, thanks I will give it a try. And it would be the same if I want to have location on when using google search/now?
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Yes, it should be. But in my experience, I haven't found Google Search/Now really requiring high accuracy GPS level location for any of the features yet. It gets by fine with just battery saving mode. So, I only enabled this for the Maps application.
Actually, now that I think about it, I don't know how you'd enable it for Google Now - since it runs in the background to notify you about upcoming events. Since you aren't launching Google Now most of the times, I don't know how you'd set up Tasker to enable the high accuracy GPS for that (and it is possible that Google now using active GPS may be part of the battery drain issue - I don't know for sure)
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Yes, it should be. But in my experience, I haven't found Google Search/Now really requiring high accuracy GPS level location for any of the features yet. It gets by fine with just battery saving mode. So, I only enabled this for the Maps application.
Actually, now that I think about it, I don't know how you'd enable it for Google Now - since it runs in the background to notify you about upcoming events. Since you aren't launching Google Now most of the times, I don't know how you'd set up Tasker to enable the high accuracy GPS for that (and it is possible that Google now using active GPS may be part of the battery drain issue - I don't know for sure)
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I actually wanted to keep the device on "device only" location instead of battery saving. For Google now I wanted the traffic card, but I would only need it if I physically open google now. I don't really need the notification.
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I actually wanted to keep the device on "device only" location instead of battery saving. For Google now I wanted the traffic card, but I would only need it if I physically open google now. I don't really need the notification.
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To keep device only, you should use Location mode (in secure settings) and set it to Device only or whatever you need, instead of GPS.
Note that "Device only" still uses active GPS and "This mode may use more battery power and take longer to determine your location" (Ref: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3467281?hl=en)
The traffic card still works on "battery saving" because it uses cellphone triangulation, and shows you the traffic in your vicinity, and based on your destination.
jj14 said:
To keep device only, you should use Location mode (in secure settings) and set it to Device only or whatever you need, instead of GPS.
Note that "Device only" still uses active GPS and "This mode may use more battery power and take longer to determine your location" (Ref: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3467281?hl=en)
The traffic card still works on "battery saving" because it uses cellphone triangulation, and shows you the traffic in your vicinity, and based on your destination.
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I know, I have always used battery saving. The problem is that with battery saving, I'm having these extreme wakelocks and Google is constantly searching for my location which is what I think is the cause of the drain I'm having. I'm going to use my phone today by just using device-only location and see how the battery lasts. It should be much better since I'm hoping the phone will be deep sleeping longer. Basically, when I take my phone off the charger in the morning and I'm still at home for the first 2 hours of the day the standby time is great. It usually goes down 1-2% in those 2 hours even if I use the phone a little. However, once I leave the house is when I get constant wakelocks from location services and the battery stats to deplete a lot faster. I mean, I can still get through a day just because I don't use the screen a lot. I tend to only use about 1 hr 30 min on a regular day but I just want to play around with settings to see what works.If I can get the same standby time throughout the day that I get within the first two hours when im at home that would be great.
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I know, I have always used battery saving. The problem is that with battery saving, I'm having these extreme wakelocks and Google is constantly searching for my location which is what I think is the cause of the drain I'm having. I'm going to use my phone today by just using device-only location and see how the battery lasts. It should be much better since I'm hoping the phone will be deep sleeping longer. Basically, when I take my phone off the charger in the morning and I'm still at home for the first 2 hours of the day the standby time is great. It usually goes down 1-2% in those 2 hours even if I use the phone a little. However, once I leave the house is when I get constant wakelocks from location services and the battery stats to deplete a lot faster. I mean, I can still get through a day just because I don't use the screen a lot. I tend to only use about 1 hr 30 min on a regular day but I just want to play around with settings to see what works.If I can get the same standby time throughout the day that I get within the first two hours when im at home that would be great.
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That's strange. With battery saving mode, I get no wakelocks, which with device only or high accuracy, I used to get a lot of wakelocks by the location services.
But yes, no harm in trying out the options. Tasker+secure settings should be able to set up the battery saving or device only (as described above)
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That's strange. With battery saving mode, I get no wakelocks, which with device only or high accuracy, I used to get a lot of wakelocks by the location services.
But yes, no harm in trying out the options. Tasker+secure settings should be able to set up the battery saving or device only (as described above)
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You get Npl wakelocks? So far I haven't gotten it and that's the wakelock that usually keeps my phone awake for 2 hours or so. basically, I think the way it works is that the device only setting uses more battery when using apps that use location such as maps but when the apps are not in use it uses no battery on location.
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You get Npl wakelocks? So far I haven't gotten it and that's the wakelock that usually keeps my phone awake for 2 hours or so. basically, I think the way it works is that the device only setting uses more battery when using apps that use location such as maps but when the apps are not in use it uses no battery on location.
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No. Ever since I switched to battery saving (and tasker toggling to high accuracy when I use maps), I have no location based wakelocks (no NPL wakelocks)
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No. Ever since I switched to battery saving (and tasker toggling to high accuracy when I use maps), I have no location based wakelocks (no NPL wakelocks)
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Interesting, I've been having the opposite. I even took a screen shot of the wakelocks on the stock battery app where when the screen is off there's a huge amount of individual lines for awake (of course this is backed up by BBS). However when using device only the awake and screen on match almost perfectly.
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Interesting, I've been having the opposite. I even took a screen shot of the wakelocks on the stock battery app where when the screen is off there's a huge amount of individual lines for awake (of course this is backed up by BBS). However when using device only the awake and screen on match almost perfectly.
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Not sure why the difference, but regardless, as long as the individual 'fix' works, that's all that matters
Hi.
I have several nlp wakelocks, even with the phone idling at the same frigging place. It gets ridiculous when I'm on the move (like, 100 to 0 in 12 hours with absolutely no usage)
When I was on kitkat, I used an Xposed module that controlled the ratio of polling (Amplify, if I'm not wrong), but at Lollipop, there is no Xposed, so I had to cripple the phone a little and use Greenify on Play Services, which worked Ok when set to always ignore its state.
But now I subscribed to Google Play Music All Access, and when I turn the phone screen off, it gets killed as soon as Greenify hibernates Google Play Services. Removing it from Greenify brings all the battery drain hell back (it wakes my phone 10 times per minute. It's ridiculous)
I've tried changing ROMs, swapping Play versions, and even returning this phone. But it always get tens of thousands wakelocks after some hours, and Play Services sometimes gets more usage percentage than my Quad HD screen (this means it uses a ridiculous amount of power)
Is there any way known to man that fixes this dammed nlp wakelocks without resorting to Xposed?
And without disabling stuff and all.
I know that setting it to only use the device GPS fixes it, but it brings another problem, that when something (like weather or whatsapp, for some reason) needs location, and I'm indoors, it will suck my battery away while looking for a very unnecessarily, precise location. So that's not an option, unfortunately.
Thanks in advance
Tapatalked thru my LG G3
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You can try "Disable Services" on the Play store. Pick System apps, scroll down to Google Play services and then deselect NlpLocationReceiverServices.
Greetings,
After going through many forums trying to find a solution for these Wakelocks, all I found was switching off Location or Google Location History to get rid of RILJ and using Amplify to increase the interval of Nlp.
However, Turning off location or GLH is not a practical solution for me, and Amplify is not that easy to work with, so I was back to square one.
I found out that Nlp Wakelocks are associated with Google Play Services, Google Services Framework. RILJ is associated with Phone (Telephony) functions.
*The solution:
An Xposed module called (No Wakelock) in the Play Store that is capable of controlling Partial and Full WLs, aligning alarms and controlling sync for the selected apps, including system apps with the donation package.
*The results:
After disabling Partial/Full Wakelocks and enabling Aligning alarms for the aforementioned apps, Location and GLH are On.
They are no longer showing in BBS or WLD. AT ALL.**
Android Device Manager is capable of locating my phone.
SMS/Phone calls are working Fine.
No Frozen Screen, SoD, etc.
Gmail sync is delayed a few hours/minutes, without changing its settings in the module.
** Since everything is working perfectly fine even though these WLs are not showing at all, then what is the Real purpose of having them working in excess like that?
Kindly note that I'm not affiliated with the module or the developer in anyway.
If you would like to use it, please use common sense and do it at your own risk.
Cheers.
What did you disable?
I'd like to know that too
do you have fix for nougat? i use forcedoze and it works well with every service. But google services still trigger wakelock and drain my battery.
However, this problem had a temporary fix, if i switch on battery saver. this problem will stay away for awhile.
But i don't like this kind of method.
im also interesting how to fix it in Nougat
Hello all,
My phab 2 Pro is draining its battery too fast with the screen off. Using Battery Historian I've been able to pinpoint it down to something keeping the phone awake when it should be sleeping. The problem is it happens randomly and I haven't been able to "connect" it to a specific app or setting.
The "kernel wakeup reason" that Battery Historian shows as the (I think so anyway) culprit is "Abort:Wakeup IRQ -1169425744 (null) pending". The number after "IRQ -" changes from log to log.
Something else that keeps popping up on the "Userspace wakelock" line with short bursts is "RILJ". This is precisely during the period that the phone is "awake" but the screen is off. So maybe the RILJ and the IRQ thing have something to do with each other?
Steps I took:
Full factory reset
Uninstalled ALL apps that can be uninstalled.
Disabled ALL apps that can be disabled, apart from things that have to stay like keyboard.
Switched of any Location setting that can be switched off
Switched of all syncing that can be switched off
Enabled developer options (to be able to pull the bugreport.txt off the device using adb)
Engaged airplane mode
But even with all of these steps, which leaves the phone totally unusable (but I have another daily driver) this weird kernel wakelock still happens frequently, draining the battery very fast. Going from 38% down to 9% in just 6 hours, with the screen off(!) is plainly unacceptable.
Are there other users out there experiencing the same? I know of one guy who posted lasted year, but maybe there are more out there?
Can anybody help with this? I have no idea what to do now I more or less now where the problem lies. I'm no coder and don't know anybody at Lenovo...
Regards,
Sander
Is not normal what happens to you, but as a remote solution ... try to get into the applications that are working, and look at google services, there is one that spends a bestiality, it is called fileakintentoperation $ external that application next to the others Spend a lot of ram, I ended up blocking the services of google play and play store, and I assure you that the battery lasts for more than two days
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Is not normal what happens to you, but as a remote solution ... try to get into the applications that are working, and look at google services, there is one that spends a bestiality, it is called fileakintentoperation $ external that application next to the others Spend a lot of ram, I ended up blocking the services of google play and play store, and I assure you that the battery lasts for more than two days
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Hi Rogerbcn,
thanks for replying.
Could you type the name of the app/service again? Google doesn't return anything on "fileakintentoperation" .
I already have the Google play and Play Store apps disabled, unfortunately, that didn't help.
Regards,
Sander
Is just below, where are the services of google play, and is also a service, but after reading that you have disconnected and you also have disconnected play store, gives me your battery or is badly calibrated or is to change, Take it to the sat of lenovo and assert your guarantee that for that we have spent 500 dollars / euros,regards
[rogerbcn] is probably correct and that you may have a defective battery. I use greenify and it seems to extend battery life about 23% for app hibernation.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify&hl=en
I resolved with task killer (kil 1 sec. After lockscreen)
edit: not resolved... anyone has other experience?
Seems to be resolved.
I used greenify, with doze go (adb solution)