Let me start off and say this was not an issue when I first got my Pixel on 10/20/2016. During my lunch hour I enjoy browsing the web while streaming BT audio to my car. This past week however I have noticed my Pixel getting warm while doing this and my battery taking a huge hit with 1% dropping every 1 to 2 minutes. I then brought up my battery info which I’m listening below and I notice that Google play music is consuming more battery then my screen is during that time frame. I can see this being an issue if I was streaming music over LTE but that’s not the case. All of my music is downloaded through the Google play music app so there’s no streaming involved.
I then figured it might be because I’m rooted and I’m using Viper4Android which will eat some of the battery. I then did some testing and I monitored my CPU usage with 3C Toolbox Pro. Turning Viper4Android on and off during my tests I can figure it’s adding another 4% or 5% while playing MP3’s. That in itself should not eat battery like I listed above.
I then paused the music and swiped away the notification only to find out that Google play music was still running in the back ground and using a good 20% of the CPU……. Once I killed Google play music my CPU dropped down to 5% usage from a constant 25% to 30% while it was running in the back ground.
In the last screen shot please note I have paused the music over a min before I took this screen shot. During that min the CPU Consumption was 80.30%
Anyone else having issues with Google play music?
I've had the same issue from approximately the same time as you, I'm using a Note 4 though. Haven't found any fix yet unfortunately, have you?
My fix was to download all of my music and play it with black player. Since then no issues. There's no reason Google play music uses that much CPU.
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I noticed that all the music players I have tried (MIUI, stock, stock 3.0, mixzing, winamp, cube) are one of the, if not the, most battery consuming apps at the end of the day. It seems that each of these apps keep the phone awake for the entire time they are playing music, at least that's what it says when I click on the music app under "Battery Stats". I was ready to resign myself to the fact that no one has quite figure out how to play music without burning through battery until I tried PowerAmp.
It seems that PowerAmp does not keep the phone awake, according to battery stats, and while running it barely appears in the top 6 list of battery consumers. Does anyone know of other music apps that do this? Or an even better question, does anyone know how PowerAmp does this and why the other apps can't?
Poweramp & battery
This is my first post on XDA and on forums in general. I listen to music all day at work and cannot get to the end of the day without my battery being almost empty. So I trawled through various forums to find out why this might be, then used the battery use built into gingerbread. Noticed my phone stayed awake for an extended period even when the screen was off. Did a few tests, and indeed the culprit was the built-in music player. Found this post and thought I'd give Poweramp a try, not expecting too much. But you are completely right, playing music now for ~10mins, screen off, and phone has not been awake!
Buying Poweramp right now!
I've read posts before of people seeing better battery life after they've had their phone a couple weeks. I've had my a couple days, and sometimes it gets pretty hot when I'm not doing anything. So I've been using Android Task Manager to view realtime processes. What I've noticed is that the "Music Enhancer" and "Sound Set" processes all the sudden have become active and are in the top 5 CPU utilizers. Usually this was accompanied by Power Amp (which I wasn't using the app) but now it is accompanied by Google Play Music Service (which I wasn't using either).
I have a large music collection loaded. Is Android/Google up to something as far as cataloging my music or sending information to Google Play about the music on my Phone. Of course that wouldn't explain why Power Amp was eating CPU when not being used.
It's enough draw that the USB charging can't keep up with the CPU utilization. This is on wifi so it can't be something to do with 4G data transfers going on.
I have Google Play music sync turned OFF on the phone.
It has to do with HTC Music Enhancer. Must be analyzing my 2000 MP3s for the first time or something? There's no information anywhere as to what it does / is doing.
I have the Nexus 5 stock. When streaming Pandora (45-mins) with headphones only 3-5% battery is used.
Going the exact same route to work using Play Music streaming music (45 mins) with headphones it uses 10-12% battery.
Also I notice something called Media Sever is also at a high % of battery usage.
Both Apps are on Normal Quality
Google Music is streaming music that I have uploaded. (None of their subscription)
Can anyone explain why there is such a difference?
Sent from my Nexus 5
recently i listen music on my xperia xz so i face problem that it drain battery so much, i don't know why. It use 7% / 16 minutes , and the phone heat up everytime after 5 min playing. When I listen to music, i don't touch phone screen at all ,screen is off, wifi off, bluetooth off , no background apps running. Music on my phone all mp3 format, DSEE is off, normalize off, just use equalizer ( than i turn off all music effects, use google play music in stead defaul music play and it still the same) . The thing is baterry on my phone kinda good. I got 5-6 hours SOT when use normal( web browse, etc...) . Does anybody got the same problem and how to fix????
Update: I know the issue on my phone. I use some app to get immersive mode use ABD command so i can hide navigation bar. But seem like immersive mode this way drain battery when screen off and if i play music with screen off it heat up my device. A lot of user got the same problem https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g6/help/immersive-mode-causing-battery-draining-t3621622/page3
Update 2 : I found a way to fix that issue. You have to exclude all music app out of immersive mode ( defaul music app, google play music, spotify,... )
anybody? I tried poweramp with build in it own music fx, i thought it was okey but it not, my phone still heat up and drain 7% per 18-20 minutes . cry how to fix????
Yeah I also got this problem. Dont know why, first thought it would be normal but now I am really sure it cant be normal.
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I have updated to eXistenZ v.8.0.0 from v.7 and since 16:25 to 17:11 I have been listening music from Google Play Music (wifi) and my battery has descent from 63% to 59% and no heat issue.
You use eXistenZ than your phone probably rooted. I talk about use immersive mode without root with ABD command way
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guide-hide-navigation-bar-status-bar-app-t3509747
I've noticed this problem become more severe recently. I've cleaned the cache for the app and looked if there are other options to configure.
8h before total drain the battery was at 100%. GPM was used with a pair of in-ear BT headphones, listening to offline music. The official battery stats say ~6h with the GPM playing, 30 minutes SOT. It was staying at 1% for the last hour of musing playing until it shut down.
BBS was showing that WiFi was connected the entire time (no sleep) and ~80% partial wakelocks, caused by AudioOffload. I've rebooted the device halfway through the battery, so it's not caused by a long uptime.
I'm not sure if play music should drain >15% per hour with bluetooth playback, but it sounds wrong.
I restored everything from factory, without root, let's see how it behaves. Battery life with BT music is better though not stellar. It now drains at 5+%/h instead of 15+%