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Autostarts!

I'm not sure if everybody uses this, but Autostarts is one of my favorite root apps and I recommend it to all of my friends who have rooted. I don't see too many people talking about it anymore so I figured I would remind everyone of this awesome app. It allows you to prevent any apps from running on their own. After using Titanium Backup to debloat my ROM, I then open up Autostarts and run down the list and disable any apps that I don't want to startup without my say so. It does wonders for freeing up RAM. I did this on my Epic 4G Touch and never needed to flash a single custom ROM because I was able to get the stock ROM running flawlessly. It is an invaluable tool to me and I recommend it highly.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts

broken link?

Maroon Mushroom said:
broken link?
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My bad, I just fixed it.

I know this is old post, but I bought this app a long time ago also. It's a pretty powerful app and you can modify every reason for an app to start.
I vote to move this to the App section.

rom toolbox also has this feature

expertzero1 said:
rom toolbox also has this feature
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Yep! I actually like ROM Toolbox's feature a little better now. It's got an easier layout.
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Yep! I actually like ROM Toolbox's feature a little better now. It's got an easier layout.
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Hahaha! Last night I just found this feature in ROM toolbox and was about to post it here!!
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_MetalHead_ said:
I'm not sure if everybody uses this, but Autostarts is one of my favorite root apps and I recommend it to all of my friends who have rooted. I don't see too many people talking about it anymore so I figured I would remind everyone of this awesome app. It allows you to prevent any apps from running on their own. After using Titanium Backup to debloat my ROM, I then open up Autostarts and run down the list and disable any apps that I don't want to startup without my say so. It does wonders for freeing up RAM. I did this on my Epic 4G Touch and never needed to flash a single custom ROM because I was able to get the stock ROM running flawlessly. It is an invaluable tool to me and I recommend it highly.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts
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Is it able to disable Google Play from starting up at boot? I´ve disabled the event I consider to be associated with Google Play (with Autostarts), but still the app launches by itself at every reboot...

Ricfil said:
Is it able to disable Google Play from starting up at boot? I´ve disabled the event I consider to be associated with Google Play (with Autostarts), but still the app launches by itself at every reboot...
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no, it will not. more importantly, google maps is a battery hog, and a privacy killer, and it is also unable to be killed. not by gemini app manager, nor in conjunction with autostarts. google maps will report everywhere you go, and there is nothing you can do about it.
if only someone (windows maybe?) would come out with a nifty phone and declare "Hey we won't sell your soul!" i would so be on board. HTC is slowly drowning themselves, so i am finally, after 6 years, ready to move on to a new brand, and wouldn't mind leaving google behind.

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no, it will not. more importantly, google maps is a battery hog, and a privacy killer, and it is also unable to be killed. not by gemini app manager, nor in conjunction with autostarts. google maps will report everywhere you go, and there is nothing you can do about it.
if only someone (windows maybe?) would come out with a nifty phone and declare "Hey we won't sell your soul!" i would so be on board. HTC is slowly drowning themselves, so i am finally, after 6 years, ready to move on to a new brand, and wouldn't mind leaving google behind.
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Thanks man.:good:
If your interested I managed to disable Maps from always being on the background on my system . What I did? Used Titanium Backup (Pro edition) to convert it to a user app (because it needs to be so, for the next step). After, used a free app called Greenify (you may find it on the Play Store), to "hibernate" Maps at boot time. Result: No more Google Maps on the background . This app is great! You should give it a try. Maybe you may keep your HTC a few more years using it
Unfortunatly trying the same for Google Play messes with its app update functions... that is why I ask.
Hope it helps you on the Maps issue.
Any other ideas anyone?

i use gemini app manager itll stop it all but also remember that certain actions also stop it from updating the market so be careful which autostart functions u stop: although there are more than just at boot for most apps
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Ricfil said:
Thanks man.:good:
If your interested I managed to disable Maps from always being on the background on my system . What I did? Used Titanium Backup (Pro edition) to convert it to a user app
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Mine is already a user app..?

imma reinstall autostarts see if it has stopped working correctly. i know many instances can trigger apps so you can't just disable on startup for it not to run. but i remember disabling maps in like 3-4 places and it stopped starting unless i told it to start.

I have maps disabled completely in both autostarts and Gemini app manager. And maps is still my #1 battery drain. often my phone displays the gps signal when I wake it up, even though I haven't used maps in days.

wdkingery said:
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Ok. Good. But did you follow the rest of my post? Have you used Greenify to stop Maps from loading? It works perfectly for me.
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I have maps disabled completely in both autostarts and Gemini app manager. And maps is still my #1 battery drain. often my phone displays the gps signal when I wake it up, even though I haven't used maps in days.
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I do really advise you to try Greenify

Greenify does the same thing right?
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The_Zodiac said:
Greenify does the same thing right?
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You may use both in conjunction. Hell, I´m using Autostarts, Autorun Manager (for its simplicity) and Greenify. You just have to know what apps/events are disabled/enabled in them.
Greenify is a little diferent in the way that it hibernats apps when they are not being used/when with the screen off. It works of boot and is really pretty helpfull on those "stubburn" apps that do wish to always remain in the background. With Greenify on they are gone! For good .
Check it on Play Store for more info. Older versions seemed to have some issues with superuser access, with the new one, that seems fixed. It is a great app IMO, saves LOTS of battery and enables a little more ram available for things that do matter (good specially for phones with low RAM memory chips). In the case of your phone you will mainly notice an improvement in battery life, since RAM seems not an issue.
You should try it out

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Ok. Good. But did you follow the rest of my post? Have you used Greenify to stop Maps from loading? It works perfectly for me.
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I do really advise you to try Greenify
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Yes I did! And it worked well! Thanks a bunch! Battery life has been great since that very moment! Over 24 hours and still 70%!

wdkingery said:
Yes I did! And it worked well! Thanks a bunch! Battery life has been great since that very moment! Over 24 hours and still 70%!
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Maps, as you said, has got several instances and events triggered for the most crazy things (at least in my book - since I do not need many of them), and that was why it still kept restarting even after all events disabled (there should be hidden ones related to other apps still operating in a complex interconection). At least that is how I imagine it was working. Greenify manages to hibernate it altogether (Titanium style), with the advantage of being "quicker" "unhibernating" it when needed. No complains for me so far
Glad it helped. It seems an excelent app!
See you:good:

Re: Greenify
Just bought titanium backup pro to use in conjunction with Greenify. $6 to stop maps and facebook from eating half of my battery. Totally worth it IMO.
Kudos to whoever suggested the app first.
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[APP][MOD] [UPDATED: 10-25-2013] Facebook v3.7 without location privelages

Here is the latest facebook official app with location 'feature' removed.
I am not sure if you guys who use the app know this, but facebook constantly tracks your location. There is a receiver built into the app that every time you "refresh" the app (Interval settings are found in the settings menu of Facebook) it gets your location and everything you do on Facebook, post a status, send a message, upload a photo etc, your location is added and you cannot turn it off..
So i decompiled the apk and removed all locations ability. That means, no checking in, no nearby, nothing that needs to get your location. You WILL get a forced close. I am working on trying to keep that enabled while dissabling the 'tracking' featrue. Just download, copy apk to your phones storage and use a file browser to install the APK.
Hope you guys enjoy the privacy while also enjoying the Facebook app.
DOWNLOAD: Facebook v3.7 - No Locations

Link???
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Internet Guy said:
Link???
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XDA Is having an issue with uploading attachments. Not sure why i'll try again later. Sorry :/

Internet Guy said:
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Yea i love to try it...
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Ahhhh this the reason why FB consume a more MB on my 3G ?
Michel

Good idea, but I've turned my location of and it never shows my location when posting any thing.. when I send a private message it gives me the option to turn location of.. is this the same location receiver you are disabling from the app?
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Michel_debs said:
Ahhhh this the reason why FB consume a more MB on my 3G ?
Michel
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This mod will possibly use a tiny bit less. But it uses so much for its Cache. So things are loaded a lot faster and what not.
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Good idea, but I've turned my location of and it never shows my location when posting any thing.. when I send a private message it gives me the option to turn location of.. is this the same location receiver you are disabling from the app?
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Are you talking about turning your location off under settings of your phone? Well thats different. There is no way to turn it off in the FB app itself. You can turn off the location thing for your messages but its still secretly getting your location.
OP UPDATED WITH DL LINK TO MY DROPBOX
Sorry it took so long. XDA is giving me some security error when i try to attach anything :/

Thanks. App is working great!
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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but a good app that stops location requests for any application is LBE Security Master. It will prompt you each time an application requests to use certain permissions. You can also check a box to never allow the application to access that setting, in this case it would be location.
Just search on XDA to find it, I'm on my phone and I don't think the app is on the market.
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codyrt said:
I don't mean to hijack the thread, but a good app that stops location requests for any application is LBE Security Master. It will prompt you each time an application requests to use certain permissions. You can also check a box to never allow the application to access that setting, in this case it would be location.
Just search on XDA to find it, I'm on my phone and I don't think the app is on the market.
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Whenever i tried using a third party app to block GPS to the Facebook app, it would cause the FB app to force close irregardless what you did.
I'll try the app and see what happens. Not sure how it goes about granting and denying access. In all honesty i was looking for something like this.

Just don't use LBE Privacy Guard on jelly bean, it caused my phone to freeze a few minutes after turning on and then rebooted and got stuck in that loop. The only way to resolve it was to use adb and remove the apps file.
The app I mentioned in my post above doesn't seem to have any issues besides that parts of it are in Chinese.
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codyrt said:
Just don't use LBE Privacy Guard on jelly bean, it caused my phone to freeze a few minutes after turning on and then rebooted and got stuck in that loop. The only way to resolve it was to use adb and remove the apps file.
The app I mentioned in my post above doesn't seem to have any issues besides that parts of it are in Chinese.
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So you confirm it works with Facebook?
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Works great so far -- subscribed to this thread -- thanks!

As far as I can tell it does. When I open Facebook, LBE pops up and asks me if I want to allow Facebook to track my location. It detects whether Facebook is using location tracking through WiFi or through GPS. I have not checked to see my posts to see if location is attached to them.
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codyrt said:
As far as I can tell it does. When I open Facebook, LBE pops up and asks me if I want to allow Facebook to track my location. It detects whether Facebook is using location tracking through WiFi or through GPS. I have not checked to see my posts to see if location is attached to them.
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Interesting.. I wonder if it's blocking "locationmanager.getlastknownlocation" as well. This method doesn't access any hardware. It just reads what the last location known was. Meaning if any other app has access to your GPS and gets a lock, that location is remembered and then used by above method.
I feel much more comfortable completely removing the actual physical code no offence to your option though.
And for a thread update, I learned a new tool to help figure out what gets called where. so I might be able to add the ability to check in as well as use "nearby" in the app. And just disable the tracking!
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elesbb said:
Interesting.. I wonder if it's blocking "locationmanager.getlastknownlocation" as well. This method doesn't access any hardware. It just reads what the last location known was. Meaning if any other app has access to your GPS and gets a lock, that location is remembered and then used by above method.
I feel much more comfortable completely removing the actual physical code no offence to your option though.
And for a thread update, I learned a new tool to help figure out what gets called where. so I might be able to add the ability to check in as well as use "nearby" in the app. And just disable the tracking!
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Yeah, I'm still using your MOD too, I really don't need Facebook accessing my location so you can never be too safe about that.
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Thanks mate awesome work!

Hi, there are still some Facebook services running all the time in the background although I have deactivated all notifications. Do you know which services these are?

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Hi, there are still some Facebook services running all the time in the background although I have deactivated all notifications. Do you know which services these are?
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Sort of. I know when notifications are enabled there is a service running. Also what's your refresh interval set at? If that's not disabled then that's what the service is.
If not it may just be in "empty applications" part of androids memory manager. Meaning it's dead but still there to increase launch time. I'm running cm10 and I use the "hold back to kill" option on Facebook so mine is 100 percent gone.
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Loving this app. Great job. Finally facebook can't track me anymore. One big brother, google, is enough.

Android device manager NEW OPTION

This is the new google play services which implement the new android device manger.
For more info : http://www.talkandroid.com/170453-android-device-manager-helping-users-find-lost-phones/
Download : http://www.mediafire.com/?l4cpr9old23zscb
Unrar the file then install it .
Go to settings , Security, Device ADMINISTRAORS
NOTE: Google activated it, its now live.
Credit goes to Google and Talkandroid

Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing!
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You re welcome
Forgot to mention :
Go to settings , Security, Device ADMINISTRAORS

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You re welcome
Forgot to mention :
Go to settings , Security, Device ADMINISTRAORS
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I already received the app in my phone (administrators only), but still is not showed the main app in my google account.
http://officialandroid.blogspot.com...:+OfficialAndroidBlog+(Official+Android+Blog)

apsanchezs said:
I already received the app in my phone (administrators only), but still is not showed the main app in my google account.
http://officialandroid.blogspot.com...:+OfficialAndroidBlog+(Official+Android+Blog)
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Yeah google havent activated it yet. I am sure they will once 4.3 gets out (besides the google phones)
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They took a while to bring this feature, I been using Cerberus which has loads more features

Kurtis.UK said:
They took a while to bring this feature, I been using Cerberus which has loads more features
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Yeah but at least its free and it will be more advanced then cerberus.(we talking about google here )
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Yeah but at least its free and it will be more advanced then cerberus.(we talking about google here )
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From what I've seen all it can do is track the phone and show it on a map, wipe and trigger the phone to make a noise in order to find it, Cerberus can do both of those plus like 10+ more so i would rather pay like 2 euros for a lifetime license

Kurtis.UK said:
From what I've seen all it can do is track the phone and show it on a map, wipe and trigger the phone to make a noise in order to find it, Cerberus can do both of those plus like 10+ more so i would rather pay like 2 euros for a lifetime license
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Like I meant this is google, cerberus was out for ages therefore they had time for development. Things that are implemented and sp3cially from the maker of the os we running is always better then a 3 rd party. Well mostly.
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Goolgle and ADM delay
For now, it seems Android Device Administrator (ADM) is limited to a checkbox in the Device Administrators menu of our smart phones. The web interface and android app do not show up until now. So it is better uncheck to avoid any possible issue that could affect the phones.
Regards,

apsanchezs said:
For now, it seems Android Device Administrator (ADM) is limited to a checkbox in the Device Administrators menu of our smart phones. The web interface and android app do not show up until now. So it is better uncheck to avoid any possible issue that could affect the phones.
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ADM is now live and working. See here

Location unavailable
R.Suave said:
ADM is now live and working. See here
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I do not have the web interface in my account. And, when click the web site that you recommended appears: Location unavailable. Google did not have gaving any instructions. For me is better Avast.

apsanchezs said:
I do not have the web interface in my account. And, when click the web site that you recommended appears: Location unavailable. Google did not have gaving any instructions. For me is better Avast.
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Yeah. It hasn't rolled out to all devices. It seems like you dont have full access even though some references to it are there. Heres a thread with more details

My excuses
R.Suave said:
Yeah. It hasn't rolled out to all devices. It seems like you dont have full access even though some references to it are there. Heres a thread with more details
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I already have activated the app. All is ok: in the account and also in my phone (green icon, google settings). My problem was that I believed that this ADM app was going to be like AVAST (with rooted phones, that do not need to turn on manually the GPS settings).
With this google ADM app must be always activated the GPS in a permanently manner.
We need to have always present that GPS doesn't use any data. It uses the 31 GPS satellites to determine the phone's position only, which is not a "data" connection at all. What uses the data is the app that is using the GPS (in this case the ADM).
Thank you very much for your help. This forum is wonderful, every day we learn many things. Nobody knows everything.
With kind regards,

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I already have activated the app. All is ok: in the account and also in my phone (green icon, google settings). My problem was that I believed that this ADM app was going to be like AVAST (with rooted phones, that do not need to turn on manually the GPS settings).
With this google ADM app must be always activated the GPS in a permanently manner.
We need to have always present that GPS doesn't use any data. It uses the 31 GPS satellites to determine the phone's position only, which is not a "data" connection at all. What uses the data is the app that is using the GPS (in this case the ADM).
Thank you very much for your help. This forum is wonderful, every day we learn many things. Nobody knows everything.
With kind regards,
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Yesh It uses both data and gps.
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Google play services battery drain

Is anyone else getting massive battery drain caused by Google play services, is there anyway I can fix this because it's pretty annoying
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imlgl said:
Is anyone else getting massive battery drain caused by Google play services, is there anyway I can fix this because it's pretty annoying
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are you on Arrow ROM.?

Disturbed™ said:
are you on Arrow ROM.?
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No Omega v9.0
Also running the latest play store which is 4.3.11

You can disable it (freeze) if you don't use google services as google+ or google play (and maybe others). Those two ones require an active google services app.
Anyway, it's useless to uninstall it because il reinstalls itself at next boot...

XS_31 said:
You can disable it (freeze) if you don't use google services as google+ or google play (and maybe others). Those two ones require an active google services app.
Anyway, it's useless to uninstall it because il reinstalls itself at next boot...
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I don't really want to resort to freezing the app

imlgl said:
Is anyone else getting massive battery drain caused by Google play services, is there anyway I can fix this because it's pretty annoying
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Disable Google now and disable location history and reporting in Google maps.
Really helps.
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Did you have restored google maps with titanium ?
For me google maps need to be installed from the play store only !

Turn off 'wifi & mobile network location' in location services. Then go into accounts / Google and then click on your Gmail account/s. Un tick all the syncs you don't need. I only leave on email and calendar. Also check your Google play settings. I have auto update turned off.

I suffered from this problem too on omega v9 updating to v10 and above solved it for me
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immolo said:
I suffered from this problem too on omega v9 updating to v10 and above solved it for me
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I think you are confusing his s4 with the octa s4.
Source: check his signature.
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Beston94
PS: I find not having Google maps installed helps.
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Check out this guide, you will lose gmail notification but it still is fully functional and now I get about 4 days of standby time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357417

What worked for me was to disable the Google setting for finding your phone. It solved the battery issue. I don't understand why but it works. As opposed to turning off the network location.
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ilogik said:
Check out this guide, you will lose gmail notification but it still is fully functional and now I get about 4 days of standby time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357417
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the perfect solution !

Why is Google Play using so much of my battery?

Version of MIUI: MIUI Global 10.3.7 | Stable
I have lately noticed that Google play has been using so much of my battery. Right now when I go to battery usage is says Google play has used about 70% of my battery.
Does anyone have an idea of why Google play is such a big contributed to my battery usage?

TheDuckTeam said:
Version of MIUI: MIUI Global 10.3.7 | Stable
I have lately noticed that Google play has been using so much of my battery. Right now when I go to battery usage is says Google play has used about 70% of my battery.
Does anyone have an idea of why Google play is such a big contributed to my battery usage?
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Any updates in the background? Try turning off auto sync and auto updates that might help.

Naveenthemi said:
Any updates in the background? Try turning off auto sync and auto updates that might help.
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I am going to try that but still shouldn't Google be using like 5 and not 70 percent

TheDuckTeam said:
I am going to try that but still shouldn't Google be using like 5 and not 70 percent
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What bout other apps like Gmail which used Google Services to sync, disable that and enable sync manually...

Naveenthemi said:
What bout other apps like Gmail which used Google Services to sync, disable that and enable sync manually...
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It's not google services draining my battery, its all of the google apps in general

TheDuckTeam said:
It's not google services draining my battery, its all of the google apps in general
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Oh, this isn't normal cos I use a lot of Google apps and it hardly ever shows on the battery usage screen.. might be a graphing glitch?

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Oh, this isn't normal cos I use a lot of Google apps and it hardly ever shows on the battery usage screen.. might be a graphing glitch?
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I do not think it is, because when I use battery trackers like AccuBattery to track battery usage I can see that the battery is being used significantly more when youtube, google play aren't force stopped. It's not as bad the last few days, but I have had days where it says youtube has used 10 percent of the battery.

also google play services has completely stopped using a lot of battery, it is now usually under Other in the power usage tab, but now andriod os is using 75 percent of the battery. Do you know how I can report this to Xiaomi? or like get some support?

TheDuckTeam said:
also google play services has completely stopped using a lot of battery, it is now usually under Other in the power usage tab, but now andriod os is using 75 percent of the battery. Do you know how I can report this to Xiaomi? or like get some support?
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Try the feedback option...only way to get it across...

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Try the feedback option...only way to get it across...
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What's the feedback option

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What's the feedback option
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In the tools folder, there's this app called Feedback use that to get your suggestions across..