Hi,
I'm experiencing battery drain and high data consumption when connected to WIFI by Play Services. I have Android 6 on a galaxy s5. I have detected it on BBS in which network activity is too high because of Play Services (80MB in some hours). I have tried to clear cache and data but the problem still comes after 2-3 days.
I've read this may be due to a third party app but I have no clue of which one could be. What can I do? At the moment I have it all the time disconnected from wifi but I think this is not the solution.
If I reboot normally the problem is avoided for sometime (probably after next time I unplug it).
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Yesterday morning I noticed that I was getting CONSTANT network usage (even though I was doing nothing with the phone) so I turned on My Data Manager application to track what was doing this. So from about 8am until about midnight Google Play Services racked up about 300MB of data usage until I finally turned off 4g. This activity was constant throughout the whole day and was just killing my battery.
This morning I reboot the phone and Google Play Services is now again up to 13MB of data usage within the last hour. I have never seen this activity before and it is again sucking the life out of my battery. It would really be good to know what is going on that would use 313MB of data (and still going) and I still cannot track what it is doing. I have not signed up for any new Google services. I can even close down the Google Play application and the network usage just continues on.
Anyone else notice this type of extreme usage from Google Play Services?
exmeaguy said:
Yesterday morning I noticed that I was getting CONSTANT network usage (even though I was doing nothing with the phone) so I turned on My Data Manager application to track what was doing this. So from about 8am until about midnight Google Play Services racked up about 300MB of data usage until I finally turned off 4g. This activity was constant throughout the whole day and was just killing my battery.
This morning I reboot the phone and Google Play Services is now again up to 13MB of data usage within the last hour. I have never seen this activity before and it is again sucking the life out of my battery. It would really be good to know what is going on that would use 313MB of data (and still going) and I still cannot track what it is doing. I have not signed up for any new Google services. I can even close down the Google Play application and the network usage just continues on.
Anyone else notice this type of extreme usage from Google Play Services?
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No, but have you tried clearing the data from within the application manager under phone settings?
I cleared the data like you said and the network activity stopped. I rebooted the phone and the network activity started up again. Again, I cleared the data and it stopped.
exmeaguy said:
I cleared the data like you said and the network activity stopped. I rebooted the phone and the network activity started up again. Again, I cleared the data and it stopped.
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Download Wakelock detector https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsImNvbS51enVtYXBwcy53YWtlbG9ja2RldGVjdG9yIl0 from the play store and open it once to get the app running. What it does it is tracks all the application/services that prevent your phone from remaining in deep sleep. Although you already know it's the google play services that hogging up your data, you don't know if it's another app that's triggering google play services to run and that's what the Wakelock detector app can provide you with.
The app doesn't track anything when the phone is plugged up and charging, so make sure you have a good charge on your phone, you're unplugged and turn off the screen for an hour or two so that the Wakelock detector app can gather some data.
For those of you who are experiencing your google services draining your battery with all location tracking features turned off on your device, there is a play store update date called 4.1.10 that will replace 4.1.6 that has location bug battery draining issue. In my particular case it is the nlp wakelock service that is constantly running, which falls within the google services.
The download can be obtained from Android Police website http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/29/download-latest-google-play-store-4-1-10/. You can simply install this apk file through the normal installation process of install apps.
After digging through the internetz, I finally found how to stop Google Services from draining battery. It's not a ROM issue. It's a Google 4.2.2 issue.
Location Services> uncheck Wi-FI & mobile network location.
I had amazing battery improvement all day yesterday with Wi-Fi netwok location unchecked. Even more evidence, my battery would drain 12-14% overnight with the Google Services issue. After having it unchecked last night, it only drained 2% overnight.
To confirm, I booted up this morning with it uncheck, Google services was way on the bottom of the list. I checked Wi-Fi network location a few hours ago, Google Services is now second on the battery stats list.
No idea what's causing the issue, but unchecking Wi-Fi network location seems to cure the symptom.
h_10 said:
After digging through the internetz, I finally found how to stop Google Services from draining battery. It's not a ROM issue. It's a Google 4.2.2 issue.
Location Services> uncheck Wi-FI & mobile network location.
I had amazing battery improvement all day yesterday with Wi-Fi netwok location unchecked. Even more evidence, my battery would drain 12-14% overnight with the Google Services issue. After having it unchecked last night, it only drained 2% overnight.
To confirm, I booted up this morning with it uncheck, Google services was way on the bottom of the list. I checked Wi-Fi network location a few hours ago, Google Services is now second on the battery stats list.
No idea what's causing the issue, but unchecking Wi-Fi network location seems to cure the symptom.
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Err...No offense, but you didn't find a "secret" that people didn't know about. Location services constantly uses wifi and mobile signals to pinpoint your location. It's a ground-based GPS-type system, and it drains battery.
I mean it's good that you fixed the issue on your phone, but doing a bit of research would have uncovered this a long time ago (way before 4.2.2)
wifi & mobile network location has never caused this significant of a battery drain before on any device or any previous android release. i switch between the s4 and a galaxy nexus running 4.1.2. google services isn't even a blip on battery usage page on my gnex. i've been using android since jan 2009 with the OG droid and this is the first time that i've ever had to uncheck that box because of significant adverse impacts to battery. google services has never been a battery hog until just very recently.
i didn't claim that i discovered it. i admitted that i found this solution on the web.
i posted this because i've read complaints about google services battery drain on a few different rom threads in the development section where people are incorrectly blaming the rom releases for the google services issue.
cool that it wasn't news to you, but it may be news to others.
h_10 said:
After digging through the internetz, I finally found how to stop Google Services from draining battery. It's not a ROM issue. It's a Google 4.2.2 issue.
Location Services> uncheck Wi-FI & mobile network location.
I had amazing battery improvement all day yesterday with Wi-Fi netwok location unchecked. Even more evidence, my battery would drain 12-14% overnight with the Google Services issue. After having it unchecked last night, it only drained 2% overnight.
To confirm, I booted up this morning with it uncheck, Google services was way on the bottom of the list. I checked Wi-Fi network location a few hours ago, Google Services is now second on the battery stats list.
No idea what's causing the issue, but unchecking Wi-Fi network location seems to cure the symptom.
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Isn't this the option that allows Google Now to calculate distance and time for cards that appear?
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Isn't this the option that allows Google Now to calculate distance and time for cards that appear?
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I'm not sure. I disabled Google Now a week ago trying to resolve the Google Services battery drain issue.
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Isn't this the option that allows Google Now to calculate distance and time for cards that appear?
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It is. Disabling this will disable google now as well. I have this battery drain issue since my S3 from June last year. I need to disable wifi location to save battery life when I am on 4.0.4, 4.1, 4.1.2 and 4.2.2. It is always like that for me.
until a few days ago i was getting decent battery life but now battery easily drops around 40 percent overnight without any usage.. when i checked battery usage (I'm on IC) android system and google services had 21% each.. when i try to use amplify/unbounce from xposed, phone lags and random reboots and greenify doesn't help that much either...
is there something i can do?
Maybe you can try disable service and appopsxposed
bijgu said:
until a few days ago i was getting decent battery life but now battery easily drops around 40 percent overnight without any usage.. when i checked battery usage (I'm on IC) android system and google services had 21% each.. when i try to use amplify/unbounce from xposed, phone lags and random reboots and greenify doesn't help that much either...
is there something i can do?
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Try disabling google now, turn off location, wipe cache and dalvik and check if the issue still persists. If yes, try downgrading google play services.
The best way to figure out battery drain is to install either better battery stats or wakelock detector and see which services/apps cause the drainage. I specifically stopped using and uninstalled google now (as much as I like it) and keep location tracking/gps off until I need it because of this very reason. Add in greenify and results are huge improvement in battery. Phones are useless if you don't have battery for its main purpose, phones calls and internet usage.
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First of all, turning of location services and Google Now solved the problem for me. From now on I only turn on location services when I really need it (for example Google Maps)
Now another thing you could try is this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playfulgeeks.gservicefix
Seems to have fixed the problem for many (check the reviews)
It's a stock T-Mobile LG G5. I get around 2-2.5h SOT. Overnight it drops the battery by 8-11%. There are 34 screenshots in the ZIP file below, showing GSAM Battery monitor and BetterBatteryStats data. I've never used BetteryBatteryStats before so if someone could help me identify the culprit I'd greatly appreciate that.
The signal strength is excellent and the always-on display is disabled. The bluetooth and GPS are always enabled. I should mention that last week I put the phone in Airplane mode and the drain stopped, but obviously it's not a solution.
1.) why do you know, that the gsm signal is excellent? Because you can see 5 stripes in the notification bar? That is not real! I can see 5 stripes too, but this at 15 ASU.
But 100% signal is = 30 ASU! So this result can differ even you believe you can see 100 signal quality.
2.) my system is running on 20p. No BT and no Wlan (no NFC) with 8% for 24Std. (150 user apps installed)
3.) wifi and G-Mail polling sucks much battery power too! you should switch it of to compare! or is it real necessary to be on over the night???
4.) what’s about the google fitness app? this app needs power to check the sensors.
5.) Twitter; Google; G-Mail; Fotos are syncing many times! You can see together more then 800 wake ups!
no wonder that this together will suck your battery empty!
i would suggest you to switch off BT and W.Lan over the night! This should spend a lot of battery power too! Same for syncing and background data traffic.
Try to use 3C Battery Monitor app. there you can see the power consumption every 10 min in the night.
read this too! -> https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74381087&postcount=327
I have 55 ASUs, so the connection is not the problem. Last night it only drained by 1%. I had both Bluetooth and GPS enabled so I don't think they are the problem either. Twitter, Gmail also were enabled and they actually pulled and displayed some notifications, yet the drain was minimal.
What I think sometimes happens is Google app or Play Services goes crazy starts waking up the phone for no reason. Would you agree based on the screenshots? Or could it be some bug in the OS that does this?
Good Day all ,
for those 2 problems the solution is very easy ,
1-for the google play services , if you find it on top of the consumption list , just enter settings - apps - choose google play services - clear cash then storage & manage data and clear all cash & data , it will be fixed nearly 99% of the time,
for general exynos bad consumption the real solution to this is to enter settings - general - reset - then reset settings & accessibility & network then factory reset , and DO NOT restore APPS and SETTINGS again plz plz ,
just restore your Messages if needed & restore you contacts from imported file to SD card for example or from google account , but don't restore any apps or app settings & download them again as new phone from the play store & samsung store
you will find all problems with battery is solved & no heating up etc.. and no complains that the exynos is not as good as SD855
How big difference did you notice?
hm..maybe... but there's clearly something wrong with how the exynos is interacting with the software right now. Because SD855 users are having now issues no matter how they set up their phone
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hm..maybe... but there's clearly something wrong with how the exynos is interacting with the software right now. Because SD855 users are having now issues no matter how they set up their phone
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I reset my phone yesterday and despite heavy use and being 15 hours off the charger, I have almost 7 hours of SoT on my 855. That involves a lot of app downloading, creating caches for apps I use, clearing some to re-set some things that I changed, and 5 or 6 reboots.
My S10e is getting so much out of my little battery.
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How big difference did you notice?
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the phone now goes to deep sleep properly as per CPU SPY , whenever i leave my phone for a while it enters deep sleep even if sync & location is on etc..
also the overnight drain on airplane mode goes down from about 6 or 7% in every 7Hours sleep to 1 or 2% max in the 7H sleep.
No DEEP SLEEP - EXYNOS
I did a full reset and after that no DEEP SLEEP neither... I'm trying to figure out why is happening
Just a heads up to everyone if you have high google play services usage it is most likely due to a rougue 3rd party app. In my case it was a battery monitoring app causing the abnormal usage and battery drain. It was causing google play services to always be active, after uninstalling the app the battery drain and always active usage of google play services is gone.
In my case I found what is causing the issue, after I did a video conference with Whatsapp or Google Duo, it never enters in deep sleep again, I should reboot my phone to make DP working again... very nasty bug