I have an S4 and got the kitkat update a week or two ago, all was very well until today when suddenly Google Play Services began using more battery than my screen. I have been using about 35% of my battery per day so I could go almost 3 days on one charge, but today it's gone from 60% at 9am to 12% now, and the culprit is Play Services.
This happened to me with my S3 in the winter and I was told to uninstall and reinstall Play Services, which worked. But I can't figure out how to do that in KitKat, I have no such options this time. I uninstalled updates for Play Services and stopped the application and now I have TWO COPIES of it running. I don't want to do a factory reset if I can find a way around it - and somehow I managed to find a way around it before... but I can't remember now what I did, since it seems it was not to uninstall Play Services... I can't have my phone dying daily from just stupid Play Services. Has anyone solved this recently? Thanks!
This happened to me with my S3 in the winter and I was told to uninstall and reinstall Play Services, which worked. But I can't figure out how to do that in KitKat, I have no such options this time. I uninstalled updates for Play Services and stopped the application and now I have TWO COPIES of it running. I don't want to do a factory reset if I can find a way around it - and somehow I managed to find a way around it before... but I can't remember now what I did, since it seems it was not to uninstall Play Services... I can't have my phone dying daily from just stupid Play Services. Has anyone solved this recently? Thanks!
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