Hi. My nexus 5 is on Android 4.4.3. Today, Google play services is draining my battery and I only have 45 mins of screen time. What's the problem and how should I fix it?
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Welcome to Android Central! It's a little hard to interpret that 47 min of screen-on time, because that wasn't starting from a full charge.
I'm never quite sure why Google Play Services freaks out from time to time. I sometimes wonder if it has to do with upcoming updates to Google Play Services--it's probably my imagination, but when this happens to me, it always seems that an update comes through within the next couple of days.
A reboot usually clears the issue up, in any case. Has that worked for you?
Try clearing the system cache partition, which won't erase any personal data: http://forums.androidcentral.com/nexus-5-rooting-roms-hacks/352008-guide-nexus-5-recovery.html
Be aware that the cache clear can take up to 10 minutes on the Nexus 5, for some reason. Just let it do its thing.
Check to see if your auto update is on if so turn it off that should save you some battery life.
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My #1 issue with the Nexus 5.
Is it a Nexus 5 issue or an Android/NSA issue?!?
If Google Play Services is eating your battery, you can bet that it is caused by a hung or misbehaving app.
Google Play Services and Android System are not simply parts of the operating system; both of these are used by nearly all apps to some degree or another. For example, any app that includes mapping or location functions almost certainly relies on the Google Play Services toolkit. As does YouTube. As another example, no "music player" app actually plays music; they just provide a pretty front-end user interface to the built-in operating system functions.
If Google Play Services is eating your battery, you can bet that it is caused by a hung or misbehaving app.
check your past few apps, make sure they were shutdown properly. I always make sure I'm at the home screen before I shut off the phone for good, because occasionally otherwise the app will sometimes keep running in the background, and that can show up as google services. Media apps are particularly bad with that given they can play music with the screen off.I wish someone had an *easy* way to figure out which app is causing problems, for slackers/dummies like me.
Part of the blame? I'd say most of the blame. There will always be an almost infinite supply of poor and even rogue apps in the play store so Google clearly need to design Android to identify and resource limit such apps. The current situation is just crap design.Of course, one could also argue that if the services are set up in such a way that we can't know what is using them to cause problems, and/or that the services can't self limit to prevent such problems, part of the blame is still Android, itself.