Google play services killed 75% of my battery in 8 hours while i was sleeping?!?!

[Dakotabaker98]

So i just got a HTC One 3 days ago. My battery life has been AMAZING. But yesterday my play store updated and my google now updated. Play store is running 4.4.21. I also put the google experience launcher on there from phandroids video. I unplugged my phone last night and when i went to bed i had 80%, 8 hours later i woke up and had 9%. Gsam battery monitor said Google play services? I took off the launcher but now i am stuck with the google now up date and the play store update. i also started using google hangouts. I tried uninstalling the play store update but then google hangouts wont work. Any ideas on what could have caused this? The phone is plugged in charging now so i have been through a days use since this happened but i am just a little worried because that is one of the main things that i was worried about before i got the phone was battery life! All help is greatly appreciated!

 

[crackcookie]

You can put them on, but disable updates or something like that for any app...I do that with apps that are bloatware, do you even use hangouts....I don't I should probably delete that

 

[Dakotabaker98]

Yes i do use google hangouts but if that is what is making my battery die so fast then i will be disabling it

 

[pcabe5]

My experience was when I enabled Google Now my battery went much quicker. Also sounds like your update downloads were hanging up making Play use your battery. If you rebooted did the downloads then download?

 

[mclarryjr]

Do you use an Exchange email? I was having the same issue which just started a few days ago and it was my email was stuck syncing until I restarted the phone. It's happened now twice and when looking under my battery stats it shows Google Service as using it.