Google services eating too much battery recently

[rivencap]

Just an update. Finally had a chance to go through my sd card. Removed all the png files I had move to my card. Example: screenshots or edited photos. My card has been working flawless with my phone now. Took another step and loaded my png files on my phone directly. Works good as well. Moral of the story for me, keep png files on the phone. Don't know why?

Palm Treo line > Blackberry line > Samsung Galaxy S line > NOW: the awesome Samsung Galaxy Note 3

 

[anon(819941)]

After a few charges since I tried removing the device administrator, I can confirm it worked for me, back to normal battery life.

Thanks rivencap for the hint on how to spot if the SD card is linked to excessive battery demand.

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[TheOnlyRick]

Wakelock Detector I'm the Play Store was very helpful telling me *why* my phone was losing 20% overnight. (NLP Collector wakelock)

After that, the thing that fixed it was clearing the cache of a couple of processes. Just switching off location reporting in settings didn't do anything for me.

 

[sddabrow]

After a few charges since I tried removing the device administrator, I can confirm it worked for me, back to normal battery life.

Thanks rivencap for the hint on how to spot if the SD card is linked to excessive battery demand.

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Can you clarfiy what you mean by 'Removing the Device Administrator"?

Mine is acting up and is roughly 40% of my battery drain. Google Play Services has been 'awake' for hours and I drained a good 20% overnight. Trying to narrow down the solution as I have location reporting history unchecked.

Edit: Found it, just kidding. Mine was unchecked. After reading more online, I found that if you go to Location Services > Use Wireless Networks and uncheck that it seems to stop the Google Play Service draining. So far it has, but it has only been a few minutes but it doesn't show up on my battery page at all now!

 

[anon(819941)]

Can you clarfiy what you mean by 'Removing the Device Administrator"?

Mine is acting up and is roughly 40% of my battery drain. Google Play Services has been 'awake' for hours and I drained a good 20% overnight. Trying to narrow down the solution as I have location reporting history unchecked.

Edit: Found it, just kidding. Mine was unchecked. After reading more online, I found that if you go to Location Services > Use Wireless Networks and uncheck that it seems to stop the Google Play Service draining. So far it has, but it has only been a few minutes but it doesn't show up on my battery page at all now!

As for location services, I use all of them and have no problem... I don't see the point in using a smartphone without them, to be honest. I recommend rebooting your device and then reactivating them, I don't think location services are the problem.

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[JellyBeanGurl]

I spent 4 hours straight yesterday changing settings and deleting apps to see why my battery all of a sudden was draining after the new update. It's doing "ok" for now but I still have to keep an eye on it. In application manager I noticed that android system is running 21 percent, is this normal? It's the only app that is running that much.

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[sddabrow]

I'm going to try following CheeseKeeper's post at XDA:

I hate having to turn that off because I want the Goggle Now services to work, and I've found on mine I keep all of that on and still get rid of the Google Services drain. The problem comes from the fact that even when you switch WiFi off, network location keeps it running all the time for location purposes. In 4.1 there was nothing you could do about it, but under 4.3 if you set the following:

Keep Wifi on during sleep > Never
Scanning always available > Unticked

This allows WiFi location to work when you're actually using Wifi, but not if it's only keeping Wifi on for location purposes. I have been running this for a while now, and the Google Services drain is pretty much gone, but full Google Now and Location Services are still available.

Just as a footnote - I'm not actually using the "Wifi during sleep" setting, I use DS Battery Saver Pro with a custom profile that just forces Wifi off when the screen is off, but the settings above should have the same effect.........

 

[sddabrow]

I spent 4 hours straight yesterday changing settings and deleting apps to see why my battery all of a sudden was draining after the new update. It's doing "ok" for now but I still have to keep an eye on it. In application manager I noticed that android system is running 21 percent, is this normal? It's the only app that is running that much.

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My Android System and Android OS both run about 10-20%. You should be good!

The thing I worry about is the Google Play Services.

 

[JellyBeanGurl]

See I'd about deleted all my apps trying to figure out what it was... and nothing. So it is Google services but my app battery doctor and wake lock are unable to recognize it and tell me it's google?

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[JellyBeanGurl]

Do widgets take up a lot of battery life? I have only 2 right now.

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[sddabrow]

Two shouldn't affect it a whole lot. Does the drain say Google Services or Google Play Services when you check your battery monitor? If so.. try the two things I posted above. Also try turning off Google Location History Reporting in Google Now or Maps.

 

[JellyBeanGurl]

Two shouldn't affect it a whole lot. Does the drain say Google Services or Google Play Services when you check your battery monitor? If so.. try the two things I posted above. Also try turning off Google Location History Reporting in Google Now or Maps.

I changed the settings on my wifi... let's see how it'll do!

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[JellyBeanGurl]

Sorry if my image is too large. Don't know how to make it a thumbsize.
What do you think so far about my battery life? I deleted some more apps and stopped a few more bloatware.

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[Dw77]

Same issue. Just got the note 3 and Google services eats most of my battery . Screen is number 2 and Android os 3. Getting 12 hours of battery with only 4 hours of screen time while on wifi all day. I seem to get worse battery life on wifi now so I think it has to do with the way Google is using wifi location data. Yesterday my battery life drained faster when I was on wifi in the morning and then slowed down on cellular. Usually the opposite is true.

 

[shuttlexman]

I'm going to try following CheeseKeeper's post at XDA:

I hate having to turn that off because I want the Goggle Now services to work, and I've found on mine I keep all of that on and still get rid of the Google Services drain. The problem comes from the fact that even when you switch WiFi off, network location keeps it running all the time for location purposes. In 4.1 there was nothing you could do about it, but under 4.3 if you set the following:

Keep Wifi on during sleep > Never
Scanning always available > Unticked

This allows WiFi location to work when you're actually using Wifi, but not if it's only keeping Wifi on for location purposes. I have been running this for a while now, and the Google Services drain is pretty much gone, but full Google Now and Location Services are still available.

Just as a footnote - I'm not actually using the "Wifi during sleep" setting, I use DS Battery Saver Pro with a custom profile that just forces Wifi off when the screen is off, but the settings above should have the same effect.........

Where are those two switches located?

 

[Airsloth]

I've had it for almost a month. Everything was fine until a week ago. It's driving me nuts! Something updated/changed or I saved a bad pic/file.

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A bad PIC or file doesn't drain the battery. Its probably Google apps/services or an app running in the background.

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[dswatson83]

After turning off the location pinning on wifi, my battery has been awesome. It is weird so there might be some bug in how it pins your location while on wifi (I have the Note 3). I found it interesting that while on wifi my battery was draining twice as fast as when on cellular and I guess that is the problem. It looks like I can still use GPS perfectly though I'm not sure if Google Now will know my locations since I unchecked that option. It is definitely a bug though because Google Services does not consume that much battery pinging location while on Cell networks but ONLY when on Wifi. It should be the opposite because as long as I am connected on wifi, Google should not have to keep searching my location. It seems like it is continuously searching your location even if you are on wifi. Google services went from the #1 consumer of battery down to number 4. Screen is now #1 as it should be given the 5.7 inch mammoth display.

 

[Almeuit]

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Sorry if my image is too large. Don't know how to make it a thumbsize.
What do you think so far about my battery life? I deleted some more apps and stopped a few more bloatware.

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Not sure since you didn't show anything but screen on time.. Didn't see how long it lasted.. What you did... Etc.

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[rivencap]

As for location services, I use all of them and have no problem... I don't see the point in using a smartphone without them, to be honest. I recommend rebooting your device and then reactivating them, I don't think location services are the problem.

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I agree. My location settings are all on and I have a live paper running. Let.me tell ya, going on almost two days with over 8hrs of screen time. Not bad at all! I really think the partial blame is the sd cards. Huge issues on the S3, and not sure about the S4, but huge issues on the note 3. Shutting from certain cards not working again to incompatible files the hold the card indexing. Ever since I cleaned up my card, put any png or pdf files back on my phones memory, works like a charm. For me anyhow. The beauty of hashing out bugs in a new phone.

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[rivencap]

A bad PIC or file doesn't drain the battery. Its probably Google apps/services or an app running in the background.

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There are ton of posts here and on xda that do state the weird/bad/corrupted files can hold up "media services", which is a battery hog due to indexing. Please don't tell me it isn't a problem when it is. I was never taking about "Google services" issue for myself. Just shooting out another thought of battery hog issue.

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