Google services munching at my battery today.

[Bloodthirsty]

Noticed a little faster then normal battery drain just now and google services have used 21% of the total drain. Whats up with that?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Noticed a little faster then normal battery drain just now and google services have used 21% of the total drain. Whats up with that?

This question has been spreading through the forums. You can try disabling location services, or try a reboot.

 

[Bloodthirsty]

If I turn off location services does it jack up nav and maps?

 

[Golfdriver97]

If I turn off location services does it jack up nav and maps?

That is kind of the downside...it can.
I think right now its a bug in play services.
Sent from a Slim 4.3 S3

 

[Bloodthirsty]

That is kind of the downside...it can.
I think right now its a bug in play services.
Sent from a Slim 4.3 S3

Thanks. I guess I'll leave it off unless I actually need to use them which isn't often.

 

[Bloodthirsty]

Android System and Android OS is up there pretty high after the reboot. Could have something to do with the reboot I guess.

 

[Goingcarcrazy]

I read somewhere on here that they disabled the stock weather widget/app and it went from 29% to 1% or something like that. Its in the other battery munching thread.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Android System and Android OS is up there pretty high after the reboot. Could have something to do with the reboot I guess.

Do you use your device a lot? With the system apps being high like that it indicates you don't.

Sent from a Slim 4.3 S3

 

[bova80]

for me it wasn't the stock weather app that was doing it. it was location access "wireless & mobile network location" setting being turned on was killing it. I turned that off and my battery is tons better now. if you use google now it likes to keep track of you locations for your cards and that in turn eats a lot of battery too. but I read the longer you leave it active the less it will use it and will eventually normalize.

 

[Bloodthirsty]

for me it wasn't the stock weather app that was doing it. it was location access "wireless & mobile network location" setting being turned on was killing it. I turned that off and my battery is tons better now. if you use google now it likes to keep track of you locations for your cards and that in turn eats a lot of battery too. but I read the longer you leave it active the less it will use it and will eventually normalize.

Good to know. Hope it's true. Thanks.

 

[mikea3000]

I have the same issue. First day of use today, all location services are off. Google services at over 20%???

 

[Jdroids]

This is common issue with any android phone, not just G2. You don't need to entirely turn off location service. But you need to watch the apps using it.
Quite often the culprit is Google now and/or maps tracking your location. Go into location setting under Google now or map and turn off location report, history if they are on. This will prevent google now/map from using location too much. You may still leave the location service on under main setting as it's needed for other apps like weather, news, etc.