Samsung Galaxy S6 Google Play Services - Battery Drain

[kingofthedudes]

Hi there, how did you disable background data for GPS? Sorry if this is a dumb question!

 

[thoots]

All I can add to this discussion is that I am happy with my battery life, and I DO NOT HAVE Google Play Services showing up as an app that's eating up my battery. I'm not sure what causes it to be on or off, but obviously I'm not running anything that's causing it to run. I sure don't run Google Now, or much of any Google stuff at all, but that's about all I can tell you. I sure think that Google Play Services is one of the big things that is ruining the battery life for a bunch of folks, so to do whatever it takes to get rid of it sure would seem to be worthwhile to me.

 

[Leoncio Zamora]

Re: Google Play Services - Battery Drain

I turned off location services history last night, disabled all google apps I don't use and removed sync from any google app I didn't use. Thanks everyone for the tips. Today is a night/day difference so far:

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That's still not good sot, even with Google now cards but turning off all Google syncs, location off, I only lose anywhere from 5 to 10 percent of battery power 1 hour of screen on time depending on what I'm doing.

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[herrberk]

Re: Google Play Services - Battery Drain

I'd suggest turning off the location services. Since Google collects location information of yours, your phone wakes up to connect google servers..Thus battery is drained by google services..Install Wakelock detector and monitor your wakeups to find out what is causing your phone to wake up..I have solved my battery drain issue by simply doing this..

Hope it helps..

 

[InFredAble]

I had a terrible battery drain problem. I was about to return the phone but someone on another forum said the did a factory default and it fixed it. I tried it and now my battery is great. I've been on my phone all day and I'm now down to 37%. Night and day difference.

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[razza1987]

Always that Google Play Services. I am so over it -_-

 

[razza1987]

Ouch

 

[hashimohamed]

Re: Google Play Services - Battery Drain

Sure - go into settings, Personal, Accounts. Go through each account and turn off sync you don't need. Specifically, Google likes to try to sync EVERYTHING. I turned it all off except contacts, music, and chrome.

Next go to the application called "Google Settings" in your app drawer. Scroll down to "Location" and on "Google Location History" turn it OFF. I think that might have been my main culprit.

Hope this helps!!

This did the trick for my Galaxy S6. Google play services went from consistently being the top battery user to now barely making the list. Thanks so much. Dramatic improvement!

 

[Torus11]

From day 1 I thought that the battery life of my Samsung S6 Edge was pretty bad. The only apps that I have on my phone is Whatsapp, Messenger(I deleted Facebook app to see if it was the problem but it's not, but I still havnt reinstalled it), Chrome, Waze ( hardly ever use, and the one time I used it the phone got extremely hot!!), Skype, and Light Manager. I have my screen brightness near to the very bottom, very dim. My location services are OFF. Google account's do not sync. I have 2 email accounts on the default email application and only things that Sync are whatsapp and messenger My phone is connected to Wifi most of the day and the signal is always strong. I lose about 1% for every 3 minutes of my screen being on, weather I'm using Whatsapp, looking around in settings, or reading a text message or email. I average about 2 hours - 2.5 hours of Screen On Time until my battery is drained or at 5% at the very most.

I have taken my phone to Samsung and they did something to it for an hour and wiped it and said it should solve the issue, which it did not! I also restarted my phone by pressing the power, volume up, and home keys and cleared that cache thing that I saw on a Youtube video that helped some people, but unfortunately not me!

I also notice that most of my RAM is always used up and I'm not sure why? It's always above 70% used up even right after I restart the phone.

I am not sure what to do now, is this normal for the S6 Edge? How could this ever be normal for any phone? Especially the top of the range phone with a heavy price tag? What did I pay for? A downgrade?? That's what it feels like to my dismay!

The one thing that I am thankful for is the one year warranty and that I can take my phone in so that they can rip it apart (who knows with what level of care) and put another battery in which will hopefully deliver enough capacity to see me through the day rather than only half a day! I certainly DO NOT wish to downgrade to having to charge my phone twice over the course of a 24 hour period, that is ridiculous! The amount of people with s6 Edge's that are having terrible battery life is alarming to me and potentially grounds for a recall of this model because as beautiful as it is it's simply not practical, especially if you are use to your s5 still having 30% + battery at the end of the night even after heavy use and then getting a new "upgraded" phone that I have to be mindful of my usage with if I want it to get me through the day until I'm back home from work. Very very disappointed and I'm not so sure if I'm going to remain a fan of Samsung after this experience.

 

[Likorisa]

Hi, you can try many things here, for tips on how to deal with the Google Play Services issues, read here. For tips on saving battery life and reducing battery drain on your s6/S6 Edge, read here. I hope this helps everyone.