Sudden Note 3 battery drain due to Gmail

[blanier98]

Just notice this weekend that my battery is lasting less than 24 hours. Checked my battery usage and saw that gmail is using over 20%! What the heck?!?! Any suggestions?

 

[dancing-bass]

possibly the app got stuck trying to pull in fresh data - if you haven't already, go to settings>general>apps, find gmail and tap on it. Force stop, clear app cache, and reboot. I find a spike in battery use is generally due to a "stuck" app - and force stop/clear cache/reboot will usually bring things back to normal. Although I find Google Play Services tends to be the most common one I see people asking about, I assume it's possible for other apps to get stuck as well