Why am I suddenly getting google play services battery drain?

[orangemartini]

Hi guys,

I've done all the tips and tricks to optimize battery life and was experiencing great battery life until a few days ago. Now it's draining pretty bad and the stock battery monitor shows "google play services" as the culprit. I have GSAM, but it's not showing the problem, other than google play services. I'd like to fix this without doing a factory reset, if possible. Help!

 

[Golfdriver97]

If you haven't, I would try connecting to a WiFi connection. It might be something is stuck and needs a refresh.

 

[erasat]

Hi guys,

I've done all the tips and tricks to optimize battery life and was experiencing great battery life until a few days ago. Now it's draining pretty bad and the stock battery monitor shows "google play services" as the culprit. I have GSAM, but it's not showing the problem, other than google play services. I'd like to fix this without doing a factory reset, if possible. Help!

This is a common Lollipop issue and it affects at random. I've suffered the same, but not just with the S6 edge, but with past 2 phones that had Lollipop on them.

It can work fine for days, weeks or months and then suddenly any of the related apps are updated and the drain begins, not even a reboot fixes it, only way I've found to stop it is by going to Application manager on settings and in the All tab, look for Google Services Framework and Google Play Services and Clear Cache and Force Stop both of them.

Problem is that until a new Google Play Service version is available it may occur again at anytime. I'd advise to look over APK Mirror website and see if there is a new Version available and sideload it, the one for our phones is the one that ends on 440.

 

[S6edge46220]

Mine is doing the same thing but I'm still getting decent battery life. Cleared cache partition and play cache, no difference. Just waiting on the update I guess

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[Petero1818]

I have the exact same issue, started at the exact same time.

 

[mountainman]

Let me ask you all this, do you have your Google Play set to not update the apps automatically?

I have mine set to NOT do updates. But once in a while Google Play Services will go ape and start chewing battery. What I do is go to GPlay and update all my apps, then I wipe the cache partition. Seems to work for me.

 

[orangemartini]

Interesting. As a matter of fact, I do have it set NOT to auto-update. Sometimes updates ruin apps (take away feature, add ads, etc) and I prefer to pick and choose. Very interesting...

 

[mountainman]

Interesting. As a matter of fact, I do have it set NOT to auto-update. Sometimes updates ruin apps (take away feature, add ads, etc) and I prefer to pick and choose. Very interesting...

Yeah it is very odd for sure. I just figured why not do the updates and maybe Google Play Services will stop whatever it is trying to do. Next time it happens (which I'm sure it will), I will just update the apps without clearing the cache.

I'm just not sure if clearing the cache matters in this instance. It is an annoying issue on an otherwise spectacular device.