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Ok i did use the search tool for a quick check, and couldn't find anything, so...
I got a refurbed Atrix for At&T the other day, and i know there have been complaints about the firmware, but i just want to know if the issues i'm having are the same for everyone or if i got a buggie unit...
Google Voice: I downloaded google voice and went through the setup, as i have done on the other 6 android phones i have owned in the past year, and set up as my voicemail and for calling only international. I seem to be receiving text messages just fine, but i am not getting any of my voicemails. When i log on to google voice with a browser, however, all my voicemails are there. Is this something wrong with my atrix or are others experiencing this as well?
Battery Status: I've used Batt Statt widget on all my android phones to know exactly how much battery i have, at a glance. With my new atrix it only shows battery percentages in tens (100%, 90%, 80%, etc...). Also, when i check Battery level in the Android settings it displays the same. Is this another "feature" of motoblur or is my device acting screwy?
Anyhow, thanks for taking your time to look over this post. Suggestions are welcome. I would like to know if i need to exchange or if these issues are inherent to the Atrix. Thanks!
There are a mods, that allow to you the battery one by one percent, but you need first root and install recovery app
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Inherent issues. And root did not search enough. Lol.
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As far as Google voice goes, after you set it up online, make sure to go to your phone setting and change the Voicemail Service to Google Voice... it will give you an error after trying to switch, but it will still work (under settings -> Call Settings).
System panel shows 1% battery readings correctly, no root needed. Just click on monitor and scroll to bottom.
try either "Battery Circle" or "Circle Battery Widget".
difference is that one is for status bar display, another one is a homescreen widget.
both works for me 1% reading...
We should be able to make a list of the notorious apps that we've experienced that cause battery drain. No, not some 3d launcher, not some game you play too much, but apps that when installed kill your battery without good cause..
This is an opinion thread, if you see the same app repeatedly than maybe that opinion should matter, and feel free to give your insight.. but no "you're an idiot, because blah blah"
I've used poweramp music player for nearly a year, I've emailed the dev because it will kill my battery at huge rates, but they claimed that it isn't the app. Even though there are tons of posts about the same thing(many about my phone the Samsung galaxy s).. I'm sure it does, but I love the functionality it has and can't give it up. Which is fine.
But I suddenly have battery drain really bad and tthe only change I made was switching to go launcher. Maybe it is the Widgets, but I have lost several hours a day of battery only after using it.
Either way, since I couldn't find a thread about apps people think cause needless battery drain I figured I'd post one. I bet there are a ton of apps people will hate on, but maybe qe can save someone from finding out the hard way, or maybe a developer will see their app listed and think they should work on it..
Regardless, what apps have you installed and noticed needless battery drain?
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Wi-Fi Finder from Android Market drains the battery of my HTC Desire HD
I hear the android IRC app drains battery pretty badly.
Go!chat is litteraly eating the battery of every android device i've put it on
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This thread is going to be full of complete nonsense.. There are badly written apps that are going to do stupid stuff, but there are also apps which have custom codecs which use more power to decode certain file formats (PowerAmp) and apps which by design are going to use power (Wifi Scanners).
The sorta new free warcraft type game, eternity warriors or something like that. Impossible to turn off
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This thread is going to be full of complete nonsense.. There are badly written apps that are going to do stupid stuff, but there are also apps which have custom codecs which use more power to decode certain file formats (PowerAmp) and apps which by design are going to use power (Wifi Scanners).
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The exact kind of comment that doesn't contribute. No, it may list some apps that cause NEEDLESS battery drain. According to the dev of poweramp it doesn't process the muscle any differently, and shouldn't drain more than the stock app. There's no custom codecs to read mp3s.
I wont waste anymore time on someone who isn't contributing, only trolling.
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The yahoo! Mail app with it's push only setting had been a HUGE battery killer!
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The exact kind of comment that doesn't contribute. No, it may list some apps that cause NEEDLESS battery drain. According to the dev of poweramp it doesn't process the muscle any differently, and shouldn't drain more than the stock app. There's no custom codecs to read mp3s.
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You clearly don't get that PowerAmp doesn't use the same codecs as most media players.. It has custom ffmpeg libs. The author can say they should be similar in cpu but doesn't mean they are.
And I agree that it does use more cpu.. Mostly notice it when I listen to music while sleeping, the phone gets much warmer than if I'm using stock codecs.
And watch your use of the word troll...
Back to my point..
Danzanzio said:
The yahoo! Mail app with it's push only setting had been a HUGE battery killer!
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NetCounter prevents the phone from enter sleep mode. Stay clear!
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+1 for the yahoo mail app.
I am using Go Launcher Ex, Launcher Pro + and ADW Launcher and cannot say that one consumes more battery than the other, it depends more on what widgets or live WP you use in the launcher, so i think we should focus on pinpointing what widgets and in what settings or conditions drain the battery, for example i found that Animated Weather was for me draining to much juice and replaced it by BeWeather, for the same reason i replaced Executive Widgets by Pure Widget.
On the other hand i removed K9 Mail and am using MailDroid, as in several occasions K9 climbed to the top of the list in battery usage, doubling even the screen usage.
At this point i never more experienced excessive battery drain, other than screen and phone cell standby (due to bad reception in my area).
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On the other hand i removed K9 Mail and am using MailDroid, as in several occasions K9 climbed to the top of the list in battery usage, doubling even the screen usage.
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Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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Yes you are right i am using pop.
You point is also correct, there are widgets which wont let deep sleep the phone. A method to pinpoint them is to look at the logcat and see which app is waking up the phone constantly.
tunein radio pro and sensor
I had a problem with tunein radio pro. Even after I shut it down though (App Management), under battery use, tunein radio was listed as draining battery continuously under sensor usage.
No idea if it is a sensor issue or the app issue.
kik (gotten better with battery but still needs improvement)
jolaren said:
Go!chat is litteraly eating the battery of every android device i've put it on
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yup same here
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khaytsus said:
Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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why not IMAP?
FIRST KILLER,
GOOGLE MAP!
I disabled it to prevent it auto start via autostart app.
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I've noticed the Photobucket app likes to open itself up in the background at times (i.e. overnight) and use up to 5% of my battery power.
Maps, Google+, PURE News and Messager widgets, K9 for Pure, XDA App (unfoortunately)
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hi guys,
Hopefully this is the right forum but if it is not, i apologize. Anyway, i recently moved from a GB rom to ICS rom (AOKP and now on SHOstock2) and i have to say that i LOVE SHOstock. however, there is one issue that is shaping up to be a showstopper for me and that is the Exchange service that is killing my battery as well as giving me some other problems like push emails not coming through every once in a while. i did quite a bit of reading both here and on google and from what i can tell, the issue with Exchange service killing battery and misbehaving is actually a problem with ICS and not a particular rom. On GB, i used to get about 1-3% per hour drain and now i am at about 15% and i can see that mail.exchange is keeping the phone awake most of the time with a wakelock (unplugged at 6am today and i am seeing about 3 hours of wakelock).
i already tried some of the suggestions that are out there like removing the calender sync, deleting and readding the account, using different mail clients etc.. but all have the same exact result. am i screwed? do i have to go back to GB if i want to keep my Exchange?
while i am at it, anybody else notice some issues with Wifi switching? it takes me about 2 minutes to get data after i turn wifi off and i already tried 3 different modems including the latest leaked one.
thanks in advance.
I'm on AOKP and my exchange works just fine. No battery drain issues or anything. No issues with the wifi switching either. Unplugged for 4 hours so far today and at 94% right now.
Did you do full wipes between flashing?
No issue here with Exchange, I run my own server and do not use autodiscover for settings. No abnormal battery drain. However, I have read that some are experiencing drain and its normally due to configuration of the account on the device. What to change exactly, I'm not sure but double check your settings.
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yep, full wipe between flashes as well as cache wipe and delvik wipe.
nh5 said:
No issue here with Exchange, I run my own server and do not use autodiscover for settings. No abnormal battery drain. However, I have read that some are experiencing drain and its normally due to configuration of the account on the device. What to change exactly, I'm not sure but double check your settings.
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i triple checked my settings and they are actually identical to the settings that i had when i was on GB. this is such a weird thing since it happened both on AOKP and on SHOstock and i already tried different modems.
checkout enhanced email, otherwise ya definately do a full wipe backup your stuff, i had the problem then i formatted my internal sd card, and in ClockworkMod i wiped cache/dalvik/data fixed my problems right up
i am using Enhanced Email right now (i much prefer it to anything else i tried). i am doing a few more tests but if i can't get it to work, i am going to do full wipe and flash SHOstock again and see if it helped.
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i am using Enhanced Email right now (i much prefer it to anything else i tried). i am doing a few more tests but if i can't get it to work, i am going to do full wipe and flash SHOstock again and see if it helped.
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Were you having these issues on the stock email app? I've read that the calendar sync from enhanced email caused a big battery drain.
I did try the stock email and it was actually worse. Oh and I have Calender sync disabled in both email clients.
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i triple checked my settings and they are actually identical to the settings that i had when i was on GB. this is such a weird thing since it happened both on AOKP and on SHOstock and i already tried different modems.
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Is your phone abnormally warm? I had an issue with something not syncing correctly, so exchange was constantly trying to sync and killing the battery. I deleted the accounts and re-added, syncing things one at a time and it worked.
I run two exchange accounts, my work and personal, and I have no issues now.
Aokp here, not a single issue to report with exchange
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alright, i once again disabled all calender syncs and removed and re added the exchange account. with Enhanced Email, so far i don't see the exchange service acting weird so i will monitor it through the day and report back.
alright, another update:
after switching to enhanced email and disabling calender sync, i did a few more tests yesterday. i charged my phone to 100%, reset all the timers and left it over night. i woke up today to 94% battery and deep sleep was about 98% and there was only about 8 seconds of wake locks from email. it looks like everything is working as it should now but i will update again if the issue returns.
I sync my own exchange server as well as the one I administer from work. I too had random sync failures and drain using the stock Samsung email app included in shostock. The Samsung email app from GB was fine.
The ICS email app from CM9/AOKP works great. Only thing missing is sync scheduling. Quiet hours is a decent replacement. Looks like you found a workaround, just saying you're not alone.
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i triple checked my settings and they are actually identical to the settings that i had when i was on GB. this is such a weird thing since it happened both on AOKP and on SHOstock and i already tried different modems.
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I've had nothing but issues with the stock ICS Email/Exchange app, it won't recognize/authenticate me - no issues when using GB.
However, K9 and Touchdown both work fine. Touchdown works so well I was planning on buying it but now I read some reviews where they are not supporting rooted/custom roms so I may just stick with K9.
I have been on all of the versions of Shostock2 and I have not had any issues with exchange other than when I flashed V1 where I had exchange wake lock issues. I resolved it by wiping and re flashing and have had no issues since.
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No Exchange issues to report, un-modded yakju IMM76I OTA.
I work for a big corporation, so I connect to Exchange servers supported by corporate IT.
I'm currently on I9100XWLP7, but this is already the third ICS version where this happens randomly. I always did a full wipe before and after flashing, and I did not restore any Settings using Titanium Backup (in fact, restoring System Settings always causes trouble).
The Problem is not the application (K9, Social Hub, Android stock ecc.) you are using, but the stock Exchange ActiveSync implementation of ICS. This Problem also happens on some ICS 4.0.4 Nexus, so actually there is no hope for a decent solution with the current 4.0.3 on the SGS2.
Deleting and re-adding the accounts helps for some days, or even weeks, but eventually it will reappear.
I noticed that disconnections between the Server and the device seem to be crucial for this to happen. The last time I did a full wipe the SGS2 worked flawlessly for about one week, until we had a Problem with the HDSL in our company. After restoring the connection, the Problem reappeared and since them every now and then the SGS2 gets hot and I have a massive battery drain, no mather what Settings (even Default Settings don't work).
This does not happen on any device with GB.
Stopping the Exchange Services sometimes helps. They will be restarted next time you open the email app. If you are lucky, than it's solved for some hours, if not, it continues to cause massive wakelocks.
You described my symptoms exactly.
Do you know if Touchdown uses the same service or implemented their own?
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Touchdown works so well I was planning on buying it but now I read some reviews where they are not supporting rooted/custom roms so I may just stick with K9.
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Touchdown works for me on rooted and custom roms. It just became officially supported at work, and custom roms are explicitly included by my IT department.
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I had some problems with battery time as many other here. Barely made it from 07 in the morning to 21 at the evening, with just 1-1,5 hours screen time.
Tried almost everything, without luck. Then i tried to log out and close Skype, and now battery live is much better, 14 hours with 3,5 hour screen time, and steel 40% left.
It looks like Skype just runs all the time, draining battery. Apps like BetterBatteryStats or Badass Battery Monitor don't show anything.
Is there no push mode in skype? If i close it, i don't get any messages.
Anyone else has this problem with Skype?
Skype is a P2P protocol based on a filesharing application dating years back.
So there is no real central infrastructure over which all your messages are routed as used e.g. by MSN, ICQ, IRC Servers, ...
However, as usual, some smart people have come to the rescue of us poor batterie-draining users; IM+ (Pro)
http://shape.ag/en/products/details.php?product=im&platform=android
You can configure it to connect to most protocols you might use (MSN, Skype, ICQ, Facebook Chat, ...) and set it to go to Push mode.
Their servers will then login for you and send a Google C2DM notification to your mobile whenever someone sends you a message - simple and very battery-friendly.
I've been using IM+ Pro on the S1 where it's the only viable method since there simply is not enough memory to keep Skype running in the background.
Additionally Skype on Android is somewhat flaky - I often don't get messages sent to me while the 3. party apps work just fine.
not sure but it says here
permissions denied app
The permission we want to block from Skype is the coarse location permission.
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http://thewangster.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/reducing-skype-android-standby-battery-usage/
is this going to work
Standby Skype drains my battery
galaxy44 said:
not sure but it says here
http://thewangster.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/reducing-skype-android-standby-battery-usage/
is this going to work
Standby Skype drains my battery
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I couldn't get this method to work.
Does the im+ method still work?
Or is there another method for stopping Skype battery drain?
Cheers
I've been using Skype on my LG G2 and it's horrendous!
It keeps draining the battery with constant wake locks and sometimes my phone is held awake by this one app for as much as 4 hours!
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I've been using Skype on my LG G2 and it's horrendous!
It keeps draining the battery with constant wake locks and sometimes my phone is held awake by this one app for as much as 4 hours!
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I'm using whats app for messages now so it someone wants to skype they can whats app me a text fist
Whats app is very good
galaxy44 said:
I'm using whats app for messages now so it someone wants to skype they can whats app me a text fist
Whats app is very good
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I've used What's App before and I agree it's pretty good but I like being able to use Skype both on my desktop and on mobile.
Also, it would be difficult to convince everybody on my Skype to switch to What's App especially work contacts.
lelik11a said:
I had some problems with battery time as many other here. Barely made it from 07 in the morning to 21 at the evening, with just 1-1,5 hours screen time.
Tried almost everything, without luck. Then i tried to log out and close Skype, and now battery live is much better, 14 hours with 3,5 hour screen time, and steel 40% left.
It looks like Skype just runs all the time, draining battery. Apps like BetterBatteryStats or Badass Battery Monitor don't show anything.
Is there no push mode in skype? If i close it, i don't get any messages.
Anyone else has this problem with Skype?
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What i do is set a data restriction on the app so my messages only come throught when it is in the forground ( when i am actively using it)
I also use this on bbm and certain apps which use data in the background this drastically improves battery life when running on 3/4g
Since I changed to JB my battery is being drained by google services. I've tried turning off location services, all of google now, and everything that is using google to sync except for mail. I haven't found a solution anywhere online. I've also deleted my exchange and other mail accounts and I still have the problem.
I'm using MeanBean 2.3 and it also did the same thing on MB 1.4.
Any ideas?
drdamond said:
Since I changed to JB my battery is being drained by google services. I've tried turning off location services, all of google now, and everything that is using google to sync except for mail. I haven't found a solution anywhere online. I've also deleted my exchange and other mail accounts and I still have the problem.
I'm using MeanBean 2.3 and it also did the same thing on MB 1.4.
Any ideas?
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I am also seeing this and sometimes Maps or Poynt do the same thing as well. If I look in my power history it will show GPS ON as a full blue line. I also see a solid blue line in the wake portion sometimes when the phone has been sleeping. Both issues will cause the battery to drain very quickly. If I don't catch them in time, my battery won't make it all day. If I go a day without seeing these, the battery lasts all day with plenty to spare. A quick reboot fixes them but I never had these issues before Jelly Bean. My wife has an EVO LTE too and sees these issues as well. Anyone know what is causing these issues? Neither of us have turned on Google Now yet fearing that will make it worse.
Did you do a factory reset after the upgrade to jelly bean? Many reported that helping.
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Did you do a factory reset after the upgrade to jelly bean? Many reported that helping.
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No, but my wife just got hers and I updated to Jelly Bean before installing or setting up the phone. Guess I will try factory reset after installing Jelly Bean. Thanks for the help!
I did super wipe (factory reset) last night with clean install and today I'm not having issues yet
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It didn't work. Google services turned on again and keeps my phone awake and is draining the battery. Does anyone else have an exchange account? I just deleted mine to see if that might help.
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In case anyone ever comes upon this thread and wants an answer, I think the problem is with exchange. I made it manual DL and the Google services stayed on but didn't drain the battery. Reset, location, and other changes didn't seem to help.
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Maybe exchange cuz I don't have the issue...its not even on the history
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drdamond said:
In case anyone ever comes upon this thread and wants an answer, I think the problem is with exchange. I made it manual DL and the Google services stayed on but didn't drain the battery. Reset, location, and other changes didn't seem to help.
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I am having the same problem, but I don't have exchange. Just got my phone a week ago, not rooted, completely stock. Today was the first day that the battery abnormally drained, with google services using 50%. Not sure what changed or what happened. Trying to do some research into this as there seems to be a lot of questions out there, but haven't found any answers yet.
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I am having the same problem, but I don't have exchange. Just got my phone a week ago, not rooted, completely stock. Today was the first day that the battery abnormally drained, with google services using 50%. Not sure what changed or what happened. Trying to do some research into this as there seems to be a lot of questions out there, but haven't found any answers yet.
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I am having this problem every so often also. The phone stays awake 100% of the time due to the google services. I kill it a couple times and usually it stops for awhile. Very annoying, still looking for a fix.
-Matt
The best way to figure out what is draining your battery is to install Better Battery Stats from the play store. Let it run in the background for a day or two and then check out partial wake locks and alarms. See if there is an app or process that is running out of control. Check all of your settings for syncing gmail, chrome, news and weather, etc. If you can't find some app that is keeping your device awake when it should be resting, then it could just be the phone.
Is there any REAL solution for this issue?
"Google Services" keeps my phone awake 100% of the time sometimes and I get maybe 4 hours of bat till completely dead. I've tried turning off sync, gps, mail, etx still does it. I think it really the Play Store but I cant be sure.
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Is there any REAL solution for this issue?
"Google Services" keeps my phone awake 100% of the time sometimes and I get maybe 4 hours of bat till completely dead. I've tried turning off sync, gps, mail, etx still does it. I think it really the Play Store but I cant be sure.
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Turn off Autosync then turn it on again and force a full sync, then reboot, I've read somewhere I think in the sense 5 port thread about something like this and I think scottspa or Finz posted this as a solution, try it and let us know...
I've been having hella issues with this recently. Some of the fixes out there work some of the time. Best one I've found is to sign out of Google EVERYTHING, wipe caches, reboot, then resign in. Even sometimes that won't release the wakelock. Yesterday for instance I had to do that, then take it a step further and delete my data from everything with the word Google on it and do 2 reboots before it would go the hell away.
disable
I disable mine.
Use titanium backup. Make the services and play store user apps. Then use greenify on them.
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Turn off Autosync then turn it on again and force a full sync, then reboot, I've read somewhere I think in the sense 5 port thread about something like this and I think scottspa or Finz posted this as a solution, try it and let us know...
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I am running MeanBean with latest firmware. I had this issue yesterday and I tried your fix. So far today, google services has only used 2%. I am curious to see if it stays that way or if the issue will come back.
Thanks
clearing cache and delvik cache seems to work for a little while that it just starts again ok. I only staredt having this issue about 2 weeks ago. That's why I think its the Play Store cause that's when the Play Store updated. Also rebooting seems to relieve the situation temporarily. Its just a pain in you don't look at your phone for a few hours notice 75 percent of your battery is gone.
I had the Google services drain too. I was looking high and low for the cause. Finally solved mine by going to Quick Event app, clicked setting icon (top right), set both Default Reminder and Default Duration to none.. That solved my problem.
So I did a few things and have not had a problem in a week(ish) now. I cleared cache and dalvik cache. I also forced a sync then turned off sync tried to sync again then turned it back on.
I have not had a problem since. In fact I left this phone sitting all weekend from sat morning to this morning and it only used 22% battery. (there was NO use by me)
Just incase anybody is wondering I am on the latest Mean Bean with over clocking and over volt.