Yesterday morning I noticed that I was getting CONSTANT network usage (even though I was doing nothing with the phone) so I turned on My Data Manager application to track what was doing this. So from about 8am until about midnight Google Play Services racked up about 300MB of data usage until I finally turned off 4g. This activity was constant throughout the whole day and was just killing my battery.
This morning I reboot the phone and Google Play Services is now again up to 13MB of data usage within the last hour. I have never seen this activity before and it is again sucking the life out of my battery. It would really be good to know what is going on that would use 313MB of data (and still going) and I still cannot track what it is doing. I have not signed up for any new Google services. I can even close down the Google Play application and the network usage just continues on.
Anyone else notice this type of extreme usage from Google Play Services?
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Yesterday morning I noticed that I was getting CONSTANT network usage (even though I was doing nothing with the phone) so I turned on My Data Manager application to track what was doing this. So from about 8am until about midnight Google Play Services racked up about 300MB of data usage until I finally turned off 4g. This activity was constant throughout the whole day and was just killing my battery.
This morning I reboot the phone and Google Play Services is now again up to 13MB of data usage within the last hour. I have never seen this activity before and it is again sucking the life out of my battery. It would really be good to know what is going on that would use 313MB of data (and still going) and I still cannot track what it is doing. I have not signed up for any new Google services. I can even close down the Google Play application and the network usage just continues on.
Anyone else notice this type of extreme usage from Google Play Services?
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No, but have you tried clearing the data from within the application manager under phone settings?
I cleared the data like you said and the network activity stopped. I rebooted the phone and the network activity started up again. Again, I cleared the data and it stopped.
exmeaguy said:
I cleared the data like you said and the network activity stopped. I rebooted the phone and the network activity started up again. Again, I cleared the data and it stopped.
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Download Wakelock detector https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsImNvbS51enVtYXBwcy53YWtlbG9ja2RldGVjdG9yIl0 from the play store and open it once to get the app running. What it does it is tracks all the application/services that prevent your phone from remaining in deep sleep. Although you already know it's the google play services that hogging up your data, you don't know if it's another app that's triggering google play services to run and that's what the Wakelock detector app can provide you with.
The app doesn't track anything when the phone is plugged up and charging, so make sure you have a good charge on your phone, you're unplugged and turn off the screen for an hour or two so that the Wakelock detector app can gather some data.
For those of you who are experiencing your google services draining your battery with all location tracking features turned off on your device, there is a play store update date called 4.1.10 that will replace 4.1.6 that has location bug battery draining issue. In my particular case it is the nlp wakelock service that is constantly running, which falls within the google services.
The download can be obtained from Android Police website http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/29/download-latest-google-play-store-4-1-10/. You can simply install this apk file through the normal installation process of install apps.
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What's the difference between having location services on or off? I know this might be a dumb question, but the little compass icon seems to always be in the notification bar on my DNA. I can't remember if it was always like that or if it only started after downloading Tasker last week. I tried uninstalling Tasker, but it's still there all the time. I know I can turn it off in settings, but should I? Do I need Verizon, Standalone, and Google location services?
Also- lately Maps has been showing up at the top of the list for battery usage. Every day it shows like 60-70% usage with the next closest in the teens. I haven't used maps a lot, and it hasn't really seemed to affect battery life, but I'm wondering if this is related to location services. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks!
For me personally, when I left Verizon Location Services on my battery drained extremely fast and the little location services icon showed that it was active (three lines coming off the right side). When I turned Verizon services off and disabled location updating in Maps my battery increased enormously and the icon no longer showed activity constantly.
I now leave only Google location services on and manually turn on GPS when I need it. No issues since.
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Thrillhouse847 said:
For me personally, when I left Verizon Location Services on my battery drained extremely fast and the little location services icon showed that it was active (three lines coming off the right side). When I turned Verizon services off and disabled location updating in Maps my battery increased enormously and the icon no longer showed activity constantly.
I now leave only Google location services on and manually turn on GPS when I need it. No issues since.
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My battery actually hasn't been draining all that fast, it just seems to show that "maps" uses 60-70% of the battery even in a day where I don't open the application once. I leave gps on but as others have mentioned the phone only uses it when it needs to (evidenced by the satellite icon in the notification bar). I have had gps on since I got the phone but in the first few weeks maps showed as using more like 5-10% of the battery. Can anyone explain what I lose by turning off each of Verizon, Google and Standalone location services?
Standalone is for actual GPS navigation I believe. Where as Google location service is used for getting location for weather and whatnot. I leave Google on all the time and only use standalone for navigation. But I may be completely wrong lol
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DbZ Gokuu said:
Standalone is for actual GPS navigation I believe. Where as Google location service is used for getting location for weather and whatnot. I leave Google on all the time and only use standalone for navigation. But I may be completely wrong lol
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Nope, you're correct.
I had issues with the weather widget showing incorrect location if Verizon Services is enabled. I only use Google services and enable stand alone for navigation use.
qwertpiratej said:
My battery actually hasn't been draining all that fast, it just seems to show that "maps" uses 60-70% of the battery even in a day where I don't open the application once. I leave gps on but as others have mentioned the phone only uses it when it needs to (evidenced by the satellite icon in the notification bar). I have had gps on since I got the phone but in the first few weeks maps showed as using more like 5-10% of the battery. Can anyone explain what I lose by turning off each of Verizon, Google and Standalone location services?
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I figured it out... leaving NFC enabled all the time for some reason shows up as Maps usage in battery life. I turned NFC off, and the next day Maps was back down to around 5%.
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I figured it out... leaving NFC enabled all the time for some reason shows up as Maps usage in battery life. I turned NFC off, and the next day Maps was back down to around 5%.
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qwertpiratej said:
My battery actually hasn't been draining all that fast, it just seems to show that "maps" uses 60-70% of the battery even in a day where I don't open the application once. I leave gps on but as others have mentioned the phone only uses it when it needs to (evidenced by the satellite icon in the notification bar). I have had gps on since I got the phone but in the first few weeks maps showed as using more like 5-10% of the battery. Can anyone explain what I lose by turning off each of Verizon, Google and Standalone location services?
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I do not use NFC at all, It has been disabled since day 1. I have noticed my MAPS taking up 40-50% of the battery and I never use it. The only thing I enable is googles location services. and when I do use maps, I turn GPS on manually and then off when finished.
My FIX:
When I opened up MAPS, I went into settings > location settings and set location reporting to do not update your location.
This knocked MAPS off my battery usage list
After digging through the internetz, I finally found how to stop Google Services from draining battery. It's not a ROM issue. It's a Google 4.2.2 issue.
Location Services> uncheck Wi-FI & mobile network location.
I had amazing battery improvement all day yesterday with Wi-Fi netwok location unchecked. Even more evidence, my battery would drain 12-14% overnight with the Google Services issue. After having it unchecked last night, it only drained 2% overnight.
To confirm, I booted up this morning with it uncheck, Google services was way on the bottom of the list. I checked Wi-Fi network location a few hours ago, Google Services is now second on the battery stats list.
No idea what's causing the issue, but unchecking Wi-Fi network location seems to cure the symptom.
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After digging through the internetz, I finally found how to stop Google Services from draining battery. It's not a ROM issue. It's a Google 4.2.2 issue.
Location Services> uncheck Wi-FI & mobile network location.
I had amazing battery improvement all day yesterday with Wi-Fi netwok location unchecked. Even more evidence, my battery would drain 12-14% overnight with the Google Services issue. After having it unchecked last night, it only drained 2% overnight.
To confirm, I booted up this morning with it uncheck, Google services was way on the bottom of the list. I checked Wi-Fi network location a few hours ago, Google Services is now second on the battery stats list.
No idea what's causing the issue, but unchecking Wi-Fi network location seems to cure the symptom.
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Err...No offense, but you didn't find a "secret" that people didn't know about. Location services constantly uses wifi and mobile signals to pinpoint your location. It's a ground-based GPS-type system, and it drains battery.
I mean it's good that you fixed the issue on your phone, but doing a bit of research would have uncovered this a long time ago (way before 4.2.2)
wifi & mobile network location has never caused this significant of a battery drain before on any device or any previous android release. i switch between the s4 and a galaxy nexus running 4.1.2. google services isn't even a blip on battery usage page on my gnex. i've been using android since jan 2009 with the OG droid and this is the first time that i've ever had to uncheck that box because of significant adverse impacts to battery. google services has never been a battery hog until just very recently.
i didn't claim that i discovered it. i admitted that i found this solution on the web.
i posted this because i've read complaints about google services battery drain on a few different rom threads in the development section where people are incorrectly blaming the rom releases for the google services issue.
cool that it wasn't news to you, but it may be news to others.
h_10 said:
After digging through the internetz, I finally found how to stop Google Services from draining battery. It's not a ROM issue. It's a Google 4.2.2 issue.
Location Services> uncheck Wi-FI & mobile network location.
I had amazing battery improvement all day yesterday with Wi-Fi netwok location unchecked. Even more evidence, my battery would drain 12-14% overnight with the Google Services issue. After having it unchecked last night, it only drained 2% overnight.
To confirm, I booted up this morning with it uncheck, Google services was way on the bottom of the list. I checked Wi-Fi network location a few hours ago, Google Services is now second on the battery stats list.
No idea what's causing the issue, but unchecking Wi-Fi network location seems to cure the symptom.
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Isn't this the option that allows Google Now to calculate distance and time for cards that appear?
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Isn't this the option that allows Google Now to calculate distance and time for cards that appear?
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I'm not sure. I disabled Google Now a week ago trying to resolve the Google Services battery drain issue.
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Isn't this the option that allows Google Now to calculate distance and time for cards that appear?
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It is. Disabling this will disable google now as well. I have this battery drain issue since my S3 from June last year. I need to disable wifi location to save battery life when I am on 4.0.4, 4.1, 4.1.2 and 4.2.2. It is always like that for me.
Hi,
Whenever the "Use wireless networks" setting is on under "Location services", I get constant "nlpwakelocks" and battery drain.
However, I see that this was supposidely fixed by Google: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/29/download-latest-google-play-store-4-1-10/ (my version is 4.3.11).
Does anyone else have this issue? I've only started looking into wakelocks and have had the phone 5 months and have never had better battery than with this option turned off. Yes the simple answer is "turn it off", but I find I can get location locks quicker with it on, and also my phone can locate me when indoors.
I use Google+ location services so I can locate trusted friends (and they can locate me), and previously Google Latitude, but surely they shouldn't be constantly requesting my location and Android should prevent this in someway?
Cheers.
I too suffered this issue (several times on different roms). Nlpwakelocks appeared in an insanely high abundance (several thousand wakelocks in a single day).
My first fix consisted of uninstalling all updates of google play, google services framework and google play services, clearing caches and deleting the data of the before mentioned in Appmanager, then do a reboot and re-install the updates again. Magically, the number of wakelocks dropped to a quite acceptable level. It still was the major cause of wakelocks, but it didn't drain the battery nearly as much as before. Since then, I had the "Use wireless networks" setting enabled without heavy battery drain. I could happily live with this result.
However, since I updated to 4.3 (CM 10.2), there's no longer a button to uninstall updates of those services in AppManager. Luckily though, clearing caches and data then reboot seems to suffice now.
The only caveeat seems to be google maps. Since the update, you need to be logged in to your google account to see your favorite places in google maps. Unfortunately, maps then begins to poll your location every few minutes, thus raising nlpwakelocks to an alarming level again.
Since I've not found a workaround for this yet, I always logout of google maps after use and login again when needed. Not very comfortable, but this way I'm still able to use Google Now while experiencing an acceptable battery life.
Hope this helps!
Here's the fix, if you're rooted: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-nlpunbounce-reduce-nlp-wakelocks-t2853874
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I'm experiencing battery drain and high data consumption when connected to WIFI by Play Services. I have Android 6 on a galaxy s5. I have detected it on BBS in which network activity is too high because of Play Services (80MB in some hours). I have tried to clear cache and data but the problem still comes after 2-3 days.
I've read this may be due to a third party app but I have no clue of which one could be. What can I do? At the moment I have it all the time disconnected from wifi but I think this is not the solution.
If I reboot normally the problem is avoided for sometime (probably after next time I unplug it).
Thanks
Good Day all ,
for those 2 problems the solution is very easy ,
1-for the google play services , if you find it on top of the consumption list , just enter settings - apps - choose google play services - clear cash then storage & manage data and clear all cash & data , it will be fixed nearly 99% of the time,
for general exynos bad consumption the real solution to this is to enter settings - general - reset - then reset settings & accessibility & network then factory reset , and DO NOT restore APPS and SETTINGS again plz plz ,
just restore your Messages if needed & restore you contacts from imported file to SD card for example or from google account , but don't restore any apps or app settings & download them again as new phone from the play store & samsung store
you will find all problems with battery is solved & no heating up etc.. and no complains that the exynos is not as good as SD855
How big difference did you notice?
hm..maybe... but there's clearly something wrong with how the exynos is interacting with the software right now. Because SD855 users are having now issues no matter how they set up their phone
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hm..maybe... but there's clearly something wrong with how the exynos is interacting with the software right now. Because SD855 users are having now issues no matter how they set up their phone
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I reset my phone yesterday and despite heavy use and being 15 hours off the charger, I have almost 7 hours of SoT on my 855. That involves a lot of app downloading, creating caches for apps I use, clearing some to re-set some things that I changed, and 5 or 6 reboots.
My S10e is getting so much out of my little battery.
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How big difference did you notice?
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the phone now goes to deep sleep properly as per CPU SPY , whenever i leave my phone for a while it enters deep sleep even if sync & location is on etc..
also the overnight drain on airplane mode goes down from about 6 or 7% in every 7Hours sleep to 1 or 2% max in the 7H sleep.
No DEEP SLEEP - EXYNOS
I did a full reset and after that no DEEP SLEEP neither... I'm trying to figure out why is happening
Just a heads up to everyone if you have high google play services usage it is most likely due to a rougue 3rd party app. In my case it was a battery monitoring app causing the abnormal usage and battery drain. It was causing google play services to always be active, after uninstalling the app the battery drain and always active usage of google play services is gone.
In my case I found what is causing the issue, after I did a video conference with Whatsapp or Google Duo, it never enters in deep sleep again, I should reboot my phone to make DP working again... very nasty bug