Motorola Services draining battery

[AeroEngi]

So it's been a couple of weeks and this is really starting to annoy me. About once a day the Motorola Services App will keep my phone awake for about 20 minutes or so and drain the hell out of my battery along with really heating up my phone. Do you guys know how to stop this?

Thanks.

 

[Szadzik]

The only way is to root and freeze some of the social networking stuff and such.

 

[chrlswltrs]

That is why I hate skins. Nothing you can do about crap that you don't want on your phone except to root and remove it or install a custom ROM.

With stock android you can install only what you care about.

 

[AeroEngi]

Do you guys know what the purpose of this app is?

 

[Szadzik]

I Motorola Services is like the core of Blur.

 

[pm1066]

How are you tracking the battery usage? I just wasn't seeing what you are seeing. Perhaps there is something else driving the services?

 

[AeroEngi]

How are you tracking the battery usage? I just wasn't seeing what you are seeing. Perhaps there is something else driving the services?

I just go to battery information and it shows up there. I've noticed every time Motorola Services is running, my phone gets really hot and the battery drains like crazy.

 

[executor485]

Yea... Not too happy with Motorola Services this morning. 68% usage and the phones been off the charger for 1 hour 28 min... And the battery is down to 57%.

WTF

 

[Szadzik]

Yea... Not too happy with Motorola Services this morning. 68% usage and the phones been off the charger for 1 hour 28 min... And the battery is down to 57%.

WTF

Just did a hard reset and set the phone up again - down from 70-80% Android OS usage to less than 30%.

 

[executor485]

Just did a hard reset and set the phone up again - down from 70-80% Android OS usage to less than 30%.

I dont fancy a hard reset... Too much of a PITA.

But I dont typically have issues with battery life. There are big random days (like today) where it will just burn through the battery. But most of the time it's a "typical" 16 hour day on a charge.

 

[AeroEngi]

Ever since I created this thread, I made some changes and motorola services seems to be behaving now. If it starts up again then I have no choice but to do a factory reset. I know it'll be a PITA but I'd rather have my phone working properly. I'll just have to go and download all my apps again, no biggie.

 

[pm1066]

What specifically? I froze still that social crap add soon as I got root, which meaty be why I don't see Moto services at all under batt usage.

 

[teslas]

Yes, do tell. It may help the rest of us.

 

[AeroEngi]

Yes, do tell. It may help the rest of us.

Ok this is what I did. If you have the Yahoo mail app installed on your phone then you've already done the first step. If not, then download the app and continue with the rest of these instructions. After that, I go into settings and then to data manager. I turned off background data and immediately, the Yahoo app will give you a notification in your notification bar. Pull down your notifications and click on the Yahoo notification. It'll take you to a screen where you can manage your accounts. The account on the top should be "Motorola". Click on it and unsync anything associated with it. Mine only had "contacts" in it. Hope this makes sense.

Let me know if you need a better explanation.

Edit: I also turned off Google/Verizon Location Services and the photo location sharing feature.

 

[Szadzik]

I dont fancy a hard reset... Too much of a PITA.

But I dont typically have issues with battery life. There are big random days (like today) where it will just burn through the battery. But most of the time it's a "typical" 16 hour day on a charge.

It took me 30 minutes to set it up as I used TiB to restore all my apps.

 

[pm1066]

Ok this is what I did. If you have the Yahoo mail app installed on your phone then you've already done the first step. If not, then download the app and continue with the rest of these instructions. After that, I go into settings and then to data manager. I turned off background data and immediately, the Yahoo app will give you a notification in your notification bar. Pull down your notifications and click on the Yahoo notification. It'll take you to a screen where you can manage your accounts. The account on the top should be "Motorola". Click on it and unsync anything associated with it. Mine only had "contacts" in it. Hope this makes sense.

Let me know if you need a better explanation.

Edit: I also turned off Google/Verizon Location Services and the photo location sharing feature.

Do you have a Yahoo mail account on the phone? If so, how do you check it?

I agree on the location services. I used to need those on my Droid X from time to time to get location lock. The GPS alone on this phone is pretty fast and solid.