Google Play Services eating battery

nickdalzell · Nov 23, 2014

Its keeping the GPS on constantly! The little location icon and the notification 'location found' is displayed all the time. I've disabled everything except Google Now as far as location goes because I use that feature. But looking in battery stats it is showing this

See the GPS is on as long as the phone has been off charge (56 minutes). It shouldn't be keeping it on 24/7. Just started happening a week ago

KOLIO · Nov 23, 2014

There are a few permission manager apps in the GOOGLE PLAY STORE that work w/o root.
You should be able to manage the GPS (wakelock?) from coming on,or,maybe even the frequency of it (probably w/a root-only app).

nickdalzell · Nov 23, 2014

I would like to know what's causing it? Its keeping the GPS on 24/7! I doubt Google Now requires constant GPS use?

nickdalzell · Nov 23, 2014

Sorry my edit button is gone in the new forums but I caught the notification. This is showing all the time. Not sure why but even Google should never be keeping GPS radio on full time!

KOLIO · Nov 23, 2014

My NOTE4 displays that icon when I select "HIGH ACCURACY" for location.

nickdalzell · Nov 24, 2014

High accuracy makes Google think I'm 100 miles from my actual location, often putting a state away when I'm at home (probably picking up location data from the little jetpack hotspot at home which serves as my internet connection) so I keep it on device only.

I did manage to kill the problem by turning location off completely and leaving location history on so Google Now continues to function for what I use it for.

Skynet11 · Nov 25, 2014

nickdalzell said:
High accuracy makes Google think I'm 100 miles from my actual location, often putting a state away when I'm at home (probably picking up location data from the little jetpack hotspot at home which serves as my internet connection) so I keep it on device only.

I did manage to kill the problem by turning location off completely and leaving location history on so Google Now continues to function for what I use it for.

Or you could try battery saving mode.

nickdalzell · Nov 26, 2014

Battery saving mode doesn't work any more than Samsung's similar feature. it also disconnects my Wear watch, kills wifi and bluetooth.

I turned location off completely, cleared data from Play Services, cleared cache on everything, and turned it back on (device only--'high accuracy' puts me 100 miles away from home or in another state) and it is ok now. must have been a goofup.

pm5544 · Nov 28, 2014

edgie70 · Nov 28, 2014

It was doing that on my galaxy s3 , I went to Google settings and turned of locations and location history and its now not eating tons of my battery

nickdalzell · Nov 28, 2014

I just turned off location then turned it back on. For some reason it had gotten stuck and kept the GPS radio on nonstop.

madmax988 · Dec 10, 2014

This happened to me too a couple of weeks ago, I think it might have been around when you were having trouble. It probably was a server side issue with google play services. Restarting my phone fixed it. It happened only 1 day to me, and I was really glad I had my other battery charged, because it sure did eat it quick.

Mr. Link · Dec 10, 2014

I LOVE my G3. Best phone I've used since the Droid Razr MAXX HD. But I will say this...it's the only phone that I ever used that really can use a weekly reboot to keep it running as efficiently as possible. It seems to "hang" apps often enough that I reboot just seems like a good routine thing to do. (at least in my case)

nickdalzell · Dec 10, 2014

I never had to reboot my G3. Other than my HTC One M8, it's the only Android smartphone that is every bit as reliable as my iPhone and iPad. No reboots other than when I exchange SIMs or if there's an update.

madmax988 · Dec 12, 2014

Yea unlike my droid 4, I haven't really needed regular reboots. Then again, since I have a second battery and swap every day or 2, I guess I really wouldn't know since I'm powering off/on every time I do a battery swap. If you have hanging apps, you might want to investigate if you've got something weird running in the background. Maybe try swiping away certain apps in the recent apps until you find the culprit.

nickdalzell · Dec 12, 2014

I tend to be ruthless about having all recent apps swiped away (especially if i am not using them very often). i'm OCD About it. as i see it, it's the same reason i don't have fifty Firefox tabs open in Linux. why needlessly use up resources which other apps/services that use?

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