topic Re: Battery drain in Z Series

Battery drain

Goateye1 — Sat, 02 May 2015 09:33:54 GMT

Running stock Lollipop, 5.0.2

Something happened last week with GooglePlayServices.
It's in the toplist of battery consumption, running up to 20-30%
I have no new apps besides all updates through Play Store...

I have tried to deactivate GooglePlayServices and reinstall without success.

Have not tried facrory reset and is not happy if I need to do it.

Any ideas?

Re: Battery drain

Uliwooly — Sat, 02 May 2015 09:38:48 GMT

Are you auto-updating apps?

@Goateye

Re: Battery drain

Goateye1 — Sat, 02 May 2015 09:44:58 GMT

Yes, at least some of them.
But I also check the updates manually almost every day

Re: Battery drain

Uliwooly — Sat, 02 May 2015 10:00:39 GMT

That's the problem, since Lollipop it's a major update, there are new updates all the time, this is creating this issue, disable this feature > restart your phone > check again.

Re: Battery drain

Goateye1 — Sat, 02 May 2015 10:02:57 GMT

Ok.
I will deactivate auto update, restart and give feedback tomorrow!! 🌼

Re: Battery drain

Uliwooly — Sat, 02 May 2015 10:05:47 GMT

Keep us updated

Re: Battery drain

JPN — Sat, 02 May 2015 10:29:20 GMT

Though the power consumption shows that GoogleServices and/or AndroidOS drains the battery it probably isn't. E.g. WhatsApp won't allow the phone sleep, and there no 'polling' frrequncy settings, there for WsA should not allow to execption of Stamina. Same phenomenon hanppen with the email, when it is in Push-mode.

Re: Battery drain

Goateye1 — Sat, 02 May 2015 12:56:01 GMT

I don't have WhatsAp, neither push mail.
I do have Facebook and messenger.

Anyway, now 2 hours later, Google Play Service is up to 25%

Re: Battery drain

Uliwooly — Sat, 02 May 2015 15:53:43 GMT

@Goateye

Facebook is one of the worse if not the top battery hog app

Open google plus, menu > settings > auto backup > is it on?

Re: Battery drain

Goateye1 — Sat, 02 May 2015 17:09:27 GMT

@uliwooly

Yes, it´s on. And I do want to have it on and has always had it on.

I have more like this, i.e. Call recorder with auto update, BackupToGmail with auto update, Facebook, My Tracks, Google Fit and many more.

But no new App. It has been like this for long time, bute the problem is since a few days ago.

Anyway, I promised to give feedback before. And here is one;

6 hours later. After disabling Auto Update at Google Play, restart and 100% charge.

Google Play Service has a battery usage of 22%, top of the line.

My Tracks is on second place, 20%, after a few hours outdoor activities.

But the best part - it indicates that I have 40 hours left!!

If it is so - I will definitely stop whining

Re: Battery drain

Uliwooly — Sat, 02 May 2015 17:12:15 GMT

That's the reason Google play services battery drain its so high, because of the auto update, but it will go down after a while. enjoy.

Don't forget to check this out

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Software-Updates/Lollipop-New-Features/m-p/955490#U955490

Re: Battery drain

Goateye1 — Mon, 04 May 2015 18:01:07 GMT

@uliwooly

After a full working day I can say that the problem is more or less solved.
Google Play Services is still running high. Not as high as before and I have reasonable batterylife again.

Thanks!!
🔋

Re: Battery drain

Uliwooly — Mon, 04 May 2015 18:04:15 GMT

@Goateye

Great to hear that