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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kjc99:
Try this open Google Now and hit settings/account & privacy /Google locations setting and keep location history on BUT TURN OFF LOCATION REPORTING..... This worked for me and Google Now is working perfectly.... I only loose 2-3 percent over night. Location reporting let's people on Google + know where you are at all times and it has a bunch of wake locks that effect battery, but if leave location history on all functions of Google Now work properly
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neopl666:
Thanks for the tip. So far I reinstalled Google Play Services and switched to ART. It appears to be better, I'll report when I'm sure. If it doesn't work I'll try what you're saying.

EDIT: I can report that switching to ART and reinstalling Google play services actually did nothing to alleviate the Google services drain. I followed your tip and disabled location reporting, while leaving location history on, and this completely got rid of the drain. I don't feel great about Google plotting me on a map everywhere I go, but I guess this could be the answer until they fix the mess...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xqz:
I don't feel like enough people are reporting this issue though
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neopl666:
I think that a lot of people simply think this phone has got God awful terrible battery life, and accept it....
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr mystery:
Exactly, this phone has horrendous battery life. Nothing to "fix", or can be "fixed"
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neopl666:
I actually bed to disagree with you, but that is pointless anyway, as this is rather subjective territory we're going into now. I think you completely missed the point of this thread.

What this thread is about is the battery drain caused by Google Play Services when the said services are misbehaving. This isn't only happening on Nexus 5, the same reports are emerging from Nexus 4 users after the 4.4 update. Battery life of these phones is greatly improved once the Google Play Services battery drain is eliminated, hence I'm hoping Google will fix this issue. If after this issue is fixed you still think the battery life is terrible, that's fine by me. I will be a lot happier if I can get the extra juice which is right now being drained away by Google Play Services.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr mystery:
Yeah it's been stated by others the poor battery life is a result of software misbehaving somewhere in the OS. Hopefully they find the source. If it's Google Play Services great. I just don't agree that 12 hours total and 2 hours screen on time max is acceptable for a device in late 2013, cause those are the results I get from mine.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icy4phone:
Hope it helps someone

Researched this a lot, found some solutions, bad and good fixes and after trying some different twists on it after two days this is what I found to be the best, and I decided since this is just as bad as 4.0/4.1 and the mediaserver battery drain I might as well try and help at least 1 person by mass posting this reply I wrote else where to other threads, so here you go:

"Hey- I don't know if you, or anyone else has found a working solution, but here is the way I found best:

Note- I am on galaxy s4 [sgh-i337] running a 4.4 KitKat rom. I have found the following work around to work best for me:

1 Google now & Hotword detection=OFF,

2 GPS = OFF and turned on only when needed, eg maps/checkin on facebook/whatever needs location.

3 Settings-> Manage Apps -> Google Play Services -> Manage Space -> Clear All Data.

**Optional:After this [root only] I go into KT tweaker and make sure my phone cpu is set to a max of 810 Mhz when screen off.**

This fix usually works until I reset the phone. I ALWAYS follow those 3 steps when rebooting. AND always check that after I've used GPS that Google Play Services isn't keeping my phone awake. [Eg, after 30 minutes I check if the phone ever went to sleep again when the screen was off.] IF it does act up, I repeat steps 1, 2 &3. I still get notifications and all, and this is the least feature disabling way I've found that works with the cost of a little micro-management of your phone.

With this fix I can idle for an estimated 5-6days. As I take off my phone from charge at 8am and at noon with minimal usage [maybe 4 or 5 texts] I am at 97%. With WiFi on & connected.

OTHER: I personally keep NFC&Android beam&Bluetooth OFF, and turn ON when I need it on. Other- WiFi is always ON, and "Scanning Always Available" & "WiFi Optimization" is checked ON for me. And for location mode when I do have it on, I keep it at EDIT: Device only. Using only gps to find my location.

All in all, I hope this gets fixed."

I can post screen shots and all if somebody wants them or if there is need for one

-icy
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelsquish:
Google play services is killing my phone battery. I haven't made any changes but in the past 2 days it just keeps my phone awake so long.

I can't greenify it even though i paid for the advanced options to be able to greenify system apps, Google Play Services does not show up in the list.

help!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
greenify wont help you with it, its system process keeping your phone awake, namely location. and disabling location wont help either. download an app called Disable Service, open it, open google play services, disable the 9 options that give it ability to use location. it worked great for me, 3 weeks now it hasnt woken my phone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelsquish:
thanks so much. did that. i only found 7 with location in the name, would you be able to post the ones you disabled?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
my bad, its not 9 but 8..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelsquish:
thanks. now i get these services keeping my phone awake nearly the entire 8 min since i unplugged it
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
reboot your phone. let it sit 10 minutes, then check again. post this page from the default battery stats..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelsquish:
i unchecked too many things. i went into full name and disabled anything with location in it.

i went back and deleted only the ones you posted.

no more drain so far. Thanks!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PsychDrummer:
[MENTION=1811927]simms22[/MENTION], when unchecking these im assuming it breaks all location features for google now right? I've been having a lot of issues with the wakelock so I ended up just using device only location, and switching to high accuracy/battery saving whenever I need to use maps. I don't have the wakelocks when I use device only. However, if google is still able to use location with unchecking those services (which I doubt) I will try your method.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
yea, it breaks the google now location features.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelsquish:
maps and nav still works for me as long as you turn the high accuracy location on.

i don't use google now but i do rely on nav a lot.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbubba999:
I'm in the same boat for the last week, play services and Google search updated and have been killing my battery, the whole time the phone is on, Google play services is keeping it awake!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
read the posts before yours, fix your issue.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wyrman:
I take it you have to be rooted?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
yea. i take it that you are not? if you arent rooted, there really isnt much that you can do about it unfortunately :(
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wyrman:
I'll wait til the big update and then root again.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbubba999:
I've done that and will monitor it tomorrow, but looking at the stats so far, it's still hogging the battery and keeping the phone awake
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
you did reboot?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbubba999:
Yeah a few times. Checking on wake lock detector, it's not waking my device as much, so hopefully tomorrow my battery will do better.

I can't understand how it doesn't effect everyone
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
i think it affects everyone with a nexus 5. most people dont notice though. like for me, it really wasnt draining much battery. the only reason i noticed is that it kept my phone from deep sleep, and im anal about that :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
If you're like me and keep location services off, and toggle it only when you need it..... No issue.

Just so you'z know. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelsquish:
thanks again. today was like having a new phone again.

google play services accounted for 1.9% of app usage battery drain from 10am until 9pm whereas the last few days it was like 50% of app usage battery drain (not total drain, but app usage). not sure what changed a few days ago, perhaps an app update or something. but now back to good battery life.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
sweet :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbubba999:
It's much better today, but the phone still won't go to sleep and BBS shows 3 things keeping the phone awake, I can't find out what they are
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trich_28:
I'm having the same issue as you! Google play services is constantly running and drains about 20% of battery
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I'm not sure why you're getting those, but they are apparently Google cloud messaging.

Must be a setting in chrome or something you've enabled. If you Google it, you can read up on it. I don't understand its purpose completely.... But I've never seen in in my list ever.

I don't use or have the following Google stuff installed, so its probably one of them causing it....

Hangouts

chrome

play music

Google+

And I have Drive greenified. And maps greenified.

Anyway, that's my setup and I don't see gcm anywhere in my list.

Look into the above apps for any kind of message options, or reporting. I think its a setting allowing stats to be sent to Google in one of the above apps more than likely.

Let us know if you figure anything out. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trich_28:
Ya I've basically greenified every app to find the culprit with no luck. Does anyone have the slightest idea on how to fix it? It is beyond annoying
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
have you tried the disable service app, and disabling everything in google play services that deal with location?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trich_28:
Alright I have appeared to have fixed it for now. I disabled everything in Google play services that had to do with location or Google cloud messaging. Now services is not awake constantly. What functionality will this take away?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
mainly, google knowing where you are(not really much to do with location settings). but really, whatever google now feature that you use that need location wont work.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trich_28:
Alright so I wasn't getting any notifications with gcm disabled so I re enabled it and they came back but the issue is back where it is running all the time so it looks like I narrowed it down....ideas?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
for most it seems that its google play services constantly checking your location. but, for a few, its a little more than just google play services and location.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trich_28:
Ya it appears that way for me :( do u have any suggestions for this? It has to be something with gcm

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It appears I have found a fix. For anyone having the same problems as me follow the instructions here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/com...yet_for_google_services_battery_drain/ce14b0a

I followed them rebooted and Google services is nice and quiet now :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I think I miss most of the common issues, cause I'm a toggler. Lol. I turn things on and off when I need them. Sometimes it takes me awhile to see there is a widespread issue. ;)

And almost always it is related to location services or apps that are abusing location.

Google needs to put some serious work into location services and how it behaves. It should be "smarter"and not let apps abuse it and become battery drain/waketime issues.

I've just never ran it 24/7 on any device. I use it for navigation, that's it. But that's just me.

Hope this current issue gets addressed by makers.... The customers shouldn't always have to fix stuff for them. Lol. And maybe one day I'll be able to leave it on too and still get 6 hours screen time over a day and a bit charge.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trich_28:
Yes I couldn't agree more. I don't understand how this horrible battery drain caused by play services somehow gets released to the public without being addressed in testing. This is something that really frustrates be but otherwise I love android :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
BTW, kudos on the research and even branching outside of XDA. That's what XDA is all about!!!! Great job! ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trich_28:
Hey thanks man! I just hope other people having the problem can use my research
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbubba999:
I fixed mine finally. I used the disable service, but that was stopping me from using certain other things, so I enabled them again and then did the following

Titanium backup, uninstalled all the Google apps that I didn't use (playbooks and movies etc etc)

Rebooted the device and today I have had no issues at all, Google play services doesn't even show in my battery list. The phone had been unplugged for over 9hrs and I'm on 65% battery

Thanks for an the help

Update - just checked wake lock detector and my phone has been awake for 4% of the time, as opposed to yesterday and they other days being awake for 76% of the time
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelsquish:
will the 4.4.3 update still push to a device with those google play services location settings disabled?

today my non-rooted nexus 7 got the 4.4.3 but the nexus 5 has not.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
i have no idea. but generally if you modify the system in any way, any(including using stuff like xposed), you wont get the ota. which doesnt matter actually, since you can install it manually. or flash a root + 443 rom :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbubba999:
My nexus 7 had just had the update. I'm running stock ROM, but exposed framework and it seems to have worked ok
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
sweet. but very out of the ordinary :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelsquish:
uninstalled xposed framework and disable services and waiting ont he update for my nexus 5, then will re-install both.
[HTC Sensation] XDA_h3n:
So I'm new to the sensation community so, hi!

My sensation has a bump on the right hand corner of the digitizer if I hold this corner, the touch screen works perfectly. The problem is, I can't touch most of the phone's sides as it doesn't recognise it (such as selecting tick boxes on settings); however if I hold that corner then use the touch screen it's fine. And am I the only one who has the problem with only 2 touches being recognised? (I think the previous owner tried putting in a wrong digitizer?)

So would I be better of buying a new digitizer or adding some adhesive since I'm not familiar with digitizers...
[HTC Sensation] bes1de:
Hello. i think better will be buy a new module(digitizer+lcd+frame) or only digitizer (if you can replace it, its very difficulty)
[HTC Sensation] XDA_h3n:
Case closed. I used a kitkat rom; and now there's no problems on my digitzer werid huh.

Calibration from hboot shows APT_Too high which refers to a fake digitizer so I used htccalibrate.apk which helped a bit on other roms.

But really and truly I need to buy a new digitizer since It's very buggy.
[HTC Sensation] VVaDiIvIkA:
I have problems with my touchscreen too, sometimes it takes a touch from nowhere, or for example in top of the screen my touchscreen is not working at all, so i can't use "curtain".

What rom you used?

What does it mean "Calibration from hboot shows APT_Too high"? How can i look this too?

Can you give me this apk? Thank you and sorry for my english :)
[HTC Sensation] XDA_h3n:
Umph this is different to my problem. My problem is that I can't touch the side's of the screen( As in the left side and the right side) . If you are s-off try this (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2437293) it will recalibrate the screen. If the digitizer is an fake it will show up "TP_ATT always keep in high" (those EL blue sticker digitizers)

The kitkat rom didn't fix my problems :p but it made it a bit better; or it may just be me. The only explantation I could think of the kitkat rom helping was either mine fingers were used differently or it was missing touch screen drivers.

The HTCCalibrate.zip should be flashed in recovery I've attached it in this post. Then reboot and run the app to do calibration. (contains the .apk but flashes it to system/app)

If none of these work then it's not a software-related problem.

If you want to see what user's have done; refer to this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1239238
[HTC Sensation] VVaDiIvIkA:
Thanks a lot! I will try.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user1916:
After I installed the update 3.1 for ViperONE on my HTC One did not drop starts, all I see is the logo VIPER ONE. I'm waiting for 50 minutes, tried to restart my phone (pressed volume up and power button) but it does not help.

Please excuse my poor English.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helpmeplis:
i just installed this same rom. Everything goes well with installation. First boot shows the first logo with ull brightness, the brightness lowers and comes the second logo and says preparing sim card, 2-3 secs later goes back to first logo and says there. left it for more than 30 minutes. trien installing like 5 times. same result
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerrycoffman45:
when it does this hold power till phone shuts off then reboot should start up then
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfpsebastiao:
Hello,

I have a Sony Xperia Arc S, manufactured on the 12W07, with Bootloader Unlock Allowed: No.

After almost two years with the phone and having jjdoctor's Hybrid Rom installed, phone rooted and CWM via XParts, I decided I wanted to give it a go on Jelly Bean roms.

In order to do this, I knew I had to unlock the bootloader, and after my carrier failed to reply to my e-mails and contacts, I tried to do it via WotanServer. Now, I know XDA isn't WotanServer's support forum (they don't seem to have one), but I'm hoping more of you had the same problem and can assist me in its resolution.

I registered on the site, paid the 7.99€ it's asking right now to SIM/Bootloader unlock and attempted the process on my Windows 8, x64 laptop with PC Companion and flashboot installed (I think this is important for you). I'll try to break down my questions now, so that it's easier for you to answer.

1 - When installing the X Unlock Tool 1.6.0., I noticed that it failed installing two drivers (see attached image). It only installed one of them. Is it normal?

2 - I thought this was ok and continued. I opened the program, selected my phone model, logged in and a youtube video prompted. I performed as asked, used a paper clip to make the test point stuff and my computer installed some QualComm driver (see attached image). The X Unlock Tool just stood there, frozen. What was it supposed to do?

3 - I tried some more times to perform the test point method, with no luck. The program just stucks and doesn't progress from the youtube video.

4 - "I'm going back to Xperia Ultimate HD and leave jjdoctor's rom for a while". Yeah, right. As I tried to "Reboot to Recovery" on XParts (and other SW I've tried now, like ROM Manager and ROM Toolkit), the phone reboots, stays just a tiny fraction of a microsecond on CWM and then reboots normally. I've tried all key combinations, with no luck. Maybe I killed something in my bootloader?

5 - I've already sent 3 e-mails to WotanServer, two asking for support and the last one asking for a refund. Since I can't use the SW, I want my money back. It's only 8€, but it's still my money. It's been a week now, and nobody replied. Is it normal?

If someone can help or just share a similar story for us to find a solution, I'd be happy.

Thanks.

P.S.: I am now stuck on the STOCK ICS ROM I placed on my phone via flashboot :( I think I'm going to try to go back to stock GB, as this is way too slow...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfpsebastiao:
I don't want to contact you on gtalk, I want a solution to be publicly available here and, if you may, concrete answers to my questions.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popthosegaskets:
If the driver installation failed, you will not be able to do it correctly. Do please ensure that drivers have been installed correctly.

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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
You need to enable unsigned driver support in Windows 8 then reinstall the software.

Google Windows 8 driver testsigning
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfpsebastiao:
Ok, I have now been able to install the drivers correctly thanks to devstaff.

However, the unlocking process keeps stopping on the "youtube video" section. It installs the Qualcomm device and just stays that way for a while (I now hold the world record in staying in the same position holding a paper clip fixed to two points).
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanaksharma:
You have to remove the paperclip once the device is detected
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfpsebastiao:
Just did that, waited for the "Qualcomm" thing to install, removed the paper clip, kept the cable pluged, and nothing happened. I am going to try this on Windows 7.

What puzzles me the most is that the program just doesn't go anywhere. I've youtubed other videos and it's almost instant: you do the test point, it installs the driver and the program goes into the unlocking phase. Mine? It just stays there, staring back at me with the "Next" button disabled.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanaksharma:
Try with win7 and post... Wether it worked or not
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfpsebastiao:
Windows 7 did the trick. Thanks everyone for your support. It now shows as sim unlocked and bootloader unlock allowed yes. Do I still have to put the codes from Sony or is it all done?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popthosegaskets:
You still need the code from Sony, follow the instructions on the website.

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[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
No problem, would have worked though if you just enabled test signing on Windows 8.

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No, you don't. Wotanserver removes both simlock and unlocks the bootloader for you also.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfpsebastiao:
Hmm I disabled it on Windows 8 and successfully installed the drivers, but I just couldn't get it to work. On Windows 7 I did it on my first try. Oh well, no harm done. I'll report to the people at WotanServer. They never replied, but I'll provide my feedback and link them to this thread (and I'll keep the shocking title :laugh:).

Before I saw your reply I tried to perform the steps to unlock the bootloader via fastboot and Sony codes, but at the cmd I got a message stating that the bootloader was already unlocked.

I'm now enjoying Jelly Bean on my Arc S.