[Nexus 5 General] FunDionysus:
'Google Services' responsible for over 50% of my battery drain

Installed Lolliop Stock ROM in mid Movember. And since then have been using my N5 for the basics including local cell phone calls, receiving a few texts via hangouts, accessing voice mail, adding a few entries to my calendar and updating a few Google apps and purchased TiBu Pro from Playstore and installed. Have not been watching/streaming media, playing music, using camera, playing games or anything strenuous.

Seems a bit random day to day but I'm noting quite a bit more battery drain than I would expect.

I have contacts auto-sync disabled, and assume backup of calendar and other data is disabled (not sure how to confirm this). And have location reporting disabled. And I haven't been using the phone for phone calls much the last several days and wi-fi has been off and have had cellular data disabled.

N5 Settings > Battery reports 'Google Services' is responsible for over 50% of my battery drain.

Battery > 'Google Services' shows the following packages as components of 'Google Services':

Goo Acct Mgr

Goo Backup Transport

Goo Contacts Sync

Goo Svcs Framework

Play Services

Any tips on how to disable these system type services except for when I want to use them? Any special permission settings I could employ?

For disabling system app permissions, it was was suggested in this thread to try the 'App Ops' app in the Play Store. Before installing that app the Permissions required by the app is: "Device and App History. Allows the app to view info about the activity on the device, which apps are running, browsing history and bookmarks."

Why does this "permissions manager" type app need to see this info? I did not install.

Also the apps comments suggested the app was not able to deny location to system apps, does not report the same app permissions as is listed in Androids app info (for some apps it appears app permissions are not shown until the app is used the first time), and auto start settings are not working.

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I forgot to say lately I've been putting the phone in airplane mode at night time. And have Priority set to not show/sound most notifications late evening/early morning.

Under Apps > Running Apps > 'Google Services' the following services are listed as running:

GoogleLocationService

DeviceConnectionService

DispatchingService

NlpLocationReceiverService

All services show to have been "started by app".

Under 'Processes':

Google Services - Main process is in use

Android Core Apps - Provider Contacts is in use

Google Services - Service Google HttpService is in use

Could any of these services/process be significant contributors towards my battery drain?

Also under Running Apps > 'Google+'

The 'EsSyncAdapterService' is listed and I see no method to stop. It shows "Sync currently in use. Touch settings to control it". Clicking the "setting" button shows two accounts. And synch is off for both accounts.

How to temporarily disable Google+ ? When I click the stop button I am asked "do you want to replace this app with factory version". I don't want to replace anything, just temporarily disable the app to help troubleshoot.