What's the difference from normal GAPPS? And can I just flash them or do I need a factory reset and start anew?
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BaNkS GAPPS are a stripped version of normal GAPPS, just whit the minimal settings to make them work. No bloatware or apps that you can download from Play Store.
Another night with drained phone and no alarm clock.
Any luck with turning off location in maps?
As I said, maybe disabling WiFi location settings can make things work.
Maybe you're right, I've used a minimum Gapps, I'll try with a full Gapps to check this issue
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Dirty wipe then reflash ROM and new Gapps
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Sometimes dirty flashing can make some problems, I always recommend to make a clean flash when trying to fix stuff.
"I discovered that the drain come specifically from this option in Location settings: Settings > Location Access > Wi-Fi & Mobile Network Location."
For me leaving that setting on but turning off Settings> Wifi> advanced "Scanning alway available" works best. Google sevices went from 13% to 3%.
This is on cm 10.2.
This solution is on first post.
In my testing, the Google Location drain/wakelock issue has been entirely caused by the August 28 update of Google Now. When I reverted back to the previous version and unchecked auto updating in Google Play, the issue disappeared, entirely. This is even with the latest Google Services still installed.
Below is a link to the last good version of GNow if anyone wants to try for themselves.
http://www.mediafire.com/?7527417b56dagat
Maybe for those who still have the wakelock, could be a good solution. would be nice that people report back to see if this version fix the battery drain, and could be an answer for people who is not being able to fix the drain yet.
Why do you have do disable a great function of the phone to make it not kill your battery in 6 hours. Lame.
Because Google was the lame for releasing updates that kill battery phone. At the end, all this is not our fault, is Google's. As I said many times before, all the things posted here are workarounds, not final solutions. The final solution should come from Google, but maybe we have to wait until 4.4 is released.
Just some screenshots in case you might be interested... Latest CM nightly for i9300, BaNkS core gapps. WiFi & network location ON, GPS off, always scan WiFi off, Android Device Manager all options on. Now have a look!
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It looks good!
I've never installed Google Now... and have no intention of ever using it
however, i'm still experiencing the battery drain on all my devices (n4, n7, s2, i9250, sk17i)
The Google Services battery drain not come only for Google Now, it also comes from syncing contacts, calendars, checking updates and all the things related to check Google servers.
If I restrict bkground data on Google services, does gmail app still give live notifications , or does it affect gmail too?
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I think most of the services would be affected, but I don't know about the apps.
Think I have to test this, or stay up one night to see what the #&¤&¤#"&% the phone is doing. Seems to drain empty overnight again and again.
Maybe WakelockDetector app can help with this.
This seems to line up with when I realized I was getting a drain. Uninstalled Google search from phone and tablet, installed the version you posted and disabled updates for google search. Will see if it helps tomorrow after doing full charges overnight. Work 9 hours so will see if my tablet drains faster than normal over that time.
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We all wait to report back.
Still too much drain - even with BaNkS gapps. Location reporting off now, because I like some decent battery life better...
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And what about WiFi Location settings?.
Might roll back to 10.1, this is a huge issue
Is not about the ROM version, is about the Google Services version and updates. I have read about many people that is in 4.2.2, and still have this battery drain because of the Google Services update.
I thought I was going crazy when my phone hasn't been lasting my 12 hour work shifts. I had a feeling it was a 4.3 bug so I am now on miui and loving it. It will be nice once this is "officially" fixed.
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MIUI is nice, but I left it a long time ago because they don't care on bugs or anything. They just release and release tons of features, but they don't work as intended. You report a bug, they ignore it. If they even fix a bug, new features make 3 more. I don't really liked the way they make things.
Welp, no idea what's happened in the past couple of days, but Android OS is once again the top battery consumer and not allowing my device to go to deep sleep. I haven't changed anything other than having "Scanning always available" turned off. Was there some sort of stealth update to services recently?
Wakelock Detector isn''t giving me any useful information in trying to diagnose exactly what service is causing the bug.
There are another 2 solutions to Android OS wakelock. This is because of radio version in most of cases.
Reporting back
I have to say that Google now seemed to be my issue! Rolled back to posted version and I no longer have the drain! My tablet has been going for 10 hrs with over an hour of screen on time and I'm at 88% as I'm writing this.
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Nice, hope some people report back and I will post this on the first post as another solution.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gms
It looks like Google Play Services was updated again on Sept. 6th. Could the keep awake possibly be related to this? Let's just say the background service updated itself automatically ... could that possibly trigger the keep awake bug until I reboot my device?
I don't really know, I don't have the Google Services battery drain anymore, and I have all the location options enabled, both on Google Now and Location settings.
I did turn off Scanning always available, made it through the night from 92 to 80%. But who knows if that was the solution.
Try to see a couple of days more.
thought I was going crazy for a while. I was plagued with this problem sometime ago, then it seemed to fix itself, but now has magically reappeared again.. silly google, wtf u doing?
I 'm on CM 10.1 and don't have that setting.
I don't have Google Now installed and I still have the drain when I leave 'Wi-Fi & mobile network location' on.
Exactly my experience. It seems to come and go whenever it feels like it, without me changing any specific setting. I 've been running with 'Wi-Fi & mobile network location' off for the last two weeks and the issue has not reappeared.
This is the only workaround I could find.
Ive searched an hour for the official Google support forum (i guess i know why its so hard to find
) and theres not a single thread with this issue. Now i made a thread and hoping for an answer from google or a dev.
You should support this thread by posting a repy with screenshots if you have the same issue!
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/nexus/other-discussions/nexus-4/hrVfymtJMmE
There is tons of threat in the Google forums about this issue, but people from Google always say that is because of ROM or Kernel. They don't give a solution because they don't have it in my opinion. This kind of problems are really hard to fix, because they behave different in each phone. My solution could be one, but maybe from you is different regarding the same drain. Hope they fix this soon, because there is a huge battery gain from 4.3, but these kind of drains just make that it seems that is the same.