Fixing Google play services battery drain
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See by yourself 4.4.4 is smother and battery friendly i can tell you if more than 4.3 because i start using this phone with 4.4.2 and the battery was horrible now i can use the phone without problems
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I just keep them disabled, this was great on kk but on lollipop upon disabling the account gets removed and with it the contacts and the calendar etc. any idea how to keep these data and the account but also be able to disable the gplay services?
@mihailgreceanu
What i actually do is , i DO NOT USE gapps on my phone.
Completely gapps free... It works wonders.
I keep my contacts local and they are backed up old school in a .vcf file.
All this crap with uploading your contacts to google servers is for retards who can't be arsed to use the lovely function of "export contacts" , "import contacts" android has. I mean that's the beauty of android . Unlike that piece of **** of iphone where importing and exporting contacts is a gigantic pain in the ass with android it's all a walk in the park.
So, that .vcf file with your contats should stay with you all the time either on your sim card or on your external microsd card. You can update it manually automatically whatever the heck you feel like , anytime you feel like.
No matter how many time you change the operating system and how many roms you flash you will never lose your contacts again.
Remove gapps from your phone and you will see what a tremendous difference it makes in terms of speed and battery life.
All my apps are either downloaded from their sites (like whatsapp) or using raccoon.
You can say thank you to @onyxbits .That guy ****ing rocks..
The only guy more popular than him will be the guy who will bring N to xperia Z yuga
You will actually see that you do not need gapps.. People have been transferring importing and exporting contacts manually for decades before without google play service.
And in order to install an app you do not need gapps. It can easily be done manually. Or side-loading it , flashing it , heck my update script can flash 200 apps in the same time.
Who needs google play with their stupid crap loaded in the background all the time eating away processor cycles bandwidth data and draining away the battery ?
What i actually do is , i DO NOT USE gapps on my phone.
Completely gapps free... It works wonders.
I keep my contacts local and they are backed up old school in a .vcf file.
All this crap with uploading your contacts to google servers is for retards who can't be arsed to use the lovely function of "export contacts" , "import contacts" android has. I mean that's the beauty of android . Unlike that piece of **** of iphone where importing and exporting contacts is a gigantic pain in the ass with android it's all a walk in the park.
So, that .vcf file with your contats should stay with you all the time either on your sim card or on your external microsd card. You can update it manually automatically whatever the heck you feel like , anytime you feel like.
No matter how many time you change the operating system and how many roms you flash you will never lose your contacts again.
Remove gapps from your phone and you will see what a tremendous difference it makes in terms of speed and battery life.
All my apps are either downloaded from their sites (like whatsapp) or using raccoon.
You can say thank you to @onyxbits .That guy ****ing rocks..
The only guy more popular than him will be the guy who will bring N to xperia Z yuga
You will actually see that you do not need gapps.. People have been transferring importing and exporting contacts manually for decades before without google play service.
And in order to install an app you do not need gapps. It can easily be done manually. Or side-loading it , flashing it , heck my update script can flash 200 apps in the same time.
Who needs google play with their stupid crap loaded in the background all the time eating away processor cycles bandwidth data and draining away the battery ?
What you actually do it's what I actually was doing, but I don't like to do this backup every time i add a new contact. It is what it is in the end, I m back with the play services, i use prevent from running (xposed) and it does what it s supposed to. Having MM now google play services has a lot of roles in the phone settings. Removing it causes a lot of crashes. Plus, the apps that everyone uses are gplay dependent. I m not an important person so i don t care what data google has on me. I had in the past MicroG, a very good solution and it is a big battery improvement but same, with the gplay dependent apps, they did not work well.
@mihailgreceanu
What i actually do is , i DO NOT USE gapps on my phone.
Completely gapps free... It works wonders.
I keep my contacts local and they are backed up old school in a .vcf file.
All this crap with uploading your contacts to google servers is for retards who can't be arsed to use the lovely function of "export contacts" , "import contacts" android has. I mean that's the beauty of android . Unlike that piece of **** of iphone where importing and exporting contacts is a gigantic pain in the ass with android it's all a walk in the park.
So, that .vcf file with your contats should stay with you all the time either on your sim card or on your external microsd card. You can update it manually automatically whatever the heck you feel like , anytime you feel like.
No matter how many time you change the operating system and how many roms you flash you will never lose your contacts again.
Remove gapps from your phone and you will see what a tremendous difference it makes in terms of speed and battery life.
All my apps are either downloaded from their sites (like whatsapp) or using raccoon.
You can say thank you to @onyxbits .That guy ****ing rocks..
The only guy more popular than him will be the guy who will bring N to xperia Z yuga
You will actually see that you do not need gapps.. People have been transferring importing and exporting contacts manually for decades before without google play service.
And in order to install an app you do not need gapps. It can easily be done manually. Or side-loading it , flashing it , heck my update script can flash 200 apps in the same time.
Who needs google play with their stupid crap loaded in the background all the time eating away processor cycles bandwidth data and draining away the battery ?
Obviously everyone has their preferences and that's how google's grip on population widens.
As the time passes and the new generations are arriving for them it will be even easier staying into google's grip..
I just wanna say for the posterity , google hasn't invented ****.
Long before google even existed there was Nokia , as in Nokia 3210 ,Nokia 3310 and so on .
I'm not sure people remember the amazing battery life on those babies..The battery never died. Nowadays a ****ty iPhone has an average battery life of less than a day, the Samsung Galaxy Swhatever isn’t much better.
That when it does not [email protected]#@#ucking explodes on you..
The 3210? Would last for, like, a week. Possibly two weeks, depending on how often Snake was played.
It literally did not break. Ever.. . That bastard could survive an atom bomb, an earthquake and possibly the ISIS and Taliban combined.
If you dropped it on the floor ,the cover would pop off, the battery spit out, but it’d be the equivalent of a scratched fingernail, meaning no dramas.. Not unless you are a girl and of course a scratched nail means the of the world as we know it..
For us guys it was, pick it up, snap it back together, and everything would be ok.
We used to joke that dropping the handset would damage the floor, and not the other way around.
The new one that has arrived after 3210, the 3310, had been put on steroids, beefed up and was even more robust, and led to the Indestructible 3310 memes.
All these phones did not have any google services running on them..
One of the reasons the battery will last so long. The contacts did not have to be backed up (every time i add a new contact. as you put it)
Most of the people nowadays forget that contacts on an Android phone can be saved to two places. One is the SIM card and the other is the phone internal memory card.
Saving contacts in the SIM card is better and more convenient than saving in phone memory card, especially when you change to a new phone.
The reason is that the contacts stored in the phone memory card will be kept on your former phone.
Nowadays, it is common for the contacts app as you can see from the screenshot to automatically save them to the phone..
Before in the Gingerbread days you had to manually specify the preference .
Not anymore..Now it's all automatic.
The Phone Account doesn't sync with Google, and usually doesn't sync or backup to anything (unless you use certain 3rd party apps) which is AMAZING..
THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF IT.. LESS TRAFFIC , less data usage , less connexions at internet behind your back... Longer battery life... You name it..
Again, once per month , (in my case is like every 3 months) when you know you added quite a few contacts you can use the export function and back them up ..(see the screenshot attached)
But creating a new backup EVERY TIME YOU ADD A NEW CONTACT IS NOT REALLY NECESSARY.. Unless you want it to...
By the way.. As you can see from one of those screenshots I am on Nougat and the lack of google play services does not bother me at all.. Nougat does not care at all about the missing google play services.
As the time passes and the new generations are arriving for them it will be even easier staying into google's grip..
I just wanna say for the posterity , google hasn't invented ****.
Long before google even existed there was Nokia , as in Nokia 3210 ,Nokia 3310 and so on .
I'm not sure people remember the amazing battery life on those babies..The battery never died. Nowadays a ****ty iPhone has an average battery life of less than a day, the Samsung Galaxy Swhatever isn’t much better.
That when it does not [email protected]#@#ucking explodes on you..
The 3210? Would last for, like, a week. Possibly two weeks, depending on how often Snake was played.
It literally did not break. Ever.. . That bastard could survive an atom bomb, an earthquake and possibly the ISIS and Taliban combined.
If you dropped it on the floor ,the cover would pop off, the battery spit out, but it’d be the equivalent of a scratched fingernail, meaning no dramas.. Not unless you are a girl and of course a scratched nail means the of the world as we know it..
For us guys it was, pick it up, snap it back together, and everything would be ok.
We used to joke that dropping the handset would damage the floor, and not the other way around.
The new one that has arrived after 3210, the 3310, had been put on steroids, beefed up and was even more robust, and led to the Indestructible 3310 memes.
All these phones did not have any google services running on them..
One of the reasons the battery will last so long. The contacts did not have to be backed up (every time i add a new contact. as you put it)
Most of the people nowadays forget that contacts on an Android phone can be saved to two places. One is the SIM card and the other is the phone internal memory card.
Saving contacts in the SIM card is better and more convenient than saving in phone memory card, especially when you change to a new phone.
The reason is that the contacts stored in the phone memory card will be kept on your former phone.
Nowadays, it is common for the contacts app as you can see from the screenshot to automatically save them to the phone..
Before in the Gingerbread days you had to manually specify the preference .
Not anymore..Now it's all automatic.
The Phone Account doesn't sync with Google, and usually doesn't sync or backup to anything (unless you use certain 3rd party apps) which is AMAZING..
THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF IT.. LESS TRAFFIC , less data usage , less connexions at internet behind your back... Longer battery life... You name it..
Again, once per month , (in my case is like every 3 months) when you know you added quite a few contacts you can use the export function and back them up ..(see the screenshot attached)
But creating a new backup EVERY TIME YOU ADD A NEW CONTACT IS NOT REALLY NECESSARY.. Unless you want it to...
By the way.. As you can see from one of those screenshots I am on Nougat and the lack of google play services does not bother me at all.. Nougat does not care at all about the missing google play services.
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