[Q] google services

[winol]

can somebody explain to me what google services do?, ca it be turned off? what is its importance? all this queations because it drains battery a lot, about 30%, I had a S3, and google servs took 11% more or less, why such difference? thanks in advance

 

[xclub_101]

can somebody explain to me what google services do?, ca it be turned off? what is its importance? all this queations because it drains battery a lot, about 30%, I had a S3, and google servs took 11% more or less, why such difference? thanks in advance

I think among other things it does the "location" and Google Now stuff - some of the recent builds have been quite bad and a lot of people had problems. Since I don't use Google Now (for the moment is useless in my country) and I rarely update I keep the services greenified and Play Store and Maps frozen - problem solved

 

[moblaw]

can somebody explain to me what google services do?, ca it be turned off? what is its importance? all this queations because it drains battery a lot, about 30%, I had a S3, and google servs took 11% more or less, why such difference? thanks in advance

I think google services do the following things
Syncronising contacts to Goggle+
Syncronising Gmail for Gmail app.
'Would think google MAPS wont work either, just a hunch?'

Controls services inside Google Play/App store. Without it, google play wont work.

I've tried disableing it. Everything seems ok, except the above features are kinda disabled.
I have a hunch that google services and android system ui, works together.

 

[JTY87]

Do you have network location services checked? I unchecked that and google services doesn't show up on my battery usage list anymore. And i now have about 20% more battery everyday. My phone seems to be locating me ok without that checked ie maps and nike running app. Its under settings/connections/location services/uncheck 'use wireless networks'. I hope that helps.