Can they Google Play Services causing battery drain? Most likely yes - we have seen numerous reports that Google Play Services "eats" batteries in KitKat and Lollipop versions on smartphone models such as Note 4, Nexus 6 and. Let's look at the problem of battery consumption by Google Play services, what it is and how to solve it.

We assume that, as with any other problem, you have already tried to reboot, and that you have the most new firmware and other software for your phone. And if they are not, then we advise you to update them first of all, as they are able to eliminate almost all types of problems.

Google Play Services battery drain: how to detect it

If your trusty phone suddenly begins to feel discomfort from the rapid discharge of the battery, then Google Play Services may be the culprit. As a rule, battery performance only deteriorates over time, and this is a long process: a battery that did not have any problems yesterday cannot be discharged three times faster the next day.

The reason why Google Play Services may be the culprit for the problem described above is that these services for many applications serve as a kind of "key" to Google world: They provide your Gmail account with various email applications, maps and location settings for mapping applications, etc.

by the most in a simple way To tell if Google Play Services is draining the battery of your OnePlus One, Nexus 6, Note 4, or any other device, is to go to the "Settings" section and then open the "Battery" subsection. Here you can see the most "gluttonous" programs of your device. If you find that Google Play Services is using more power than the display or the Android OS itself, then something is going wrong.

Google Play Services battery drain: how it can be caused

There are several reasons why Google Play Services may consume more power than you would like. We have seen reports of Google Play Services draining batteries in versions 4.1.32 to 4.2 on devices running Cyanogenmod, as well as KitKat and Lollipop versions. With such big amount problematic situations, it is clear that there cannot be any one solution for a particular problem on any device. However, there are some things you can test to see if they work.

Google Play Services is draining battery power due to what you have a large number of accounts?

The main job of Play Services is uploading files to background. These files can be your emails, notifications, or checking your location to find out if you need to trigger an event in the app Google Now. If your device is connected to multiple Google accounts (because you have work or personal accounts, or because you're a spy or superhero with multiple identities), then Google Play Services should do whatever have to do to maintain these accounts.

Is a third party app inappropriately using Google Play Services?

If your battery has been draining recently, then the problem may not be with Google Play Services, but with one of the apps that uses them. Try booting in Safe Mode. If in this case the problem with excessive battery consumption of Google Play Services has disappeared, then some third-party application can be considered the cause of its occurrence.

Does Google encounter sync errors?

Sync errors occur when Google tries to sync but fails, for example because it can't connect to a particular server. Issues with your data can also cause sync errors. Among these problems are unclear situations with your contacts, calendar or Gmail. Problems like these can cause Google to regularly attempt (often unsuccessfully) to sync your local data with Google's servers. Deleting and re-adding accounts can help get rid of persistent sync errors, but before you do that, try turning mobile data off in Settings for about 1 minute and then turning it back on.

Google doesn't like emoji icons?

As far as we know, some users have reported sync errors when using emoji in contact names: Google doesn't like it and may start the sync process.

Are you using the Task Killer app?

Task killers are used to disable unwanted processes, but sometimes, after disabling a particular task, it immediately turns on again, as a result of which your phone starts to work even harder than before. There is an easy way to check: disable the task killer app and find out what effect it will have on battery health.

Do you use information security software?

The security software has an impact on battery life as it is always active. Just like on Windows, the threat of malware on Android depends on factors such as: if you haven't downloaded anything from suspicious app stores or opened unknown attachments, the risk of infection is extremely low. As with the task killer, try disabling the security software on your device and see what happens on the system.

Have you had battery drain issues due to Google Play Services? Tell us about it in the comments.

Google services are draining the battery, can they be turned off?

There was a problem on a phone with Android 4.3. Google services is draining the battery. Looking through the statistics of battery consumption, I see that they spend 29-30% each. Frankly, it's too much. This was not the case before. Is it possible to just turn off Google services on Android so that the battery lasts longer? Or is there some other way to reduce the charge consumption? Thank you in advance. The only thing, I'll ask without wit about "it was necessary to buy a phone ... from another company."

novel | September 22, 2016, 07:22
Disable the application in the application section that you do not use and 3g to 2g if there is such an opportunity and if you do not use the Internet, in power saving mode. you can find it in the settings.

Dmitry | August 17, 2016, 12:58
The battery is consumed not so much by the Google Play services themselves, as by the transceiver (ie, work on the 3G4G network), especially if the network is bad. You can check the operating time of the transceiver in the same Google Play services (if they are eating a battery). Therefore, if possible, then work with Wi-fi and unnecessarily do not turn on mobile data transfer. you can also disable automatic synchronization of Google and GPS accounts

Dita | August 12, 2016, 20:33
The problem has been there for over a month. The battery lasted only 4-5 hours. Everything went to "Google Play Services". According to the advice outlined here, "forced to stop" maps, location, " google services play" and cleared the cache. Unnecessarily I turn off the Internet. Now the battery lasts, as before, for two days and even a little more. Smartphone - Samsung Advans I9070, Android 2.3.6

Nazarov Roman | June 26, 2016, 14:04
"google play services" after latest update"Whatsup" started eating 100% CPU. Measured with "CoolTool". Removing "Whatsup" didn't help. The removal of "google play services", as well as the related "Hangouts" and "Maps" updates, helped. In the settings "Playmarket" "Auto-update applications" set never. Installing "Whatsup" had no effect on performance. CPU usage dropped to 2%. Many thanks to the authors, otherwise I wanted to do a "Data Reset" of the phone and would have lost a lot of time and stepped on the same rake again.

Sergei | April 12, 2016, 08:13
I noticed the problem of discharge recently, when the battery capacity from 100% in the morning sat down to 35% in the evening. At the same time, he did not actively use the phone. I just turned off the apps I don't use - Play Books, Play Press, Play Movies. This reduced the consumption of Google Services from 30% to 12%, at the same time cleared the cache. It seems that new updates of these programs drain the battery a lot, this has not been observed before.

Den | November 14, 2015, 12:41 pm
Phone - SAMSUNG S3 mini, android 5.1 cianogenmod. This is the only firmware (of all that I have tried) on which the battery lasts up to 5 days (basically I only call - 5-10 calls a day for 1-5 minutes, occasionally sms and mail). On Android 4, due to Google services, it discharges in half a day, even if it is not used. But on Android 5 (cianogenmod), this phone has a lot of problems - it doesn’t shoot video, it often throws it out of the camera, many applications crash, trouble with GPS, google maps work well if it takes 10-15 seconds and crashes and much more.
Bought Nexus 5, upgraded to android 6.0. The battery with the same use sits in 1-2 days. Overnight 10-15% in standby mode. I thought something was wrong. Turned off GOOGLE NOW. Now for the night -2%. Maybe this is the same Google services?

neevskie | October 23, 2015, 02:50
In general, you take root on the device and titanium backup, they freeze Google services and enjoy it. Good luck! ;)

Anatoly | August 29, 2015, 13:23
use greenify paid + xposed framework + root and you will be happy. to analyze the wakelock detector. there was an uptime for a day or two, it became under 4 days up to 50% (with my usual use-case). though I sewed on my galaxy nexus cyanogenmode + fancy core, and undervolted cpu. but the effect of the first scheme gives a greater result. for tuning the core, I recommend trickster mod (preferably also paid, because of the profiles). + if there is not enough memory, it is worth using zRAM, the smart will live less (for a couple of days), but there will be a strong saving in memory.

Den | May 30, 2015, 02:42 pm
Because of these services, the battery began to sit down in half a day. I was exhausted for 2 weeks - I installed other firmware, manually turned off Google services, installed additional programs (including greenify) and nothing. Yesterday, I somehow turned off the services (I don’t remember all the subsequent actions for sure), went to the play market, he asked to reboot to update. Rebooted, updated and over the past day the decline in charge was 10%. I hope the problem is solved, maybe it will help someone too. (samsung s3 mini, CianogenMod 11, android 4.4.4)

Paul | February 9, 2015, 12:31
Yes, Google Apps can periodically start acting weird and drain your battery. Unfortunately, I could not find a fundamental solution to this problem. Bye. There is a palette that temporarily removes the increased consumption of electricity. Several actions must be taken.

Phone location detection must be disabled. To do this, go to the settings menu and find the “My Location” section (this is how it is called on my phone, maybe yours is a little different, but the point is clear). Here, turn off access to geodata completely. This will prevent Google services from turning on GPS and GLONASS (if you have one) when applications request location information.

Further, if you do not use the Google Now service, then it should also be turned off, which immediately in my case gave at least a 5% increase in battery life. To do this, you need to get into the Google settings (Settings - Accounts - Google). There you can find "Search" or "Search and hints". Once logged in, turn them off completely. Now "Ok, Google" doesn't work for you.

In the same settings section of Google accounts, you can turn off automatic synchronization. This also allows you to increase battery life, although, personally, I did not understand if this consumption applies to Google services. Apparently, partially, since the lion's share of the energy in this case should go to communication via Wi-Fi or 3G.

Now clear the cache of Google services: Settings - Applications - Google Play Services - Clear cache. Oddly enough, it helps (for 3-4 days). The same should be done with Google Maps.

Now force quit the Google Play Services app. It's in the same place, in the settings, you just need to find the "Stop" button. Still on the Internet, I found advice to delete everything google updates play store. I did not risk it, but my electricity consumption has already fallen.

I also tried, though on someone else's phone, the Greenify application. It is available in the Google Play Store. It seemed to help too.

If you've ever looked into the battery settings screen of your Android device, you've probably seen "Google Play Services". But what are they, and why do they use so much battery?

What is Google Play Services?

Google Play Services is a bit more confusing than most apps as it includes all Google services in one package. In more early versions Android (7.x Nougat or below) You can see exactly what Google services include by clicking on it. Here's what it shows on an Android 7.1.1 device:

• Google Accounts: little information on what exactly this service does, but it seems to handle data sync account Google, including email and other related stuff.
• Google Services Framework: The Google Services platform supports various communications with Google, including cloud messaging.
• Google Backup: this service allows Android applications to create backups your data on Google servers. When you perform a factory reset on an Android device or set up a new one, your app data may be restored.
• Google Play Services: is the level of services that can be used android apps. This includes location services, which are the most significant battery drain. The Google Play Services package can be updated on the fly without updating the operating system.

In a way, Google Play Services is how Google brings new features to Android without updating the entire operating system, but that means a single package can do a lot of things and can drain your battery just like the rest of the OS.

Check what's going on with your battery

Android shows you which apps and system services are using the most battery power - just open the Settings menu and tap Battery to view this information. The information here is usually self-explanatory, but depending on which version of Android your phone is running, things may look a little different.

For example, in the older android versions, such as Marshmallow (Android 6.x) and Nougat (Android 7.x), you'll probably find "Screen" at the top of your screen, which is the amount of battery power your device's display and backlight are using. You can reduce the power consumption of the screen by reducing the brightness of the display.

In Oreo (Android 8.x), however, the battery menu is very different.

This list shows individual apps so you can see exactly which apps are using your battery. For obvious reasons, the apps you use most often will probably appear at the top.

How to make Google Play Services use less battery

Previously, individual entries were lumped together under "Google Play Services" on the Battery screen, so it's now harder to know which of these services is draining your battery.

But there's really only one setting you can tweak when it comes to making Play Service use less battery: Location. When apps want to use your location, they ask Google Play Services and it wakes up your GPS equipment, calculating your exact location. GPS uses quite a bit of battery power, and all of that GPS usage will be pinned to Google Play Services and not to the app that requested your GPS location.

To reduce battery consumption associated with location services, go to Settings > Location (Settings > Security & Location on Android devices 8.x) and change the mode to "By network coordinates". This will prevent Google Play Services from turning on your device's GPS hardware when apps request your location, which of course affects accuracy. You can also disable location tracking features entirely here if you're desperate to conserve battery life. If you need accurate location tracking in the future, return to this screen and turn on high accuracy mode.

Many apps use Google Play Services to update your location. The Google Search app frequently queries Google Play services to get your location so it can display information about the weather and other places.

If Google services are still draining your battery after setting location, then there might be another culprit -
synchronization. Try going to Settings > Accounts, pressing the menu button and unchecking " Automatic synchronization data". IN android oreo it's in Settings > Users & Accounts, and Auto Sync Data is the toggle at the bottom of the screen. It is worth noting that Android will stop automatically syncing data in the background by disabling this option. For example, you will not receive notifications of new emails in your Gmail account. You will need to open the Gmail app and perform a manual sync to update your data. If this stops the battery from draining, it means you have a sync issue.

Google has quickly gone from being a small search engine to a gigantic infrastructure whose components run on our PCs, smartphones, tablets and even TVs. Google tirelessly collects information about us, search terms are carefully logged, movements are tracked, and passwords, letters and contact information are stored for years to come. All this is an integral part of modernity, but we can quite change it.

Introduction

It's no secret that any device under Android control(at least what is certified by Google) contains not only components assembled from AOSP, but also an impressive amount of proprietary Google programs. These are the same Google Play, Gmail, Hangouts, Maps and a bunch of other applications, including a dialer and a camera (starting with KitKat).

For all these components, there is not only source code, but generally any explanation about the principles of their work. Many of them were originally created to collect certain types of information and send them to Google's servers. So, for example, GoogleBackupTransport behaves, which is responsible for synchronizing the list installed apps, passwords, and other data, GoogleContactsSyncAdapter, which synchronizes the list of contacts, or ChromeBookmarksSyncAdapter, whose job is to synchronize browser bookmarks. Plus, collecting information about all queries in the search engine.

There is, of course, nothing wrong with the fact of synchronization itself, and this is a great mechanism that allows you to customize new phone in minutes, and Google Now even manages to give us useful information based on our data (sometimes). The only problem is that all this destroys our privacy, because, as Snowden showed, under the hood of the NSA (and, most likely, a bunch of other services) is not only some kind of evil empire called Microsoft, but also Google, and as well as many other companies from the “we are not evil, but fluffy patrons” party.

In other words: Google will merge us all without any problems, and it’s not a fact that its employees, sitting in their offices with masseuses and dogs, do not laugh at the names from your contact book (everything is encrypted there, yes), drinking 15-year-old pu-erh from Yunnan province. Or maybe to hell with this Google? Let's take their Android, and let them go through the forest?

What is Google Apps

The latest KitKat-based custom firmware for my smartphone is 200 MB, however, to get the real experience from the smartphone, I also have to flash a gapps archive on top of it, which is 170 MB in size. Only after that I will get a system similar to the one preinstalled on the Nexus device, with all the goodies in the form of a desktop integrated with Google Now, a face-based screen lock, a camera with support for spherical shooting and a kilogram of Google software, from Google Play to Google Books.

I repeat once again: all this is closed software from Google, which in a good way cannot be distributed at all without their knowledge (therefore, it is not in custom firmware like CyanogenMod), but since it is quite simple to extract it from Nexus-device firmware, you can find it on the Web a huge number of such archives, including heavily curtailed ones. In order to release an Android smartphone with a set of gapps on board, the manufacturer must send it for certification to Google, which, having assessed the quality and performance of the smartphone, will either give the go-ahead or kick it off (but this does not stop the Chinese at all).

This is how Google Apps gets to the smartphone. Of the users, 99% either use pre-installed applications, or install them on their own on an absolutely clean and completely anonymous firmware. And then, from the moment you enter the username and password, synchronization and information merging begins.

To figure out how this happens, let's unpack the same archive with gapps and take a look inside. We are interested in the /system/app and /system/priv-app directories, during installation their contents are copied to the directories of the same name inside the smartphone. The second directory is a KitKat innovation, it hosts applications that use system APIs marked as "private" and not available to regular applications.

In the /system/app directory, we will find a large number of different Google applications, easily recognizable by the package name: Books.apk, Chrome.apk, Gmail2.apk and so on. Each of them will share information in their own way, but this is absolutely normal (yes, Google will know that you are reading Paulo Coelho through their app!). The greatest danger here is GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk, which is only responsible for sending a list of contacts to a remote server. We write down the name in a notebook and move on.

Most of the files in the /system/priv-app directory are the services and frameworks needed to run this whole synchronization and tracking thing:

• GoogleBackupTransport.apk - synchronizes the data of installed applications, wifi passwords and some settings;
• GoogleLoginService.apk - connects the device with a Google account;
• GooglePartnerSetup.apk - allows third party applications access Google services;
• GoogleServicesFramwork.apk - a framework with various auxiliary functionality;
• Phonesky.apk - Play Store (oddly enough);
• PrebuiltGmsCore.apk - Google Services, as the name suggests, is the core of the entire gapps suite;
• Velvet.apk is a Google search that includes a desktop search bar and Google Now.

In essence, this is the part of Google Apps that is responsible for leaking our private information. Let's try to get rid of all this.

Method number 1. Disabling through the settings

The easiest way to untie a smartphone from Google is to use default settings systems. The method is good in that it does not require root rights, nor the installation of custom firmware, nor custom recovery. Everything can be done in any stock firmware without losing access to your account and applications like Gmail (if necessary). However, no one will vouch for efficiency, since it is quite possible that some gapps components will continue to send data.

The main location of the sync settings is the menu "Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> [email protected]". Here you can turn off things like syncing contacts, app data, Gmail, Play Music, Google Keep, and more. All you need to do is just uncheck the boxes for the menu items you want. Next, go to the menu "Settings -\u003e Backup and reset" and remove the daws from the items "Data backup" and "Auto recovery".

Many sync settings are also handled by the Google Settings app, which is part of Google Services. With it, in particular, you can disable Google's access to the location ("Access to geodata -> Access to my geodata / Send geodata / Location history"), disable sending personal data to the search engine ("Search -> Personal data"), disable Google Now ("Search -> Google Now") and disable remote control (" Remote control-> Remote device search / Remote lock and reset").

In the same "Google Settings", by the way, you can disable any application that uses a Google account for authorization. This is not only about the software installed on the device, but in general about all applications ever used, including websites. For example, I found in this list a lot of sites that I had not visited for at least a couple of years.

In the event that you are not going to use Google services at all, it will be easier to disconnect your smartphone from your account completely, that is, simply delete it through the settings: “Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> [email protected]-> Menu Button -> Delete Account".

Majority Google Apps can be painlessly disabled through the settings: “Applications -> ALL -> desired application-> Disable".

Settings Google account Google Settings

Method number 2. Cleaning the official firmware

In the event that the stock firmware has root permissions, you can get rid of Google Apps by simply deleting them from your smartphone. As I said, they are all stored in the /system/app and /system/priv-app directories. For example, in the case of KitKat, the list of Google apps in the first directory would be:

• Books.apk - Google Books;
• CalendarGoogle.apk - Google Calendar;
• Chrome.apk - Google Chrome;
• CloudPrint.apk - cloud printing system;
• Drive.apk - Google Drive;
• GenieWidget.apk - news and weather widget;
• Gmail2.apk - Gmail;
• GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk - synchronization of contacts;
• GoogleEars.apk - Google Ears (similar to Shazam);
• GoogleEarth.apk - Google Earth;
• GoogleHome.apk - home screen with integrated Google Now;
• GoogleTTS.apk - speech synthesis system;
• Hangouts.apk - Google Hangouts;
• Keep.apk - Google Keep;
• LatinImeGoogle.apk - keyboard with gesture support;
• Magazines.apk - Google Magazines;
• Maps.apk - Google Maps;
• Music2.apk - Google Music;
• PlayGames.apk - Google PlayGames;
• PlusOne.apk - Google+;
• QuickOffice.apk - QuickOffice;
• Street.apk - Google Street;
• SunBeam.apk - live wallpaper SunBeam;
• Videos.apk - Google Movies;
• YouTube.apk - YouTube.

The /system/priv-app directory, in addition to those listed earlier, also stores the following files:

• CalendarProvider.apk - stores calendar data;
• GoogleFeedback.apk - sends a report on the use of Google Play;
• GoogleOneTimeInitializer.apk - wizard for installing additional Google applications;
• SetupWizard.apk - setup wizard at the first start;
• Wallet.apk - Google Wallet;
• talkback.apk - voice notification about events on the device.

The Gapps kit for KitKat, among other things, also includes a proprietary camera with support for spherical shooting and a proprietary desktop with integrated Google Now.

But that is not all. Google Apps depends on several frameworks, which are located in the /system/framework directory. These are com.google.android.maps.jar, com.google.android.media.effects.jar and com.google.widevine.software.drm.jar. There are also many libraries in the /system/lib directory that are used exclusively by Google apps. You don't have to delete them, but you can. Just to clean up the garbage. You can find a list of them on the website ][.

In past (and future) versions of the system, the contents of Google Apps are different, so before deleting, I recommend downloading gapps desired version from goo.im/gapps , unzip from using WinRar and view the content. You should also consider the dependence of some applications from the market on Google applications, I will talk more about this later.

Method number 3. Custom firmware without gapps

The previous method can be greatly simplified if you simply install it on your smartphone custom firmware without Google Apps. In this case, the smartphone / tablet will be crystal clear without any reference to Google. The disadvantage of this method is the lack of Google Play, but you can either replace it with a third-party app store (more on that below), or use the following method, which includes installing a stripped-down Google versions Apps.

Method number 4. Google Play and nothing else

This way of partially unlinking from Google is a kind of compromise. It does not solve the problem of surveillance - at least without the settings from the first method - but it allows you not to litter the system with a bunch of useless software that will hang in the background and eat up memory. The essence is simple - we install custom firmware and fill it with a minimalistic version of gapps, which includes only Google Play.

There are many such minimal gapps builds on the Web, but I would recommend using the time-tested BaNkS Gapps, namely the “month-day GApps Core 4.4.2 signed.zip". They work on any smartphone, are compatible with ART, and include only the core gapps files listed in What is Gapps, framework files, and a few libraries. Basically, it's Google Play, sync tools and nothing else.

Change the search engine to DuckDuckGo

Even after complete shutdown synchronization on the home screen will remain the "built-in" Google search bar. IN stock firmware some manufacturers (Samsung, for example) is just a widget that can be easily removed from the screen. IN pure android and devices from many other manufacturers, it is "sewn" into the home screen, but it can be removed by disabling all search from Google (along with Google Now) using the menu "Settings -> Applications -> All -> Google search-> Disable" or by installing a third-party launcher. Next, just download DuckDuckGo from the market or another app store and add the widget of the same name to your home screen.

Third party market

The second and third methods involve completely getting rid of Google Apps, including Google Play and the ability to log in using a Google account, so we must find a way to install applications easily and conveniently, which would not force us to download them ourselves, and then transfer them to a memory card and set manually. One such way is to install a third-party market.

On the this moment there are three more or less viable alternatives to Google Play. These are Amazon Appstore , Yandex.Store and 1Mobile Market . Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages, which mainly come down to the number of applications and payment methods:

• Amazon Appstore is the most famous app store after Google Play. Contains over 75,000 apps (compared to 800,000 on Google Play), each hand-checked for quality, just like iTunes for iOS. You can pay using credit card or Amazon coins (Amazon Coins), which are given as a gift for the purchase of a Kindle Fire tablet or as a gift from another user. One of the most interesting features of the store is the daily giveaway one of the paid apps.
• Yandex.Store - a store from Yandex. Contains more than 85 thousand applications, each of which is checked by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. It doesn’t stand out in particular, but it has a killer feature in the form of the ability to pay for purchases using the Yandex.Money service or a mobile phone account.
• 1Mobile Market is the largest third-party repository of Android apps, with over 500,000 apps. It differs from others in the presence of exclusively free applications (not to be confused with pirated ones), because of which it allows you not to go through the account registration stage and remain anonymous.

Applications in all three markets have original digital signatures application developers, which allows them to be used simultaneously. An application installed from one market can be updated from another without problems, and when deleted, it will disappear from the list of installed ones in all at once. However, you will have to buy separately.

Open Source Market

In addition to those described in the article, as well as many other lesser-known app stores, you can find a repository different from the rest on the Web. It is completely anonymous and contains only free software distributed under licenses approved by the FSF. There are only a thousand applications in F-Droid, but all of them are guaranteed to be free of backdoors and other systems for disclosing personal data. It is F-Droid that is used as the default market in the free Replicant Android firmware.

Solving the problem of application dependency on Google Apps

Despite the fact that gapps components are not part of the official Android API, some applications still expect to see them in the system, which can cause a number of problems - from the complete inoperability of the application to the loss of some of its functions. Some applications will refuse to install due to the lack of Google Maps API, others crash immediately after launch without finding it, others include direct links to Google Play, which can lead to crashes and incorrect work.

To address these issues, XDA user MaR-V-iN started the NOGAPPS project, which is developing a set of open source components to replace the original Google Apps functionality. There are currently three replacement components available:

• Network Location is a Wi-Fi based geolocation service and base stations GSM. Based on Apple's IP address database and open base base stations;
• Maps API - interface replacement for Google Maps based on OpenStreetMap;
• BlankStore is an open source alternative to the Play Store client. Allows you to install free apps from the Google store, but is not recommended for use due to possible sanctions from the search engine (this is prohibited by their rules).

Components are installed separately and different ways. Network Location can be manually copied to the /system/app/ directory in Android 2.3–4.3 or to the /system/priv-app/ directory in KitKat (in this case, you should use the NetworkLocation-gms.apk file). The Maps API is installed by flashing the nogapps-maps.zip file through the recovery console. To install the market, you will have to not only copy the file, but also generate an Android ID on big car, but since it is not recommended to do this, I will not talk about it and will limit myself to a link to the instruction.

After all the manipulations, the software should work correctly.

conclusions

For the company Google Android useless without its own applications, so it's not surprising that the company puts the most delicious parts of the system into them and leaves the code closed. However, in this article, I showed that there is life without gapps and it can be even easier and more convenient than with Google.

Almost all users experience problems with the rapid discharge of their own gadget, as a rule, services from Google Corporation become the culprits. This article will explain why these problems appear and how to deal with them.

How to find out that the gadget is discharged precisely because of Google?

All applications on the device cannot work without support from Google. If the gadget began to quickly lose charge, then most likely the Google service is to blame. No one argues that over time, the battery capacity of gadgets becomes smaller, but if the device in one day began to spend its charge in a matter of hours, then the software is probably to blame.

What services are draining the gadget

1. Need to open " settings", then go to the subsection" batteries"and then press the key" statistics".
2. At the very top will be the applications that consume the most battery capacity.
3. If the first line contains the parameter " screen", then there's nothing to worry about.
4. What if resources from Google take up more battery usage than features? screen" And " android platform ", then the user definitely loses battery power from Google services.

How to stop excessive battery drain

There are a lot of reasons why the battery is draining from Google services. Therefore, there are many ways to solve this problem. These problems are noticed by many users. You've probably already tried rebooting your phone. If the phone has not rebooted for a long time, then this must be done right now.

You need to make sure that the latest version of the firmware is used on the gadget, and all functionality has been updated to latest model. Usually, this action usually helps.

Google's services are draining battery due to the use of a huge number of accounts

If a user uses several accounts from Google at once, one of which is personal and the other is needed for work, then most likely these accounts work simultaneously, which in turn leads to an early battery drain.

Other resources may not function correctly with Google services

To eliminate given error, you need to restart the gadget in safe mode, if the Google service stops bothering the subscriber, then the issue lies precisely in this application.

What actions need to be taken:

1. The phone must be completely turned off.
2. Then it must be turned on again, and when the download animation with the name "Samsung" appears, you need to press and hold the volume key at the very bottom until the gadget is fully loaded.

It is necessary to check the correct operation of the sync accounts

1. The Google service loads the information needed for applications in the background. For example, it can be email correspondence or advertisements that include an application, and it can also be notifications for checking the subscriber's location.
2. If each of the synchronization attempts fails, then the Google account will have to be deleted and installed again after the reboot.
3. As a rule, this action helps, so you should definitely try it.

The gadget can quickly lose charge due to GPS

GPS consumes a lot of power because the resources use the process of finding the location, so the battery is used up very quickly.

If a similar problem was found, then one piece of advice should be put into practice: an energy efficient way to identify energy savings should be put into practice.

1. You need to go to the "Settings" section
2. Next, you should visit the "location" subsection and change the settings there.
3. Due to the actions performed, the location of a person may not be accurate, but as a rule, this is enough to determine the location.

The reason for the rapid discharge of the battery may be the system support program

You can try disabling your antivirus or firewall.

• If the user does not download applications every day from dubious sites and does not open any comp. data in emails, then the danger of infecting your operating system minimal
• To prolong battery life, these services must be disabled, and if they are not needed, they can be deleted. After that, you need to check the result, whether the phone's operating time has increased after removing the antivirus or Firewall