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Some Android phones heavy and fast battery drain

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  • #32
    BailMeOut
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    pah wrote: »
    I don't see how. The covid app on the play store is from 15th July still. I had the issue and fixed it by clearing the play services cache. The app is unchanged.

    the 'fix' is in Google Play Services and not in the Covid app. To force update your Play Services App you delete cache and data and then disable and then re-enable it. This will revert it (Google Play Services) to factory and it will then auto-update later to the version with the fix You can force the update by touching the Google Play Services version (under Advanced) after which you will get a prompt to update if an update is available.

    Mine shows version 20.26.14 which has the fix.


  • #33
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,547 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    the 'fix' is in Google Play Services and not in the Covid app. To force update your Play Services App you delete cache and data and then disable and then re-enable it. This will revert it (Google Play Services) to factory and it will then auto-update later to the version with the fix You can force the update by touching the Google Play Services version (under Advanced) after which you will get a prompt to update if an update is available.

    Mine shows version 20.26.14 which has the fix.
    The Google Play Store page for Google Play Services is saying last updated on 7 July 2020 for that version, and on my Pixel 3 running Android 10, it says that version was installed on 1 July 2020, so I'm not sure you're correct there in saying this is an updated version to fix the bug.

    Plus the steps you outlined above aren't necessarily valid for all phones and/or Android versions. My Pixel has no way of disabling or foce-stopping Play Services, for example, and the only way to update it is through Settings > Security > Google Play system update. Exactly the same for my Samsung tablet running Android 10.


  • #34
    BailMeOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,058 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    Alun wrote: »
    The Google Play Store page for Google Play Services is saying last updated on 7 July 2020 for that version, and on my Pixel 3 running Android 10, it says that version was installed on 1 July 2020, so I'm not sure you're correct there in saying this is an updated version to fix the bug.

    Plus the steps you outlined above aren't necessarily valid for all phones and/or Android versions. My Pixel has no way of disabling or foce-stopping Play Services, for example, and the only way to update it is through Settings > Security > Google Play system update. Exactly the same for my Samsung tablet running Android 10.

    If you go to "Settings / Apps and notifications / Google Play Store" can you touch the three dots on top right and choose 'uninstall updates' which is then followed by "Google Play Store Replace this app with the factory version?"

    Note my Google Play version changed again to 20.9.10 and it was 20.26.14 a few hours ago.


  • #35
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,547 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    If you go to "Settings / Apps and notifications / Google Play Store" can you touch the three dots on top right and choose 'uninstall updates' which is then followed by "Google Play Store Replace this app with the factory version?"

    Note my Google Play version changed again to 20.9.10 and it was 20.26.14 a few hours ago.

    Of course, but that's the Google Play store app which has nothing to do with Google Play Services.

    I could do the same with Google Play Services but there's no point as I have the latest version already.

    I should add I'm having no problems after deleting all data for Google Play Services, no other steps were necessary.


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