Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Stupid Google Play Services
Date: 28 Jun 2015 12:43:23 GMT
Organization: NOYB
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <cva8fbFjb4dU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <mmmpct$o0q$2@dont-email.me> <cv89gbF4eq5U1@mid.individual.net> <XnsA4C6A74434102VeebleFetzer@127.0.0.1>
X-Trace: individual.net SkK0PMPxvOu6bH3wMycZSwR3mBYzcl9kiiC8oUlyZ6HGMProsN
X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail
Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qe5n1m3Zesk6sQvRRmFNZvkNGdg=
User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-6.2-WOW64/1.5.22(0.156/4/2) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 150628-0, 06/28/2015), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Xref: aioe.org comp.mobile.android:20551

Bert <bert@iphouse.com> wrote:
> In news:cv89gbF4eq5U1@mid.individual.net Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote: 
> 
> > The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ...use up 18% (HALF of my current usage) batter and I had wifi off
> >> and didn't want to use ANY google stuff.  Can't even force it to
> >> stop. 
> > 
> >   Did you have mobile data on? If so, Google Play Services *does* use
> > mobile data even if you tell it to use WiFi only. And no it's not
> > lying, it never said it didn't use mobile data for *checking* (for
> > updates), did it!? :-(
> 
> I believe that the complaint was about battery ("batter?") use, not
> data. 

  My point - also elaborated in the snipped part of my post - was to
prevent/limit Google Play Services from running. If you - explicitly or
implicitly - allow it to run, it will be consuming power.