We’ll agree that the fact that a cell phone battery doesn’t last long is one of our most common dramas in the smartphone age. Well, taking that for granted, I recently found myself an application that I never opened and yet it was the one that consumed the most battery. Surreal on paper, but with meaning.
There is a way to see which apps are consuming the most on Android, which basically involves going to the battery settings. I went there, out of pure curiosity, and found Gmail at the top of the ranking and with a lot of difference compared to the others. Luckily, fixing it is very simple and that has no mystery. Not even for apps like Gmail which in my case cannot be deleted.
Why do they consume these apps and how to fix it
You may have been in a similar situation to the one I found myself in, either right now or may happen to you in the future. And that’s it This is something completely normal and even less so if it is not remedied.. But let’s first know the origin of this, continuing my case.
The cell phone I detected this on has only been with me for a few days. I only did its initial setup and did not open Gmail in any way, since I use another email manager. In this case, since it is a Google application and the mobile I use is an Android with the company’s services integrated, my Google account has been automatically associated with this messaging application. And so far, everything is normal. What was my problem? Forgetting that he was still there.
This is not an application that can be uninstalled. Or at least not in the usual way we usually understand it. However, in the background it continues to work. Because Just because an app isn’t open doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.. In this case, I don’t know the exact details of what Gmail would do, but among other things I sense it would constantly sync emails so that when I open it everything appears updated and ready.
And this happens with many other apps. There are applications that must be constantly operational to access our location, others that simply expect us to quickly greet each other when we want to use them (Facebook is one of them). The fact is that It’s extremely annoying if you never want to use them or at least not constantly.. Because, as I already told you, not only are they used, but they are also among those that consume the most battery.
And here we find various solutions to consider:
- Uninstall the app: It is always the most recommended if it is a preinstalled application or that we have simply stopped using. Of course, as happened to me with Gmail, it is not always possible to delete it.
- Disable it: This is the best option if we do not want to delete the application because we will need it in the future or if, as in my case, it cannot be uninstalled directly. To do this, you must go to the settings, enter the “Applications” section, locate the application in question and click on the “Disable” button.
- Uninstall it with ADB: If you cannot uninstall or disable it, there is a slightly more advanced possibility that requires the use of ADB to eliminate it. If you find yourself in this situation, we recommend that you consult the tutorial in which we explain how to delete preinstalled applications on Android.
- Change permissions: As we have already said, some applications consume battery by continuously monitoring our location or other access. If we do not consider them necessary, we can return to the application settings panel, locate the active permissions and restrict them.
Coming back to my particular case with which I wanted to bring this experience, I would say that I could not disable it, although I did not need to eliminate it with ADB. By refusing his permits, I already noticed that his consumption was considerably reduced. Besides, I deactivated other applications which were also consuming and I thus managed to align battery consumption with your actual device usage.
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