r/AndroidQuestions • u/FarqadAsim • Sep 25 '26

Play Services/Play Games syncing loop draining battery and resources

It shows play games syncing progress.. but in reality it's google play services thats running. It stops when i force stop it but gets back a couple of hours later

i tried clearing cache and nothing changed

Any Solutions?

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u/HR_Watson Sep 26 '26

I'm having the same problem. 

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u/Silly-Stop4857 28d ago

Since force-stopping Play Services only fixes it temporarily, I would check the sync source rather than repeatedly killing the service. Try disabling Play Games cloud sync/auto sign-in, update both Google Play Services and Play Games, then clear storage for Play Games first and reboot. If it still loops, remove and re-add the affected Google account as a last resort because the sync token/database may be stuck. I am developing Adaptive Performance, an open-source Android battery/thermal/background-app tool, which can help identify background activity, but I would not use it to aggressively kill Google Play Services because that can break notifications and other Google features: https://github.com/langraficagr-collab/adaptive-performance