Is the "Google Services" battery drain on android phones NSA tapping?

momeNt

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My battery does not always get drained very quickly, but certain days google services will be like 30+% of the battery usage and my battery only lasts half a day.

Is it possible that this is when the NSA is listening through your phone? Is it legal to block this? Or am I obstructing justice/aiding terrorism (one in the same)?
 

dainthomas

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It definitely is. You should wrap your phone in tin foil before the black helicopters come.
 

Platypus

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lol, nothing to do with the NSA.

Google Services is google's new direction in trying to combat the problem of OS fragmentation by updating APIs and other services through the play store via this service as opposed to rolling stuff into new OS releases which will only hit a fraction of handsets.

http://developer.android.com/google/index.html
 

Newbian

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I suggest you open your phone up and place the tinfoil directly in there so you hide it otherwise the informants you see on the streets will see you are blocking their signal.
 

momeNt

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lol, nothing to do with the NSA.

Google Services is google's new direction in trying to combat the problem of OS fragmentation by updating APIs and other services through the play store via this service as opposed to rolling stuff into new OS releases which will only hit a fraction of handsets.

http://developer.android.com/google/index.html

Thanks. I kind of realize now that NSA is tapping Americans through backdoors once the information as already left the phone, so the phone would never need to run a service. Unless the NSA decides to enable the microphone and listen on more than just phone calls, this would then require some sort of process to be running on the phone.

Must be something other than google services, probably under "screen" so it wouldn't arouse any suspicion.
 

KeithTalent

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The one that was one killing my battery was Factory Test. Once I disabled that one my battery life improved immensely.

KT
 

lxskllr

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Thanks. I kind of realize now that NSA is tapping Americans through backdoors once the information as already left the phone, so the phone would never need to run a service. Unless the NSA decides to enable the microphone and listen on more than just phone calls, this would then require some sort of process to be running on the phone.

Must be something other than google services, probably under "screen" so it wouldn't arouse any suspicion.

You're having your location tracked. Everywhere you go gets put in a database, and given to the government(and advertisers). No special software is needed. That's a "feature" of the cell network.
 

Vic Vega

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I'm just glad there is someone out there who agrees this sort of tracking is terrible and will fight to end it.

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SlitheryDee

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Yeah. I know because my phone started to heat up when this guy gave me a pamphlet on Islam. I burned the pamphlet while cursing profusely and it cooled down though.
 

momeNt

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You're having your location tracked. Everywhere you go gets put in a database, and given to the government(and advertisers). No special software is needed. That's a "feature" of the cell network.

Well location being tracked is different than them enabling your microphone and uploading that into a database. I would think that this functionality is not a hidden feature of the phone, and would take at the very least a very well hidden process to be running on the phone.
 

momeNt

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what he said before becoming president doesn't matter.

He wasn't briefed yet.

I'm convinced there is a folder sitting on the desk of the oval office that contains information that convinced a once champion of liberty such as BHO that these programs were needed.

The contents of this folder must truly be terrifying.
 

Vic Vega

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He wasn't briefed yet.

I'm convinced there is a folder sitting on the desk of the oval office that contains information that convinced a once champion of liberty such as BHO that these programs were needed.

The contents of this folder must truly be terrifying.

Yeah, that could be it. Or he could see it as a tool to track the Democrat party's enemies, similar with how the IRS was used against their enemies. :whiste:
 

momeNt

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Yeah, that could be it. Or he could see it as a tool to track the Democrat party's enemies, similar with how the IRS was used against their enemies. :whiste:

I think turning this into partisanship purely distracts from the real problem. When nobody is watching the government the government starts watching you.