Is it possible to live without this battery draining hog? And How?
>>57672274
Yes, remove them.
cm + fdroid
don't use gapps.
>>57672289
this.
Gapps are a botnet ridden pieces of shit.
>>57672274
Use Micro G
>>57672274
Cyanogenmod with fdroid will basically triple your battery life over botnet services.
>>57672332
The only gapps I use are Play Store, YouTube and Drive.
I'm rooted and have uninstalled all the other gapps.
Problem is that most apps use Google Play Services to synch, if I uninstall it they will cease to get push notifications
>>57672431
Not sure considering I don't use anything that requires the play services but this article seems to be pretty detailed on how to spoof them so that apps don't break.
https://fralef.me/using-android-without-google-apps.html
>>57672274
Yes but the battery gain isn't much to bother with.
I tried going without gapps but it pissed me off not having maps and having to manually update all my apps. Apart from that I didn't really miss anything.