Anyone else seeing high battery drain from Google Play Services?

lmacmil

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My HD is running CM11 M12. I leave it on almost all the time and when used, it is primarily to read books for surf the net. Until recently I haven't had to charge it more than every 4 or 5 days. Tried to fire it up the other day and the battery was so low I couldn't. Charged it up and got it fired up. Since then I have experienced very fast battery drain and the main user is Google Play Services. It was 100% charged when I unplugged it last night. This morning the charge was 97% so about 3% drain in 8 hours. Now, 3 1/2 hours later the battery is down to 68%. It was been on (i.e., in use) maybe 30 minutes today. Google Play Services shows 31% of the usage, followed by Facebook with 14% and Android System at 11%. The Google Play Services details show 44 min CPU and over 10 hours of "keep awake" even though it was asleep for at least 9 (and probably 10) hours since the last full charge. It is version 8.4.89 (2428711-034).
 

digixmax

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My Google Play Services shows ~7% of battery usage.

FWIW, I turn off WiFi when not using the tablet, and have "Keep WiFi on when asleep" set to "Never".
 

lmacmil

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Strangely it returned to normal behavior without me doing anything. I am 2 1/2 days since the last charge and still at 71%. Google Play Service has only used 4%. Weird.