Anyone else with a Droid Mini experiencing massive battery drain recently that appears to be due to Google Play services?
In the past two weeks Google Play services has been often consuming 50% or more of the battery causing the roughly a 10% to 20% loss of battery per hour. This massive battery drain sometimes goes away for a short time if the phone is turned off then back on a few minute later, only to have the battery drain return a short time later.
Tried a hard phone reset. Phone battery drain back to normal until Google Services updates itself to Google Play services at which point the massive battery drain reappears.
Have searched around and tried numerous other methods from clearing/wiping the cache, to clearing the Google Play service cache, to uninstalling Google Play service and reinstalling it from the Google Play store, to turning off Location services, auto sync option and several other settings. Removed known battery draining programs like Facebook and Twitter. None seem to work long turn. The battery drain comes back.
The following screen capture was taken 35 minutes after fully charging the phone, battery already dropped 9%:
The Google Services battery drain kicked in again yesterday and was able to capture the screen captures below. The phone was charged to 100% and was rarely used yesterday. No phone calls were made, some light web browsing via data was done more than 7 hours prior to the screen captures being taken, some texting was done as well. At some point the Google Services kicked in to high gear and its battery usage went from under 10% to over 40% and appears to have stayed there causing the quick battery drain. There is a real drop off in the battery where it went from 14% to 2% in the space of about 30 minutes at the end.
Here are five more screen captures from today.
A tentative update for now. It appears the Google Services app was updated on June 30 (see this link), previous update was either June 22 or June 13 (from what I remember). Performed another "uninstall updates" on the Google Services app late yesterday. Don't know what "update" version was install on the Mini however during the heavy battery drain, forgot to write that information down. The directions below came from this link.
- Go to Settings / Apps / All.
- Swipe down until you find Google Play services. Tap on it. Tap on "Uninstall updates".
- Go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gms and update Google Play services.
- Reboot.
When the "update" was uninstalled the Google Play services version was: 6.1.11 (1474901-036).
After updating the Google Play services the version was: 9.2.56 (036-124593566).
Its been over 9 hours since phone was fully charged and the battery usage is at 84% with Google Services not shown in the battery usage app list. And the "awake" history shows the device is no longer remaining awake for long periods of time.
Keeping fingers crossed. 
Quick update. Going on 22 hours now with the battery at 49% and the Google Services app running around 3% the entire time. So far light years better than the past two weeks where I experienced quick battery drain. Keeping my fingers crossed that this continues and the Google Play doesn't start causing problems and keeping the phone awake in the background.
