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When you click into the battery usage details for Google Play Services what does it say? Is the Keep Awake or GPS high? This should give you some insight as to why.

Typically, you use the same keystore, mostly for manageability. There are several reasons for this, as listed here: https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html#considerations. However, nothing stops you from doing this, if you are willing to manage the different keystores and...

You can update Google Play Services directly through Chrome, too. If you do a search for "update google play services" it should bring up the play store listing for Google Play services as a result. Assuming you have a google account signed onto the device, click on the link and it should take...

Do you have a Google account signed on to the device? This could be coming from the Android Device Manager. Remove the Google account--if this is something that you can do.

Even if you don't use Google Maps or other nav apps, Google Play Services will intermittently take gps points throughout the day if you have high accuracy enabled. You can observe this, particularly when you wake the device up from sleep. As others have mentioned, the battery drain from this...

Hidden apps not sure, but you can go through all your installed apps and find out if they have READ_SMS permssion.

You can use adb to pull the apk (i.e. app) off of the device. You can find the thread on Stack Overflow. Just do a search on "How do I get an apk from an Android device"

It looks like the app keeps a full wakelock on the device to either keep the screen on indefinitely or run wifi full blast. Doing either will drain your battery. What is your question?

You can go through your apps in the App Manager and check data usage there. Just click into each app and look at the Data Usage tab

Having the screen-on, set to the brightest level, will eat up battery. Having "high accuracy" location services enabled is another battery killer. Switch to "Battery Saving" if you can. Also, having a Google account registered drains battery for app updates, syncing, etc.

Yes, there must be an app the you have installed that is keeping open a wakelock. Try going into the Usage details for each top consumer and checking the Keep Awake. It would be easiest to do this once the phone is fully charged. Then the battery stats reset.

As a follow up to the accuracy question, even if you have high accuracy enabled, GPS can still be inaccurate. Buildings and mountains can impede the satellite signal, causing degraded performance. This might explain your hiking observation. Also, if your network signal is relatively poor, AGPS...

Google Play Service runs as a system service and will take location updates when any dependent apps (i.e. Chrome, Play Store) require location. From the message above, it looks like it might be related to the Android Device Manager. Have you tried removing your Google account from the device...