[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] griz.droidx:
Most all POP's and Kat's have the issue with google play services eating battery.. There's a ton of posts about how to resolve it.. The easiest way for me has been, and this is in both kitkat and lollipop, to just use the privacy manager to disable a few items in play services. Not everything... I only disable or deny as it's put in the manager, both wakeup or wake, and keep awake. Some threads suggest using autoruns or autostarts available on f-droid, to disable a couple things there.. however Denying wakeup and keep awake in privacy manager which almost every rom has from Kitkat on has it available usually under privacy.

I actually enable it by default on all newly installed apps... The first thing I do before re-installing or restoring apps from TiBu or Rom Toolbox Pro.

This has always worked for me YMMV, but again it worked for me...

I seriously suggest setting privacy manager to block everything newly installed.. Then when an app wants access to something you can grant it via popup or toast as needed if you want.. Privacy manager really is a gem of a tool. I know it can be done via xposed app ops and app ops has more options and working with JB too. But Since I rarely use JB I've not much experience with that.

Good luck and I sincerely hope this helps your issue. You should get zero wakelocks from doing this.. Mine sleeps very well now. And with airplane mode on (bad signal in my area), My battery life is great. I'm back and forth between lollipop and kitkat. Testing most pop builds from Octos and Aicp, the latter I prefer but lately I've been unable to get my FFC to work without crashing even with opencamera... Now it seems no one else is having this issue, and using Liquid or other POP roms it works fine. I've even went back to an april build and dirty flashed to upgrade to the latest as someone suggested, but to no avail. I rarely use FFC but its still nice to have.. And in POP I've having a hard time blocking ads as good as I used to in Kitkat. AICP has a built in adblocker but I prefer to use AD Away which I've used for a long time.. I can't remember if OCTOS has a built in blocker but it probably does. Anywho.. Both are awesome roms..

Sorry to bring up another rom here but I'm just trying to help.. I'm not taking anything away from OCTOS as it's a great rom too. Just try them all and see what you prefer.. Many have said that OCTOS has worked better than any other POP out there. I'm going looking for the latest build next..

If I was able to help you please take time to press thanks.. That's all I really ask for.. I don't get on here as much as I should but when I do I try to answer a few questions when possible..

Many thanks to OCTOS and all other dev's involved in making POP work continually better on our ancient devices.. The S3 really has stood the test of time.. And mine although without a power button has been though the wringer with me jamming while mowing. I've even dropped it in the shower, and After shaking it out, Not even taking it apart to dry due to me being lazy, it rebooted immediately... Not as tough as my old DX which fell from the roof of my car at 60 MPH, gathering the phone, battery cover, then going back the next day to look for the battery, it worked like a charm.. I don't know if the s3 could survive it, but never the less, it's been more durable that I could have imagined since they seem so cheap and flimsy..

Thanks again to all devs involved in this project and others.. You guys really deserve a ton of credit... And make my day when I see a newly released build. Like a kid in a Candy store I become..

Very truly yours,

griz