Google Search App Draining Battery on KitKat I am talking about the app that shows up as "Google Search" in the Battery statistics. 

My Phone is a Nexus 4 on KitKat.

This app draws a lot of battery, up to 50% in idle standby. It also has a "Keep awake" value of usually at least several hours. 

Possibly related, I noticed that my phone is ALWAYS awake according to the battery stats. One charge merely lasts 8 hours.

I have switched off Location Recognition and I have deactivated the Hotword Detection ("Ok Google") in the Settings for the google search bar on my home screen.

Does anyone experience the same problem and are there any suggestions for a solution?

EDIT: Disabling the search app solves the always awake issue and improves battery life. Of course this is not a real fix.
This seems like a fix:


  The solution is to take away 2 permissions: the Google search app
  permissions to keep the device awake, and access location. This gets
  rid of the wakelocks, and still appears to keep google now etc.
  functional. You can do this using App Ops from the play store (needs
  root), or if you are on custom ROMs, through "App Privacy" menu
  setting. Additionally you could also turn off location history and
  reporting, to be on the safe side. Google Now still works, but now
  without the wakelocks!


http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1zxri4/google_play_services_battery_drain_the_real/

On my device (running CyanogenMod), I went to Settings → Privacy → Privacy Guard → Preferences → make sure Show built-in apps is checked → scroll down and long press Google Search → Keep awake → Denied

For those not running a custom ROM, unfortunately there seem to be a million App Ops apps in the Play Store, but this one looks legit:
App Ops by Lars Team