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Post your tips for battery life.

Most people in this forum are far more tech savy when it comes to cell phones.
Post your personal tips for battery conservation. Include specific apps if you'd like.
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I don't worry about battery life, brightness all the way up, sync on, widgets on every screen, Wi-Fi always on. I usually get about 14 hours
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I'm very conservative. WiFi off, data off when not using it, brightness depends, auto sync off, no battery sucking apps like facebook
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Liteflow is the one everyone should watchout i have 2x better standby time simply by deleting it and i put airplane mode everywhere i get like 1bar/signal it helps a bit also.
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The simple solutions are the best.
Extension cords in the house.
Car chargers/docks in the cars
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I get phenomenal battery life out of my S3 (stock).
I had an Epic 4G and was afraid to leave my desk because of the battery drain. With moderate usage (30-60 mins talk time, texting, chat, some web, exchange, ect) I can easily get 16-20 hours. Signal quality in your area will impact it more than anything. Also, wifi is vastly easier on the battery.
PS Facebook app SUCKS. Just bookmark the webpage and use that. Works better and doesn't ruin your phone.

Here how it looks like ! Lovin this screen on time..
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I have a whole thread with tips and tricks.
[How to] --->You Want Better Battery Life:::Read This
It is pretty extensive too.

Woodrube said:
I have a whole thread with tips and tricks.
[How to] --->You Want Better Battery Life:::Read This
It is pretty extensive too.
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Thats a great thread man! Thanks for linking to it!
You guys should definitely check it out if you haven't already. Lots of great info!:thumbup:
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shahkam said:
Liteflow is the one everyone should watchout i have 2x better standby time simply by deleting it and i put airplane mode everywhere i get like 1bar/signal it helps a bit also.
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I've never even seen liteflow on my battery usage. What makes you say liteflow kills battery?
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Awesome thread!
I am noticing that Google Chrome uses half the amount of RAM the stock Internet Brower uses.
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elflip88 said:
I've never even seen liteflow on my battery usage. What makes you say liteflow kills battery?
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I think it depends on how its configured. I've seen it eat the battery but also not use it much at all. Been a bit since I messed with it though so don't remember what settings made the difference.
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elflip88 said:
I've never even seen liteflow on my battery usage. What makes you say liteflow kills battery?
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I checked in betterbatterystats and it gave me a ton of wakelock so the phone couldnt go onto deepsleep..
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I checked in betterbatterystats and it gave me a ton of wakelock so the phone couldnt go onto deepsleep..
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i have betterbatterystats too but have no idea what the wakelocks affect and how to get rid of them.

Post a screen shot and I'll tell ya what could be happening.

You can improve battery life by switching to custom roms with less bloatware, and updating to more efficient kernels. (This is on a Rom/Kernel level)
Software wise, just figure out what apps are causing wake times and try not to use them. Basically whenever an app/widget refreshes/updates content, it may cause phone to wake (like weather/clock widgets for example).

I have been using cpusleep and it seems to have helped my battery life ... also using a custom rom without the bloatware is key for me.
my current setup is freegs3 release 6 with the latest trinity kernel...even though its overclocked my battery has been amazing and phone has worked flawless.
Im also using system tuner which has given me the ability to manage the cpu with on demand and other customizable settings
The only thing I synch is my k9 mail account
I also have frozen several samsung apps which helped...
Im now getting over 20 hours of basic use between charges...I dont use games/videos so might be a little skewed . I use this phone for business calls/internet/messaging/photos/navi...pretty basic

4500mah stock
Only 58% of battery
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I have been using Gigajoule lately by feckmu and it has given me the best battery life out of all the custom roms I have tried. Even with GPS, WIFI, and screen at full brightness I can make it through the entire day with 30-40% battery left. If your looking for a rom-based solution to your battery life, check it out!

jpeps said:
4500mah stock
Only 58% of battery
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That isnt impressive at all.. 2hours screen on time and 15 hours standby ? I can doo that on stock 2100mah.
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SGH-I317m LTE Note 2 Battery stats!

Ok I'm sure many of you wondering on battery stats for the LTE note 2 for Rogers/At&t so thought I'd share! Just to point out, there is still 40% discharge left to go :laugh::good:
This is on stock rooted also btw

Screen on time?

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Screen on time?
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I think this is what you like to see correct?
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alright. this is what i was looking for. thaaank you. you just made my day. i was worried that LTE would eat up the 3100mah like a kid eating ice cream. what kind of ON TIME did u do? heavy use? like internet browsing? youtube? pandora? were you on wifi? cause thats totally different story.
edit: saw the 3rd pic. and 17hrs wifi. hmmm can you maybe do a only LTE battery drain test?

simpl3lang said:
alright. this is what i was looking for. thaaank you. you just made my day. i was worried that LTE would eat up the 3100mah like a kid eating ice cream. what kind of ON TIME did u do? heavy use? like internet browsing? youtube? pandora? were you on wifi? cause thats totally different story.
edit: saw the 3rd pic. and 17hrs wifi. hmmm can you maybe do a only LTE battery drain test?
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I had maybe in total 7.5hrs on time played a game, checking emails constantly, wifi toggle always on. More on than off. LTE drain? How can I do that, be great to try
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turilo said:
I had maybe in total uhrs on time played a game, checking emails constantly, wifi toggle always on. More on than off. LTE drain? How can I do that, be great to try
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maybe without using wifi. all day just using at&t data

simpl3lang said:
maybe without using wifi. all day just using at&t data
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think hes on rogers judging by the LTE icon he has, heres a thread for LTE Gnotes with battery life stats http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1959891 Seems like 5-6hrs on screen time for LTE and 6-10? for non lte. pretty crazy difference, but heck thats still double my Gnote 1 battery life which gets me.

Scythe024 said:
think hes on rogers judging by the LTE icon he has, heres a thread for LTE Gnotes with battery life stats http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1959891 Seems like 5-6hrs on screen time for LTE and 6-10? for non lte. pretty crazy difference, but heck thats still double my Gnote 1 battery life which gets me.
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my stats look better than most of those with non lte lol i got total of 1day 7hrs and 6hrs on screen time

turilo said:
my stats look better than most of those with non lte lol i got total of 1day 7hrs and 6hrs on screen time
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Wifi........

Scythe024 said:
Wifi........
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ah i see ill try only lte next

So this is with LTE ON the whole time right?
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jon3sh said:
So this is with LTE ON the whole time right?
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i had my wifi on always also, ill do one today wifi off :good:

turilo said:
i had my wifi on always also, ill do one today wifi off :good:
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Its really good if thats what you get from LTE on the whole time im not gonna worry about wifi since wifi uses less than Lte.
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Guys I could use some help my Note lost 30% battery in hours on standby. Checked the stats and Dropbox seems to be the culprit. Anyone ever seen this? This is not a case of Dropbox uploading photos over wifi, I havent taken any. DO I need to remove Dropbox? It will suck if I have too but 30% in hours on standby is brutal!

turilo said:
my stats look better than most of those with non lte lol i got total of 1day 7hrs and 6hrs on screen time
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I'm sitting at 1D 15 hrs with 5 hours 48 minutes screen time with 24% remaining right now. 65% LTE and rest on WiFi.

mr mystery said:
Guys I could use some help my Note lost 30% battery in hours on standby. Checked the stats and Dropbox seems to be the culprit. Anyone ever seen this? This is not a case of Dropbox uploading photos over wifi, I havent taken any. Do I need to remove Dropbox? It will suck if I have too but 30% in hours on standby is brutal!
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Anyone?

The battery life is really good on my ATT l317, I work 12 hour shifts, and I play with my phone almost the entire time, playing music (not constantly), videos (not constantly), surfing the internet on wifi, downloading apps, and just navigating my phone, and I still have 40 percent battery life when I get off work, enough juice where I can listen to Tunein Radio on my 40min ride home.

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Anyone?
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Have you tried to unistall it and reinstall it just to see if it fixes whatever is going on with that app. i always delete because i have a Box account that i think is better than Drop Box.

the2rrell said:
Have you tried to unistall it and reinstall it just to see if it fixes whatever is going on with that app. i always delete because i have a Box account that i think is better than Drop Box.
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I have box too, my problem is dropbox had more support of other apps. I need dropbox. I turned off instant photo upload I will see if that helps or not.
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mr mystery said:
I have box too, my problem is dropbox had more support of other apps. I need dropbox. I turned off instant photo upload I will see if that helps or not.
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Wow this is pretty interesting. I would love it if you kept us updated. For those getting all these hours of on-screen time, what do you generally use auto-brightness or have it maxed out?
I'm just getting more and more excited to receive my Note 2!
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FreeGS3 rom Ktoonz kernel Ktoonservative governer using freecharlesmanson gverner tweaks, Undervolted by a large amount (1512= 1050 mv and 96 = 800 mv) also minimum is 96 and max is 1512.
I use my phone as usual reading emails I have push mail on always and also i have facebook checking in every hour and also a voicemail app checking in every 30 minutes, I browsed the web a bit googling information. Im not much of a talker so talk time would be low (Its 16 minutres and 4seconds). Also the place I work in has very varied reception some places being completely 0 bars no service to some areas giving 4 bars but mostly low reception.
This is all to give an idea of how I used my battery. Im sure if I had it lying in a corner with data off and not using it all it would probably last a week.

CM10 stable release. No battery saving options on. Most of my syncing is turned off except gmail and contacts. Screen is at 60%.
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Rawr.

cbass15 said:
Rawr.
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I can get this too when I charge my phone like you did..
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GiantJay said:
I can get this too when I charge my phone like you did..
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I charged it for not even 10 minutes...only because I thought I was leaving..My bad for a tiny charge..still amazing battery life IMO.

cbass15 said:
I charged it for not even 10 minutes...only because I thought I was leaving..My bad for a tiny charge..still amazing battery life IMO.
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It is. I knew you only briefly charged it but it looks bad.
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Damn. I meant to take a screen shot yesterday.
All day at home on wifi, AOKP stock. After 14 hours I still had 55% left

GiantJay said:
It is. I knew you only briefly charged it but it looks bad.
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It does look bad.

That charge is like 15-17% that's a lot for 10 mins Lol
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daniel4653 said:
That charge is like 15-17% that's a lot for 10 mins Lol
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Was more like 5-10% sir still take that away, and you still have amazing battery life

Cbass what rom/kernel are you on?
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Stock unrooted. Loving this :
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Anakonda rom. Juice defender enabled, all syncs on, windows 7 launcher, no wifi in house , Mediocre service.
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Back up, working with a MONSTER.

Damn is that extended battery?
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I, personally, don't focus on battery life at all. I run Bluetooth all day, listening to my music, play games on it during my lunch hour and other times throughout the day and send texts/emails off and on all day, and it's down to about 40% by the time I leave work on a normal day. That's unplugging at around 7:30AM, and leaving work at about 5-5:30PM, so that's about 10 hours mid-heavy consistent usage.
To me, as long as I get my full day out of it, I'm perfectly content with it. I don't need my device to be a battery warrior, I need it to be a power beast and do what I want it to do, when I want it to do it. I personally dislike apps like Juice Defender and those that disable radios and data on me. I also don't like using CPU scripts to limit the CPU, undervolt it and all that. To me, it just seems contradicting to buy a powerhouse like the S3 and then strip away it's best and most powerful features. I also don't like the small influx of bugs that arise when you start doing things like disabling data and limiting the CPU/voltage. I like my smartphone to be as smooth as possible, all the time, without any hitches/bugs.
I'm a very heavy user and rely on certain notifications as they are sent out, so extending the battery by an hour or two is the most I could hope to gain by using these apps/scripts, and the level of frustration that come with them when I get syncs late or things are sluggish isn't worth it, imho.
Don't take that the wrong way, I'm not saying they are bad apps at all, nor are the CPU scripts completely pointless. I would give them a high rating if asked, because they do their functions well. I'm just saying they don't work for the way I use my device.

2nd day on Goodness 7.03 with the stock kernel, considering my average use it's pretty sweet by the end of the day.
P.S. loving the goodness, has to be tied with wicked sensations for #1 rom in my book
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Horrible Battery Life?

Auto brightness off that's about it moderate use a YouTube video Facebook and twitter that's it. Stock jb. No root. And don't plan to root.
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horr1blek1tten said:
Auto brightness off that's about it moderate use a YouTube video Facebook and twitter that's it. Stock jb. No root. And don't plan to root.
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JB has been known to have very bad battery life. If your not rooted, it's hard to help you from here. Maybe try some of the battery saver apps?

Juice defender but its outdated
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Go to settings , backup and reset, turn off collect Diagnostics. Also keep wifi and gps off when not in use.
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Go to settings , backup and reset, turn off collect Diagnostics. Also keep wifi and gps off when not in use.
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Turned off diagnostics how does that affect battery life? And that usage was on 4g just got home and turned on WiFi. GPS is always off. Anything else?
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Turning GPS and WIFI off makes no difference. Those draw no power unless they're in use. WIFI only passively looks for a signal when it's on (every 30 seconds and gps is only active if an app uses it. Juice Defender will cause your battery to drain faster too.
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My battery life takes a dive when leaving GPS on all the time I don't know if it has something to do with jelly bean or not? It also keeps the phone awake, thus definitely using more battery.
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So many devs would like to have a talk with you...
T-Mobile Galaxy S 3, stock and rooted.

Actually the 4G radio uses more battery than wifi. Wifi can turn itself off after inactivity, having apps syncing all the time if you have it on will drain battery immensely. Mainly because it's suppose to be sleeping yet it still running and working and those apps will have a great time doing that. also depends how long you had phone, I have read batteries tend to drain faster after about 5 to 6 months of use.
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My phone is new bought it two days ago.
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Ever since Jelly Bean (cm or tw) battery life just isn't what it was on ics I was pulling 20 hour runs with 4 hours of screen time with ics, now I can barely get 9-10 hours with 2 hours of screen time.. It's almost like I'm afraid to use my phone because it'll die.. Very frustrating ik. Hopefully Google addresses this issue in android 4.3 (presumably key lime pie)
Until then, turn off Google Now, and maybe try to pinpoint some random app possibly causing wake locks and not letting the phone sleep properly (with the use of this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 )
Also, I highly recommend checking out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1969741
Good luck

I use google now for weather info and sports scores. Ive disabled pretty much all bloatware and only my email syncs nothing else.
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I use google now for weather info and sports scores. Ive disabled pretty much all bloatware and only my email syncs nothing else.
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I know you said you don't plan to root, but if you're looking for some real results you may have to..I'm talking about flashing a new rom/kernel. If you do decide to go this way, I recommend a debloated and slimmed down tw rom with lean kernel.
Something like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2024174

Heres an update worse if anything.
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Dude rooting the device is the only way to go. If you plan on using it the rest if the stock then you're gonna have to deal with it. Sorry

Possibly a defective battery. You sure its a s3 and not a note 1? Lol
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devoureddreams said:
Possibly a defective battery. You sure its a s3 and not a note 1? Lol
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U think so? I just bought my phone should I go return it then?
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horr1blek1tten said:
U think so? I just bought my phone should I go return it then?
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Its a possibility I would definatly try before your out of your return period even on stock your battery life should be at least 4hrs on time with 12-14 hrs standby I've had 2 sg3's one international and one u.s. and both had triple almost better than that buddy
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devoureddreams said:
Its a possibility I would definatly try before your out of your return period even on stock your battery life should be at least 4hrs on time with 12-14 hrs standby I've had 2 sg3's one international and one u.s. and both had triple almost better than that buddy
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Could be there is still new or what would be safe to trade it in
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boyblue302 said:
Dude rooting the device is the only way to go. If you plan on using it the rest if the stock then you're gonna have to deal with it. Sorry
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^^^^

Battery life stock 4.1.2 vs. 4.2 2

Considering getting one of the latest rooted ROMs, but only if the battery life is improved. Anyone know of they bare better than stock 4.1.2?
Thanks

Any rom can be great because the rom itself really has not much bearing on battery life at all. What's going to impact battery life is kernel, user setup and how you use your device.
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Ok. So are the 4.2.2 kernels better in terms of battery life?

ronnienyc said:
Ok. So are the 4.2.2 kernels better in terms of battery life?
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I tried a bunch of them, BMS gave me the best results
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...how you use your device.
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This! More than anything, that line right there. My wife keeps asking me why her battery life is terrible and mine is amazing. I've got both phones on the exact same ROM (mrom), same setup, but she can barely get through the day, whereas I plugged in last night before bed and I was at 68%. I keep telling her it's facebooks fault...she's convinced I just hate facebook. That's beside the point...
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Here is my stats when I was running BMS kernel
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devastatorx said:
This! More than anything, that line right there. My wife keeps asking me why her battery life is terrible and mine is amazing. I've got both phones on the exact same ROM (mrom), same setup, but she can barely get through the day, whereas I plugged in last night before bed and I was at 68%. I keep telling her it's facebooks fault...she's convinced I just hate facebook. That's beside the point...
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It is Facebook's fault if using the app. I use mobile website with no issues and no battery drain.
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It is Facebook's fault if using the app. I use mobile website with no issues and no battery drain.
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Yep, she uses the app. That thing just eats the battery.
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devastatorx said:
This! More than anything, that line right there. My wife keeps asking me why her battery life is terrible and mine is amazing. I've got both phones on the exact same ROM (mrom), same setup, but she can barely get through the day, whereas I plugged in last night before bed and I was at 68%. I keep telling her it's facebooks fault...she's convinced I just hate facebook. That's beside the point...
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There are options to fix this issue with apps like that. Facebook is probably the worst with 20+ processes running in the background. Greenify is a great app to deal with those issues.
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