So ever since I got my phone, I was wondering why my battery is lacking with my brothers s4 and then it just came to me.
It's the FACEBOOK APPS! I checked the app and it. Uses 40 Mb's which I surprising for me but then I uninstalled both the Facebook app and messenger and my battery the next day improved by a lot (minimum, for me, 45 on screen minutes added to the battery)! I noticed the difference . I'm just sharing this information if you guys have a battery issue like me and have Facebook installed.
Also if you really love Facebook, just use the browser version and make a shortcut and out it on your home screen!
Hope this helped!
P. S: Facebook (when it was installed) did not show up in my battery usage, so I have no idea why it was running in the background
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kevinrubio1 said:
So ever since I got my phone, I was wondering why my battery is lacking with my brothers s4 and then it just came to me.
It's the FACEBOOK APPS! I checked the app and it. Uses 40 Mb's which I surprising for me but then I uninstalled both the Facebook app and messenger and my battery the next day improved by a lot (minimum, for me, 45 on screen minutes added to the battery)! I noticed the difference . I'm just sharing this information if you guys have a battery issue like me and have Facebook installed.
Also if you really love Facebook, just use the browser version and make a shortcut and out it on your home screen!
Hope this helped!
P. S: Facebook (when it was installed) did not show up in my battery usage, so I have no idea why it was running in the background
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You may wanna try my modded facebook version. it removes the location feature from it. Which is the biggest battery hog. It constantly updates your location in the background. Taking a huge toll on your battery from trying to acquire a GPS lock plus the services themselves running in the background. I am planning on making one that has an "exit" option to fully shut everything down.
Thanks! Can you link me to your Facebook app? It sounds much better than the original one
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Thanks! Can you link me to your Facebook app? It sounds much better than the original one
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Here you go.
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Here you go.
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Thanks a ton!
I'll try a day with no Facebook app and then a day with yours!
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Thanks a ton!
I'll try a day with no Facebook app and then a day with yours!
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Should see very little difference! I used to use the website, then i got frustrated with some things, and grabbed the app. And noticed battery drain as you said. i also noticed my GPS lock icon kept coming up. Plus i hated how facebook ALWAYS put your location onto your status updates and messages. So i removed it Now i love the app.
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Should see very little difference! I used to use the website, then i got frustrated with some things, and grabbed the app. And noticed battery drain as you said. i also noticed my GPS lock icon kept coming up. Plus i hated how facebook ALWAYS put your location onto your status updates and messages. So i removed it Now i love the app.
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I'll just install it! I don't feel like waiting a day to use a good app lol
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I'll just install it! I don't feel like waiting a day to use a good app lol
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Haha Thanks! It will be even better once i implement the exit feature!
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Haha Thanks! It will be even better once i implement the exit feature!
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Can't wait
I'll keep an eye on your thread!
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I have FB on my s4, but there's hardly any battery drain because I use FriendCaster. Works fine for me.
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Facebook doesn't seem to touch my battery much; I suppose because I have the location bit disabled in Facebook and GPS off - I dunno.
No issues here though... IM+ Pro is a different story, :/.
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Yeah, i used to have GPS turned off too. Thats why it doesn't kill your battery. I don't like not having GPS off though. cause when i go to use a GPS app, ie weather Google Maps etc its a pain to have to turn it back on.
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Swipe down, tap, swipe up/back button. Not much of a pain in my situation.
Only time I use GPS is when using the Navigation from Google maps, which isn't often.
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Thats too much of a pain for me. In all honesty, facebook shouldnt even have an ongoing "tracking service" like it does. Its downright invasive. No wonder people can rape so easily, facebook, by default, is broadcasting their location every time the user posts a status.
But i have a weather app that gets my location ever hour and updates for weather alerts and such. So it would be very annoying if my GPS was off.
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Unless you have location data turned off, you don't need GPS on for apps to aquire your location.
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So since I've had wake locks with Google maps I thought I'd disable the app when I'm not using it, also I disabled all GPS services. And I've been getting 4hours screen on time, my previous best was around 2 and a half.
If you don't use maps much and need the extra battery life , then give it a go.
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agreed maps app is the real battery problem.
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issue confirmed with latest version of maps...no wakelocks anymore since i deleted maps
I'd love to get 4 hours screen on time with maps enabled , that would be happy days . But I'm a moderate users so 2 and a bit has been fine.
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How do you disable it without uninstalling?
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How do you disable it without uninstalling?
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probably through titanium backup. you can uninstall it or freeze it
I used Autorun Manger
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rs.autorun
Unticked all the autostarts in Googlemaps and have no problems with wakelocks. Plus the beauty is I can start Googlemaps as normal.
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How do you disable it without uninstalling?
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I just went into setting , all apps, maps , then uninstall the update, once that's dine it give you the disable option. So I've disabled it.
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Trying this now. I have been trying to crack the 2 and half hour screen on time for a while now. And even to get there was rare.
I can't stop the TrafficAppWidget Update even though I'm not using the widget anymore.
Any solutions?
Meets34 said:
I can't stop the TrafficAppWidget Update even though I'm not using the widget anymore.
Any solutions?
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How do you know its running? I don't even have that widget.
jhericurls said:
How do you know its running? I don't even have that widget.
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Settings-->Apps-->Running
It has two "Map" apps running, the location service and the traffic widget.
im pretty sure its Lattitude thats causing Maps to stay on....maybe just disabling that will work also?
Edit: never mind
jhericurls said:
I used Autorun Manger
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rs.autorun
Unticked all the autostarts in Googlemaps and have no problems with wakelocks. Plus the beauty is I can start Googlemaps as normal.
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Once you start it manually, do you need to kill the task again or the problem will start or is the problem solely down to services starting?
Update: some screen shots of my battery stats with maps disabled for the day. Well I had to use maps for about 2 hours but then I disabled again. Also brightness us about 40% the rest you can see on stats.
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im pretty sure its Lattitude thats causing Maps to stay on....maybe just disabling that will work also?
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Latitude does have an option for disabling background location updates. I've had that disabled since day one and have never seen wakelocks nor excessive battery drain associated with Maps. Am I doing something wrong to not be having this issue? :-D
Got the same issue, battery drained too fast.
Yeah I've been noticing quite a lot of wakelocks with the latest google maps. The version before I updated didn't seem to have this problem (or it was much less of a problem). I'd rather not have to disable the whole application though.
(Not using latitude either, I know that drains battery but it's actually doing something to show for it)
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Latitude does have an option for disabling background location updates. I've had that disabled since day one and have never seen wakelocks nor excessive battery drain associated with Maps. Am I doing something wrong to not be having this issue? :-D
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This.
You dont need to freeze or uninstall maps. Just log out of latitude.
You have to turn of all GPS services to stop maps from running in the background
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My Facebook app seems to use about 33%+ when I look into my battery status. Is this normal? I really don't check it that much but it is set to notify me of updates.
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Yeah just unistall that biatch
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Bigjim1488 said:
My Facebook app seems to use about 33%+ when I look into my battery status. Is this normal? I really don't check it that much but it is set to notify me of updates.
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This happens on all phones that don't kill the app right away when you exit (anything that has ICS really).
After using the facebook app, go to the recently used app list, then swipe it away so that it gets killed and your CPU usage returns to normal.
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This happens on all phones that don't kill the app right away when you exit (anything that has ICS really).
After using the facebook app, go to the recently used app list, then swipe it away so that it gets killed and your CPU usage returns to normal.
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This is not true... Swiping apps from recents only clear your recents list but it won't kill the process.. Thats not a task killer.. If. You want to close an app hit the back button several times until you return to home screen but Facebook its. Just a piece of **** app that loves to kill your battery / data and also pretty invasive.. I mean if I only want Facebook i gotta install also all the other crap that comes with it (camera/chat/etc) so to hell with it
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Guess I might have to give Facebook app the big boot. It's pretty unacceptable for an app to use that much battery life!
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Go to settings, apps, running apps and kill Facebook until you want to use it again.
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Guess I might have to give Facebook app the big boot. It's pretty unacceptable for an app to use that much battery life!
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I have my app set to update every 4 hours and use it quite regularly (both the main app and FB messenger). At the end of the day it's 15% at most of my battery. Think you've got an issue with your setup. I'd tell you to clear data and/or reinstall the app, and think about turning off background refresh.
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I have my app set to update every 4 hours and use it quite regularly (both the main app and FB messenger). At the end of the day it's 15% at most of my battery. Think you've got an issue with your setup. I'd tell you to clear data and/or reinstall the app, and think about turning off background refresh.
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I turned off notifications. Hopefully that will help a bit.
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The Facebook app has problems and is poorly coded and uses battery. Been this way for a long time.
msedek said:
This is not true...
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Yes it is. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445065
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Yes it is. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445065
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Ok so as a man and before reading and trying i can say i was wrong... Thanks for the info and for reducing my ignorance :thumbup:
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Facebook app is running 27% of my system while idol. The android file system is only running at 16%.
Is there anything that I can do to fix this out is it just an app issue?
Running Caulks EL29.
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Facebook feeds on Android batteries....
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Facebook feeds on Android batteries....
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I guess so.
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It did that to my battery too. I deleted the app and if I need to go on, I just use the internet.
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Yup just use the browser the Facebook app is a battery killer
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you can also try friendcaster. I've never used it myself but a lot of people say it runs better than facebook and uses less battery
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you can also try friendcaster. I've never used it myself but a lot of people say it runs better than facebook and uses less battery
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It does work but I cant stand the interface. Why can't FB being the billion dollar company that it is, develop an app that works correctly?
I use the Facebook app and every once in a while I'll see it ducking up my battery and I just force stop it once you re open it seems not to take so much battery
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I have the FB app and it didn't drain my battery. I'm still getting 3-4 hrs of screen time. Just set the refresh interval to never in the FB settings and also turn off the messenger location. Turn off notifications that you dont need either. Also, always press the back button when exiting apps, not the home button
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I have the FB app and it didn't drain my battery. I'm still getting 3-4 hrs of screen time. Just set the refresh interval to never in the FB settings and also turn off the messenger location. Turn off notifications that you dont need either. Also, always press the back button when exiting apps, not the home button
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I'll give it a shot. Thanks.
Yeah it does use alot of Battery so i just use the browser one.
go to developer oprion and click do not keep background application
It does use a lot of battery.. I even turned the notifications off for it(checked many times) and it was still sending notifications... I un installed weeks ago.. Battery been a lot better
My Galaxy S III had a really big battery drop. Why is Gallery, Chrome, and Polaris Viewer taking up a combined 10-20% of the battery? How do I fix it?
Thanks!
P.S. I am completely stock and unrooted.
lathamc said:
My Galaxy S III had a really big battery drop. Why is Gallery, Chrome, and Polaris Viewer taking up a combined 10-20% of the battery? How do I fix it?
Thanks!
P.S. I am completely stock and unrooted.
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Do you leave them on (don't close them after use)?
Try closing them in running apps if you already exit them properly.
BWolf56 said:
Do you leave them on (don't close them after use)?
Try closing them in running apps if you already exit them properly.
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I always close all the apps I've finished using it (by holding down the home button), and it seems now that those three are always open.
lathamc said:
I always close all the apps I've finished using it (by holding down the home button), and it seems now that those three are always open.
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Like I mentioned, go in settings -> manage application -> running applications and manually stop them.
If they restart on their own, then something is triggering them (most likely a app or setting).
I went into the Settings, and Android is showing that while they are using up battery, they are not running. And also, over the past hour, Android OS is using up 18% and Android system is using up 16%. Aren't they supposed to use up like 4% each?
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I went into the Settings, and Android is showing that while they are using up battery, they are not running. And also, over the past hour, Android OS is using up 18% and Android system is using up 16%. Aren't they supposed to use up like 4% each?
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Uhh.. Are your GPS and location access turned on?
Nope!
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Nope!
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Do you have bad signal?
Do you use Google Now?
Nope. I have full signal on AT&T and I haven't used Google Now in at least a few days.
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Nope. I have full signal on AT&T and I haven't used Google Now in at least a few days.
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Simply being connected to Google Now can be a big battery drain. Definatly something to look into.
Do you have auto sync on? the more things you sync, the more battery drain you get.
OK. And the only app I have enabled to sync is the email client, which only syncs once an hour.
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I have stock gnex on takju, since 4.2.2 I have suffered from lag all over the place, the lag could be fixed by restarting the phone but it would eventually come back.
I have only 300MB of data plan and I noticed that Facebook and facebook messenger where using about 50MB a month on the background without any user interaction and just a couple of days ago I started seeing Facebook app as the second most battery using app just behind screen on, this made me uninstall Facebook and and I instantly saw performance go up all over the place, it was night and day comparison, my phone feels like new and the buttery effect is back.
Now I installed Facebook back just to test and it indeed is the reason for my lag but this time I used greenifyed it and it fixed the lag too.
So there you go, hope this helps
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What if i don't have facebook
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Then maybe is another app running in the background using a lot of RAM or using a lot of resources?
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Thanks op. This helped me alot
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I had some problems with ram also , this tip was really helpful
Thx
Went to try this, then I realized I don't have a Facebook. :silly:
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Went to try this, then I realized I don't have a Facebook. :silly:
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+1 there! :highfive: :silly::silly:
Dosent matter. Maps and about 10 other apps were acting up.
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Dosent matter. Maps and about 10 other apps were acting up.
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Does matter. I disabled background data (as opposed to removing the app entirely) on Facebook and have noticed substantial speed improvement instantly. The only place you can do it, that I'm aware of, is from the mobile data screen when checking the apps usage.
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There are two places to disable notification from Facebook on mobile.
The first would be to go into the settings by clicking on the 3 point button just right of the multitasking navigation key, then disabling notifications.
Second, by clicking on the top left corner button inside the Facebook app, then clicking on privacy settings --> notifications---> mobile push--> uncheck all
Sometimes I think Facebook deliberately tries to complicate the notification settings so as to keep pushing themselves on our faces!
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Thanks for the tip, this actually helped a bit.
I've had luck with disabling auto-rotation for some reason. Caused SystemUI to lag after time. Hopefully it'll be patched in 4.3.