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[Q] Do facebook 1.5.0 eats battery?

Hi. Yesterday I used new facebook for little chat.. All night I was charging the battery. But after 3 hours from unplugining phone I noticed, that phone eated 30%!
So i checked partial wake battery history, and gues what? Facebook was preventing my phone from sleeping. Does anybody has this issue with new facebook chat?

vukis said:
Hi. Yesterday I used new facebook for little chat.. All night I was charging the battery. But after 3 hours from unplugining phone I noticed, that phone eated 30%!
So i checked partial wake battery history, and gues what? Facebook was preventing my phone from sleeping. Does anybody has this issue with new facebook chat?
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did u close the chat window?

vukis said:
Hi. Yesterday I used new facebook for little chat.. All night I was charging the battery. But after 3 hours from unplugining phone I noticed, that phone eated 30%!
So i checked partial wake battery history, and gues what? Facebook was preventing my phone from sleeping. Does anybody has this issue with new facebook chat?
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Is that an app or just the android built in information??
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ahac85 said:
did u close the chat window?
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I am not sure. I don`t remember. But when I oopened facebook app it resumed FB app home screen, not chat.
HTC 123 said:
Is that an app or just the android built in information??
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It is android built information. U can see it through spare parts, or entering *#*#4636#*#* and then go to battery history..

[Q] Facebook drain battery

I just got an arc S~
My facebook is draining 15% of battery. I have not enabled facebook integration, sync is set to never and notification is off.
I do not want to uninstall this app.
Can you help with my situation?

Disable the GPS, I have this app for my captivate and it kept running the GPS, and the stay awake time was horrible, maybe some sort of task killer world work for you, I'm personally using mobo task killer
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Try the setting under here.
Setting, Sony Ericsson, Facebook inside Xperia.
Turning this off help?

Facebook inside Xperia and GPS are all off. GPS is actuall not draining much battery. Just wondering why Facebook is running when I set everything to off. I did killed it, but it get run again automatically in the backgroud I guess. It is still running now.

Check facebook messenger, think that's included in the arc s apps. It tends not to close.
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Try this.
Use facebook app. Open setting once page load. Set it to never refresh?
Is this one draining your battery?

Yes. Facebook app is set to never refresh and notification is off.
There is no facebook messenger app on my phone.

I figured this out that I need to log out from the facebook app. Otherwise it keeps draining battery.

i finally found the answer or trick on this...
first log out from your facebook and login selecting the dont-sync selection
after that you will be back to a normal facebook app only with no xperia integration
before facebook was eating 33mb of ram now that ive done this its ony 13-17mb.
hope this will help you..

Battery life seems terrible for me.. help!

I tend to lose about 1% (or a teeny bit more) an hour while on Wi-Fi. I know this is not normal, since others in this forum have reported half a percent loss per hour. Look at my screenshots!
Usually Google Voice never shows up in the battery stats, so I don't know why it did now. I only received about 10 texts... it stayed awake for 13 minutes Never happened before, but the battery drain was always like this.
And then there is Android OS.. 1h 25min?!!?
I have sync enabled for: Calendar, Contacts, Google Play Books, Internet, and Gmail (2 accounts for Gmail, the rest are 1 account). I receive no more than 10 emails a day.
And I'm pretty sure Facebook & Messenger shouldn't be waking up the device that much!
The kernel wakelocks seem crazy...

xFrozen said:
I tend to lose about 1% (or a teeny bit more) an hour while on Wi-Fi. I know this is not normal, since others in this forum have reported half a percent loss per hour. Look at my screenshots!
Usually Google Voice never shows up in the battery stats, so I don't know why it did now. I only received about 10 texts... it stayed awake for 13 minutes Never happened before, but the battery drain was always like this.
And then there is Android OS.. 1h 25min?!!?
I have sync enabled for: Calendar, Contacts, Google Play Books, Internet, and Gmail (2 accounts for Gmail, the rest are 1 account). I receive no more than 10 emails a day.
And I'm pretty sure Facebook & Messenger shouldn't be waking up the device that much!
The kernel wakelocks seem crazy...
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I think that you have already answer your question. I mean why do you have to have all those apps , sync enable? I use all those and wifi, facebook, tagged i play games watch movies and music video and when i get home i still have juice in the batt to keep on.
What you have to do is customizing your settings (enable sync only on interval) or yet better, look for a battery saving apps like 2x battery.

dafortal said:
I think that you have already answer your question. I mean why do you have to have all those apps , sync enable? I use all those and wifi, facebook, tagged i play games watch movies and music video and when i get home i still have juice in the batt to keep on.
What you have to do is customizing your settings (enable sync only on interval) or yet better, look for a battery saving apps like 2x battery.
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Well I know this is not a lot compared to what others have. Google Voice I use for texting; this is the first time it has stayed awake so long. Usually it's tiny. Facebook & Messenger don't sync. From what I know, this isn't a lot of syncing. I know this phone can do much better. Android OS and all those kernel wakelocks aren't normal, and aren't caused by Facebook or GV..
Battery saving apps shouldn't be necessary. I've seen many others get much better battery life without them & with FB.

Your problem is buried under the third attached picture, the "Kernal Wakelocks". Since you have turned on wifi for the whole time, it generated a couple of bad wakelocks, wlan rx wake, hsic. I think these wakelocks were due to poor signal reception. Also the crap facebook app drains a lot of battery.

In order to make Facebook not consume any background cpu, you have to go into the app and logout under settings each time. I all together just ended up getting rid of FB.

Your problem is obviously in the kernal wakelocks. Figure out what the top ones relate to and try to reduce them.

I've definitely noticed faster battery drain when I'm logged into Facebook or Google+. I strongly recommend to myself to stay logged out of those services when I'm not looking at the phone.

yeah all those apps like fb and google+... I never install the apps, I just use chrome to login... simples

7% battery use in 8.5 hours is not "terrible" by any way, shape or form. That's plenty on target for a decent 2-3 days of use between charges; about average for the GN2.
There's nothing wrong here, at all.

FloatingFatMan said:
7% battery use in 8.5 hours is not "terrible" by any way, shape or form. That's plenty on target for a decent 2-3 days of use between charges; about average for the GN2.
There's nothing wrong here, at all.
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Exactly. I was so astonished when i opened the thread and read that hes losing 1% per hour...mine drains faster and i still get 8hrs on screen time with +24 hrs uptime..
Swyped from another galaxy

skivnit said:
Exactly. I was so astonished when i opened the thread and read that hes losing 1% per hour...mine drains faster and i still get 8hrs on screen time with +24 hrs uptime..
Swyped from another galaxy
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Are you sure? I don't get 8 hours screen on like this in a 24h period. More around 6hours and it's mostly simple things like web browsing, reading comics, news, instant messaging, and some video playback.
I guess I'll remove FB for a day and see how it goes...

Facebook drains my battery.

After I've noticed my battery can't last for more than 3 hours, I decided to upgrade from ARHD 18.1 to ARHD 19.2 and remove Sense. Phone is faster and it seemed like the battery was doing better, but then it started again with all the sudden decreases: it goes from 35% right down to 25% all of a sudden and stuff like that.
I drained the battery and the phone was shut down and I let it charge all night, when I unplugged it in the morning it went down to 99% right away and then didn't touch it for 29 minutes, that's when I turned on the screen and saw it went down to 90% without even touching it!!! I checked what took so much battery and it showed Facebook with 50%, and I haven't even opened Facebook today. Moreover, Facebook wasn't even opened in Task Manager so how come it drains battery?
Thank you.

MaorSwan said:
After I've noticed my battery can't last for more than 3 hours, I decided to upgrade from ARHD 18.1 to ARHD 19.2 and remove Sense. Phone is faster and it seemed like the battery was doing better, but then it started again with all the sudden decreases: it goes from 35% right down to 25% all of a sudden and stuff like that.
I drained the battery and the phone was shut down and I let it charge all night, when I unplugged it in the morning it went down to 99% right away and then didn't touch it for 29 minutes, that's when I turned on the screen and saw it went down to 90% without even touching it!!! I checked what took so much battery and it showed Facebook with 50%, and I haven't even opened Facebook today. Moreover, Facebook wasn't even opened in Task Manager so how come it drains battery?
Thank you.
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It drains because its set to sync your contacts and you feed as well as send notifications for things such as wall posts and messages all of which it needs to check for.
On the drop when unplugged that's normal, the phone charges to 100%, it will still show 100% but it lets it drop to 95% then charges back up this stops the battery from being overcharged.
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treebill said:
It drains because its set to sync your contacts and you feed as well as send notifications for things such as wall posts and messages all of which it needs to check for.
On the drop when unplugged that's normal, the phone charges to 100%, it will still show 100% but it lets it drop to 95% then charges back up this stops the battery from being overcharged.
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Ok that's good to know, but 10% within 29 minutes of being idle? That's way too much! How do I prevent it from syncing and such?

Open the app and go to settings. Turn off syncing in there.
Edit : I also turned off autosync in the settings - sync menu of the phone

Mr Hofs said:
Open the app and go to settings. Turn off syncing in there.
Edit : I also turned off autosync in the settings - sync menu of the phone
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It doesn't work; I turned off autosync for all apps, turned off any notifications whatsoever on Facebook, and it still drains my battery when idle.

Have you tried using greenify to hibernate it?

chirag123 said:
Have you tried using greenify to hibernate it?
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Come again? You just spoke Chinese man.

Maybe a good alternative to try out. Uninstall the facebook app and use the mobile site for a while !

Have you checked betterbatterystats to see if something else is draining your battery? I used to use the Facebook app and it drained some battery, but nowhere as rampant as you mentioned.
To be fair though I've been using the Facebook No locations apk in the android themes and apps section, hated how it would turn my GPS on every time I opened it.
I still got notifications if I turned off all syncing and location reporting in the app etc. Lastly, you could try SLK notifications for Facebook.
A simple app that hardly drains any battery life (well on my s3 is used about 2% over a 24 usage cycle). All it does is notify you when you have a notification. You can set it to open in the Facebook app (for example if you greenified it) or you can set it to take you to the Facebook webpage or an alternative Facebook app.
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DramatikBeats said:
Have you checked betterbatterystats to see if something else is draining your battery? I used to use the Facebook app and it drained some battery, but nowhere as rampant as you mentioned.
To be fair though I've been using the Facebook No locations apk in the android themes and apps section, hated how it would turn my GPS on every time I opened it.
I still got notifications if I turned off all syncing and location reporting in the app etc. Lastly, you could try SLK notifications for Facebook.
A simple app that hardly drains any battery life (well on my s3 is used about 2% over a 24 usage cycle). All it does is notify you when you have a notification. You can set it to open in the Facebook app (for example if you greenified it) or you can set it to take you to the Facebook webpage or an alternative Facebook app.
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I've uninstalled Facebook when it was 89% and it took about an hour to go down to 85% idle and when I installed it again every five minutes I turned on the screen and it was one percent less till it got down to 71% and now I uninstalled again and it lasts more. It's definitely the Facebook that drains my battery.
Edit: ok wait, no.. I've used it for like 40 seconds and it was 71% and now it's gone down to 66% right away, what the hell is wrong with this?! I ****ing hate this phone!

Why hate the phone? It's the Facebook app you should hate As suggested by chirag, use the app Greenify. It hibernates the apps that you choose, that means it stops it from running in the background and consuming data.
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facebook also drains battery on my HTC One.
uninstalled it and the battery improved by miles. it also charged faster.

yeah facebook always runs in the background...if you need to stay connected to chat use ebuddy which is more battery effiecient
best thing now is to greenify it.its greenified in my phone (get greenify from play store)
also...check your mA with battery monitor widget while its in sleep it should not exceed -50 mA while the phone is in sleep with all autosynce and wifi off

aseferfan said:
yeah facebook always runs in the background...if you need to stay connected to chat use ebuddy which is more battery effiecient
best thing now is to greenify it.its greenified in my phone (get greenify from play store)
also...check your mA with battery monitor widget while its in sleep it should not exceed -50 mA while the phone is in sleep with all autosynce and wifi off
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i think the facebook app always runs and connects to internet and keeping something on always awake , maybe the radio.
something is wrong with the facebook official app, even though after disabling notifications, they still come through

Also the Facebook Messenger causes a ****load of wakeups...same with Facebook app. Definitely a huge battery drainer! Tried out the messenger for 2 days...unplugged the phone this morning. After 45 minutes i checked battery life by using better battery stats and the messenger had alreday caused 27 wakeups without even using it!!
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Spotify vs no spotify

Having slotify vs not using spotify battery usage
Is this normal or Spotify really battery drainer..??
And my Adguard... Sometime is fine... Sometime heavy draining..

The battery usage displayed for adguard is not accurate, as some of the apps that go thru adguard add their usage ad if it is adguard's

weretiger said:
Having slotify vs not using spotify battery usage
Is this normal or Spotify really battery drainer..??
And my Adguard... Sometime is fine... Sometime heavy draining..
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That's a 26% change in the space of 2 hours. That would drive me crazy. For me one of those apps would get uninstalled immediately. When an app uses more than the screen does is a no go. Have you tried disable Adguard then use spotify by itself to see what battery usage is like? Adguard might be the problem of you might want to clear spotify's cache and data