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Change default twitter app

Hi - does anyone know of a way to change the default twitter app in the friendfeed from Peep to Touiteur (Which IMO is a FAR better twitter app)?? I only got my handset today and it's my first android device - so slowly getting to grips with it!
CHeers,
Badger

SWIFT is one of best twitter clients on android
badgerarc said:
Hi - does anyone know of a way to change the default twitter app in the friendfeed from Peep to Touiteur (Which IMO is a FAR better twitter app)?? I only got my handset today and it's my first android device - so slowly getting to grips with it!
CHeers,
Badger
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No, sorry, i don't, but in terms of better twitter apps, have you looked at SWIFT ? It's been the new rising star in twitter clients on android.
On a second note: Since I have not yet received my Desire, could you pleas post either screenshots or a list of settings/preferences that DO show for Friendfeed? I ask specifically about setting intervals for refreshing the stream. Does it provide separate refresh rates for each of the feeds, or just one main one, or none at all?
I ask because this is predictably going to be the biggest battery drainer on the Desire, so I am just getting a leg up before getting my device :;

Sorry - i spoke too son and not even checked out:
http://levelupstudio.com/touiteur
looks like a great twitter client -- and what i just found out is it supports the "twitlonger" API, which makes it, to me all the more useful.
http://www.twitlonger.com/apps
Why twitlonger?
http://www.twitlonger.com/about

Ok, my wife is the one with the Desire, but from using latest version on my Hero.
Just go to Settings> Accounts & Sync
Click on Twitter, then simply click on 'Remove Account'
That will remove all twitter from FriendFeed.
Then simply use whatever other app you want, either by clicking on the app icon to start it, or by installing the app's widget if it has one.

furrypotato said:
Ok, my wife is the one with the Desire, but from using latest version on my Hero.
Just go to Settings> Accounts & Sync
Click on Twitter, then simply click on 'Remove Account'
That will remove all twitter from FriendFeed.
Then simply use whatever other app you want, either by clicking on the app icon to start it, or by installing the app's widget if it has one.
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Thanks for this, but I would like to continue using the friend feed, just not use peep as the default app when opening a post from the friend feed.
@quicksite - No settings I can see for refreshing at all...Battery life was pretty poor yesterday, but i did play non stop with my new toy for like 8 hours

OTA update 100 percent awake time.

So I updated my EVO to fix the qik problem as mine would not sign in.
Now I noticed I have 100 percent awake time and the battery is draining fast.
Anyone have this problem? I searched around but didn't see a mention of it anywhere. I have not rooted yet at all just setup the phone then did the update. Had no problems before the update.
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Mine seems to randomly stay awake too (but not always!)
Download the spare parts app from the market and in the battery history section, check the partial wake usage to see what's keeping the phone awake.

Mine seems to randomly stay awake too (but not always!)
Download the spare parts app from the market and in the battery history section, check the partial wake usage to see what's keeping the phone awake.
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Ya I had that installed seems to android system and calendar.
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Hero Flashbacks!!!

Well there is something going on with calendar as it will be 100 percent awake if calendar is running soon as I kill it with task panel the phone sleeps.
Damn it
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I'm also seeing the 100% wake after the ota update. I'm downloading spare parts now to check if it's the calendar.
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Today: 5 hours off the charger...5 hours awake time ONLY by the calendar. It's pretty impressive. I'm trying unchecking the calendar sync portion of gmail sync and charging it up to see how it performs for the second half of today. >.<

I killed the calendar app and my phone is finally going to sleep. This is probably it. I was getting the same result in spare parts. I installed auto task killer to kill the calendar in case I ever do open it.

I killed it also and the battery is performing MUCH better after a few hours by comparison. I wonder what it is about it that's not letting go properly.

Nothing here after update, Up is 10 hours, awake is 3 hours...my poor pocket empire is feeling neglected!

Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?

nachyochez said:
Nothing here after update, Up is 10 hours, awake is 3 hours...my poor pocket empire is feeling neglected!
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Do you sync with google calendar?

sph33r said:
Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?
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I am using the widget. I turned off all calendars except the Exchange one I need, and it still has the partial wake lock. Anyone find a workaround? We need a new thread for this?

sph33r said:
Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?
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I disabled the widget but that didn't stop it.

Looking into the logcat output, I saw on each sleep/wake cycle, 'SocialNetworkSyncmanager' acquiring a wakelock all the time (or, what seemed like a wakelock from the logcat).
Couldn't find exactly what that was, but noticed Footprints was running (wtf is that thing). Force closed that **** from Settings > Applications > Manage Applications, and now no 'SocialNetworkSyncManager' wakelock logcat messages.
Looking in Spare Parts, it seems that Calendar is no longer 100% of the partial wakelock time. Hrm. Will keep testing, but really need rundown time tests tomorrow to really get an idea of this works.

I had no idea footprints was part of the calendar. I never used it on windows mobile but I'll try disabling that too.

I am also running the widget but seems to make no diff if I use it or not.
I will start investigating the log cat see if matches the mentioned above.
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donatom3 said:
I had no idea footprints was part of the calendar. I never used it on windows mobile but I'll try disabling that too.
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Me either. We'll see. Now I really want root so i can uninstall the Sprint crapware (NFL, "Navigation" meta-app, Footprints, FriendStream). Sheesh.

mchang said:
Me either. We'll see. Now I really want root so i can uninstall the Sprint crapware (NFL, "Navigation" meta-app, Footprints, FriendStream). Sheesh.
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The only two of those that are sprint are NFL and navigator. The rest are all htc.

donatom3 said:
The only two of those that are sprint are NFL and navigator. The rest are all htc.
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True. Let me restate it then: I want a clean rooted image so that all that crap isn't in there, including the HTC and Sprint stuff!

[THINK TANK] Facebook adobe air?

http://github.com/jubishop/Facebook-for-Adobe-AIR
Source code for Facebook client for Adobe Air
We have air for Froyo now.
Is it possible to compile into android air apk for a GOOD Facebook client?

For the love of God, please.

technically if it were developed using adobe's software tools and is sourced for AIR it shouldn't be hard to port in to an .apk i guess we shall see...

Have you actually tried Facebook for Air? It's just a news feed and status bar. No other features. It is worse than Android Facebook.
Plus, AIR apps must be optimized for mobile. This one wouldn't be too hard to optimize if you have all the code, but it isn't just BOOM throw it into Flash CS5 and BOOM export to APK.

i was really hoping for something good out of this...facebook for android is downright HORRIBLE. I don't understand why the iphone version has not been put to use on android, considering there are more android running devices than ios.

Well, from the other apps I have converted, this should be easy.. will report back soon!
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not sure if this will work as is, with the popup to login and all.. but I will try

Thanks dg
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In the past few months, the facebook for android app has gotten infinitely better. It's almost on par with the iphone version now. What is it that you all feel is missing that would be remedied with this version? Just curious.
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Lee1733 said:
In the past few months, the facebook for android app has gotten infinitely better. It's almost on par with the iphone version now. What is it that you all feel is missing that would be remedied with this version? Just curious.
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The fact that when you get a notification it takes you to the mobile site is a big issue, unless I'm missing something. That just seems like they got lazy in their design because you can view all of your updates manually. Also a lack of IM feature also kind of sucks. It's got a nice look to it, but the iphone facebook app is much better.

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The fact that when you get a notification it takes you to the mobile site is a big issue, unless I'm missing something. That just seems like they got lazy in their design because you can view all of your updates manually. Also a lack of IM feature also kind of sucks. It's got a nice look to it, but the iphone facebook app is much better.
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Agreed. Plus it doesnt notify. Anyone else got more to add?

Can't comment on pictures

Hydrocharged said:
Can't comment on pictures
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cant tag them either

can't get push notifications either. you have to keep refreshing your app.

if you click the "messages" tab too quickly and pick a thread you were already messaging someone in, it shows up blank and you have to restart facebook... sooo frustrating

My biggest gripes are no push notifications, no tagging, no picture commenting, no liking statuses, and no "places" functionality.
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i think facebook is just doomed for android lol

The biggest gripe I have is previously on my Dream(G1 for AT&T Canada) they ported the nexus facebook app over- which is the same app with a few more features. They had the ability to Sync your pictures/updates with contacts in your phone. It worked like the official twitter app works. On our phone its just plane broken. If you uninstall-reinstall the app and go through the setup it will give you a "finish" button after signing in the first time. If you hit your back button on the touchpad you will see the contact sync. Sad thing though is its just broke. If you Go to your accounts sync in settings you will see the SNS setings up top then the Facebook down below your Gmail. If you click on it though nothing happens- on my Dream it went back into the facebook app's sync settings.
I also agree with the other points people have brought up on no comments on pics etc. The app will eventually be updated for the Galaxy but until then we just have to live with crap. I decompiled the app back in the day and wanted to modify it a little bit but never got around to actually doing it. If I was to modify the Official Android app, would this violate copyrights? Is it based under GNU licensing? I have seen "Colored" versions of the Official app in the market and wondered if they were violating terms by selling a black version of the exact same app? Anyone care to shed some light?

Sorry to go off topic but BOOMER

malfuncion said:
............the ability to Sync your pictures/updates with contacts in your phone...........If you Go to your accounts sync in settings you will see the SNS setings up top then the Facebook down below your Gmail. If you click on it though nothing happens- on my Dream it went back into the facebook app's sync settings.
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I just tested this on my Captivate running Cog 2.2B7 with no issues. I can see all the profile pics from FB in my contact list. When I open the FB app I can "like" wall posts and comment on pictures.

aNdroidnut said:
Sorry to go off topic but BOOMER
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SOONER!
CB650 Wolf said:
I just tested this on my Captivate running Cog 2.2B7 with no issues. I can see all the profile pics from FB in my contact list. When I open the FB app I can "like" wall posts and comment on pictures.
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So youre telling me you see this: (pictures are in order according to my post on how to get there)
http://wtfokc.com/sef****/0.pnghttp://wtfokc.com/sef****/2.pnghttp://wtfokc.com/sef****/3.png
This is what happens on my Cog2.2 B7. I reinstalled fresh, get the first sign in, then I get "Finish". If you hit your back button you then get the Sync options. This function however doesnt work for me and hasnt on any of the Rom's Ive tried so far on teh captivate. I have read a lot on it and it appears to be a problem on all the Galaxy devices. If yours is working, I'd like to know how?
Only thing I can think is you have your SNS settings setup? Those are the ones in Account/Sync options at the Top -> Facebook, Myspace, Twitter. If so, they will auto sync pictures and junk for you- however it loses links very often- or did for me in previous versions of cog. I would get wall posts and pics in my contacts.. then next day I'd only get twitter, if I got any at all. Also my contacts would lose thier pictures and wouldnt let me re-add or associate them again. I would try over and over to reconnect the contacts to FB and couldnt unless I totally removed the account and reset it. This hap'd multiple time for me. It was rather craptastic syncing and aggravating..so I stopped using the built in SNS accounts all together and just use the official apps now. Only downfall is Facebook's sync doesnt work, twitter's however does.

Wishes list to SE Arc support;-)

Generally happy with your new Xperia Arc? So do I;-) But...!!! I know the phone is quite fresh, but it has some bloopers, that I have noticed, which I want to have repaired as fast as the next bulid from SE arrive to me:
-repair touch bug ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034319 )
-reduce batrery consumption
- it opened web browser instead of messages ..wtf (reboot helped)
- add make call option in message app
- no more sins I remember;-)
Plz add your suggestions to make this phone better than it is now;-) Hope that SE notice this post, and also hope to upgrade 3.0.A.2.181 soon
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1. The screen flickers when brightness is set to ~60% or lower (especially when displaying mostly white). Fix this and also add option to disable autobrightness.

I have also youtube screw up. Sometimes when I browse comments it frozes and removing battery is necessary:-/
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Now the messages open tapatalk.. Wtf!!!!!! Se fix this
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1. I would like very much a better calendar app. This is my first Android phone and I think even the calendar of my previous SE C510 was better. Didn't expect that.
2. The contact management can be improved too. I miss the tabbed contact editting interface of previous SE phones.
Please SE keep the excellent existing functionality of previous phones!

Karooluss said:
Now the messages open tapatalk.. Wtf!!!!!! Se fix this
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I noticed that once. This happens when you use too much back button and especially when sending sms not directly from sms app.

silasdm said:
1. I would like very much a better calendar app. This is my first Android phone and I think even the calendar of my previous SE C510 was better. Didn't expect that.
2. The contact management can be improved too. I miss the tabbed contact editting interface of previous SE phones.
Please SE keep the excellent existing functionality of previous phones!
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Actually I was surprised by this because I think Calendar and Contact management on Arc is excellent.

I want my mediascape back =(
And wma file support =(

I don't have the phone yet (waiting for LT15a) but here goes...
1.add smart dialing.
2.power control in notification bar.
3.theme change (even if it's just the color. not the biggest fan of blue on a phone.)
4.smoother browser
5.release LT15a already!
That would make me happy

can somebody help with the auto-running programs .. just like Whatsapp, facebook and twitter .. how can i close them if i want to
is this a problem or am i just a noob ... its ok im a learner
HELP me ^_^
noah's ARC

Main thing i'd love to see fixed is the HD video recording stutter it was doing my head in when recording my mates band last night. Happened about 4-5 times in 7 minutes.

d4rkwind said:
Main thing i'd love to see fixed is the HD video recording stutter it was doing my head in when recording my mates band last night. Happened about 4-5 times in 7 minutes.
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Did you try to turn off "image stabilizer" in video mode?

Mano1982 said:
Did you try to turn off "image stabilizer" in video mode?
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I haven't yet will give it a go when Im next recording something nice one . Surely such a good feature shouldn't cause such an annoying problem -_-.

doministry said:
Actually I was surprised by this because I think Calendar and Contact management on Arc is excellent.
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Well maybe I exaggerated a little bit, i'm still getting used to this new exciting gadget
But in the Calendar you can't really get a good overview of upcoming days because you always have to scroll through the whole day/week hours. The default view when opening the calendar app is always the day view. The month view could display some more info instead of basic square blocks.
For the contact management, again you have to scroll a lot when editing and viewing a contact. A solution may be adding tabs that group information? Something I also miss at the moment is the birthday entry. In my previous SE phones I could enter a birth date and then it asked if I wanted to add it to the calendar. Now I can't even add birthday info.
Despite these (small) annoyances I think it is still one of the best smartphones currently on the market.

Karooluss said:
I have also youtube screw up. Sometimes when I browse comments it frozes and removing battery is necessary:-/
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That happened to me after watching about 20-25 videos plugged to the TV through the HDMI.

omaritta said:
can somebody help with the auto-running programs .. just like Whatsapp, facebook and twitter .. how can i close them if i want to
is this a problem or am i just a noob ... its ok im a learner
HELP me ^_^
noah's ARC
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Those run as services, so no need to actually "close" them, because they're closed. They launch when you check notifications. In any case, just disable notifications from Twitter and Facebook; I have them totally disabled and just check manually. Leave WhatsApp the way it is, it doesn't consume anything and works like a charm.

doministry said:
Actually I was surprised by this because I think Calendar and Contact management on Arc is excellent.
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I think the calendar and contacts are great too! IDK why the complain.

Nice idea,
just a suggestion:-
I hope someone start organizing the thread so we have a list of all bugs/misses in the very first post and each one with a link to the corresponded post
For example
Bugs
1. screen flicker when brightness is set to 60% or lower. ( post #2 )
2. Messages mislink the messaging app sometimes. ( post #4, post #5 )
Suggestions
1. Improving the Contact app, including
- A. adding birthdays and anniversaries with automatically adding or updating these in the calendar app.
- B. adding smart dialer. ( post #9 )
- C. when sync. with facebook or any other service try to use higher res. profile image.

Xajel said:
Nice idea,
just a suggestion:-
I hope someone start organizing the thread so we have a list of all bugs/misses in the very first post and each one with a link to the corresponded post
For example
Bugs
1. screen flicker when brightness is set to 60% or lower. ( post #2 )
2. Messages mislink the messaging app sometimes. ( post #4, post #5 )
Suggestions
1. Improving the Contact app, including
- A. adding birthdays and anniversaries with automatically adding or updating these in the calendar app.
- B. adding smart dialer. ( post #9 )
- C. when sync. with facebook or any other service try to use higher res. profile image.
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Yup, you're right.
By the way, on the "Battery drain" thread, a few users have tested and confirmed that the camera continues to drain battery a lot even after the camera app is closed.
I also tested and seems that using a 3rd party camera app is the only workaround. Tested with Vignette, took some pics, let the phone idle... but no more abnormal battery drain.

Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 20% of Android battery life

This is more of a just letting people know just kind of post. I, personally, uninstalled Facebook from my devices in 2012, and haven't been happier. but, many people still use the Facebook app. and for those that use it, here is some info about it that many of us already know, but many others do not http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ok-app-saves-up-to-20-of-android-battery-life

I've been using fast for facebook and I haven't seen anywhere NEAR the battery drain I did with the official app.

hp420 said:
I've been using fast for facebook and I haven't seen anywhere NEAR the battery drain I did with the official app.
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Just downloaded Fast, love it so far. One question though, does it offer push notifications, or should I enable SMS notifications. I do think the web view is a bit slow to start but other than that its good. I like their native part of the app.

I just use the browser. The app uses a lot of memory as well.

mikeprius said:
I just use the browser. The app uses a lot of memory as well.
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I use the browser for Facebook as well, I'm even happier using the browser

Harry44 said:
Just downloaded Fast, love it so far. One question though, does it offer push notifications, or should I enable SMS notifications. I do think the web view is a bit slow to start but other than that its good. I like their native part of the app.
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I don't use push notifications, but I'm almost positive the app does allow it. This one is so much more fully featured than the stock app, I can't imagine them cutting such a standard feature like push notifications.

hp420 said:
I don't use push notifications, but I'm almost positive the app does allow it. This one is so much more fully featured than the stock app, I can't imagine them cutting such a standard feature like push notifications.
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Actually, I just spoke with the developer. Unfortunately there are no push notifications do to a limitation set forth by the Facebook API.

Harry44 said:
Actually, I just spoke with the developer. Unfortunately there are no push notifications do to a limitation set forth by the Facebook API.
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That sounds a little strange, since chrome mobile allows FB notifications. Regardless, maybe allowing FB notifications in chrome is at least a possible temporary work-around.

hp420 said:
That sounds a little strange, since chrome mobile allows FB notifications. Regardless, maybe allowing FB notifications in chrome is at least a possible temporary work-around.
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They could possibly not be using the chrome api, and instead using a simple webview. If they were to bring chrome to their app for their webview then it would work.

57% battery, have been opened the facebook app a few times... 2% drain from facebook.
If you haven't had the facebook app on your phone since 2012.... You may not be the right person to comment on it?

scryan said:
57% battery, have been opened the facebook app a few times... 2% drain from facebook.
If you haven't had the facebook app on your phone since 2012.... You may not be the right person to comment on it?
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Agree. My most rececent charge lasted 36 hours to get down to 5%.
- 3:45 SOT
- 2:19 calls
- Facebook only used 5% over that period. Held the phone awake for a total of 9 seconds.
I'm on the beta using 62.0.0.19.77. Notifications and chat turned off.

scryan said:
57% battery, have been opened the facebook app a few times... 2% drain from facebook.
If you haven't had the facebook app on your phone since 2012.... You may not be the right person to comment on it?
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I had Facebook on my both my nexii at the time, tablet and phone. on my tablet, it was never ever opened. on my phone, it used between 15-25% most he time, with very little use. on my tablet, for months it used 15-40% battery, again never ever opened nor set up. and I have family and friends that have Facebook installed, people who refuse to remove it. so I see how Facebook goes, first hand. I'm more than happy using their website.

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Agree. My most rececent charge lasted 36 hours to get down to 5%.
- 3:45 SOT
- 2:19 calls
- Facebook only used 5% over that period. Held the phone awake for a total of 9 seconds.
I'm on the beta using 62.0.0.19.77. Notifications and chat turned off.
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notifications are a big part of it, but even just having it installed has made my devices run like a gimped weasel....it's a severe resource hog, and removing the app immediately clears things up. There is no way to deny it's the root of the problem when you see this happen on device after device, over the course of 5 years as an android user....sorry, but you are never going to convince me the app isn't the ultimate source of many many issues on peoples' devices.

Try metal for Facebook

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notifications are a big part of it, but even just having it installed has made my devices run like a gimped weasel....it's a severe resource hog, and removing the app immediately clears things up. There is no way to deny it's the root of the problem when you see this happen on device after device, over the course of 5 years as an android user....sorry, but you are never going to convince me the app isn't the ultimate source of many many issues on peoples' devices.
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You are very right. FB and Messenger are both on the top of the worst coded android apps and it is well known that they drain battery like mad. Lucky for me other then my kids no one I know even uses FB anymore.

Always has been a bad battery drainer. No idea why but one would think they would have had it rewritten by now. I despise FB and been far happier since leaving them anyway.

Hm... Removing Facebook app saves 20% of Android battery life but the REAL battery saver to do is delete facebook all together & get back 90% of your life. Think how much battery you'll save not staring at your phone for 6+hrs.

I don't have battery issues with the Facebook app, but I stopped its background sync, and I also don't have messenger installed. In general, social media apps are the worst battery abusers as they typically sync in the background a lot by default.
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It looks to be true. I uninstalled the Facebook app and from the day 1 my SOT has exceeded 5 hours on daily bases. Before, with the FB app installed I would usually get something like 3 to 3 and a half hours of SOT.
Now I just use FB on Chrome and it looks good.
Oh and yeah, the N6 rooks

If you look at a logcat with FB installed it will show you the drain. It is one of the worst coded apps available