I have disabled GPS, and gone into my location access settings and ensured that facebook cannot make use of my GPS, but for some reason the app is taking 71% of my battery. When I click to see more details on the facebook app, I can see that under GPS in "use details" it says 1d 6h 48m (the same time my device has been on for).
If I have disabled GPS, and even force quit Facebook, how can it be taking up so much of my battery?
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I have disabled GPS, and gone into my location access settings and ensured that facebook cannot make use of my GPS, but for some reason the app is taking 71% of my battery. When I click to see more details on the facebook app, I can see that under GPS in "use details" it says 1d 6h 48m (the same time my device has been on for).
If I have disabled GPS, and even force quit Facebook, how can it be taking up so much of my battery?
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its a crappy app, uninstall it, youll be happier. use the browser for facebook.
First rule for android: Don't install Facebook app
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i use the facebook app with no issues...
Uninstall and reinstall?
Also you can use the data usage setting to disable background data by specific apps.
uninstall and never ever go back to Facebook?
that's going to take care of the problem.
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Get rid of it lol
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Use browser..it eats recourses like crazy for nothing and its slower then using browser..i just live it in mu phone for push notification
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Go into manage app's and turn off notifications from Facebook I noticed that helps a lot
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The browser is 10× faster than the app, without this "oh something went wrong" .. Even with this "better" update..
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fushla said:
The browser is 10× faster than the app, without this "oh something went wrong" .. Even with this "better" update..
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Yeah the up date was a joke it still sucks just now it sucks with more speed
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Really?
I've never had a problem with the facebook app, on my S3 or Nexus7. I can easily get over a full day on both. Twitter too. Have you tried a different app? Like Seemic?
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I just downloaded SyncSms. Work by synching your tablet and phone via dropbox and works very well. Can text and browse on my tablet for only 3 bucks!
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curious
Let me get this straight. You download the app on both your phone and your tablet?
Is there any lag between sending and receiving txt's?
Interesting in purchasing and trying this out.
Yes, with android phone as well as a free Dropbox account (I have the Evo). you dl the app to your phone and sign into your Dropbox account and it automatically sets the device to "phone" then you do the same to the tablet and it recognizes it's a tablet. You have two options for synching, there's a manual refresh button, or what I do is set the "auto sync" feature to every 15 seconds (pretty close to instantaneous). I have seen neglible battery difference on the phone or tablet. Sent a few hundred texts using this method and not one issue. Well worth the price,and you're talking to a guy that has actually purchased only a few apps.
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Sync SMS is brilliant!
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Yes I agree its brilliant. You can set the update interval to pretty much as fast as you want depending on how much you love your battery. Texting from the tab is boss!
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SOunds aweswome is ther an easy on and off switch??
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SOunds aweswome is ther an easy on and off switch??
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Yup. There is a little toggle widget for switching syncing on and off.
Are u guys not seeing the fb app in the market? Did a factory reset today and all my apps synced back except for that one
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xTONEx said:
Are u guys not seeing the fb app in the market? Did a factory reset today and all my apps synced back except for that one
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There is currently not a Facebook app in the market. They haven't optimized it for Honeycomb yet, but you can get it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1143913&highlight=kanged and that should work. The only issue I have with it, is that the friends list part force closes.
They must have recently taken it down, thanx for the link tho
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i had the fb app on my tablet and one day it just disappeared...they took it down.
Use Friend Me
I use Friendcaster. Lots more options and when you say No Notifications..... it stops polling and giving you notifications. I notices a lift in battery when I uninstalled it. Friendcaster just seems nicer and smoother to me.
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Sorry, meant loft in battery when I uninstalles FriendMe.
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Wow friendcaster for tab is great, loving it so far...Thanks for the suggestion
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Wow friendcaster for tab is great, loving it so far...Thanks for the suggestion
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I previously had this app, but removed it.
Now it will no longer install. It will download, but will never proceed to install.
Anyone else having problems?
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cdf3 said:
I previously had this app, but removed it.
Now it will no longer install. It will download, but will never proceed to install.
Anyone else having problems?
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I've had that happen with the market a few times too. I normally just back out and go back in until it finally works.
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I use Friendcaster. Lots more options and when you say No Notifications..... it stops polling and giving you notifications. I notices a lift in battery when I uninstalled it. Friendcaster just seems nicer and smoother to me.
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There is actually a Honeycomb/Tablet edition, though in beta...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.handmark.friendstream&feature=search_result
Works well for me, and definately less crashes than the native Facebook for Android app...
I've actually gone so far as to uninstall the official Facebook on my Vibrant running CM 7. With the last update on July 18th, for some reason, even if you set it to never poll for notifications, never refresh, and not to sync, it still keeps the news feed open in the background and constantly refreshes it. I noticed huge battery drain one day when I took my phone off of the charger, barely used it all day, and later that night around 11 I had 14 percent battery warning. When I looked into the battery history, Facebook took up a whopping 81 percent of the battery drain on that particular charge.
Will stick to using the 3rd party options.
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There is actually a Honeycomb/Tablet edition, though in beta...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.handmark.friendstream&feature=search_result
Works well for me, and definately less crashes than the native Facebook for Android app...
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Using the beta version too. Not bad
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Are u guys not seeing the fb app in the market? Did a factory reset today and all my apps synced back except for that one
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There are a lot of apps that you won't find in the market because they haven't been optimized for Honeycomb. I normally just install them on my phone, pull the apk, then transfer it to my tab. So far every app I tried worked just fine including fb and google voice.
Friendcaster for Tab seems great to me, but it loads continuously when I select the messages tab, not showing anything... if that'll be solved, and chat will be added, it will be the perfect FB app for me!
PS: anyone solved the messages issue?
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Friendcaster for Tab seems great to me, but it loads continuously when I select the messages tab, not showing anything... if that'll be solved, and chat will be added, it will be the perfect FB app for me!
PS: anyone solved the messages issue?
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Mine does that with messages too, and yes, chat is a must. At least chat works on the Facebook app though. That's about the only good thing about it. While we're on the subject of honeycomb apps and notifications not working; how hard is it for Words With Friends to get notifications to work?! Is it really that difficult? I play a word and THEN it tells me it's my turn.
This Facebook app works just fine in Honeycomb.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182640
Download the apk from the first post.
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This Facebook app works just fine in Honeycomb.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182640
Download the apk from the first post.
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Link doesn't work on the gtab.
Link worked fine for me from xda app on my sgt, alterately search for Facebook in the Asus Transformer here on XDA.
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Mine does that with messages too, and yes, chat is a must. At least chat works on the Facebook app though. That's about the only good thing about it. While we're on the subject of honeycomb apps and notifications not working; how hard is it for Words With Friends to get notifications to work?! Is it really that difficult? I play a word and THEN it tells me it's my turn.
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My Messages tab does that too, as does the Events tab. Very annoying. I really hope a new beta's released soon. I sent the dev a PM about it but haven't heard anything back yet.
Strangely enough, I've seen a walkthrough video of the app (on Android Central I think) which showed them using the Messages and Events tab both working fine.
EDIT: New beta just released fixes the Messages issue, but I still have problems with Events.
Pretty simple poll here, just want to know if most people use the XDA app more often or if they're more often using the web to access XDA.
Some people put half their message in the subject, and last time I checked, those don't show up in the app. Maybe some confusion could be avoided if we stopped using message subjects altogether, no?
I would say I'm about 99% web (visit often while 'working'). And for the record, I think I left this open for 30 days.
Definitely apps
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hayzooos said:
I would say I'm about 99% web (visit often while 'working'). And for the record, I think I left this open for 30 days.
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For me its the opposite, 99% app and 1% web. The 1% is while I'm in class lol.
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75% app
25% web
99% app.
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Web.. at work, web at home...
App .05 percent..
50/50
Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
App 98.2%
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I'll bet 100% of the people who use the website get better battery life out of their phones because XDA app just hammers my battery
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Eh 75% App
25% Web
When I 'feel' I have something important to share, I feel as if I need to spew it all from my laptop.. lol also when I have attachments to share, (without using db) but since db can be used, mostly app for me.
I tried the app, but it really sucks. In fact, I don't know why I still have it installed.
EDIT: Just uninstalled it and purged the backups of it. Good riddance!
When I am home and have the laptop open I will use the browser. When I am out I use the XDA app. I am probably on it more on the phone than the computer.
99% app. Even with its drawbacks just dang convenient.
The app got the thanks button...now if it gets multi quote
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If you mean xda only, then I would say the last 5 months its been xda 100% of the time for me. But if you mean things like g+, I went the web way, just because I use gmail app to get G+ notifications, banking, ebay, paypal, things like that I use the websites from my phone, not the apps.
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I tried the app, but it really sucks. In fact, I don't know why I still have it installed.
EDIT: Just uninstalled it and purged the backups of it. Good riddance!
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Another user and I'm sure many others too, have mentioned downloading the tapatalk app from Samsung apps supposedly the same thing as the xda paid app version.
I would say 75% app all of the time. I use tapatalk, there's other forums I can follow also.
The app is so easy to scan for updates on my phone.
95% web
4% app
1% osmosis
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60 % Tapatalk, 40 % web.
Hi
I have a serious problem ...
My GPS is off in location settings but on battery stats graph its on all frigging day!!! Any ideas how to find out what and how ?
This is something new . never had this before no new apps installed (only regular updates ) I'm only assuming its app like Facebook or something but no idea really
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MattSkeet said:
Hi
I have a serious problem ...
My GPS is off in location settings but on battery stats graph its on all frigging day!!! Any ideas how to find out what and how ?
This is something new . never had this before no new apps installed (only regular updates ) I'm only assuming its app like Facebook or something but no idea really
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Do you have location access enabled in any apps, widgets, weather news or facebook/twitter, google now?
Have you installed lookout app? This app(recent update, no problem before) get the gprs on no matter location service is off or not.
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Do you have location access enabled in any apps, widgets, weather news or facebook/twitter, google now?
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I have location access on but GPS off. And it should not turn it on. Like I've said no new apps installed, I have all the same stuff since release of the phone. this started recently ....
I use Google now but this has never affected my phone
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I deleted both my Facebook app and messenger, and I had much better battery life for a few days. Now however, my sot is barely at 2 1/2 hours again, and my top usage is chrome. It's pretty frustrating because I stopped using Facebook altogether, and in still having poor battery. I think chrome is not letting it doze. Any of you guys have had the same issues?
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cables2590 said:
I deleted both my Facebook app and messenger, and I had much better battery life for a few days. Now however, my sot is barely at 2 1/2 hours again, and my top usage is chrome. It's pretty frustrating because I stopped using Facebook altogether, and in still having poor battery. I think chrome is not letting it doze. Any of you guys have had the same issues?
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Are you logged into Facebook on chrome and using notifications? What I do is just log into Facebook each time I open chrome and close the page when I leave it through recent apps. If that's not the issue you could try clearing all data for chrome and then clear phone cache.
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Are you logged into Facebook on chrome and using notifications? What I do is just log into Facebook each time I open chrome and close the page when I leave it through recent apps. If that's not the issue you could try clearing all data for chrome and then clear phone cache.
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I can try that... I'm thinking about using one of the other apps to access Facebook instead, but I bet I'll end up with the same issue again
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cables2590 said:
I can try that... I'm thinking about using one of the other apps to access Facebook instead, but I bet I'll end up with the same issue again
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The phone looks like is entering doze to me. Do you have root? You need to use an app like BetterBatteryStats to properly investigate the cause of your drain.
Looks like you're affected by the mobile active radio bug like I am
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steveo17 said:
Looks like you're affected by the mobile active radio bug like I am
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My battery is a bit naff too, I deleted Facebook ages ago, had enough of that thing.
This radio bug though. How do you get rid of that mate? Or even known you've got it ?
This is just normal run of the mill days for me.
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Looks like you're affected by the mobile active radio bug like I am
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Yeah I think I'm hit with that bug... I have not found a fix for it, and many articles mention that marshmallow was supposed to fix it... I wonder if a custom rom would fix this... This is the first phone I had that I have yet to root, and that's because I like having the monthly security updates...
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cables2590 said:
Yeah I think I'm hit with that bug... I have not found a fix for it, and many articles mention that marshmallow was supposed to fix it... I wonder if a custom rom would fix this... This is the first phone I had that I have yet to root, and that's because I like having the monthly security updates...
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yeah from what i've read there is no fix. not sure if even a factory reset would fix it.
Some people recommended downgrading to the 2.15 radio which i did last night so i can't say whether it got much better yet or not.
Also, you can still take the updates while rooted. its very simple to do yourself or there is a tool call flashfire which does it for you now i think
steveo17 said:
yeah from what i've read there is no fix. not sure if even a factory reset would fix it.
Some people recommended downgrading to the 2.15 radio which i did last night so i can't say whether it got much better yet or not.
Also, you can still take the updates while rooted. its very simple to do yourself or there is a tool call flashfire which does it for you now i think
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The new twrp can flash sparse img's now too.