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Help Battery draining after FB app update

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steve392

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Last week I updated the Facebook app on my spectrum. After I did the halfpage sized fb app no longer worked and I had to uninstall it and then goto the play store and get the app again and install it. Ever since my battery is draining like crazy. I've had to charge it twice today and i've barely used it. Before the update i could go the whole day on 1 charge. What and how could the update be causing this?
 
if you are using the Facebook for Android.. as you may know, the application syncs its contacts every now and then and that may be the reason for your battery drain.. it also runs on the background. all you have to do is either you uninstall the app and use another fb app other than facebook for android ooooor you keep on clicking on force stop on your task manager to ensure that it's not running on background. cheers!
 
Weird I use that app and dont have any issues.
I'd try to unistall and reinstall. maybe clear cache and data first?
 
The latest round of updates added Messenger and Camera options to the app. Even if you don't use them, they still run in the background (especially Messenger). This is why I no longer run the Facebook for Android app.

I've tried Seesmic, Hootsuite, Friendster, and Fast Facebook beta. None are quite as good as the core Facebook app, so I tend to just use a mobile browser bookmark.
 
CPU spy is showing my phone is still going into deep sleep with the new facebook.
However LG LED notifications causes it not to so i unistalled that app.
 
mrmooney said:
CPU spy is showing my phone is still going into deep sleep with the new facebook.
However LG LED notifications causes it not to so i unistalled that app.
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No issues with FB here either, but lg notifications had to go. It wouls toasr my battery over night after the v5 update.
 
I just uninstalled the app, and deleted a few other apps aswell. Battery isn't even at half now and it was unplugged at 6am. I used dolphin browser to access fb.com and did the usual surfing. I'll have to check other stuff to make sure nothing else causes battery drain.
 
It seems that the latest update to the Facebook app made Facebook Messenger an optional component. This seems to have greatly reduced the app's battery drain, as I never have (nor do I plan to) use Facebook Messenger. I'm also in the habit of checking my battery stats to make sure Facebook isn't running when I don't want it to. I'll either force close it or task kill it when I'm done.

I've been running LG Notifications since I rooted my phone. It didn't significantly drain my battery. And this is on rooted and de-bloated v4, rooted and de-bloated v6, Broken Out Spectrum 2.0, and Broken Out Spectrum 3.0. I have the app running as a service right from boot; notifying me of emails, MMS/SMS, and missed calls. I customized the notification to flash on for one second, then off for three seconds, starting immediately. I have it set to timeout after one hour.

Maybe I just don't receive as many emails or texts and miss as many calls as you popular people...
 
well uninstalling it and a few other apps have helped greatly. Now if the phone didn't lag when using the text message feature then i'de be ok. It is so slow, the phone bogs down and then the letters finally catchup with the key strokes.
 
Try a different keyboard, my friend. It's possible to use Swype as a traditional keyboard if you don't want to trace your letters out. Or try some free alternatives from the market. I use Swiftkey X and love it. The free version gets you all of the features, but after 30 days it "forgets" all of your habits that it learned.

As for a reboot, shutting the phone down and restarting it qualifies. So long as you shut down before pulling the battery, you rebooted.
 
liteon163 said:
It seems that the latest update to the Facebook app made Facebook Messenger an optional component. This seems to have greatly reduced the app's battery drain, as I never have (nor do I plan to) use Facebook Messenger. I'm also in the habit of checking my battery stats to make sure Facebook isn't running when I don't want it to. I'll either force close it or task kill it when I'm done.

I've been running LG Notifications since I rooted my phone. It didn't significantly drain my battery. And this is on rooted and de-bloated v4, rooted and de-bloated v6, Broken Out Spectrum 2.0, and Broken Out Spectrum 3.0. I have the app running as a service right from boot; notifying me of emails, MMS/SMS, and missed calls. I customized the notification to flash on for one second, then off for three seconds, starting immediately. I have it set to timeout after one hour.

Maybe I just don't receive as many emails or texts and miss as many calls as you popular people...
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It's still causing your phone not to deep sleep though.down load cpu spy and check it out.
 
I don't doubt that your assertion is correct. I just compare the convenience of the notifications against the extra battery time and convenience wins out.

The one unexpected thing I learned with this LG Spectrum is that I will never again purchase a phone without a dedicated notification LED. I never thought such a small touch would make as big a difference, but it does for me.
 
I totally agree I didnt know it had not LED notifications as well really annoying for a such a bad ass phone.
 
You can use the LG notification app if you really want blinking lights draining your battery further. Several of us use it with our spectrums, I stopped, as I have an audio alert for emails, and that goes off every 15-30 minutes as my unread emails pile up... so I constantly check my phone anyway.
 
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