Help facebook app size

[Wazza66]

The app for Facebook is 2.9MB on the market but on my mobile it is showing it to be 14.71MB....Anyone know why this is....

 

[gamblor01]

I have the same problem with my HTC Evo. I found this post while googling for reasons why the data consumption is so high. I have been unable to find ANY reasonable answer online so I opened a bug report with Facebook. Here is the information I sent them. If I hear back anything useful I will post it...

The "data" consumption for the Android Facebook application slowly grows over time and I cannot figure out why. Left unchecked, this will lead to a situation where no applications can be installed even though there should be plenty of free space on the phone.

I just cleared the data out a few weeks ago but it was previously using over 61MB of space. I went into Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications and cleared the data, which brought it back down to 4.93MB. However, it is growing in size again. Version 1.6.1 shows up on my phone as 4.93MB but the total size is currently 12.47MB due to an additional 7.54MB of data.

Each time data is cleared one must login again, and change all of the settings again to whatever is desired. The cache grows too but seems to level off around 5MB and can be cleared without losing all settings for the app.

Why is the application constantly consuming more and more data? Can you please explain this behavior, or better yet fix it?

 

[Wazza66]

Good post gamblor01, I will keep checking back to see if you get a reply.....If i find out more i will also post it....Thanks...