Facebook high CPU in app and browser

[edenspresence]

Hello everyone,

I have searched quite hard and there doesn't seem to be anyone with the same problem as me.

If I press the home button out of the Facebook app (leaving it running in the background) It seems to run at 20% (or more) CPU. This persists and my phone (Galaxy S2) heats up and uses up my battery very quickly.

In the end I deleted the Facebook app and decided to use the browser interface for Facebook. However if I leave the news feed (in Dolphin HD browser) running in the background, this also uses over 20% of my CPU. Oddly if I leave FB running in the browser but on a comments page this doesn't happen.

It would be good if I didn't have to always remember to close fb every time I use it (I have tried to remember but keep accidentally leaving it and losing al my battery)

Anyone got any ideas? Please help!

Thanks a lot!

Phone: Galaxy S2, Stock ICS rom 4.0.3

 

[wrightbyname]

I have the same problem, with the same phone and ROM (SGS2 4.0.3). It's been doing it for a while, though - since before ICS. And my CPU usage is typically around 50%, presumably a whole core. It doesn't always do it but I haven't been able to discern a pattern yet. I only use the app, not the browser version.

 

[swayzak]

I have this problem also.

Finally gave in to the nagging about downloading the Facebook app for my Galaxy S2 (ICS 4.03) - until now have used browsers to access FB.

Task Manager often shows 50% cpu or more (Exit button highlighted in warning red).

Have now uninstalled - back to the browser until this is sorted out.

 

[planetf1]

Same here. SGS2,ics

Totally unacceptable

 

[Max Revson]

SG Note here. I'm using Fast for Facebook (Beta) and it shows as using less than 1% in Task Manager. Perhaps you might want to give that a try?

 

[Dalby]

I'm another user who tracked down the post-ICS update high battery & CPU usage to the Facebook app.

Once I disabled everything in the app my battery usage dropped to GB (or even perhaps a lower) level.

 

[OffColour]

Me too. Been like this for ages now.

 

[Unforgiven]

I've uninstalled the app and just use the mobile version in the browser. I also don't have to worry about them having permissions to everything that way.

 

[hrdik]

Same here ... but it's facebook problem at every device

 

[OffColour]

Yet another Facebook release and still not fixed. Does no one at Facebook own on S2?

 

[chanchan05]

Press back, not home button. Pressing back just leaves the sync process running, which is still able to give you notifications, but without the entire app itself running and eating battery and CPU. Facebook basically runs two processes, the background facebook.katana process which is for background update as far as I can tell, and the app itself which only runs on demand.