Is XDA the rouge app? - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

I have not seen this happen before that an app using the display takes more juice than the display itself. In my case the display was on for 54 mins and Xda app was used for 40 mins. How is it possible that xda app itself is draining more battery than the screen?
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I'm not 100% sure but I thought I read that the app drains battery because of the ads. If you use the paid version it doesn't. Can't remember where I read that. Are you using the ad supported version?
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I'm coming from a galaxy nexus and this is different usually the screen would be the highest in battery usage by far and everything else would follow suite not the case
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jasvncnt1 said:
I'm not 100% sure but I thought I read that the app drains battery because of the ads. If you use the paid version it doesn't. Can't remember where I read that. Are you using the ad supported version?
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I am using the ad supported version. I read that in one of the comments in play store that ads are draining the battry. Immediately rooted the phone (yes, I was waiting for a good reason to root) and installed Adaware. Lets see how it goes. Thanks for your reply!

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rakeshchn said:
I am using the ad supported version. I read that in one of the comments in play store that ads are draining the battry. Immediately rooted the phone (yes, I was waiting for a good reason to root) and installed Adaware. Lets see how it goes. Thanks for your reply!
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I see you're using Good (notification) - does it still work after you rooted? Thought it had a root check built in.

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Ever since I switched to this phone the xda app becomes horribly choppy and slow and will eventually crash after some use. I've cleared cache and data, but haven't uninstalled and reinstalled yet. I've just been exiting and manually fc'ing every time it begins to get slow.
Have those that are getting high usage statistics experiencing this too?
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flonker said:
Ever since I switched to this phone the xda app becomes horribly choppy and slow and will eventually crash after some use. I've cleared cache and data, but haven't uninstalled and reinstalled yet. I've just been exiting and manually fc'ing every time it begins to get slow.
Have those that are getting high usage statistics experiencing this too?
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It happens to me too. It force closes on me once in a while when I'm on the app for an extended period of time. Using the ad supported. If the ads are indeed draining the battery faster, I might end up getting xda premium.
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neotoky said:
It happens to me too. It force closes on me once in a while when I'm on the app for an extended period of time. Using the ad supported. If the ads are indeed draining the battery faster, I might end up getting xda premium.
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Agreed
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flonker said:
Ever since I switched to this phone the xda app becomes horribly choppy and slow and will eventually crash after some use. I've cleared cache and data, but haven't uninstalled and reinstalled yet. I've just been exiting and manually fc'ing every time it begins to get slow.
Have those that are getting high usage statistics experiencing this too?
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i had the fc issue for a while but just had to clear cache. It hasn't happened for quite a while. I have ad version and have NEVER seen it use power like that! At most 3%
Something has to be wrong here, haven't seen cell stanby that high either.
Android is upgrading...

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flonker said:
Ever since I switched to this phone the xda app becomes horribly choppy and slow and will eventually crash after some use. I've cleared cache and data, but haven't uninstalled and reinstalled yet. I've just been exiting and manually fc'ing every time it begins to get slow.
Have those that are getting high usage statistics experiencing this too?
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I'm using XDA Premium, and I'm definitely getting the choppy scrolling, too. The app becomes almost unusable. It's ridiculous, because my Evo 4G ran the app like a champ. No battery drain, but the scrolling lag is getting on my nerves.

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mobilehavoc said:
I see you're using Good (notification) - does it still work after you rooted? Thought it had a root check built in.
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Yes I was using Good for almost a year on Vibrant which was rooted and it worked well. It seems working on Galaxy S3 too after root. Have to see tomorrow if sending and receiving emails work. Its corporate email, so today being Sunday not much work email traffic.

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EndlessDissent said:
I'm using XDA Premium, and I'm definitely getting the choppy scrolling, too. The app becomes almost unusable. It's ridiculous, because my Evo 4G ran the app like a champ. No battery drain, but the scrolling lag is getting on my nerves.
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Yeah I too have noticed that on the ad supported version. In fact XDA is the only app that lags occassionally on this phone. I hoped may be adblock will resolve it, but since you are having premium I guess not.

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JediNinjafication said:
i had the fc issue for a while but just had to clear cache. It hasn't happened for quite a while. I have ad version and have NEVER seen it use power like that! At most 3%
Something has to be wrong here, haven't seen cell stanby that high either.
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Cell standby is high cause it was overnight and I was sleeping. So thats expected. But its really abnormal that 40 mins of XDA app has drained more power than 54 mins of screen on time!

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I'm not sure if this is related or not, but I have noticed what I believe to be high app caches for the xda app. Just checked and it is 56mb. That's a bit excessive, isn't it?
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flonker said:
I'm not sure if this is related or not, but I have noticed what I believe to be high app caches for the xda app. Just checked and it is 56mb. That's a bit excessive, isn't it?
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Mine gets high occasionally and i clear cache. Am a gnex. Wonder if cache is also downloads from threads? I also noticed apps don't really close out when exit. Will be same exact spot as left them. Maybe that's the high cache..?
Android is upgrading...

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Interesting thread, I've never seen that before, it certainly is acting rogue.
I'm using Tapatalk, the paid app that the xda app is built from, and I have no issues with it consuming battery, nor has it given me any kind of choppy scrolling. Tapatalk, being paid, contains no ads, so that does make me think the ads are at least to blame for the high battery usage.
I would contact an administrator from xda and ask them about it.

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ExodusC said:
Interesting thread, I've never seen that before, it certainly is acting rogue.
I'm using Tapatalk, the paid app that the xda app is built from, and I have no issues with it consuming battery, nor has it given me any kind of choppy scrolling. Tapatalk, being paid, contains no ads, so that does make me think the ads are at least to blame for the high battery usage.
I would contact an administrator from xda and ask them about it.
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I don't get choppy or have high battery usage, but occasionally get force close but i think i may have just figured that issue out. I use the free one, not taptalk but just had a fc and haven't had one in while but I wanted to share an app to another thread so hit home key, went to play store, found app, did share button but since xda doesn't show up in share list I'll pick another app just to open it then cut the link and THEN use my recent apps key to paste. I think its either from not closing out all the way and having another one open while accessing it from recents. Just a thought, at least from my end and how I use different settings to open stuff.
Android is upgrading...
EDIT: Another possible fc reason. whenever I get a notification in status bar and I attempt to open it there it goes to the app but never opens the thread or anything so well click my icon on home screen then force closes.