I'm just making this thread to inform people of some battery issues they may have involving the official Facebook app. I don't exactly know when it starts but it seems to be affecting people that have updated the app. This afternoon I decided to download an older version of Facebook and immediately update it through the play store. As you can see in my first screenshot, within 12 hours it has kept my phone awake over 80% of the time even with Greenify forcing it into hibernation. The two wakelocks come from facebook syncing which shouldn't be occurring since I have both push notifications and syncing disabled for this app. In the second screenshot you'll notice where I uninstalled Facebook. Mind you, during the tremendous battery drain, I had the screen turned off almost all day. This is with only 2 hours of screen on time. I hope this helps people solve some unwanted battery drain.
I apologize for the small screenshots. For some reason it wouldn't allow me to upload them in the bigger option.
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I'm just making this thread to inform people of some battery issues they may have involving the official Facebook app. I don't exactly know when it starts but it seems to be affecting people that have updated the app. This afternoon I decided to download an older version of Facebook and immediately update it through the play store. As you can see in my first screenshot, within 12 hours it has kept my phone awake over 80% of the time even with Greenify forcing it into hibernation. The two wakelocks come from facebook syncing which shouldn't be occurring since I have both push notifications and syncing disabled for this app. In the second screenshot you'll notice where I uninstalled Facebook. Mind you, during the tremendous battery drain, I had the screen turned off almost all day. This is with only 2 hours of screen on time. I hope this helps people solve some unwanted battery drain.
I apologize for the small screenshots. For some reason it wouldn't allow me to upload them in the bigger option.
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This has been going on for a while. I never install the official FB app. It has an upload service that runs constantly.
Joecascio2000 said:
This has been going on for a while. I never install the official FB app. It has an upload service that runs constantly.
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Are there any alternatives you'd recommend?
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Joecascio2000 said:
This has been going on for a while. I never install the official FB app. It has an upload service that runs constantly.
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I know but not everyone is aware of this. So I did a test of my own and posted the results lol.
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Are there any alternatives you'd recommend?
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If you're not worried about getting notifications, then Fast Facebook without the Notification addon. Only updates stories and whatnot when you open the app.
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Are there any alternatives you'd recommend?
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I set up gmail notifications through facebook and I use the friendcaster pro app.
You could also add Yahoo, ebay, maps, etc... to the list.
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You could also add Yahoo, ebay, maps, etc... to the list.
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I use greenify to force Maps into hibernation.
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I use greenify to force Maps into hibernation.
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Really, it gave me a pop up saying system apps couldn't be put into hibernation. Also, since un installing Greenify the odd wake locks and syncing has gone away.
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Yeah the battery drain was happening for me right when I updated it. It kept saying GPS was staying awake even after I turned off location services on the app and in my phones settings
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Really, it gave me a pop up saying system apps couldn't be put into hibernation. Also, since un installing Greenify the odd wake locks and syncing has gone away.
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I don't have mine installed as a system app lol.
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I've never had any drain with Facebook on my OG. Sucks for you guys. :x
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I've never had any drain with Facebook on my OG. Sucks for you guys. :x
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Sucks to have a Facebook account lol I don't have one.
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TangoXray said:
Sucks to have a Facebook account lol I don't have one.
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xD It kinda sucks at times. But I'm networking for my career, so it's a necessity for me.
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I've never had any drain with Facebook on my OG. Sucks for you guys. :x
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It mainly comes after updating the app. It worked fine for me until I did that test. I've always preferred Fast Facebook, though. Cleaner UI.
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It mainly comes after updating the app. It worked fine for me until I did that test. I've always preferred Fast Facebook, though. Cleaner UI.
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Something I haven't noticed I suppose. I'll check that out though. I hate the UI on Facebook's app.
So far my battery life has been fantastic since moving to JB. Except for some catastrophic failures (Unable to connect via USB, No MMS, etc) the battery life has been phenomenal... Facebook hardly makes a dent. Plus I concluded that Facebook usually ate up a lot of time if notifications were being received from the message app or facebook directly. Worse if you have both installed.
Since I just read news feed on Facebook and I hate the top stories sort in the official Facebook app, I uninstalled the app. I just use LG Social + widget to get stories and they always sort in descending order. Best of both worlds.
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This isn't evo3d specific, but the facebook app really sucks. Is it just licensing that keeps someone from making a better one? I would pay for a FULLY FUNCTIONAL facebook app - something that lets me do everything I can do on the site. and I would like it to have total control over what I have to see in my newsfeed, because I don't care about farmville.
I just want push notifications on my EVO like my wife has on her epic
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This isn't evo3d specific, but the facebook app really sucks. Is it just licensing that keeps someone from making a better one? I would pay for a FULLY FUNCTIONAL facebook app - something that lets me do everything I can do on the site. and I would like it to have total control over what I have to see in my newsfeed, because I don't care about farmville.
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which facebook app are you using?
my stock FB app works w/o an issue
Look up friendcaster on the market its way better
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aaronpoweruser said:
Look up friendcaster on the market its way better
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yep rushes the default facebook app
New version been n beta since early June...hope it releases soon
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For now use browser and text notifications...
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I use friendcaster Pro, it has push notifications or can use emails like Blackberry
Facebook for iOS is virtually identical and also has issues.
Good call on friendcaster. Way better!
idk if you remember the early facebook app that was out when the Evo first came out a year ago... It was HORRIBLE compared to what we have today, so if anything, we're doing alright compared to that. And that's saying something.
But I agree, I hate having to go to the site to reply to invites to events and whatnot, gets old real quick. I also wish that gawker sites wouldn't go to the mobile site in the stock browser, it won't let you watch any flash videos, and won't let you switch to desktop version of the site. /endrant
Yeah and I will also like to change my profile pic from the app, because even if you go to the site from your phone (in desktop version) it doesn't let you do it cause of the cropping of the pic which is impossible from the phone.
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which facebook app are you using?
my stock FB app works w/o an issue
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Stock FB app?? I have been freaking out cuz if there is a stock FB app on my 3D Evo...I cant find it!! Wtf?? Where is it?? Or why do you have it and I don't?? Anyway someone can upload the stock apk for me, please?
Thanks!
This time it didn't come pre installed as it was on the 4G, you have to go to the market and download it.
Yeah yeah, its a shooter and I'm not afraid to use it...
Why the hell does it ping GPS, when refreshing wall? Facebook aka the battery killer.
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masri1987 said:
Why the hell does it ping GPS, when refreshing wall? Facebook aka the battery killer.
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Dude, official facebook app, sucks
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negrobembon said:
Dude, official facebook app, sucks
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What you using? I can't find anything that compares. You'd think they'd make good on their App..
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friendcaster or even friendme is pretty good
i hate Frienme since 2 last update... always say FC when i want to see de new's =/
and de Facebook apps frozzen always in charging...
use the mobile web version.
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Why the hell does it ping GPS, when refreshing wall? Facebook aka the battery killer.
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After the update, you need to log out and then log back in for changes to take full effect. I prefer to uninstall completely then install the updated version, it avoids the bugs.
Once you've done that, it will no longer ping GPS when viewing the news feed
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Use friendcaster, a friend of mine has it and no complains, i personally use the mobile site, and have an app to upload pics and vids to fb, and fb notifies me via gmail, works best for me no issues
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friendcaster or even friendme is pretty good
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new fb app better than friendcaster ****... 1.7.1 out .. u can tag friends and do a lot more stuff with this new version
A lot of Android apps love to keep tabs on you and are constantly gathering location, personal, or contact data info. That's why I use LBE Privacy guard app, it allows you to deny permissions that go along with downloaded apps
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They are trying to make it closer to the iOS version (pull to refresh...etc). And the iOS Facebook app pings the GPS every time it refreshes the news feed. Not totally sure why.
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They are trying to make it closer to the iOS version (pull to refresh...etc). And the iOS Facebook app pings the GPS every time it refreshes the news feed. Not totally sure why.
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Everytime I post now it says where I'm near too. Except I'm never anywhere near where it thinks I am.
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Sometimes my facebook apps goes back to the main page every couple of minutes..
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Everytime I post now it says where I'm near too. Except I'm never anywhere near where it thinks I am.
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Yeah, I forgot, location based updates are something Facebook is doing now. Weird that it's wrong for you though. I never update my status enough to notice.
negrobembon said:
Dude, official facebook app, sucks
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agreed .. lol. that very suck
I don't know what happen. Some photos I can view, but for 99% of them, I get "Cannot retrive the photo at this time. Please try again later?" I can open them fine on home computer so I do not think its an access issue?
Any thoughts or clue?
What app are you using for Facebook?
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rino187 said:
What app are you using for Facebook?
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The one from Market.
I'm having the same problem with fb
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I can view from browser, not the app most of the time. Im gonna try reinstalling. BRB
I'm having the same issue. I'd just assume it's Facebook. They're always having problems with their apps.
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My Wife (LG Optimus) and Me (Photon) both have this issue, gotta be facebook at this point. They have had ****ty Android support from the start.
But-----------------> Google Plus FTW.
I reinstalled with no success. I thought it was me, then I reached out to some friends and this seems to be a common issue, no matter what phone you have. It just took me as odd one day it worked, next it did not and i did not download anything..........Oh well.
It's the app, not the phone
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It's the app, not the phone
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And I know why!!! Just looking, I had Version 1.8.1. After I deleted and went to reinstall, the version on the market is "Depends on Device!" So instead of investing some $$$$ in the masses, they are doing one off's as they get to it. Meaning they likely fix a bug for one device and break another!
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And I know why!!! Just looking, I had Version 1.8.1. After I deleted and went to reinstall, the version on the market is "Depends on Device!" So instead of investing some $$$$ in the masses, they are doing one off's as they get to it. Meaning they likely fix a bug for one device and break another!
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Meaning the Facebook app developers are lazy LOL
Yepi-Depi --- That's how it works...
One get's fixed, another one breaks... That's life, my friend...
Is there anyway to view friends mobile #s? I used to be able to on my old phone and the app for it.
Just talked to my brother, having the same issue on his Epic! Told me dont use Facebook for Android, use regular Facebook App but I cannot find a regular App?
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Just talked to my brother, having the same issue on his Epic! Told me dont use Facebook for Android, use regular Facebook App but I cannot find a regular App?
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Facebook for Android is the only Facebook app that's made by Facebook AFAIK
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I'm having several issues with FB, the biggest being after I look at "X" pictures (My man Club?) no pictures will open. I have to reboot the phone and it works for a minute, then same thing? It seems to me, each time a i open a photo/movie and I backout, it stays in memory until FB is usless?
Lastly, and not that I really give a crap, some of my ex-wife post I get, others I dont. The Only reason I mention, she will post pictures of Granddaughter. Friends of mine get them and call and tell me how cute she is. I dont get them. The she will post something else, I get it, so she did not defriend me? makes no sense!
I have version 1.9.6
Anyclue?
Anyone? 100 views and no replys, any thoughs would be appricated.
Don't know about the pictures and videos, but I know you can block specific people or groups from any post you make, so your ex could be choosing to block you on certain posts.
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Don't know about the pictures and videos, but I know you can block specific people or groups from any post you make, so your ex could be choosing to block you on certain posts.
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Not to be smart, trust me, she has no clue how. Matter fact, no one in that family nor mine (except me) could do that. Oh well............
More worried about my phone freezing after I open "X" amount of photos. I cleaned up text messages, e-mails, mobile photos today (Photos are on FB anyway). Maybe Photon will run better?
Use friendcaster. Much better than official fb app anyway.
Well, mystery #1 solved (I think), she (they) are not smart enough to defriend me and she swore off FB. But since my daughter loves it and so do her religious friends, they created secret goup just for them. Click on THAT group and post, only they see it. I guess now and then, she slips and just post on her main wall. If I go to her profile, I see ALL the post! That makes sense.
With the freezing, clueless. Since Feb 18th, 2012, I have not installed or updated one single app!
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Use friendcaster. Much better than official fb app anyway.
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Friendcaster is nice; there's also Fast and Scope (Scope is invite only; install the app and then use invite code "theverge" to create an account) but none of the third-party Facebook apps can see your entire feed. There will always be some things that will not show up in third-party clients.
A more elegant solution I have found is to use Facebook on your mobile browser. It takes some tweaking to get the desktop site to display, but it can be done. Make sure you're accessing www.facebook.com and not just facebook.com; also setting the user agent to desktop can help as well.
Also, you can get the customizable Maxthon (google it, it lets you customize the name, icon, homepage, and other settings). Name it Facebook, give it a Facebook icon and splash screen, and set the homepage to Facebook, bam, you got a Facebook browser. The browser itself is very capable, and has the user agent feature if you want to use it for the desktop version.
It just helps to have options. The Facebook app has always been sub-par.
I use SEESMIC. It works surprisingly well. Works with twitter too, but I use tweetcaster for that.
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It just helps to have options. The Facebook app has always been sub-par.
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When my phone starts messing up, it's the first app I delete. Works everytime! and the funny thing, I don't have the other apps you mention here and my auto-update is off for everything. FB just crashes the phone for no reason out of the blue. Always has!
Are you on stock? I'm running MIUI and mine crashes mostly when rotating the screen but sometimes for no reason at all.
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Are you on stock? I'm running MIUI and mine crashes mostly when rotating the screen but sometimes for no reason at all.
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I'm stock, but it seems not to matter as I was unlocked and running CM7. Sadly, the only people I know NOT having issues are the 4 iPhone users I know. If I were adding apps and/or doing auto updates, I would maybe understand. I'm not.
Facebook I'd a billion dollar company, producing crap apps. The problem I have with there app is that every update will make or break the functionality. On a side note, the reason handloom works so well on, iOS, is because they have a whooping 10+/- devices to support, versus the hundreds of android devices on various os software. Ie: eclair, froyo, gingerbread, ics, honeycomb, etc. So I can't hate the facebook android devs completely just hate the issues that come with updates!
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Is, facebook. hate predictive text sometime.
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I don't use any facebrick app I only check facebrick from the stock browser. I don't have any issues whatsoever.
Granted the function of uploading pictures to facebrick is done through the gallery on the rocko rom I am using.
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I saw an XDA article talking about the app greenify and how great it was. It essentially hibernates apps so they're not running in the background and was made to copy what the iphone does. I use it but can't tell if it actually helps and don't know of any other app like it.
My question is does anyone use this app? Or another one like it?
If you use it, do you see significant results?
I just wanted to see other peoples' experiences.
Thanks
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I saw an XDA article talking about the app greenify and how great it was. It essentially hibernates apps so they're not running in the background and was made to copy what the iphone does. I use it but can't tell if it actually helps and don't know of any other app like it.
My question is does anyone use this app? Or another one like it?
If you use it, do you see significant results?
I just wanted to see other peoples' experiences.
Thanks
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Yeah, this app will prevent other apps from waking up your phone. So if you don't care about notifications for that app then you can "greenify" it, so that it will not be able to perform automatic tasks in the background.
It does save some noticeable battery life.
I use it too. It's been great for keeping Google Maps' battery suckage down, though the newest update to Maps is supposed to help with that. (I personally refuse to update it, so I'm still on the last version.) It also keeps other apps that may be constantly working in the background from waking up your phone.
I have Google Maps, Pulse, Walgreens, Amazon Appstore, DeskSMS, Google+, and Words With Friends hibernated in mine.
pburghfan426 said:
I saw an XDA article talking about the app greenify and how great it was. It essentially hibernates apps so they're not running in the background and was made to copy what the iphone does. I use it but can't tell if it actually helps and don't know of any other app like it.
My question is does anyone use this app? Or another one like it?
If you use it, do you see significant results?
I just wanted to see other peoples' experiences.
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long story short it's generally considered on xda to be the best battery saving apk, even if you just use it for maps and Facebook.
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Good to know
I ran Greenify for awhile but didn't understand it and couldn't tell if it helped at all. These posts give me a better idea of it function. I'll load it again and set it up better and get back here if I get a better idea of its benefits. Thanks for posting.
I like it alot. I don't need notifications for emails constantly so I stopped that. Battery life is improved from greenifying other things like maps and Facebook as well.
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I like it alot. I don't need notifications for emails constantly so I stopped that. Battery life is improved from greenifying other things like maps and Facebook as well.
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Well if you don't want the app to poll for emails all the time you can just turn off sync for the email apps.
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Well if you don't want the app to poll for emails all the time you can just turn off sync for the email apps.
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True but I use it for other apps so just throw that one in as well.
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You can get notifications on frozen apps if you buy the donate version.
Under experimental features. Works great.
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must have app
I use it for facebook , but facebook does not stay hibernated all the time. So annoying.
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I use it for facebook , but facebook does not stay hibernated all the time. So annoying.
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Facebook is a powerful little B. It (and it's messenger) wreak havoc on phones. Probably the worst battery and resource hog on about any android phone.
Yet, I don't uninstall it
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