We should be able to make a list of the notorious apps that we've experienced that cause battery drain. No, not some 3d launcher, not some game you play too much, but apps that when installed kill your battery without good cause..
This is an opinion thread, if you see the same app repeatedly than maybe that opinion should matter, and feel free to give your insight.. but no "you're an idiot, because blah blah"
I've used poweramp music player for nearly a year, I've emailed the dev because it will kill my battery at huge rates, but they claimed that it isn't the app. Even though there are tons of posts about the same thing(many about my phone the Samsung galaxy s).. I'm sure it does, but I love the functionality it has and can't give it up. Which is fine.
But I suddenly have battery drain really bad and tthe only change I made was switching to go launcher. Maybe it is the Widgets, but I have lost several hours a day of battery only after using it.
Either way, since I couldn't find a thread about apps people think cause needless battery drain I figured I'd post one. I bet there are a ton of apps people will hate on, but maybe qe can save someone from finding out the hard way, or maybe a developer will see their app listed and think they should work on it..
Regardless, what apps have you installed and noticed needless battery drain?
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Wi-Fi Finder from Android Market drains the battery of my HTC Desire HD
I hear the android IRC app drains battery pretty badly.
Go!chat is litteraly eating the battery of every android device i've put it on
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This thread is going to be full of complete nonsense.. There are badly written apps that are going to do stupid stuff, but there are also apps which have custom codecs which use more power to decode certain file formats (PowerAmp) and apps which by design are going to use power (Wifi Scanners).
The sorta new free warcraft type game, eternity warriors or something like that. Impossible to turn off
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khaytsus said:
This thread is going to be full of complete nonsense.. There are badly written apps that are going to do stupid stuff, but there are also apps which have custom codecs which use more power to decode certain file formats (PowerAmp) and apps which by design are going to use power (Wifi Scanners).
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The exact kind of comment that doesn't contribute. No, it may list some apps that cause NEEDLESS battery drain. According to the dev of poweramp it doesn't process the muscle any differently, and shouldn't drain more than the stock app. There's no custom codecs to read mp3s.
I wont waste anymore time on someone who isn't contributing, only trolling.
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The yahoo! Mail app with it's push only setting had been a HUGE battery killer!
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Silentbtdeadly said:
The exact kind of comment that doesn't contribute. No, it may list some apps that cause NEEDLESS battery drain. According to the dev of poweramp it doesn't process the muscle any differently, and shouldn't drain more than the stock app. There's no custom codecs to read mp3s.
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You clearly don't get that PowerAmp doesn't use the same codecs as most media players.. It has custom ffmpeg libs. The author can say they should be similar in cpu but doesn't mean they are.
And I agree that it does use more cpu.. Mostly notice it when I listen to music while sleeping, the phone gets much warmer than if I'm using stock codecs.
And watch your use of the word troll...
Back to my point..
Danzanzio said:
The yahoo! Mail app with it's push only setting had been a HUGE battery killer!
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NetCounter prevents the phone from enter sleep mode. Stay clear!
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+1 for the yahoo mail app.
I am using Go Launcher Ex, Launcher Pro + and ADW Launcher and cannot say that one consumes more battery than the other, it depends more on what widgets or live WP you use in the launcher, so i think we should focus on pinpointing what widgets and in what settings or conditions drain the battery, for example i found that Animated Weather was for me draining to much juice and replaced it by BeWeather, for the same reason i replaced Executive Widgets by Pure Widget.
On the other hand i removed K9 Mail and am using MailDroid, as in several occasions K9 climbed to the top of the list in battery usage, doubling even the screen usage.
At this point i never more experienced excessive battery drain, other than screen and phone cell standby (due to bad reception in my area).
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On the other hand i removed K9 Mail and am using MailDroid, as in several occasions K9 climbed to the top of the list in battery usage, doubling even the screen usage.
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Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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Yes you are right i am using pop.
You point is also correct, there are widgets which wont let deep sleep the phone. A method to pinpoint them is to look at the logcat and see which app is waking up the phone constantly.
tunein radio pro and sensor
I had a problem with tunein radio pro. Even after I shut it down though (App Management), under battery use, tunein radio was listed as draining battery continuously under sensor usage.
No idea if it is a sensor issue or the app issue.
kik (gotten better with battery but still needs improvement)
jolaren said:
Go!chat is litteraly eating the battery of every android device i've put it on
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yup same here
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khaytsus said:
Let me guess, you were using POP...
Actually I might as well complain about a widget I installed, but I uninstalled it a month ago and haven't been able to figure out exactly which one it is in the market... Doh.. I installed it and it literally woke the phone and my tablet up ONCE A MINUTE to update. Deep sleep was gone, battery life about 30% lower than expected. So beware of widgets that update often
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why not IMAP?
FIRST KILLER,
GOOGLE MAP!
I disabled it to prevent it auto start via autostart app.
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I've noticed the Photobucket app likes to open itself up in the background at times (i.e. overnight) and use up to 5% of my battery power.
Maps, Google+, PURE News and Messager widgets, K9 for Pure, XDA App (unfoortunately)
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When I look under battery usage the only thing showing is Media Server 75%....how do I stop it from running or can I stop it. Battery seems to be draining faster lately
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So I was wondering why my battery is draining a little bit fast overnight. I checked better battery stats and to my surprise, the gallery 3d something seems to be running and I'm not sure what it does really. Can someone help? Thanks.
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Usually when it drains the battery, you have sync enabled which will upload/download all your photos to Picasa.
Go to Settings->Accounts&Sync->[Your account] and make sure "Photos" is unchecked.
Guys i m fed up
Its taking more time to charge and less than that time to drain
These are my phone details!!
Pls help guys
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This is useless without screen on time.
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Better Battery Stats and investigate wakelocks .
jje
Dude.Lots of wakelocks..
Get GSM battery monitor, and see which apps are causing the most wakelocks
eggman89 said:
Dude.Lots of wakelocks..
Get GSM battery monitor, and see which apps are causing the most wakelocks
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is there an app that can show real time information about percentage drop in battery & during the drop what were the apps & processes that are being used that caused the drop? with such an app i think we can have a clear picture which apps consume more juice.
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eggman89 said:
Dude.Lots of wakelocks..
Get GSM battery monitor, and see which apps are causing the most wakelocks
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is there an app that can show real time information about percentage drop in battery & during the drop what were the apps & processes that are being used that caused the drop? with such an app i think we can have a clear picture which apps consume more juice.
Even though I only have gmail email sync on, other Google syncs were causing me a ship load of wakelocks so I froze them in Rom Toolbox. Now using siyah 1.4 and my battery is amazing. Never better and a big improvement over siyah 1.2.6 which I used previously.
See below for some of the apps that were causing me issues. Particularly Calender and Google sync services. Also froze Polaris viewer but only because I now have the full version.
I still have gmail push and email every 4 hours + data on (3g off as I can barely get it at home) and wifi is on 100% of the time. Also have multiple weather, currency, phone plan and more widgets refreshing every few hours but battery is amazing.
Now overnight I only lose 2-3%. Been using the phone all day and have 4 hours screen time and over 30% battery left.
Below is a screenshot I took yesterday. I froze most of them as they were causing wakelocks.
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I haven't even used the camera today, and my battery stats app says the camera sensor has been active all day, 14 hrs 15 min. It's at the top of the battery usage chart in the app and settings. Any advice? The app does not appear in my recent apps menu.
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I haven't even used the camera today, and my battery stats app says the camera sensor has been active all day, 14 hrs 15 min. It's at the top of the battery usage chart in the app and settings. Any advice? The app does not appear in my recent apps menu.
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Sense will only keep the last 8 apps used in the recent apps menu so if it was used somehow earlier, chances are it won't show up there. Based on my noob knowledge the best I can say is periodically check your battery usage (settings>battery>usage) and click the "x" to close the camera (or any other app) if it's been activated. Maybe you used it and didn't remember? On a side note, I wonder if accessing the gallery activated the camera to run.
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I had the same problem one day.
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It happened again today, but only for 4 hours. Pain in the ass.
Same here
I have also been having this problem on my DNA, and have been manually force closing the camera after every time I use it.
... very irritating.
Hopefully they'll fix it with the Sense 5 update. Til then, anyone have a better idea than the one mentioned above?
I take beautiful photos everyday almost so I can't really say if it does that because I use my DNA camera obsessively I will test one day and see
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