Chrome = Battery Drain?

**matt3166** · 07-20-2012, 02:51 PM

My battery was draining really quick and I wasn't even using it, was just in my pocket.
I've been reading all different forums and some said it was the Chrome browser causing the problem and not just on the epic 4g touch. Don't know why? Maybe because its always syncing with the bookmark and webpages who knows. So I uninstalled it and my battery drain seems to have really slowed down to a crawl like in gingerbread, still jot as good but much better.
So if you have Chrome installed and having battery drain try uninstalling it.

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**Zamar42** · 07-25-2012, 09:15 AM

I just wanted to second the results. I installed Chrome on Galaxy S 2 and battery life was almost cut in half. Looked under my battery usage and Chrome was 13% of my usage, despite using it only 4 times over a couple of days. Once I uninstalled it the battery drain slowed back down.

**bp_b850** · 07-25-2012, 10:33 AM

Same results. Battery actually better than GBread.

**intoaction66** · 07-25-2012, 08:22 PM

I was just going to start a thread about this, I downloaded it the other day and didn't use it very long at all, and it had used like 12% or something. Today I haven't used it at all....not even once and it used 8% of my battery.

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**tivoboy** · 08-04-2012, 10:00 AM

I've had a simliar issue. Chrom was open in multi-tasking, but not being used. One window open, haven't used it in days and yet it is 22% of my battery usage. sync isn't setup, so I'm going to try and just kill it and see if BL is better.

**markta** · 08-04-2012, 10:20 AM

Ditto, Ditto and Ditto. I installed Chrome while still on GB and had a huge drain in battery life. Once unistalled i had a huge improvement.

**intoaction66** · 08-11-2012, 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by tivoboy

I've had a simliar issue. Chrom was open in multi-tasking, but not being used. One window open, haven't used it in days and yet it is 22% of my battery usage. sync isn't setup, so I'm going to try and just kill it and see if BL is better.

any luck with that?

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**PanchoPlanet** · 08-11-2012, 08:09 PM

Chrome likes ics, not gingerbread.
But after you have ics and install Chrome, there's going to be a whole bunch of other stuff that's going to suck your battery dry, so your going to wind up back in the same boat.
GB good. Ics bad.

Pp.

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**tivoboy** · 08-12-2012, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by intoaction66

any luck with that?

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well, I've stopped using Chrome and my battery life has gotten better for sure. I can go nearly 2days now.

But, what is odd is that even though I don't LAUNCH Chrome, and even though my task manager is setup to Kill Chrome, it shows up as 27% of my battery use?

**tivoboy** · 08-17-2012, 08:43 AM

What I REALLY don't understand about CHROME is, I don't open it, I don't use it, I don't let internet links automatically spawn it, I have a task killer installed (that works GREAT!) and yet, on a several day basis, CHROME uses apparently 37% of my battery life?

WTW, how is that even possible?

**Topgonzo** · 08-17-2012, 08:57 AM

I don't understand why anyone would use Google Chrome. It's plagued by bugs and the battery drain being just one of them. I un installed it and now haven't had nearly as many problems.

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**kkapoorr** · 08-17-2012, 09:24 AM

Pesky battery-sucking setting in Chrome

There is a possible solution. I've not tried it yet so....

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**sytanek** · 08-17-2012, 10:45 AM

I had previously read the tilt sensor settings in chrome are what causes this issue, could try turning it off. I think its in settings then experimental or something like that.