Chrome Draining Battery

[julianda01]

So, I'm not sure what to do about this. I've googled extensively and searched around, but it's possible I'm just missing something that everyone else knows about.

For some reason, Chrome keeps showing up in my battery use list as chewing up about 1/3 of my battery (28%-36%), regardless of whether or not I've even opened Chrome since charging my phone.

I've tried:
1) Unchecking the "tilt to scroll" option in developer tools for Chrome
2) Shutting off all syncing for Chrome
3) Force-stopping the app
4) Restoring Chrome to factory settings and uninstalling any updates

Only the last one gave me any sort of improvement, and only for about a week. Then Chrome became a problem again.

Any ideas? I love this phone; I'd like to figure out why Chrome is draining my battery in the background.

 

[npark2012]

So, I'm not sure what to do about this. I've googled extensively and searched around, but it's possible I'm just missing something that everyone else knows about.

For some reason, Chrome keeps showing up in my battery use list as chewing up about 1/3 of my battery (28%-36%), regardless of whether or not I've even opened Chrome since charging my phone.

I've tried:
1) Unchecking the "tilt to scroll" option in developer tools for Chrome
2) Shutting off all syncing for Chrome
3) Force-stopping the app
4) Restoring Chrome to factory settings and uninstalling any updates

Only the last one gave me any sort of improvement, and only for about a week. Then Chrome became a problem again.

Any ideas? I love this phone; I'd like to figure out why Chrome is draining my battery in the background.

Mine is only using 3% of battery and I've only used it for 5 minutes. Perhaps a factory reset on your phone, not just chrome, will fix this issue. So maybe give that a try and see if that helped.

 

[DeadpoolJunior]

Depending on what your doing in Chrome, it gets higher. I used it for maybe 5-10mins just now but I was watching a bunch of YouTube videos in the app so that shot it to the top of my battery drain list right under screen. I typically find Chrome to be a battery drainer regardless. I would try Dolphin Beta if this keeps happening. Just disable/uninstall Chrome and use that, in some areas Dolphin is better anyway but I prefer using stock apps.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

 

[julianda01]

So, I updated Chrome and removed the updates again--had a couple days of good battery life, and then all of the sudden, it started sucking up juice during cycles where I haven't opened it even for a second, and it has no tabs open. This seems like a major bug.

 

[julianda01]

Perhaps I've figured out the problem! Not sure why it's doing this, but when I go into my "Cached Processes" it is alternating between stopped and cached in background every 2 seconds or less. What could cause this to happen? I've emptied the cache and data from the app, and rebooted, and it stopped. Not sure why it began in the first place.

 

[return_0]

If you haven't tried rebooting the phone, do that. If that doesn't work, you might want to contact Google or even factory reset the phone.

 

[wunderbar]

Could it be that you have tabs open that might be doing some kind of active process?

 

[julianda01]

If you haven't tried rebooting the phone, do that. If that doesn't work, you might want to contact Google or even factory reset the phone.

I ended up trying all of these. I've just finished trying the factory reset; we'll see if that helps. Google offered a replacement if I wanted, but I want to see if this helps it.

I also just realized I have a monitoring app that might be tapping into the Chrome API even when I'm not using/haven't used Chrome. I've e-mailed them to ask if that's an issue.

I thought maybe it was automatically refreshing tabs running in the background as well, but making sure that there are no open tabs and then force closing Chrome doesn't seem to make a difference. We'll see what happens w/ the reset, I guess.

 

[Andrew Lawrence]

I've been having the same issue, please let us know what happens after the reset!