Facebook App draining battery?

[Mooondog]

Screen = 33% battery usage
Facebook = 23%
OS = 23%

Really? How can FB take that much juice? I just pop in for a minute or so every once in a while.

 

[sushiglobster]

Yup. The Facebook app is notorious for draining battery life. It's awful. I uninstalled it a moved on with life.

 

[Small_law]

Yikes. I set mine to refresh every two hours and I never see that with occasional use. You might have the interval set to high.

 

[BringMeBack9801]

Still running 1.5.2 here because of how much of a resource hog the new FB app is.

 

[Mooondog]

Yikes. I set mine to refresh every two hours and I never see that with occasional use. You might have the interval set to high.

it was set to 1 hour. I uninstalled the app....lets see what happens. I can live without it.

 

[radgatt]

Set it to 'never' because facebook pushes the notifications to the phone when you get a message or what not...

 

[2ndaccord]

I deleted Facebook and downloaded friendcaster. Friend caster does not have the battery drain issues that Facebook has and its a really good app.

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[LCW]

Screen = 33% battery usage
Facebook = 23%
OS = 23%

Really? How can FB take that much juice? I just pop in for a minute or so every once in a while.

Latest FB app (1.9.3) isn't any better. I noticed it sucking 29% of my battery usage this am, and I hadn't even launched it. Was all background process.

Needless to say, I've had it with the FB app. I uninstalled it, and going to use the web app from now on (until FB get's their together). Works almost as well. I put a shorcut on my homescreen. That will work for now.

No other apps suck this much battery. I don't get how the FB app on Android is so much suckier than the iOS version.

I'd give it zero stars in the google play review if that was possible. 1 star is the lowest you can go.

 

[tdi1985]

Not sure if I'm missing something, but Facebook is not showing up on my battery usage screen. It is using up about 45mb of memory though.

 

[greyhd]

I deleted Facebook and downloaded friendcaster. Friend caster does not have the battery drain issues that Facebook has and its a really good app.

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I did the same thing. Facebook app does not get along with Android.

 

[Scatabrain]

Very bad for battery for me. Uninstalled.

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[dmmarck]

It's because it's constantly searching for GPS, on top of terrible loading (even with the newest updates...).

It's a terrible app, plain and simple.

 

[yosteve]

In settings, data, restrict background data so facebook stops checking (esp with some of the signal issues).