Polaris viewer?

[Tcbemis]

I downloaded and viewed a document last night that apparently triggered Polaris viewer. Now it's sucking up my battery. Within 10 minutes of waking up this morning it was down 2 percent and I hadn't even turned on the screen!

I tried disabling it, but of course that means I can't view downloads. Should I 1) disable /reenable as needed 2) is there an acceptable alternative app I could download?

Any help is appreciated! I just did a factory reset for that useless jelly bean update (battery issues, reset fixed it) and I'm getting pretty discouraged with this s3.

Thanks!

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[meyerweb#CB]

When Polaris is running, long-press the home button, tap the little pie chart icon, and kill the application. Then it won't be running, and can't use any battery. You can kill any running app this way. This is the first I've heard of this issue with Polaris, though. Did the problem occur before or after you did the factory reset? One of the disadvantages of the true multi-tasking Android offers is that a badly behaved app can continue to run in the background, chewing up cpu cycles and battery. That won't happen on the iPhone, because most apps can't actually multi-task. When you switch away from them, they stop running completely, and only when you switch back to them do they start running again.

Me, I like the ability to let apps run in the background. It's make the device much more useful.

And the JB update issues, and factory reset, have nothing to do with the S3. It's something that can affect all Android devices. You're basically trying to install a new OS over many existing applications that have set preferences, and altered default Android settings. Sometimes those conflict with things the new version of the OS is trying to do. Google really needs to come up with a better way to handle these full OS updates. Fortunately, the problems don't affect most users, but if they bite you it's a real pain.

 

[Tcbemis]

Hi, thanks for replying! I disabled Polaris viewer and installed Adobe, which seems fine. BUT, battery is still at 5 percent use by Polaris viewer, what the heck? I've restarted, turn off, waited, turned on, charged to 100%, but it's still there saying it's using battery. I'm very confused.
Any thoughts? Maybe I'll restart now that it's fully charged? Pull the battery?

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[Tcbemis]

Oh! And it's not on the pie chart thingy at all. Facebook, Chrome & Google only.

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[Tcbemis]

So I let it fully charge, still saying 5 percent. So I restarted and now it's no longer showing up. Whew.

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[meyerweb#CB]

If it's not on the pie chart thingie, then I don't think it's running. But in the future you can also check with the Application manager under settings. Scroll on tab to the right to see running apps.