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Does having multiple versions of an app drain battery more?

Im curious but as an example if I have twitter, plume, tweetcaster, and Seesmic all on my phone, and they all check twitter do they drain battery more then if I just had one twitter app.
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Do you use the all? Unless your using them all at the same time for some reason it seems unnecessary to have them all running. It's ok if they are all installed and you pick and choose which one you use depending on whatever but its when they all are tying to access resources that you will run into batter issues.
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thejamhole said:
Do you use the all? Unless your using them all at the same time for some reason it seems unnecessary to have them all running. It's ok if they are all installed and you pick and choose which one you use depending on whatever but its when they all are tying to access resources that you will run into batter issues.
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I use them due to the different layout looks and feels and am trying to figure which one has the best functionality.
I know they all do the same thing, but it wasn't until now that it hit me, they all devour battery everytime they update themselves
I don't know why but I had this assumption that since they all dip into twitter they would kinda share the gathered info
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ironlood said:
Im curious but as an example if I have twitter, plume, tweetcaster, and Seesmic all on my phone, and they all check twitter do they drain battery more then if I just had one twitter app.
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Hi,
It depends on the app which you are installing. If you will install more animation based apps and more images based app then the battery will drain soon.

I did that at first too. I guess I was always good about removing the unnecessary apps before battery drainage was a problem. As far as a Twitter app goes I've been using twidroyd pro for quite a while now and I love it. The widget really pulls my home screen together. I switched to seesmic when Twitter banned twidroyd but I didn't like the widget. Is that a weird reason not to use an app?
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[RECOMMENDATION] watch dog full version

Amazons free app for today is watch dog full version. For those of you who like to keep an eye out for rouge apps. I highly recommend you download it.
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Hands down, a Must have app. Get it!

Great catch, Mud! I've been using the Lite version for awhile and I've been forgetting to check out the Amazon free app of the day, so thanks for the heads up. Getting it now....

mudknot2005 said:
Amazons free app for today is watch dog full version. For those of you who like to keep an eye out for rouge apps. I highly recommend you download it.
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Of course I alread paid for it

<3 Amazon freebie paid apps!!
So far I've netted Plants vs. Zombies, Gaia GPS, Pac-man, Mahjong pro, and now watchdog!

Haha. Good call. I had a feeling a thread would show for this.
When I opened amazon and saw watchdog, I swear, the 'get app' button practically pushed itself.
It's days like this that make checking the daily free app of the day on amazon pay off.
Get it, people.

I look at amazon apps every day and I get the free ones even if I don't need them. Todays was a great find though
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A little off topic but search appstore reminder in the forums and you'll find an app that will pop up a notification at a chosen time of what the free app is
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it keeps wanting me to put in a credit card?
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brd912 said:
it keeps wanting me to put in a credit card?
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It will have you add a payment option to your account, but the free apps are never charged to the card.
Once you've added the payment option, it won't ever ask for it again, unless you purchase a paid app.
It's Amazon's way of covering their rearends.

brd912 said:
it keeps wanting me to put in a credit card?
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Yes. This is what discourages me from using Amazon App Store. So I turn on 1 click, do the purchase, and turn it back off right away. Amazon does not refund. So very high chance of accidental purchases that would not be refunded.

When I first installed the Amazon app store, I download an always free app. I didn't like it, so I uninstalled it. Now it is always in my apps list with the option to install it. Does anyone know how I can remove it? I tried searching for an answer but can't find one.
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Thank you downloaded it looks like a useful app
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fernandezhjr said:
When I first installed the Amazon app store, I download an always free app. I didn't like it, so I uninstalled it. Now it is always in my apps list with the option to install it. Does anyone know how I can remove it? I tried searching for an answer but can't find one.
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I would like to know this as well. I have Trillian and YouMail, accidentally got them when they were free, and didn't want them. Would like to get rid of them in my apps list.
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Is there a way to download without installing it?
I trust you guys and want to download it, but I really don't want to install it until I understand what it is and how to use it. I haven't figured out how to download apps without installing them yet.

volumnus said:
I trust you guys and want to download it, but I really don't want to install it until I understand what it is and how to use it. I haven't figured out how to download apps without installing them yet.
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Amazon works differently, while market installs apps when you click Ok, amazon downloads the app and then asks for install... You can just cancel it.
Or if you are scared then install and remove immediately after that using easy uninstaller app.
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metaldood said:
Amazon works differently, while market installs apps when you click Ok, amazon downloads the app and then asks for install... You can just cancel it.
Or if you are scared then install and remove immediately after that using easy uninstaller app.
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If I download the app and hit cancel, would I need to navigate to it with a file explorer like Astro and click to install it? Or, will canceling cause the app not to be saved? How is Easy Uninstaller different from the stock uninstaller, other than how you can uninstall more than one app at a time?

volumnus said:
If I download the app and hit cancel, would I need to navigate to it with a file explorer like Astro and click to install it? Or, will canceling cause the app not to be saved? How is Easy Uninstaller different from the stock uninstaller, other than how you can uninstall more than one app at a time?
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no you can go to the amazon app store > my apps, and install which ever one you want.

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volumnus said:
I trust you guys and want to download it, but I really don't want to install it until I understand what it is and how to use it. I haven't figured out how to download apps without installing them yet.
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There really is no reason to post a comment like this, because what it says is... you don't trust us.
Fine, I'm not hurt. Really, I'm not.
You don't have to trust anyone here. But you sure seem to when receiving other advice in the numerous threads you've posted asking for our help. Now you're not so sure... Lol
Just go read about it on the market. Check how many times watchdog lite has been downloaded, and read the reviews people have posted on its market page.
And then make your own informed decision.

Question regarding market

Hi guys, I wanna know whether something wrong with phone/market or everyone experiences the same thing. The issue is market shows maybe 1% of the total hits. For example if I search clock in the market then it says 21000 as result but when I start to scroll down it shows only 2_3 pages and stops there as if thats it, no more apps.
I did not experience this with the old market. I have gs2 and no root.
Anything I can do??
Thnx
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Noone has the same issue? I really appreciate an answer.
Thnx
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I have the same problem and have not gotten an answer either. Say I search for "root" 50 apps will show up, but at the top out will say 2000. But I want to see them all. I don't get it.
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I deleted all cache and data etc and same thing even deleted market and reinstalled så need some advise here.
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I did that too. the only way to get it back to normal is to install the old market. Your going to have to root to do that. Just revert back and freeze the updater
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I don't like the new market. So many developers are loosing money by not having their apps visable. Plus google isn't any help. Tried that too
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I have the same issue. Also, some of the pictures are not working.
If I check out a app the small preview pictures are fine but if I touch them to fit the screen I have problems viewing them. Usually the second one is only a black screen.
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[Q] Think I have some kind of malware/virus, how do I remove it?

I never had this before today.
Received a notification, it's a red star to the top. Says "Claim Your iPad2 ! - You may have WON an iPad2. Tap here!"
Anyone else ever have this? It popped up twice today, how do I stop this?

I would reflash it immediately.

Its moat likely a push messaged from an app you recently installed.
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Yes you need to be more careful what you are installing.
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Don't really know what it could be, installed a couple updates today from my Go applications, that's really it recently I can think of.
I don't keep any apps around that I don't use, like to keep it clean looking. And I'm not one to be on the Market downloading **** when I'm bored.
I have Lookout install too, guess it didn't catch it. :/

It's a push ad from an app.
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Definitely a push ad from some app you have installed. Download airpush detector from the market and use it to identify the offending app. Uninstall said app. Profit.
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Had this problem before with some app I downloaded for my kid. Annoying. :/

rawrfische said:
Definitely a push ad from some app you have installed. Download airpush detector from the market and use it to identify the offending app. Uninstall said app. Profit.
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Had this problem before with some app I downloaded for my kid. Annoying. :/
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Thanks
Downloaded that and didn't find anything. Must have been something I uninstalled, one of the Go updates. I thought everything was safe from them. :/

You might want to try Air Push Detector. It is free on the market. It will let you know which program you run which puts an ad in your notifications.

its a push notification/ad from application, much like glu games have their game notifications even if the games are not used.

reflash! i'd suggest hypersensation

Me too
Same thing happend to me, Im going to have to download that app. I wonder what app it could have been. I don't randomly download apps weird.

Annoying Japanese ads in the notification bar.

I have Japanese ads in my notification bar. The ads have been in my notification bar for the last week. I have uninstalled the few apps that I have recently downloaded and I haven't figured out which one is the problem. I tried using air blocker, air push detecter and numerous ad detecting apps. The ads don't seem to go away until I tap on them and download an app. Even after I download the app, more ads come back. I have screenshots attached. Can someone help me get rid of these ads?
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Assuming your phone is rooted, have you tried ad blockers?

ILikeJuice said:
Assuming your phone is rooted, have you tried ad blockers?
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Yea AdAway on the play store might help
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KJOM said:
I have Japanese ads in my notification bar. The ads have been in my notification bar for the last week. I have uninstalled the few apps that I have recently downloaded and I haven't figured out which one is the problem. I tried using air blocker, air push detecter and numerous ad detecting apps. The ads don't seem to go away until I tap on them and download an app. Even after I download the app, more ads come back. I have screenshots attached. Can someone help me get rid of these ads?
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You may also have been infected with some sort of malware/adware. I suggest downloading Norton Mobile Security or Lookout Security and running a scan. If one antivirus program doesn't pick up, try the other.
Also, uninstall all the apps that they've told you to install. Those are probably just making it worse.
Good luck :good:

master5hake said:
Yea AdAway on the play store might help
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Ad away and ad block plus seem to be working. I will reply after some more time to let you know if they work fully or not.
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I have tried those before and they just detect every qpp with regular in app ads. Of course I have uninstalled the apps that were in the ads as soon as I downloaded them.
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They're back -_____-
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Xeon is right you may be infected with malware. I would boot into recovery and do a full wipe 2-3 times to make sure you get rid of all your user data. Then download an antivirus app and make sure you watch what you download after that

I guess its about time I wipe/reset again. Thanks everyone for the help.
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aSpotCat might help you pinpoint the offending apps.
And never download software just to make a nag screen go away (phone, PC, etc.). The problem will only get worse.