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Facebook eating a lot of battery

I've never had Facebook eat this much of my battery before, but whenever its background services (MediaUpload service I think is the name), my battery drains at least 1% per minute.
I've tried force closing every time I quit the app, I've tried getting rid of its background data completely. I've tried disabling notifications. I don't sync at all. But the damn app still pops up every now and then and eats my battery while it does NOTHING.
This is an issue that I've found on the Nexus S. I've had a Galaxy S and Optimus One before and I've never encountered such an issue. I'm on Air Kernel 4.2 and AOKP milestone 5, but this problem also occurred on other ROMs and kernels.
Does anyone else have a similar issue and is there a way to fix it (outside of deleting Facebook or freezing it)?

chw2006 said:
I've never had Facebook eat this much of my battery before, but whenever its background services (MediaUpload service I think is the name), my battery drains at least 1% per minute.
I've tried force closing every time I quit the app, I've tried getting rid of its background data completely. I've tried disabling notifications. I don't sync at all. But the damn app still pops up every now and then and eats my battery while it does NOTHING.
This is an issue that I've found on the Nexus S. I've had a Galaxy S and Optimus One before and I've never encountered such an issue. I'm on Air Kernel 4.2 and AOKP milestone 5, but this problem also occurred on other ROMs and kernels.
Does anyone else have a similar issue and is there a way to fix it (outside of deleting Facebook or freezing it)?
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yea, it started after a recent update. i had to uninstall it from my nexus s and galaxy nexus because it was annoying the heck out of me. i wasnt using it but it was still eating 8-12% of my battery.

Uninstall it and wait for the next update maybe then it doesnt use so much battery anymore.

You might want to try Friend caster or Fast for Facebook
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The Facebook app for android is worthless. Much better to just use the browser instead.
I wonder why they still haven't managed to create a decent app.

I have seen this reported often recently and not sure of the cause. My battery life has not been effected at all by the newer versions.
Maybe its something to do with roms that include the hack to sync fb. The new apps changed something related to that.
This usage is from today. Was outside with screen on full brightness ( extremely sunny and crisp today in NY) and used GPS with fb. When I dont use the app doesnt use any battery. No waking the device etc aokp m5 with trinity

Keep Awake - Google Search

My n5 seems to have the GoogleSearch keep awake for 20hours+. is it normal? being in EST, I was not using device for atleast 10 hours from 10pm yesterday until now.
Attached screenshot. Any one else facing same issue?

real painful bug. I've gotten it once on my n5, twice on my n7 v2, once on my n7 v1 and twice on my n4. ONly my n5 and n7 v2 are on kit kat. the other 2 are on 4.3. Just no rhyme or reason thus far as to why it happens but BBS says it's cacheupdate service or entries refresh wake lock. Only thing to stop it is to restart the device. At first i thought it was a kitkat thing but it's rearing it's ugly head on my n4 and n7 v1.

ive been having the same issue. a temporary fix on my n5 was to force stop google search, but it would inevitably return 3-4 hours later. putting it in airplane mode solved the issue...but obviously i couldn't always keep my n5 in airplane mode.
i literally just reset my phone to see if that helps solve the wake issue with google search. i even tried contacting google nexus support, but they haven't been much help at this time. ill let you know if factory resetting my device has helped at all

So, I am not alone with this problem. Its occurred a couple of days ago, went away, and came back.

monilchheda said:
So, I am not alone with this problem. Its occurred a couple of days ago, went away, and came back.
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No u r not alone. I have it every now and then. I installed Cpu spy so I can see if my phone is sleeping or not. If I have the wake lock it stays on 300mhz when screen is off when it should be sleeping.
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Stock krt16s on nexus 4. The problem started with the official factory image (didn't had it with slimkat) and since my device never slept again.... Heeelp
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The only consistent way i've seen to clear the entries refresh wakelock is to uninstall the updates from within the Google Search App.
This completely clears the issue rather than a restart which works temporarily so Google has messed up with the last Google Search update (the one that brings extra funcionality to Google Now.

I had the same problem, turned off location reporting in Google Settings and it's gone..

V.Dragos said:
I had the same problem, turned off location reporting in Google Settings and it's gone..
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Turning off location reporting never cleared it for me i still needed to uninstall the latest search update.

I had the same issue, so disabling Google now (opening Google now, settings, toggle it off) has stopped this wakelock for me!
Sucks a bit to turn it off, but I'd rather not have the wakelock than have good now info, I'll just wait for an update/fix.

YoHoJo said:
I had the same issue, so disabling Google now (opening Google now, settings, toggle it off) has stopped this wakelock for me!
Sucks a bit to turn it off, but I'd rather not have the wakelock than have good now info, I'll just wait for an update/fix.
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this just happened to me, out of no where. kept my device awake the whole time i was in the shower. i will be testing by disabling google now. i agree, it just isn't worth it to deal with these bugs, i can get weather notifications elsewhere

Just got my N5 yesterday and this is going on, Google search using 45% of my battery by the end of the day. Will try turning it off :-/
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same here
I too have the same problem and only restarting the phone fixes it and it just happened to me again an hour back.
I have noticed that sometimes when I remove the charger from the socket after the full charge, the problem comes only after that time....so after charging the phone almost every time I check my battery stats for few seconds and if it persist then I restart the phone and yea it get solved but a temporary solution and its really annoying .......hope google fixes it soon
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49389752#post49389752

Testing Nexus 5 memory?

Is there a tool or way to test the Nexus 5 sdcard memory?
For the last six months I've had problems with my rooted Nexus 5 (stock kitkat) suddenly running very slow. After a lot of time trying to figure out why, I determined the following.
1. Slowdown happens when an app is writing something to the sdcard.
2. Is not a particular app. Can be any app.
3. When it happens all 4 CPU cores are running close to full blast.
4. Battery usage shows "android os" is 50% of the usage.
5. Task killers do not solve the problem.
6. Reboot restores things to normal for a while.
So I now wonder if there's something wrong with the built in memory but don't know how to test it.
Is there a way to test the Nexus 5 message? It is very frustrating to talk 2-3 pictures and then have the 4th one make everything grind to a stop. Right now, typing this is a pain because every letter takes its time to appear. I know rebooting will solve it but I should not have to.

sounds like you get a process(es) that get "stuck". also, when this happens, have you ever checked if your google stuff is syncing or " stuck"? sometimes badly written apps can cause this to happen as well.

simms22 said:
sounds like you get a process(es) that get "stuck". also, when this happens, have you ever checked if your google stuff is syncing or " stuck"? sometimes badly written apps can cause this to happen as well.
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I think you are right but I don't know how to find the faulty process. I "think" I first noticed it after the google camera update, but I used settings /apps/ to uninstall the camera update without improvement. I think camera showed the problem because it has to save the image to memory sdcard.
I don't sync and have sync turned off everywhere and on all apps. Sometimes Google play shows up as the prominent battery user even though I don't have it update apps automatically. But it is primarily android os that is the bad guy.

One of the things I had tried when the problem first started was to restore an earlier nandroid backup, but the problem continued, so I restored the most recent nandroid I had done before the earlier restore.

Recent screenshot.
I was on the browser and Tapatalk for a while. But not on play store.
Not frozen now when taking this screenshot.

You need to get gsam, or BBS or wakelock detector and see what one of those says. The stock battery screen is pretty much useless to find a battery problem.
But I'm guessing all your issues are tired to one bad app as said above.
Get a battery app I suggested, run a full charge down with it running.... And comb thru all of it and see if anything pops out.

kj2112 said:
You need to get gsam, or BBS or wakelock detector and see what one of those says. The stock battery screen is pretty much useless to find a battery problem.
But I'm guessing all your issues are tired to one bad app as said above.
Get a battery app I suggested, run a full charge down with it running.... And comb thru all of it and see if anything pops out.
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I already did that. I have gsam and wakelock detector installed but my knowledge of Android is very limited and they have not helped me so far except to confirm I have a problem. I wonder if there is a way to see the dates I installed various apps. That way I could uninstall in the order they were installed.

Here are various screenshots. The list of active processes goes down several pages.

My guess... It's an app that hadn't been updated since kit kat has been out, and it's spamming location services.
Just a guess.
Check in gsam for times waking device, held awake time and kernel wakelock. (You need gsam root companion from play store installed as well.). These are all found in gsam app screen by clicking the drop down at the top. See if anything looks bad on any of those.
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Oh, and obviously, whatever tick tick is, is killing your battery. If it accesses location.... that's my bet for the culprit.

Thank you all for the advice. Obviously I've tried various things. TickTick is a todo list app. Quite nice actually. Anyway I had suspected it might be a problem and have uninstalled it (several times) with no improvement.
Finally, I seem to be making some headway. Don't know which of these two did it (if the improvement lasts.....).
1. There were 3-4 apps I had avoided updating because I didn't like the updated versions (maps, Hangouts which I don't use, Firefox, etc). So I now gave up and clicked on "update all".
2. I disabled the module gravitybox and rebooted.
So far things have returned to normal. My CPU cores are back to low levels.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed. If things continue well after a while I will reactivate gravitybox. I'm holding my breath!

After a full 15 minutes of normal behavior (unbelievable!), I took my courage in hand, reactivated gravitybox. Used my usual apps without the previous freezing recurring (so far). If this continues - and it seems to - it might suggest you don't update GAPPS (I think it was Hangouts) only at your peril.
Such a difference having an uncrippled phone!

After a while the slowdowns returned. Any suggestions?

[Q] android lollipop keeps killing apps

Every test build, including the final release of lollipop had plagued me with a bug where it continuously oom kills apps, including the bluetooth service, music running in the nackground, navigation while im driving, or even my keyboard while im typing. It doesnt matter if its a background process or in the foreground, it will get killed eventually without any force prompt. I've tried lowering my oom values in 3c toolbox but that hasn't done anything. Anyone else having this problem or have a solution?

Well, I know that feel bro. LOL.
Check my post here for my experience.

b00bs said:
Well, I know that feel bro. LOL.
Check my post here for my experience.
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I'm getting the exact same issue here. after using it for awhile (about 40 hours), i was getting launcher redraws constantly. I checked memory usage and system was hogging somewhere between 800MB to 1GB. I was reading on a reddit forum that this is due to a memory leak and that it could be a google play services issue and not a lollipop issue? I'm not a developer so really no basis for comment, but i feel you in that the phone definitely does start to get laggy. I'm really hoping google will address this, but in the meantime the fix has been to reboot.

I have the same problem. N5 is almost unusable on Lollipop. I will admit I have a lot of apps but not that many that are always running in the background.
The big annoyances are what OP said: Navigation getting cut off in the background, Music getting killed. I've noticed these two problems being more prominent when BlueTooth is turned on/connected.

makapav said:
I have the same problem. N5 is almost unusable on Lollipop. I will admit I have a lot of apps but not that many that are always running in the background.
The big annoyances are what OP said: Navigation getting cut off in the background, Music getting killed. I've noticed these two problems being more prominent when BlueTooth is turned on/connected.
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Seriously, music getting killed with device like Nexus 5 is blow my mind.

Yup. Had Power Amp get killed today. Literally the first time I have EVER seen Power Amp killed. Thanks Lolliflop!

Yeah, this is extremely annoying! Have to restart the phone every 12-24h if I want some decent multitasking!
Please star this issue:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79729

My Nexus 5 has now become unusable. I can't figure out if it's because of encryption or just shiate multitasking in Lollipop.
<rant> Screw you Google for not having developers that actually use beyond 10 standard apps on their phones in your test group. </rant>

This has nothing to do with encryption .. I don't use this this feature.

Nouget BETA users...list your issues here

I seen threads about thoughts of the update but I figured this thread to be more specific on the issues your experience on nought beta: bugs, freezes, force closes, lag, etc.

Posting issues or suggestions here will be useless to the Samsung team. To give feedback on the beta, just open the "Samsung Members" app and provide your feedback there. This way the team can actually address it.

Aside from standby battery drain, it's been pretty smooth.
Oh, the keypad sometimes can't keep up with my typing lol. That's about it.
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I am still getting the sound cutting out bug that was seen in Marshmallow.... ie; sound on YouTube videos, etc will play for a few seconds and then cut out to silence. Have tried all the "solutions" offered but it still happens.
*Very frustrating.

I have the battery drain problem too.
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I've reported this to Samsung member but in camera when you look at the last pic you took it shows last image of what you downloaded or received also. If you downloaded something after to took your last picture that is. Only pictures taken with the camera should be in here. Note 7 had this same issue.
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That is strange. Battery life on mine has been the best i have ever gotten with this phone.

Probably poor battery other than that running great

M9x3mos said:
That is strange. Battery life on mine has been the best i have ever gotten with this phone.
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Did you factory reset after the install?

Encrypted SD keeps popping up.
The "Clear All" button in recents is in a bad location (top right, better at bottom right)
Noticed that double tap AOD screen can wake the screen but only if you Dtap the notification or music playing. Suggested that we get full double tap anywhere to wake option.
Default e-mail does not have marked as read or delete options in notification bar.
Battery drain faster.
It may just be me but My Knox seems broken. I changed password and everything but on last attempt before lockdown but does not work.
All reported to Sammy except my Knox which may be a user error

I've had GREAT battery life, no drain.
Only issue is when I download an APK through Chrome and tap the notification to install then Package Disabler crashes. If I install it with Root Explorer it installs fine.

Android System battery hogging. Whopping 40%!

I average 8% an hour and have an average 5hr screen on time per charge cycle I think a lot of people some have some rogue apps

Battery life is much better! The main issue I'm having is no sound or vibration notification when I get a text. Sometimes I loose my data connection.

Looks like google voice doesn't work with the update. How do I report this ? I can't get any outgoing call to work through google voice
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Network mode 3g only.....
Then it should be 3g....
But it is connecting as 4g.....

I'm now getting a Wi-Fi connection problem. Just disconnects and reconnects. Kind of annoying
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Z51 said:
I'm now getting a Wi-Fi connection problem. Just disconnects and reconnects. Kind of annoying
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Go into the settings with for it to turn off, then manually turn it on. Also I recommend leaving it on as well as Bluetooth. There is a known bug with both of those and leaving them both on fixes the battery drain issue you will have if you try to turn them off and they keep automatically turning on/off on their own.

ShrekOpher said:
Go into the settings with for it to turn off, then manually turn it on. Also I recommend leaving it on as well as Bluetooth. There is a known bug with both of those and leaving them both on fixes the battery drain issue you will have if you try to turn them off and they keep automatically turning on/off on their own.
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my battery drain issue seems to be gone.
I will however turn on the bluetooth to see if it helps/.

Haven't seen this posted, hopefully i didn't miss the post though.
When playing a game using the "Game Launcher", I always played with "No Alerts during Game" selected. But since I upgraded to the Nougat Beta, Facebook Messenger somehow still sends me messages even though it should be blocked.
Anyone else with this issue?