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Battery Usage?

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‎02-27-2017 02:51

‎02-27-2017 02:51

Has anyone noticed recently that their phone's battery is draining a lot quicker than usual?

 

After looking in the Android Settings - it's claiming that the Fitbit Android App is using 60% of my battery! That's a huge amount for a program which I hardly open and is essentially just running in the background. I tried turning off the various settings within the app which may cause higher power consumption - but still no change.

 

It's only started to happen about a week ago, and according to the play store the app was updated on the 23rd February which would seem to match up.

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‎02-27-2017 16:03

‎02-27-2017 16:03

@Hilly_2016, the Fitbit app should not be using anywhere near 60% of the battery usage for your phone.  I just checked mine, and it show 4% usage. I do not have All-Day Sync nor Always Connected enabled in the app, and I normally manually sync the tracker a couple times a day. The rest of the time the app is in the background with no connection.  If you have not restarted your phone after the new Fit bit App version downloaded, you should do that.  I would recommend going into the Google Play Store and disable the Automatic Update for the Fitbit app so that you can control when it upgrades.

 

 

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