[Update: A Fix is Ready] Latest Facebook Update Causing Big Battery Drain?
Concurrent with the big Froyo for Droid update, Facebook launched a much-appreciated update to their mobile app that refined the interface and brought even more features that keep you in the app rather than push you out to Facebook’s mobile site. And concurrent with both those launches have come some complaints that battery life has diminished. Most Droid users who have experienced the lesser battery life chalked it up to the Android 2.2 update, but it turns out the new Facebook app uses a “partial wake lock” keeping your phone active even when it appears to be in sleep mode.
For now the only way to avoid Facebook chugging along and consuming battery power behind your darkened and inactive screen is to sign out and close down the application. Hopefully the issue may be addressed in a future update. There may be more to the battery drain than just Facebook. For those running Android 2.2 it may be a combination of the two, even. For those that have one or either of the updates, how has your battery been holding up?
[Update]: Facebook has since updated their application in the Android market that should hopefully address this disastrous flaw. Go ahead and download it now if you haven’t already.
[via Droid-Life]