Comments on: Why GroupMe kills the battery on your iPhone

By: BV202BV

BV202BV — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:33:51 +0000

I agree with Erica, HipChat is well worth checking out. The support that I have had with them is absolutely great.

By: aa224

aa224 — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:50:07 +0000

I noticed the same problem on my 4s running ios 5.1. Killing groupme manually has a definitive affect on saving the battery.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:23:28 +0000

If you force close, you can stop this process but that’s not ideal. Hopefully Groupme will fix this soon.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:22:21 +0000

Kaziz, what I mean by polling is that the app is constantly asking “Are there any more messages?” instead of having data pushed to it. If you turn off notifications this still happens.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:43:47 +0000

Bizarre! I guess I have to force close it from now on until they read this and update?

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By: Kaziz

Kaziz — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:31:49 +0000

Does disabling notifications or turning off your data for a little bit successfully close the 10 min window? Sorry if this is dumb, but what does GroupMe polling mean?

By: Erica Douglass

Erica Douglass — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:21:23 +0000

Try HipChat. It has Android and iOS apps that don’t have this issue. Plus slick Web and AIR apps for your computers. (No affiliation–just a really happy customer of theirs.)

By: Greg Raiz

Greg Raiz — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:54:39 +0000

Great find! I’ve seen this in GroupMe myself and have found my phone dead because of this app. The 10 min window is interesting as it’s likely using a loophole for background task completion. What’s particularly strange is that GroupMe uses push notification, so they do get real-time notifications without polling.

Obviously they need to fix this. I hope your snooping spurs them to action.