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Excessive battery drain by Chrome

nikhil_kaimal
Star III
Some basic information before asking for help:
Model Name: ROG Phone 5
Firmware Version: RKQ1.201022.002.WW_Phone-18.0840.2106.86
Rooted or not: Not rooted
Frequency of Occurrence: On each battery cycle
APP Name & APP Version (If your issue relates to the app): Chrome 92.0.4515.131
Attaching screenshot of battery usage from 100% to 10% :
screenshot-20210806-223309691.jpg

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Luchulainn
Star III
Something is very off with the reporting. Surely Chrome isn't actually using that much?

Lord_Messi
Zen Master II
Luchulainn

screenshot-20210814-162831477.jpg

Something is very off with the reporting. Surely Chrome isn't actually using that much?


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Use another browser then disable and force stop chrome

Lord_Messi
Zen Master II
nikhil_kaimal

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/180854#Comment_180854

@ARP_ASUS I have now factory reset the phone, charged to 100% and used till 10% twice.

There is a slight improvement compared to earlier, however the drain is still huge compared to other applications like YouTube or Prime Video used for more than an hour.

Attaching screenshot of battery usage as you told:

screenshot-20210812-230303845.jpg

screenshot-20210813-212346105.jpg

What next !?


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Just force stop and uninstall it
You can use firefox for browsing

Luchulainn
Star III
Lord_Messi

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/181271#Comment_181271

Use another browser then disable and force stop chrome


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I mean, that's not really a solution. It's a work around and then I lose my bookmarks etc that are linked to my Google account.

FunBike31
Community Legend I
Chrome cannot be uninstalled when it is preinstalled, it is just possible to disable it.
This may not be advisable depending on the other applications and the settings of the phone and of the PC (s)
The current version of Chrome does not have too many Bug, it is better to dig deeper into the diag.
The list is too long to list everything but it is not enough to erase the data and the cache and especially does not concern the Rog phone 5 but all the devices that could be synchronized
or simply a process of an online games accessed with chrome.
- search for synchronized devices and deactivate their synchronization
- check and block the data transfer of applications in the background on the phone
- erase all the histories on the devices which were synchronized.
- clear cache and data
- disable chrome
reboot the rog 5
reactivate Chrome and redo the update
Control and if it is good, use chrome with a site, close and control then another etc .....
If it's still good, activate synchronization by checking between each device.