From the Forums: Lumia 920 battery usage, petition for Google apps

We trust y'all've all had an eventful festive vacation and that the New Twelvemonth volition hold many good times ahead. Hither at Windows Phone Central we've been busy bees throwing upwards content to button us into 2022 and our community forum hasn't seen a dip in activeness either with a number of threads and posts being accumulated. So what'south been happening?

Many have been experiencing draining issues with some Windows Phone 8 hardware, whether it be Nokia or HTC, now Windows Phone Central readergeneralsu has published his experience with farthermost battery loss through what was described as 'light usage'. Fellow fellow member posted a potential cause:

"Non sure tour other people... simply I have noticed that if I open an app that either needs to apply the GPS or games, is when I get the big battery drain. If I use the telephone normal email, web browsing, etc. I get excellent battery life. My suspicion is that even though the app looks closed visually something in it doesn't close properly and continues to run in the background till the memory that it is in has been cleared. To test this I used crimson dragon for a short menses of time (GPS used in game), closed it the phone stays warm long afterwards I airtight the application... did a restart and telephone goes back to normal temp. So something is still running in the background."

Could we exist looking at WhatsApp as the cause? Generalsu did note the app had been running when using the Windows Phone. How has your battery been on your Lumia 920 or other Windows Telephone? Accept yous noticed whatsoever sudden drops in charge when using certain apps? Practise share your experiences in the "Battery went from 100% to 42% in half-dozen hours with light usage. Normal?" thread.

Petition for Google apps

Does Windows Phone need Google apps? Aye and no. Yes, considering there are those of us who however make use of the search engine services, simply so at that place are others who either live in a Microsoft dominated ecosystem or are switching over to brand utilize of Outlook.com, SkyDrive and more. It's a hard balance to master and information technology would be improve overall to have such solutions bachelor on the platform.

Should a heavily integrated Google consumer look and Windows Phone and believe information technology to be worthy of a test drive, he (or she) may exist turned away due to not beingness able to fully utilise already populated services. A petition has been created on Modify.org that calls on Google to support its pop services and apps on Windows Phone.

"Because consumers exercise choice and utilize multitude of products from different providers. Sometimes we also pay for those services. It is discrimination against consumers if they are existence forced to choose platforms based on eco-organization support and non their choice. At that place is no denying that Windows Telephone is a promising platform, but app providers like Google keeping their apps walled to Android or iOS is not helping the consumers. The rivalry between the vendors is their own and consumers shouldn't exist dragged into it."

do you believe Google should support services on Microsoft'southward mobile platform? Do you still make apply of services from the search giant? Exist certain to add your thoughts in the "Sign this Petition to bring Google apps to WP!" thread and sign the petition should you lot wish to do and so.

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