WhatsApp Questions and Answers thread
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In Russian, German and France there are a lot of strings marked as 'untranslated' so I don't think the news true. The only source you can trust ist wpcentral 
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Has anyone else noticed significant battery drain from WhatsApp usage recently?
Here's the deal. I'm running 8.1 on a Lumia Icon and I've not had a lot of the issues that others have experienced with WhatsApp after installing 8.1. I let it run in the background so that I get notifications and because of that I constantly "X" out of the app when it's not in use.
Today at 3:30 my time my phone was at 60%. I had just talked on WhatsApp, (not sure if I closed it but that shouldn't matter as I've forgotten to close it before) set my phone down and started doing other things around the house. I came back to it at about 5:30 my time and the phone was completely dead. I looked up battery usage under settings and found that it was WhatsApp that was using all the juice. I set my phone on the charger at 5:30 and it is now almost 10:15 my time and it's only now getting to 85%. Usually my phone will go from no charge to a full charge in less than 3 hours. I've not had this happen once since updating to 8.1 and find it odd that it started up all the sudden this afternoon.
Anyway, WhatsApp is still sucking up the juice, even as I'm charging, so I set it to not run in the background hoping that helps. I'll see what happens but was curious if anyone else was running 8.1 fine with WhatsApp and has recently started having problems.
Here's the deal. I'm running 8.1 on a Lumia Icon and I've not had a lot of the issues that others have experienced with WhatsApp after installing 8.1. I let it run in the background so that I get notifications and because of that I constantly "X" out of the app when it's not in use.
Today at 3:30 my time my phone was at 60%. I had just talked on WhatsApp, (not sure if I closed it but that shouldn't matter as I've forgotten to close it before) set my phone down and started doing other things around the house. I came back to it at about 5:30 my time and the phone was completely dead. I looked up battery usage under settings and found that it was WhatsApp that was using all the juice. I set my phone on the charger at 5:30 and it is now almost 10:15 my time and it's only now getting to 85%. Usually my phone will go from no charge to a full charge in less than 3 hours. I've not had this happen once since updating to 8.1 and find it odd that it started up all the sudden this afternoon.
Anyway, WhatsApp is still sucking up the juice, even as I'm charging, so I set it to not run in the background hoping that helps. I'll see what happens but was curious if anyone else was running 8.1 fine with WhatsApp and has recently started having problems.
I swear! I mean imagine the situation of people who bought a windows phone yesterday or something. They would be completely shocked not to see a high profile app like WhatsApp not being in the store
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I downloaded viber earlier today. Exact same functionality of whatsapp, except the free calling is a huge plus.
I like whatsapp better than viber (its faster), but I'm not about to ditch my phone over whatsapp.
Its crazy to see how seriously people take it, with so many comparable alternatives.. Death threats, freak outs.. Sheesh!
I like whatsapp better than viber (its faster), but I'm not about to ditch my phone over whatsapp.
Its crazy to see how seriously people take it, with so many comparable alternatives.. Death threats, freak outs.. Sheesh!
hasasimo
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That's my situation... bought a 1520 for a relative arriving from overseas tomorrow. They use WhatsApp religiously.
Even though it has been removed from the store u can download the xap file from windows phone store and then you could deploy using wp app deployer
hasasimo
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Can you please tell me more about how to do this? I didn't find any apps by that name. I tried sideloading WhatsApp via my SD Card but it didn't let me install it since it's an "unsupported app."
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WhatsApp had a pretty bad rating in the store. Republishing will start the rating all over again,I guess. Strategy. Maybe a good update is incoming.
hasasimo
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Thanks, still trying... running into issues with my Windows 7 pc apparently not being "new" enough to install the SDK.
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I see. I wouldn't mind it so much if they just warned everyone ahead of time.
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There are alternatives but if all your friends are using WhatsApp its pointless downloading an alternative
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