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IT’S A PROBLEM all smartphone owners experience sooner or later. You use your phone normally and then before you know it, you’re stuck with only a few minutes of battery life remaining and there’s no charger in sight.
Most of that is down to the type of apps you’re using, and more specifically, the ones that are running in the background.
For Android users, security firm AVG have put together a report which highlights the biggest culprits. It’s probably unsurprising that Facebook is the top of the list for overall impact on both battery, traffic and storage, but the two biggest drains at startup are both bloatware apps from Samsung – Beaming Service and Security Policy Updates.
As for games, King’s Candy Crush series has four games in the top five, with only Supercell’s Clash of Clans taking fourth spot. The reason is likely due to their freemium nature, using location for ads and using numerous resources to deliver new features.
While the most resource-heavy apps happened to be social apps with Facebook grabbing top spot. Spotify, Instagram and Amazon Appstore were also identified as major apps that will use up much of your phone’s resources.
And for good measure, the apps that take up the most storage on your phone by temporarily collecting data that it doesn’t delete or by adding more features to the service via updates. Tango Messenger was seen as the biggest offender while the Daily Mail and Facebook followed suit.
So what can you do to rectify this? The obvious one is to not use these apps, although if you find them useful, then you’re probably going to continue using them. AVG recommends turning off features like WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS when they’re not in use so they don’t eat into your battery life when they’re on standby.
It also recommends sorting your apps out by app usage, storage usage, battery usage and data usage to find out which apps are bringing your phone down. In the case of battery usage, if you’re not using an app that uses 5% or more of your battery power, it’s better to get rid of it entirely.
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So Dublin city which has at least twice the population of Cork has more births . Jesbus what a scoop !!!!!!!!!!!
Only just, by about 20%. Probably due to CUMH serving a much bigger area than Cork alone
I am sure the CSO use the parents address rather than the hospital address when counting births by county.
They’re using the individual county/city council local authority areas, not regions.
Pops:
Dublin City : 527,612
(Dublin all local authorities: 1,273,069)
Cork County: 399,802
(Cork City and County : 519,032)
this rubbish is not news
All we want to know are the birth rates and are they rising and falling and the reasons why. The article was full of padding and doesn’t quite tell the reader what they want.
Also, Dublin city probably doesn’t include, Fingal and Dun Laoghaire and those other county areas, but who knows.
I take that back, there is a graph with the rates.
Most idiotic headline ever.
At least you can comment on it unlike the Hickey ones?
Must be really a quiet news day?
It’s not actually.
But as usual the Journal locks down comments on the important stories.
Even when they’re happening outside this jurisdiction.
Pathetic editorial stance.
Realistic looking Irish family in the photo … Not
You man must be brushing his teeth with Weathershield to get them that white.
Tbf, have you seen the women in Cork?
I know it’s hard to get a girl into bed when she’s not strung out on heroin!
Sums fail Beachmaster.
If Dublin has more than double the population of Cork, and Cork is only 25% behind in births…. It seems the amount of procreation going on per head is a lot higher in Cork.
They are all stunners in Havanas at 3am after a few Captains and Coke and a Heino chaser
Old peoples homes are not brothels Beachmaster ;)
Battle of the babies. How do you chaps come up with this shit.
Just double the amount of skangers going around the place so!
HON DUBLIN BABIES
Can people stop saying hon?
Cork has a higher HIV problem than Dublin as well?
have your say