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by tluyben2 3543 days ago
> Apps like WeChat are fairly notorious for holding wakelocks on Android and never really stopping background resource usage

I thought everyone went mad when they said this as I never encountered this issue, but I see it everywhere... The app that drains my Android is always Skype. That is also the app the drains my laptop and the reason I started using the web version but when that is on, Chrome drains my laptop. Wechat seriously does not come close and I use it a lot more...