Comments on: Amazon Appstore Updated – Fixes Crazy Battery Drain Bug and Updated UI

By: mfp2waoe

mfp2waoe — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:34:00 +0000

It’s worse for me. I never had a problem before, but after the last update, Amazon Appstore keeps the phone awake 50% of the time and my battery drains three times faster.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:32:00 +0000

This update is the one that’s going to make me uninstall it. Terrible performance and the size went from 12-14 MB to 18, plus another 13 in data.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:54:00 +0000

This figures, just uninstalled last week after spending 2-3 months trying to find the source of my battery drain (even bought a new batter). I didn’t mind separating with it since you couldn’t remove apps from the My Apps list, but oh look, they’ve changed that too now. Ugh… I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see all these comments about poor performance now.

By: j

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:51:00 +0000

I experienced the battery drain bug on my Gnex, but it only started happening a couple weeks ago, perhaps coinciding with the last UI refresh update. I’ve had Amazon App store installed on all my devices since day 1 and the bug just popped up recently, and would eat 40-50% of my battery.

By: Nick S

Nick S — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:51:00 +0000

Swiftkey was my best free score from Amazon – can’t live without it now.

By: Christoph Puetz

Christoph Puetz — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:33:00 +0000

It’s buggy. Crashed twice on my Galaxy Nexus + when I click on “Get app” nothing happens.

By: PetiePal

PetiePal — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:42:00 +0000

Only reason I ever had it installed was to get the few freebies like Shazam Encore etc and then I uninstalled the app lol.

By: slider112

slider112 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:52:00 +0000

Amen to the Angry Birds update… took two months for the original, four for Rio back over the summer. The Amazon update process is nothing short of ridiculous. I wish to God there were paid versions of the all the AB games in the Play store so I could cut the Amazon cord once and for all.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:21:00 +0000

The Amazon Appstore App memory usage jumped from 16Mb (app + data) to 39Mb (app + data). And for all that space used the performance is very bad. This app only gets worse with each update. Luckily, I had the previous version backed-up, so I reinstalled it. I will not let this current bloated, poor running version to be installed on my device.

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:03:00 +0000

nvm. del this comment

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:38:00 +0000

I’d like to see amazon put Amazon Prime on all android devices to use not just the appstore. I have had many free $10 credits for preordering games from amazon to use for their media online to play and watch

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:05:00 +0000

I was always annoyed by how often the apps weren’t updated in the store. Sometimes it caused the app to stop working on my phone. So I gave up, uninstalled the app store and bought whatever apps I got free and liked enough from Google Play.

By: aaCharley

aaCharley — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:02:00 +0000

I simply don’t use Amazon for any new apps. I have a few that originated at Amazon that I will occasionally check for updates. However the Amazon requirement that an app from their source cannot be updated through Google turned me off. Amazon is often weeks behind in making updates available. And, as others have noted, the more recent offerings of the free apps have been junk. Who needs the service from Amazon?

By: Cody Cowgill

Cody Cowgill — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:26:00 +0000

Wasn’t the DNA supposed to have this? There is a bunch of amazon things but I can’t seem to find the appstore.

By: rjax

rjax — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:05:00 +0000

And I’m pretty sure it’s causing severe lag on my G-Nex while running in the background (it has completely locked it up in the foreground). Luckily I backed up the previous version so I can revert back if it doesn’t fix itself.