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Is Fast Charge draining
your battery?

Not really — it's fairly well-behaved in the background. Here's what 3 anonymous Battery Snitch devices reveal about Fast Charge.

B
26/100
Drain Score
Grade B — mild background drain
Blends typical (median) and worst-case (p90) background runtime.
Median / day
4 min
Worst-case (p90)
9 min
Share of a full day
<1%
Reports
3
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FAQ

Fast Charge & your battery

Does Fast Charge drain your battery?

Not really — it's fairly well-behaved in the background. Across 3 anonymous reports, Fast Charge runs in the background for a median of 4 min per day, earning a mild Drain Score of 26/100 (grade B).

How much battery does Fast Charge use in the background?

Typically it runs for about 4 min a day in the background — that's <1% of an entire day. On the heaviest devices it kept running for up to 9 min (90th percentile).

How can I stop Fast Charge from draining my battery?

Restrict its background activity in Settings → Apps → Fast Charge → Battery → "Restricted", revoke unused permissions, and disable background data if you don't need live updates. Battery Snitch finds the exact apps draining your phone and shows you what to change.

Where does this Fast Charge battery data come from?

It's crowdsourced from 3 real, anonymous Android devices running Battery Snitch. We rank by the median so a single outlier device can't skew the result — the more reports an app has, the more reliable its grade.

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