Never mind my initial enthusiasm about SoundCloud on Android; I uninstalled the bugger after noticing extreme battery drain, which seems linked to its background synchronization. Before uninstalling, I tried to:
- switch on “wifi only syncing”, which did not help
- disable all 4 items (left part of image) being synced, which did not help
- disable SoundCloud sync altogether, which did not seem to help either
- remove the SoundCloud-item from the list of synchronization sources, which inconveniently also logged me out of the app rendering it pretty useless
I contacted SoundCloud support, who confirmed they are working on a fix (although the release notes mentions battery drain a couple of times, guess this is not an entirely new issue). But until then I guess I’ll have to download the individual tracks from the SoundCloud website to listen to “It is what it is” on my Galaxy SII, no?
You’re one of the top results for android soundcloud battery drain. I’m having this problem 9 months on 🙁 Did you find a fix?
No, I ended up removing Soundcloud from my Galaxy.
3 monts…er…scratch that; 3 YEARS later and nothings changed.
Make it 4 years… still a huge battery drain.
It’s a shame really, the app itself is good, and has tons of great content, but the power usage is a huge problem.