Is there anyway to truly disable blink feed, although you can remove the screen it still shows up in apps that used cpu in my System Panel Monitor and also under the battery usage , do you need root to do that ?
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Yea Ive tried all of those options, I don't like anything extra running in the background if I can help it !
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Blink Feed does disappear by doing this but it still shows up as using the CPU every now and again. Its not truly gone or disabled...as you can click the + and add it right back from the same screen.
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My apologies if this has been discussed in another thread, but, it's BLINKFEED related, sooooooo.....
Anyone have the Time/Weather widget disappear when you're prompted to refresh BLINKFEED (& do so when tapping on the pop-up to do so)?
Anyone have the Time/Weather widget disappear when you're prompted to refresh BLINKFEED (& do so when tapping on the pop-up to do so)?
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Got one better than that... I know no news is generally good news, but this isn't what I was looking for.
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Blink Feed is the phones launcher, on my HTC one M8 it drained my battery in a morning, checked at O2 shop, they tried to disable it to save my battery but it works in the background continually draining the battery. I loaded Aviate Launcher, which simplifies your phone's layout and at 3pm I'm still on 80% power, problem solved 
Aviate is available on Play store .
Aviate is available on Play store .
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I actually tried removing the blinkfeed panel, stopping the service, then doing an uninstall, BAD IDEA... All my apps and widgets on my home screens were wiped out (all had appeared to have reverted back to factory default) and blinkfeed panel came back.
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LOL, this happened to me on 2 different phones. the first time i thought it was a glitch. I also don't like that it uses battery in the background, even if it's only a small percentage.
GTCC: The instructions you gave don't work since Blinkfeed isn't listed in your apps. You can find it by going to settings<power<usage. Blinkfeed is always listed as using power, even if you've taken it off your homescreen. If you try to force stop or uninstall it, it glitches out and removes all apps and widgets from all your screens and puts Blinkfeed back on.
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Sorry about that.
How much battery does it use when your not using it?
When I was using apex launcher I deleted the BlinkFeed page and it didn't use any battery.
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It's usually around 2% whenever I check it. It's not too big of an issue but I'd feel better if I could shut it down completely.
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