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Android – Facebook not responding / process mdnsd draining battery

Getting your battery draining fast, due to the mdnsd process, or your Facebook app doesn’t show content and isn’t responding ?

Android - Facebook not responding / process mdnsd draining battery : Process mdnsd using most of the battery
Process mdnsd using most of the battery

Then… you’ll most likely have to uninstall your Facebook app to get your battery back for other uses.

Android - Facebook not responding / process mdnsd draining battery : Facebook application not displaying any content
Facebook application not displaying any content
Android - Facebook not responding / process mdnsd draining battery : Facebook application not responding
Facebook application not responding

The mdnsd process is a DNS daemon – meaning, it is a supporting process for other apps to query websites, running in background. It might use too much battery due to Facebook app, or another one doing a lot of Internet queries (for example, Firefox). You can’t stop it directly, but you can try stopping the apps using it.

Before uninstalling the application, try the following : clear the cache, and force the app to stop. It sometimes is enough, but not always, and, in any case, won’t be sustainable, and will have to be done again.

If this isn’t enough, try also stopping the Messenger app – it sometimes help.

Android - Facebook not responding / process mdnsd draining battery : Force stopping Facebook app to save battery
Force stopping Facebook app to save battery

Meanwhile, until a good fix is created for your phone, uninstalling the app does the trick – and you can access the mobile version on a web browser.

Solved:  mdnsd draining battery - Support forum
Solved:  What is mdnsd and why is it killing my battery? - AT&T Community
MDNSD process killing my battery | Android Forums

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