Tesco Mobile Xtras for Android
Used the app for a while the adds now just come up at any given time randomly. I also done the maths and it takes up 42.36% of my phone battery life whenever I hardly use it. It also sometimes just lags my phone up which is very annoying. Not worth £3 a month whenever the minimum wage per hour in the UK is £7.20. NOT worth the suffering of a worse phone and battery life.
It's disgusting how they lure you in with this app, £3 off your bill sounds grate for just having an add pop up every now and then. But as well as adds popping up while your using your phone you also grant tesco access to most of your phone oh and if you sign up with your Facebook account you also grant them full access to that as well. If you don't believe me check out the terms in the app
Great app, I don't mind the ad's for £3 and a bit more data. But recently I got a text saying that I haven't viewed enough ad's this month and I have. Also my battery has been draining really fast at the moment and it is due to this app. From the comments I'm not the only one who has this problem, so please fix it soon, or I shall have to uninstall to save my battery.
At first this app was working perfectly fine, however recently it has been playing up and destroying my phone battery! My phone keeps putting the app to sleep as it is consuming too much battery, which means the ads do not pop up which then leads to 'me not using the app enough' to be able to the discount. please fix this in the next update.
I've had this app for nearly 6 months and loved it. Updated my phone with new software and it's not working at all...so missed my first discount. Have removed/installed twice and still doesn't show my ads. No support from Tesco with this so far...gutted. please sort this out tesco
I am getting messages that I am not viewing ads even though I am, very frustrating. Also notice my battery draining faster. I see ads every time I pick up my phone but still didn't get discount, it isn't registering views, absolute rubbish. The ads don't come up straight away, interrupt when I try to use phone, uninstalling it
This used to work really well. Since updating my phone/the app (not sure which) it has stopped tracking when I view ads (I haven't had my discount this month despite viewing ads on easily enough days. It is also draining my battery ridiculously quickly (57% in about 5 hours). It's a shame because until this started happening I would have rated it 5*.
Pops up long after phone is unlocked and was giving blank pages + takes ages to show some ads if not on wifi. I would uninstall if there was another way to save on my bill - A shame as really lets down the help + service i get from the guys at my local Tesco store!
Ad takes so long to turn up that I'm usually interrupted halfway through a text message. The app says to "check in here" to see if you are on track for the discount but doesn't actually tell you anywhere. Battery drain is ridiculous.
Absolute rubbish app. Only redeeming feature is money off. Whoever designed clearly doesn't use a phone. And doesn't care at all about needing occasional urgent access to phone features, as this lumbering slow shite app will cut in when you least need it. Update May 2017, app getting worse. Maybe it's costing too much?
I thought I'd download it to get £3 off my bill each month, just to see some ads. 'Ok, not a bad idea. May get a bit annoying but should be ok' I thought. Every time I open my phone, an ad appears that has no relevance to what I want at all. I'd rather pay them £3 to delete the app entirely and say we screwed up. There's only so many times I can see an ad for helmans bbq sauce, the times/the sun newspapers adds, or deals that are no use to me. Sorry tesco, but you messed up.
Such an awful app. Just upgrades my Phone, first thing I did was install this app to save money on my bill. It was working for less than a day. Now no ads at all, I've tried reinstalling it, even did a factory reset on my phone. It half worked for 5 minutes (ads didn't show properly) now again nothing at all. I am expecting a text to say I'm not viewing enough ads, which is not my fault and loose my money off
Too invasive. Also keeps giving me the same advertisement. If I didn't want it the first time then second or third time just puts me off more. Nice idea, poor execution.
Worked well in 1st 2 months then stopped and had to reinstall. Then good for another couple of months. Then reinstall again! Just had to reinstall for a 3rd time now. So my ? Is are Tesco controlling the money off that they promised at the start?
Was quite pleased with the app until I saw one particular ad. It was for a solitaire game, but there were three pictures of women with hardly any clothing on. I don't think that has any thence it need to be showing up on your app as an advert in my opinion. Otherwise it has worked perfectly well and I've always got my £3 of my bill
I'm on my phone all day and I have lots of ticks in the preferences but last month I never got the discount. Sometimes when I unlock nothing pops up and there is no update available so something is wrong. I have all the correct settings.
Very invasive, the ads don't just come up when you open your phone, but when you are doing something too. Typing a text - ping an ad; filming something - ping another ad (which stops the recording) really annoying. I don't think the irritation is worth the £3 per month saving.
Was working fine but after update it just kills my battery! My battery has gone down from 100% to 60% within 1 hour and I haven't even used the phone! I look at battery usage since last charge and this app has used 70% of it, sort it out Tesco!
Not worth the saving. Massive drain on my battery and it is so annoying when the advert doesn't come up until you are just about to select something, meaning you have just clicked the advert and then that opens up. Uninstalling right now.
Fine when it behaves itself but sometimes drains the battery, have missed my alarm a couple of times as I've taken my phone off charge when I go to bed (100%) and the phone is off by the morning. Have to uninstall and reinstall which works for a while.
This app is so irritating, the adverts are constant & you can only pause it for 2hrs. Removing the app now, would never have signed up to my current contract if I knew the extras app was awful
As of April 3rd this app hasn't worked since February, despite my accepting updates, and uninstalling and reinstalling a couple of times. Still saying if I get my discount it'll happen on Feb 2nd!
Not worked properly for 2 months, intermittent ads, battery drain of 52% over 3.5 hrs, reinstalled as advised seems to have sorted battery drain but no ads now. Time to uninstall
Has been working well and reducing my bill by £3 brilliant.Today it has started eating my battery 50% in 2 hours. I have reinstalled just waiting to see if that has improved things.
Does what it says and I do get £3 off but recently I've started to get a battery drain. Uninstalled and restarted my phone and installed again to see if fixed, will keep an eye on it.
Been draining my battery for weeks and forcing stop errors. Now tesco didn't give me my discount. Pain in the butt. I had to complain online...wasting more time.
I agree. I recently reset my phone and reinstalled the app. It doesn't serm to track my login and I haven't received my discount for the second month. I would have rated this 5 stars before but really disappointed now
The ads take so long to appear often stopping what I am trying to do with my ☎. The ads have changed with interactive ads now appearing. This is a shift in the wrong direction so I am getting rid of it.
While it works exactly as it should the battery drain is quite significant. Running the Galaxy S8 plus and never got to battery low with all my games but with this running Im battery low/dead every evening.
Doesn't work, the app says "if you're on track for your discount you'll get it on... (date)", that date comes and goes, and then you get "sorry you didn't get money off your bill"... High mobile phone user, I would guess at least once every hour I'm awake. Adverts also very repetitive.
I like getting money off my phone bill. Some of the ads have been useful too. I would like the info on whether I am on track to receive the £3 though. Not just to find out after the period has ended.
Just doest work properly. Used to be great but now the adverts will only appear randomly - not often enough to get the money off my bill. Very frustrating.
I liked the app I thought a couple seconds of an add and then you get money off was a great idea, but recently its stopped working.I received a text asking if I still wanted to recieve extras and I do, but I haven't had any ads recently, I've reset the app, updated it, uninstalled and reinstalled it nothing works.
Works for a few months then doesn' t work for several days so you do not qualify for a discount. Very annoying app with very few adverts of any interest
Didnt give me a discount last month. Phoned customer service they said will fix but was still not credited
Poor app. Has a tendency to stop working then tell you it's not applying the discount because you haven't used it enough. Best to clear cache and data weekly.
Works ok on Moto g4 when change to Moto g3 technical hitch but bill at end of mouth says different. £3 off so still worth the little inconvenience.
Technical hitch after updating to Nougat 7.0 so not sure if I'll get my £3 off. ----EDIT: Reinstalled and isn't saying technical hitch but does also now not show this months bill if I'm on track or not....---- You used to the adverts wierdly !
Keeps crashing stopping phone from opening is it worth saving £3 Quid? Jury's out !! Now draining battery 1.5%per hour.
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At 1st I was so affrId that I am.wasting my time but now I know that this app works! Cutting down my bill means quite a lot to me -even if it's only £3 a month. I don't mind watchig adds. So today just got my 1st bill and it's £3 cheaper!. I am very happy that this app actually works as promissed. By the way..it does not drain my battery. I hope that I will be able to continue using it until end of my contract.