Android wallet – am I wrong for choosing?

So I've used the mobile wallet before but just got a new phone. The original syncing took awhile and I recall it require the screen on for it to actually load (why?). Silly that seemed but it took maybe 2-3 hours and all was well.

I'm on my new phone and holy cow. This is going to take forever, guessing 4-5 hours or maybe even more. Am I wrong for using the mobile app vs the windows? I can't imagine loading this bad boy onto a phone 5 years from now with the activity of RVN lately.

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**Edit** I figured out how to manually add nodes. I tried twice and it just said updating and seemed slow. Closed out and tried a third time, instead of it taking 10-20 seconds a day, now it's pumping out about a day second. Not bad!

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**Update** It's still slow as molasses. About 28 seconds a day. So according to my calculations, it's going to take 6.3 hours to sync. Why can't this sync with the screen off?