The continuous pings would prevent the device from going to sleep and would completely drain the battery. Standby time went from 20 hours to 3 days when this application was updated.
[header] How to increase the htc evo 4 g's battery life [title] Update the qik application. [substeps] Go to the android market and download the latest version. Earlier versions of the qik video application (before 0.08.22) had an issue where it would ping the server every minute.