Battery Drain

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Hey hope whoever reading this is well,

I've noticed the last 2 nights my battery has drained over 15% - 20% when I wake up.

It's only happened the last 2 nights, I think maybe since I updated GOS to the latest version.

I've got 2 apps running in the background, Molly and Linphone.

I force stopped Linphone last night before bed so it wouldn't run in the background, and my battery still went down 16%.

I've never had an issue like this, even when I was letting Molly run in the background overnight on aeroplane mode.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks everyone, and the GranpheneOS team for this project :)

yore

[deleted] Open Settings. Go to Battery > Battery usage. You will see a list of apps in descending order from the ones that have been draining your phone's battery the most.

Let us know what you see.

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yore Molly from Accrescent Store is at the top with 60% and 8hr 13m background usage. Linphone was about the same 1 night ago too.

yore

[deleted] Molly makes sense; the variant on Accrescent is Molly-FOSS which uses Websocket. Since a connection is constantly maintained, it will drain the battery quite fast. If you want to keep this app, and your Molly variant supports UnifiedPush, you can set it up but it's not the easiest task. The other option is to install Molly with proprietary blobs (without the "-FOSS" suffix). You can find it on their GitHub page or F-Droid repository. It will have support for FCM so you can enable Google Play Services to use this feature.

I'm in the process of reinstalling Molly with support for FCM to reduce battery usage. Although not everyone likes the idea of relying on a Google service, it works for my threat model.

Onlyfun

[deleted] I have Molly-FOSS constantly in the background, and somehow it is only 3rd with 5% of charge consumption up for 4 hours, also there is Mullvad with 1% of charge, 4 hours uptime as well. Top 2 are Vanadium 58% and Newpipe with 12%.

Weird thing with Vanadium though, I got 2 Vanadiums running parallel at the same time, maybe that's why it is so far ahead in consumption chart.

Does anybody know why Vanadium is running 2 separate windows?I did not make this on purpose and have no idea how to do this intentionally with any app and also what is the purpose of such case, are there any benefits from it for user? I did experience it before, posted a question here, but messed up that device shortly after and was not able to track any responses if there were.

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yore thanks for your response. It's interesting because it never used to drain that much battery life, only the last 2 nights.