Spotify staying open in the background regardless of settings draining battery

alfalfa713

Hey, so I've seen a couple posts about this but they all ultimately go nowhere. I was gonna leave it at that and just settle on remembering to close Spotify when I'm done listening, and just deal with the low battery when I don't.

However something really frustrating happened today. My phone rung in class so I slipped it in my backpack, and about 20 minutes later when I fished it out it was nearly too hot to touch and had shut itself down. When I turned it back on, there was still about 20% battery left (and obviously Spotify was reported as the highest energy draw), but on top of that, I guess the heat was so intense and prolonged that a small crack in the glass that was invisible on the top left of my display suddenly had a decently sized splotch of dead pixels under it.

I know I installed grapheneOS at my own risk, and I accept that. That being said, can we take a bit of a closer look at this Spotify issue? I don't want to switch to a different service for many reasons, and besides that there's clearly some kind of issue that causes Spotify to continue running even if you strictly set it to not run in the background. I really don't want something like this to happen again.

I'm not going to really bother taking pictures or screenshots, unless I'm asked to in which case of course I'll provide some. Thanks

other8026

alfalfa713 As far as I know, none of the changes in GrapheneOS would have caused what you're describing. This is just a guess, but it could be a bug in either AOSP or Spotify, like after the phone call was cancelled (or whatever you did), the media started up again? Can't really be sure without logs or knowing how to reliably reproduce this behavior.

alfalfa713

Bump

alfalfa713

other8026 Spotify and Pocket Casts drain battery even when there's no media player in the notification center. The only way to stop this from happening every time is to force close it, nothing else works, not even the settings. Heres one of the posts I was talking about, same device too https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/9726-spotify-battery-drain-on-pixel-8-series

I could help gather logs if needed, just not sure how to go about that in this instance

sonice

I've taken the habit of force stopping Spotify via the app battery usage settings every time I'm done using it.

becomeparmesan

I also noticed a high battery usage by Spotify, although I "closed" it. Thought it is just me but then saw this thread. And yes, force closing it in the settings helps a lot. So first, sorry to confirm that this issue still exists and second, thanks a lot for this solution 8)