noob question, molly foss should be kept on unrestricted o optimised battery?
Molly.im
italian_job I run on the default (which is optimized) molly Foss and no issues with notifications or battery life.
thanks
Last release was on 2023-12-17 so exactly 1 month ago... https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android/releases
Meanwhile Signal had several (8) app releases: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tags
Do you think this could be an issue with Molly?
Uhm, so... I tried using it, and maybe my fault but I tried logging in a few times, it took forever to load (the captcha for example took like 20s). In the end my Signal account was locked, no guide, no help, so I need to wait 6 days and try Molly again, account is gone.
Manna
Exactly. Security updates should be the only thing anyone is concerned with. I hate when apps push updates such as "Changelog: - Added language support for Swahili. - Added language support for Xhosa. - Expanded emoji selection", basically nothing worth updating for. Such trivial updates should only occur when there is a security update included.
I just downloaded Molly but it turns out I can't import my chat backup from Signal until Molly is updated, because it won't allow Backups from a newer version (seems like an artificial limitation but I dont know how to circumvent it).
missing-root what do you mean?
@Nuttso I guess the registration / Captcha loading / SMS verification just took very long, so I might have tried it multiple times. In the end Signal is blocked on all Apps and I need to wait for 6 days and my account is gone... So I will try to re-register with Mull, but yeah.
Also I was not able to log out of my phone which is strange but I guess matches the "Signal runs on one phone and one phone alone" idea. So I might have tried to log in to a device while already logged in.
missing-root did you had a vpn or bad connection while you tried to switch? Because the captcha is server side.
Yes, VPN. Maybe they use some shady blocklists, they used Recaptcha and after lots of issues switched to hCaptcha as if that would be the solution
Just got an email from Github this morning that a new release is out.
This release merges latest Signal v6.44.2. It features a new optimization aimed at minimizing battery consumption, specially for users of WebSockets-based notifications.
That sounds very interesting! I haven't tested it yet but if the battery consumption is lower than Signal that is a killer feature, even without setting up Mollysocket & Unified Push.
Android Auto works now also
I have now installed Molly-UP and set up Unified Push (using this free Mollysocket deployment)
In my battery stats I can see: that Signal (now uninstalled) used 10% and Molly-UP used 5% of the battery, both being 2 hours in background and <5 mins in the foreground. So that's good news :) Though not a like-for-like comparison because I didn't check Molly with Websockets.
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Not the main topic of the discussion, so just a brief observation since battery consumtion was mentioned here: Signal seems to consume significantly less in my case than described here. I take a look at the battery consumption of my apps from time to time. Signal (main messenger, without FCM) accounts for 2-5℅ of my total consumption on average.
Even switching from FCM to Signal's own implementation of push notifications has not significantly increased consumption.