Gedsh
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6 months ago DNSCrypt itself consumes a bit of battery. Tor consumes more power. I2P has high consumption since it is a P2P app. If your device shows a high level of consumption with DNSCrypt and/or Tor, this usually means an incorrect calculation due to the foreground service (notification in the status bar). Or foreground service is preventing your device from sleeping. It depends on your rom. Unfortunately, I can not do anything about it.
What features can increase battery consumption:
- if you activated the "Prevent device sleep" option in Common Settings
- if you imported a huge DNSCrypt blocklist (more than 5MB)
On my phones I use Tor with DNSCrypt 24/7. Battery consumption is about 2-3%
You can also try the latest stable or beta version. Additional steps have been taken to reduce battery consumption when network connectivity is unavailable.
The app is great, I have switched a while ago from Orbot. But I cannot use it in daily basis since the battery consumption is extremely high (above 25%).
Looking forward to see battery optimizations.