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Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.
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MASSIVE battery drain while idling! #199

Closed adriandelgg closed 1 year ago

adriandelgg commented 1 year ago

Is there an existing issue for this?

Bug description

Molly-FOSS is taking up a HUGE amount of my battery life and it caused my phone to die when I really needed it. I'm not sure what's causing this huge amount of drainage. Screenshot_20230624-214048

Steps to reproduce

  1. Install GrapheneKS without GApps or GPlay Services.
  2. Install Molly-FOSS through Github releases
  3. Turn off battery optimization

Molly version

v6.23.5.1-FOSS

Android version

Android 13

Device

Google Pixel 6

Link to debug log

https://debuglogs.org/android/6.23.5/7947a1ba1f484910e77660b3f646d14b73cb7935784b6d17b08bce96b7692b26

valldrac commented 1 year ago

It's a known issue that Molly-FOSS (and Signal without Play Services) tends to use up more battery compared to Molly with FCM push notifications. The amount of extra battery drain mostly depends on how good or bad your Internet connection is.

I noticed many connection drops and errors in your log along the day, which means Molly has to rebuild the connection to the server every minute or so, consuming a lot of battery.

We are already tracking this issue in #126.

adriandelgg commented 1 year ago

It's a known issue that Molly-FOSS (and Signal without Play Services) tends to use up more battery compared to Molly with FCM push notifications. The amount of extra battery drain mostly depends on how good or bad your Internet connection is.

I noticed many connection drops and errors in your log along the day, which means Molly has to rebuild the connection to the server every minute or so, consuming a lot of battery.

We are already tracking this issue in #126.

Thanks for letting me know. I use a VPN that has a rotating IP (I get a new IP address every few mins). Is that what's causing the network to keep dropping?

adriandelgg commented 1 year ago

I also use the Orbot Proxy, is that also causing the networking issue?

adriandelgg commented 1 year ago

I found that the issue with the constant connection drops was due to my VPN (SurfShark). I went into the settings to disable the VPN for Molly only, and I stopped seeing the connection drop logs. There seems to be an issue where Molly is not cooperating properly with VPNs. @valldrac

BHydden commented 1 year ago

Molly-FOSS works perfectly well for me with always on proton vpn