🪫 Battery life: how to troubleshoot?

This is not correct. Unified Push doesn’t send your messages in plain text, it’s just the transport channel to let the app know there is a new message to pull from the server. The actual content of your message is still encrypted end-to-end by Molly/Signal.

Check here: FAQ | UnifiedPush
and here: GitHub - mollyim/mollysocket: MollySocket allows getting Signal notifications via UnifiedPush.

In terms of battery consumption: UP should be more efficient because the actual application does not have to run all the time (for example to poll websocket). The more apps use UP the more efficient, of course. :wink:

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I actually went back to the stock keyboard and I actually like it better now, I don’t mind the slower pace of texting actually, only things I have sideloaded now are waze and a habit tracker, I actually really love using the device as is, I may even delete waze I mean I could never use it on my light phone 3 and I got by and the new directions on the kompakt map are really good and they are downloaded maps so they use no data, I really do love the kompakt in its purest form

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Sorry this was from a few months ago @htoke but I used the Aurora version I think.

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I think the F-Droid version seems to drain less battery

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No, but I do use einkbro, FUTO, Sleeper, Blue Letter Bible, Canvas, InkOs launcher, and Quik. Im sure Einkbro drains a lot, but I wonder if Quik drains some too. I wish Killapps still worked so I could make sure they werent running in the background. Also excited to ditch quik with the next update. I would guessBlue letter bible, FUTO, and InkOs drain nothing. Even when I was on the default build I don’t think I got 7-9 days, more like 2-5.

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Something strange happened to me.
Yesterday evening I went to bed, plugging my MK to charge, allowed to 100% charge, with a slow charger.
This morning, out from bed, when I arrived in the kitchen, battery was at 98%.
After bathroom and breakfast (about one hour) it was 58%…
I forced to quit quite every apps and now it is still at 52%.
Don’t know what could have happened.
Any idea?

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So now you have a similar problems as me. My battery often drops for no reason, sometimes it even loses 5% when I don’t even do much.
I’m starting to think every Kompakt and every battery is different, although they all should be exactly the same. When my battery is between 100% and 80%, it seems to drop more slowly than when it’s below 80%… then it starts dropping really fast.

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that’s the thing with batteries, they don’t have a linear discharge pattern

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@shadock What apps do you have sideloaded?

I’m starting to realize that, at least with the Kompakt. An old Nokia phone would go for weeks and months on ONE single charge, and would discharge in a linear way. I assume that smartphones have more irregular usage patterns (data, power etc).
Since I am a total newbie when it comes to smartphones, could you confirm that a smartphone battery becomes more ā€œlinearā€ after several charging cycles ?

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Not sure… It’s probably always like that (given I read it properly so I said what I said before):

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Your graph shows the relation between SOC and voltage. Here is mine, showing the relation between SOC and SOD (speed of discharge) in RED. As you can see, my battery discharges slowly from 100 to about 80, and then it starts discharing faster and faster.

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Not so much: inkOs (of course), DavX5, Sinology Photos. Thatā€˜s all.
Till today, an old version of Park&Pay (the latest that is APK and not XAPK). Seems that it can’t scan a QR code but the versions after need Google. Haven’t try to use it yet for what I’m needing it, understand Ā« to pay for using some alpin roads Ā».
If it doesn’t work, I will ride without paying.

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Sorry I forgot Signal that I only use in a group with 3 friends, once the month for our monthly meeting.
Now my battery is at 23% and it claims 2 days of reserve.
Let’s see.

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Mine was at 42% and also 2 days left. Then I browsed for about 1 minute and it lost 1% already! Then I played about 10 minutes of chess and now it’s at 34% and still says 2 days left. All those numbers seem random to me. But the battery drains way too fast, considering that most of the time I’m doing absolutely nothing on the Kompakt.

Exactly like me. A call or a sms when needed, rarely an entry in the calendar, 2-3 messages in Signal once in the month and that’s it.

I think it might be DavX5. Since it syncs at user-defined intervals or only when triggered manually, how often do you sync? Do you have it set?
Also something to think about:

If you choose automatic syncing, sometime it disables the operating system’s battery optimization for DAVx⁵.
Otherwise, the system may prevent the scheduled syncs from running reliably in the background.

I’ve setted DavX5 for a sync once a day.
But can’t find where to check all other settings. Seems it just ask the first start.
That’s why Mudita should have a solution.
Android provide syncing of Calendar and Contacts without DavX. If it’s a security data problem, the syncing could be done over the center.
Your wife/husband said Ā« darling today I made 2 entry in the calendar/added a new contact… Ā» you sync over Mudita Center and it’s done. No need of something too complicated but the feature should exist, in a way or other.

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Hello
I tested battery saver mode. When I go sleep I set Ofline+ and saver, battery level doesn’t change. Without saver battery dropped 5% in 8h. I use it everyday so I only lose battery when I listening music (5% per 1h Spotify)
This mode you can find in developer options (search in magnifier).

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I too am getting two to three days of battery life, I have to admit to being a little disappointed, extended battery life was one of the draws for getting the Kompakt, the iphone I swapped it for gives similar battery.
Ive side loaded Aroura store and installed signal, other wise completely stock. stopping the the signal app process, and turning it on only when I check for messages, doesnt appear to make any difference.
Ive had the kompakt for three and a bit days, Im wondering if the battery has to go through some sort of conditioning until it reaches optimum operation etc
Im going to try turning it to offline mode overnight to see if I get any improvement

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