high battery usage overnight

[jm355]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Bug description

I'm getting high battery usage from molly overnight even tho I'm using molly-UP, with mollysocket and ntfy all set up. It used to not drain so much

In these screenshots the vpn uses a lot, the night before the vpn battery use was minimal and it was all molly

Steps to reproduce

1.Set up molly-UP, mollysocket, and ntfy
2.leave molly unlocked overnight

Molly version

v7.13.4-1.UP1-FOSS

Android version

14 (grapheneos)

Device

pixel 8

Link to debug log

https://debuglogs.org/android/7.13.4/b6952223070b5ffd43f81b8ac65dfea3a1a37a57be731b0193cd279955af4ce7

[p1gp1g]

This new view about battery usage is not very handy. Here molly is around 4% for 6 hours. Which is high if you use unifiedpush. And I don't see anything wrong in the logs. Can you try to disable battery optimization ? You have to enable “Allow background usage” (which is already allowed), and the click on this label to open a new menu, then thick “Unrestricted”.

[jm355]

Yep, I'll try it out and let you know how it goes

[jm355]

That solved it!

[jayb-g]

The issue is still there, dont know what is causing it as it is not consistent.

I have battery usage not as much shown by OP but i have always had those settings with unrestricted and it still uses 4-15% battery overall from 100% to 0% of phone usage.

How to help troubleshoot this?

[p1gp1g]

It is OK to use some battery if you use it. There is also the backup job that can take some resources.

Nevertheless, I can give a look at your logs if you want

[jayb-g]

As it shows, I have used it only for 39mins in more than 24h, and only 2-4 min of voice calling during entire period. I already have scheduled backups disabled because it uses a lot of battery especially if app data size is large.

And i'm mostly using wifi. On mobile data it sometimes become more than 20-40%.

Even with normal usage, either on mobile data/wifi, isn't it expected to use up to 5% at most? Just trying to understand how much it should use for normal(mostly idle) usage. And does/can it correlate in any way to the app data size?

Nevertheless, I can give a look at your logs if you want

Sure, would debug logs from the app help?