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I keep having my phone completely drained of battery over night, and im not sure why.. Each night the phone will easy chew through 30-40% battery. Only thing that helps is putting it in battery saving mode. But feels like a temporary solution.

The second most used app is at 7% percent usage.

Am running GrapheneOS, anyone else struggling with this?

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[–] Wolfram@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a known issue with tailscale. It drains my battery pretty bad as well. I had to opt for wireguard for remote access instead.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Ah that's a shame, I love using Tailscale πŸ™

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well, it has to run in the background. That said I haven't noticed a significant uptick in battery consumption. The battery consumption you see might be from something else.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what causes it really, didn't use to happen, but seem to be a common problem for many.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Could be anything. What I do to reduce the possibility of some app going haywire in the background, I restrict background usage to all apps that I'm sure I don't need to run in the background. Obviously Tailscale isn't one of them because I need it. πŸ˜… Also I started using Shelter to put untrusted apps like WhatsApp into a work profile and completely disable them when not in use. I haven't had many battery drain incidents since then.

[–] proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm on Graphene too and I once read that the modems used in Pixel phones are pretty trashy and drain a ton of battery. If I filter my battery usage by system, it shows that network standby almost consumes half of my battery charge (~46%).

Maybe the other guy here is right and it's a VPN issue (too)? idk. Anyway, I didn't really found a solution for this except leaving my phone on airplane mode at night.

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Tbf Tensors suck ass

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Ah thanks for pointing that out, I did the same and see that my Mobile Network usage stands for 68% of my battery usage... Yikes!

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This seems to be a normal issue with VPN apps on Android, they drain battery like crazy

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Both protonvpn and mullvad are at 1% for a day. Y'all stop using crappy vpns.