I'm seeing high battery use with version 1.58.2. I've switched to full charging at night to get a better view of usage.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
15 points (100.0% liked)
Summit
864 readers
57 users here now
Community to discuss Summit, a Lemmy reader for Android.
App (Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit
APK: https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy/releases
Support the app
Website: https://summit.idunnololz.com/
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Ok I am now 99.99% sure we are both reading the battery usage graph wrong. It is not showing how much battery each app used as an absolute value. Its showing of the battery used, how much did each app use. Eg. If you use 1% battery but you spent all of that 1% in Summit then Summit will likely use close to 100% of that 1%.
As proof I let summit run for about 5 minutes on a pixel 7. Then i checked the battery usage screen (screenshot below). It showed that Summit used 66% battery despite my battery % being 100% and only letting the app run for 5 minutes.
So now that we know this, your screenshot just shows you spend a lot of time in Summit but it doesnt necessarily mean Summit is using a huge amount of battery.
That makes sense.
With that method of reading, it looks like Summit is using more battery than comparable apps. I'd expect Summit to use roughly the same amount of battery for each minute of SoT for Reddit or Sync (for Lemmy), but it seems to be higher. For example:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/81bd9579-c4a5-4efa-b215-f6e4f8f736d7.png
shows
and https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c2ee348a-06a1-4298-9032-ea05a0fc4e5b.png?format=webp shows
It's possible that these values aren't comparable, or that more is going on (I'm not paying attention to background execution, for example). If there's another app I can use to measure battery consumption, I can do that.
One other question. Do you have mark as read on scroll in Sync as well?
Yeah, I have it enabled on Sync as well. But I don't think it works any more due to the API changes.
I guess the most important metric is what is the absolute value of the battery drain and is that level acceptable?
As an example on my end. On average I notice that Summit is using about 10-13% of my battery on a S24 per hour and i think that is an acceptable amount of battery usage given what i do within the app.
That's a good way of putting it.
Last week I noticed that my phone needed to be charged before the end of the day. I was using Summit roughly the same amount as I used Sync before that. When I was using Sync, I didn't need to charge my phone before the end of the day. That's what prompted me to look at the battery usage chart.
I see. Can you repeat this test with the latest version of the app. There were some performance improvements in the latest update.
Sure thing. I'll post today's results with 1.58.2 - that's the latest version I see on the Play store.
Reddit and Summit were both in the foreground for about an hour.