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High battery use with v1.58.2 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

Summit responsible for 47% of battery consumption with 7h06m of SoT
Reddit responsible for 8% of battery consumption with 5h12m of SoT

and https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c2ee348a-06a1-4298-9032-ea05a0fc4e5b.png?format=webp shows

Summit responsible for 40% of battery consumption with 56m of SoT
Sync responsible for 2% of battery consumption with 23m of SoT

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One other question. Do you have mark as read on scroll in Sync as well?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I have it enabled on Sync as well. But I don't think it works any more due to the API changes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess the most important metric is what is the absolute value of the battery drain and is that level acceptable?

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I see. Can you repeat this test with the latest version of the app. There were some performance improvements in the latest update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Sure thing. I'll post today's results with 1.58.2 - that's the latest version I see on the Play store.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Reddit and Summit were both in the foreground for about an hour.