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?

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    13 days ago

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

      • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        Tailscale isn’t a classic vpn such as Proton and Mullvad. Tailscale crates a network between your own devices, but has Mullvad as an integration for those who want to run Mullvad as an exit node. I don’t need a vpn to mask my location, I need it to connect my devices together. I’ll look into using just wire guard instead though.

      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        No idea about those, but wireguard and openvpn were terrible for battery life, only ever used if I needed to access something at home

        • sunzu@kbin.run
          1·
          13 days ago

          As the apps or as the VPN service?

          I run both via VPN app and i have similar results to @astrsk

            • sunzu@kbin.run
              1·
              13 days ago

              ohh i see. i was walking phone.

              aint router CPU super underpowered? and it would manage a lot of move traffic?

              • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                13 days ago

                Nah don’t see that being factor, the small Mikrotik is handling it very well for my small homelab, and pfsense was running on stupidly overkill 8c16t / 32gb memory because didn’t have any more fitting hardware at that point

                Edit: the huge battery drain was on phone, with VPN client