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For people looking to switch to Signal without Google Play services on Android (apk installation), the best way to fix the websocket battery drain is this: htt
by alexandrerond 6y ago
For people looking to switch to Signal without Google Play services on Android (apk installation), the best way to fix the websocket battery drain is this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/ewp99j/disable_websockets_on_signal_android_without/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/ewp99j/disable_webs...
Unlike Telegram, WhatsApp, Element etc. which work fine without Google, Signal devs have repeteadly refused to make improvements to the "always-awake" mode which happily eats 40% battery.
- Krasnol 6y agoIt seems to be some very specific bug as neither me nor my contacts seen this happen on their devices. We've been using it at work quite often with people having different devices. On mine it shows 2% battery drain atm.
- MayeulC 6y agoI either do not have this issue, or it doesn't show up for me on the battery usage page. Are you sure it is widespread? (I have no GAPPS, LineageOS 17.1 -- on Galaxy S4). With that said, there is some work being done towards a FLOSS replacement for firebase [1]. Gotify can be used as a backend [2], among others ([3] too, I think). Not ready for prime-time, but almost, and development started pretty recently (mid-December). [1] #openpush:bubu1.eu (https://matrix.to/#/!ajsXAmvYUOjfmMJnGJ:bubu1.eu https://matrix.to/#/!ajsXAmvYUOjfmMJnGJ:bubu1.eu) [1] https://github.com/UnifiedPush/UP-spec/blob/main/specifications.md https://github.com/UnifiedPush/UP-spec/blob/main/specificati... [2] https://github.com/gotify/android/tree/unifiedpush https://github.com/gotify/android/tree/unifiedpush [3] https://github.com/NoProvider2Push/android https://github.com/NoProvider2Push/android