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> I suggest that you regularly open the NetGuard app and have it in the background so just incase Android OS puts it to sleep. Shouldn't happen since NetGuard

by aasasd 4y ago

> I suggest that you regularly open the NetGuard app and have it in the background so just incase Android OS puts it to sleep. Shouldn't happen since NetGuard works as a ‘vpn client’ to pass connections through the app—so afaik reasonably it should stay working as long as the pseudo-vpn-connection is up. (Not to be confused with actually connecting to a vpn server, which it doesn't do.)

zem 4y ago
I run blokada on my phone, which also acts as a pseudo vpn, and that does have problems with dying randomly and needing to be restarted. not sure if it's a bug in the software or a general android issue.
- aasasd 4y ago
  Perhaps Blokada doesn't properly run the background service, with a persistent notification. The notification is necessary since around Android 9 or so—and while NetGuard's ‘vpn’ is indicated in the status bar, it also still has a notification. Some apps have a setting to disable the notification, but all that achieves is that the app doesn't stay running in the background.
  - zem 4y ago
    no, it has a persistent notification, but maybe they do something else wrong if other vpns work fine
    - aasasd 4y ago
      By the way: I semi-randomly landed again on the dontkillmyapp site, and it notes that killing background apps works differently on different phones—presumably first of all between various manufacturers, since they tend to modify Android somewhat deeply: https://dontkillmyapp.com/google https://dontkillmyapp.com/google More to the point, the site reminded me that you might want to verify if Blokada is exempted from ‘battery optimizations’ (works via app info —> ‘Battery’ —> ‘Battery optimization’ for me). I checked NetGuard on my phone, and sure enough I have the ‘optimization’ disabled for the app. (Let me know if you see this comment, or I'm gonna notify you manually.)
      - zem 4y ago
        hey, thanks for following up! I checked and blokada is set to "unrestricted battery use", so I'm going to guess it's just buggy (the previous version didn't have this issue)

by aasasd 4y ago

zem 4y ago

I run blokada on my phone, which also acts as a pseudo vpn, and that does have problems with dying randomly and needing to be restarted. not sure if it's a bug in the software or a general android issue.

aasasd 4y ago
Perhaps Blokada doesn't properly run the background service, with a persistent notification. The notification is necessary since around Android 9 or so—and while NetGuard's ‘vpn’ is indicated in the status bar, it also still has a notification. Some apps have a setting to disable the notification, but all that achieves is that the app doesn't stay running in the background.
- zem 4y ago
  no, it has a persistent notification, but maybe they do something else wrong if other vpns work fine
  - aasasd 4y ago
    By the way: I semi-randomly landed again on the dontkillmyapp site, and it notes that killing background apps works differently on different phones—presumably first of all between various manufacturers, since they tend to modify Android somewhat deeply: https://dontkillmyapp.com/google https://dontkillmyapp.com/google More to the point, the site reminded me that you might want to verify if Blokada is exempted from ‘battery optimizations’ (works via app info —> ‘Battery’ —> ‘Battery optimization’ for me). I checked NetGuard on my phone, and sure enough I have the ‘optimization’ disabled for the app. (Let me know if you see this comment, or I'm gonna notify you manually.)
    - zem 4y ago
      hey, thanks for following up! I checked and blokada is set to "unrestricted battery use", so I'm going to guess it's just buggy (the previous version didn't have this issue)