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
    410·
    6 months ago

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

      • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        4·
        6 months 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·
        6 months 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·
          6 months 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·
              6 months 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·
                6 months 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