I started using Summit a week or two ago, and I really like it. It’s a great Lemmy app. But I notice my phone’s battery life has taken a hit since then.
According to battery usage, I’ve been using Summit slightly more than the Reddit app, but Summit has consumed much more battery.
These numbers don’t seem right to me. According to this Reddit used 8% of your battery after 5h of screen time. That means it would take over 62h of screen on time on Reddit for your battery to completely drain. This doesn’t sound realistic. Even the S24 Ultra and Pixel Pro XL can only last ~12 - 14h under heavy use.
I can however confirm from my own usage of Summit, on a S24 Summit uses about 10% - 13% per hour of screen use. This lines up with the approximate 10h battery life of the S24 under heavy use.
Can you you let me know which phone you are using as well? Thank you.
Edit
Also, if you don’t mind, could you please DM me with your app settings? You can generate a dump of your settings by: Tap the three dots button (bottom right) on the home screen. Tap Settings. Tap Import & export settings. Tap Export settings.Tap Copy to clipboard.
Thanks for looking into this.
IIRC I get around 2% or 3% battery usage per hour with Sync (for Lemmy) and Reddit. I’m going to try bouncing back and forth between the three for a comparison.
I’m using a Pixel 8 Pro.
I’ll send my settings.
Thank you for sending me your settings. I’ve gotten a couple of performance/battery usage complaints recently. The one commonality I identified so far is “Mark post as read on scroll”. I’ve made some performance improvement changes related to this feature in the next release which will hopefully reduce battery usage.
That’s awesome! Thanks!
I’ll give it a shot when I get the upgrade and post here.
The release is now live as v1.58.2. Please give it a try and let me know if the battery usage is better.
Will do! Thanks!
I have this exact issue. My phone gets very hot and drains battery like crazy. Using graphene OS on Android 15 on a pixel 9
One other thing. It looks like Graphene OS does not come pre-installed with Google Play Services. Summit uses Crashlytics for crash reporting which is part of Firebase which uses Google Play Services. I wonder if this is causing issues. You can also try disabling Firebase within the app. To do so go to Settings > Logging > Log crashes to Google Firebase. Let me know if this helps.
Will do!
That actually seem to work! It is still a bit hotter, but not nearly as hot as before. So there might still be something else here. Thank you! <3
If you use the app heavily your phone warming up a little is expected but it probably shouldnt get “hot”. Please do monitor for total battery usage and see if it’s still problematic.
After some usage, it seems like it still drains the battery as before. Is there anything else I can do to assist in debugging?
Yes! There has been two major developments in efficiency recently. In v1.58.3 a lot of changes were made to optimize the performance of the critical sections of the app. In v1.58.4 more changes were made to optimize network calls in the critical sections of the app. I will try to remember to update this thread once v1.58.4 is fully rolled out. Once it goes it I will need your help in testing that release. Hopefully that release will put a dent in the battery usage.
Thank you, I will gladly help out where I can <3
The release should be out now
Will do, thank you again
Just to rule this out, can you check if you have any pending actions that are retrying? You can check by going to You > Your actions > Pending actions tab. This tab should be empty.
No worries, I checked and I did not. That tab is empty. Let me know if there is anything else you want me to check. Also, thank you for everything, I really love this app!
Yeah, I’m getting the heat too.
If it’s so bad that your phone is literally heating up by having the app open, it points to an infinitely loop within the app. The only issue is I cannot reproduce anything like it so this infinitely loop must be some rare case. I just have no idea what the case is :/
Something odd must be going, I am rooted and I have several tools to check the battery drain, and Summit never shows up as a hogger.
Have you enabled “Mark as read on scroll”?
Yes, I can’t use any Reddit or Lemmy client without said option 😅
I wonder if restricting background activity would help. This obviously doesn’t fix the bug, but might reduce the impact of the concern.
Good idea. I’ll give that a shot.
Probably mining bitcoin 😏
