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?
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It’s a known issue with tailscale. It drains my battery pretty bad as well. I had to opt for wireguard for remote access instead.
Ah that’s a shame, I love using Tailscale 🙁
I’ve seen these kinds of issues over the years with different tools on a variety of phones. It’s so hard to know what the root cause is.
Some phones are just fine,others eat batteries, even when on the same versions of Android and the app.
Sometimes it’s just so hard to figure out.
First, find a good battery stats app. The factory stuff often isn’t granular enough. I use GSAM, because I’m lazy, my phone isn’t rooted, and it’s good enough.
Second, make sure whatever apps your using across TS aren’t doing something during this time. I have to carefully configure sync apps (Syncthing, FolderSync) to be sure they don’t use TS unintentionally.
Well, it has to run in the background. That said I haven’t noticed a significant uptick in battery consumption. The battery consumption you see might be from something else.
I wonder what causes it really, didn’t use to happen, but seem to be a common problem for many.
Could be anything. What I do to reduce the possibility of some app going haywire in the background, I restrict background usage to all apps that I’m sure I don’t need to run in the background. Obviously Tailscale isn’t one of them because I need it. 😅 Also I started using Shelter to put untrusted apps like WhatsApp into a work profile and completely disable them when not in use. I haven’t had many battery drain incidents since then.
I’m on Graphene too and I once read that the modems used in Pixel phones are pretty trashy and drain a ton of battery. If I filter my battery usage by system, it shows that network standby almost consumes half of my battery charge (~46%).
Maybe the other guy here is right and it’s a VPN issue (too)? idk. Anyway, I didn’t really found a solution for this except leaving my phone on airplane mode at night.
Tbf Tensors suck ass
Ah thanks for pointing that out, I did the same and see that my Mobile Network usage stands for 68% of my battery usage… Yikes!
This seems to be a normal issue with VPN apps on Android, they drain battery like crazy
Both protonvpn and mullvad are at 1% for a day. Y’all stop using crappy vpns.
After checking on tailscale privacy policy, I also suggest to drop tailscale and use mullvadvpn if you live in EU or US (it is great) or protonvpn. You can install WG Tunnel from F-Droid and add wireguard configuration from your VPN provider as well. It is consume only 1-3% during the day on my device.
It’s not comparable. Tailscale creates a virtual network between your devices allowing to reach your server outside your home while other mentioned services create a virtual network to someone else’s server
If you want to preserve privacy while utilizing Tailscale’s functions beyond a VPN, one can deploy Headscale on their own infra and be free from any spying.
Tailscale is very different from those servivez.
