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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?
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.
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.
No idea about those, but wireguard and openvpn were terrible for battery life, only ever used if I needed to access something at home
As the apps or as the VPN service?
I run both via VPN app and i have similar results to @astrsk
I had openvpn server on pfsense couple years ago, and now wireguard on Mikrotik
ohh i see. i was walking phone.
aint router CPU super underpowered? and it would manage a lot of move traffic?
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
Same with WireGuard, 1% all day every day.
I'll look into using just WG then! Thanks
Problem is that setting wg is nowhere as user friendly as just the single click of tailscale
PiVPN is the easiest way to use WireGuard imo. Even has QR code generation right in your terminal emulator. Itβs nothing more than a few simple scripts that wrap the server functionality but Iβve been using it for years.
https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install Try this script
Yeah thats why I love Tailscale so much, its so simple :)