Vendor Name: Samsung
Device name: S9/SM-G960F
Device CodeName: starlte
Previous version of /e/OS: 3.0.4-s-20250711508139-official-starlte
Present version of /e/OS: 3.2-s-20251022539006-official-starlte (A12)
Rooted / Not rooted: not rooted
Upgrades: stricly OTA official builds since 0.19
I set a charge limit to 85% to preserve my aging device. I’m generally careful to turn off Bluetooth and Wifi when not in use. Data stays on in general. Nonetheless, I can’t go through the day without a little extra charge. So I checked battery stats and
I suggest first try Clear storage in Advanced Privacy, this will of course reset to default and loose “history” but might remove some “impossible” situation that arose through updates.
From my experience your Mobile network use is a bit unreasonably high for normal relaxed behaviour.
I am fairly certain, yes. Idk if you could back those up somehow? … maybe more simple just to note them and do again?
I wonder if constant use of hide my IP creates higher Network usage.
It might be interesting (if you Clear storage) to see the battery use without constant use of Hide my IP but only turn it on for certain “more high risk” situations?
Daily use reveals that I have to whitelist certain apps in Hide my IP (several banking apps and official administrative apps) in order for them to work properly. Hence constant use, for convenience.
I use Thunderbird as a mail client. I have 2 mail providers that have a very strict connection policy to their servers. Any VPN or VPN-like results in account blocking. It happened to me 3 times when doing OTA update and forgetting to whitelist Thunderbird before Thunderbird automatically connects to mail servers for the first time after the update. A real pain, thus making me shy when clearing Advanced Privacy cache.
How to make sure I can whitelist before Thunderbird connects to mail servers?
Did I express it badly … my thinking was not to use Hide my IP (for a day / a period of time). Now lots of things should work and no whitelisting is needed.
