Improve power usage by not trying to do stuff in background during flight mode

[SvenLieber]

Improve power usage by not trying to do stuff in background during flight mode

[joshtrichards]

Hi @SvenLieber - Since many of these issues are specific to not only specific Android OS versions, but many other variables (some which are unknown or we'd have addressed them can you share:

• app version
• OS version
• phone make/model
• your active auto-upload configs

I completely believe you're experiencing this, but as a point of reference I do not on my Pixel 7 and I never charge it overnight either.

Nextcloud to be smart and "knowing" that there currently is no Internet and thus no reason to perform auto-uploading or other background tasks.

There really shouldn't be anything to upload if these are just media folders.

Are there any queued up or processed items in the Uploads tab overnight?

Since it's unclear what is triggering the usage, it would be potentially helpful to maybe gather logs from the device to see what it's constantly trying to do too (if you're able): https://github.com/nextcloud/android?tab=readme-ov-file#logs

[SvenLieber]

Hi @joshtrichards,

my apologies for not including more context information. Because I used the enhancement issue template and not the one for bugs, I missed adding it.

• Phone: Huawei Mate 20 Lite (SNE-LX1)
• Phone OS version: EMUI 12.0.0.226 (C432E3R1P1) (which I think is Android 10)
• Nextcloud version: 3.29.0 from the Google play store

For auto-upload I only have custom folders, because I started to use the SD card as default storage for WhatsApp and my Camera. Those folders weren't auto-detected after I moved them to the SD card (this also leaves me with a mixed photo/video destination folder for my camera, because the type of media is not something to select for custom-folders. Anyway, this is another problem).

Other notable things:

• The upload queue was empty
• When opening Settings->Auto upload it takes several minutes to show the folders (I only see a flashing Loading ...).
• Auto-upload settings for basically all my folders
  • Only upload on unmetered Wi-FI
  • Use subfolders based on date
  • Original file will be kept in original folder
  • What to do if the file already exists? Skip uploading

Occasionally I also see the Preparing auto upload notification, but nothing is happening #12596
I checked that bug report before opening this issue, but apparently I missed the fact that a decrease in battery is also reported. I have the feeling it is related after all. Sorry for not checking more in detail.

I'd love to gather logs, but unfortunately I don't have a suitable setup at the moment (no root privileges on phone nor computer). But I have a linux VM running in Hyper-V. I could try to run adb from that. But I think this is not straightforward from what I can see from the Google search results.