If you set message history, it’s completely automated. My app size rarely is over 1GB. You can even set the media quality under Data and Storage so it’ll use less storage if that’s a concern.
In Android 13, there are two different battery optimization steps, are you sure, signal is unoptimzied?
I have had no issues at all. Even now without Google GMS, I receive them within 20 seconds.
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You can also bulk delete pictures fairly easy within Signal in the settings. Imho its the videos though, that take away the most memory.
Battery optimization in Android 13 is such dogshit. They should have had it as its own setting category to give users full control over which apps we want optimized.
Instead, they just optimize everything and put apps to sleep if you need them infrequently, all so they can brag about the battery life of their devices.
I’m always one step from going full third-party OS.
With root, it is not hard at all. You just net the “fix safetynet check” module for magisk. After that you’ll need to hide root within magisk:
Hide magisk + Zygisk + enforce denylist.
Some of the Apps might still detect the Magisk App somehow but for that, I recommend you “Hail” from Fdroid. It freezes / deactivates the apps you want and thaws them, whenever needed. In the frozen state, magisk won’t be detected, as it seems uninstalled to other apps.
Hail is also incredibly nice for apps that drain your battery on idle.
It is even possible to use GPay without any problems, though it is a bit tricky to set up for it to work. But there’s tutorials for that as well.
There’s your problem, the pixels since the pixel 5 have been dogshit for battery life. My wife had a bunch of problems with her 6, so we traded for a 7. Same problems. My pixel 3 was one of my best phones and I knew a bunch of people with 4s who loved them. Seems like since the 5 it’s been nothing, but issues. Then they introduced their tensor chip which is just an overheating battery sucker.
Re: the notifications not coming, I’ve seen it similar from WhatsApp too. I reckon it depends much on which app you use more, so it gives enough battery time to keep aware of messages. Now I use Signal more, I think I’ve had more misses on WhatsApp.
That said, I’ve had a few weirder misses (for calls only, I think) that don’t seem to be from battery optimisation.
(I’ve been hearing that they’re coming very soon for several years)
Maybe if the devs worked with the community more then we could get them, but they don’t seem to accept PRs from folks outside their core team anymore (please correct me if I’m wrong)
No they actually are coming pretty soon, just in feburary this year, they had screenshots of the Signal app (a version that isn’t released yet) beiing able to register a username.
I fail to see any reason for hating a chat app so passionately except possibly for privacy concerns, which is definitely not the case here.
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Settings > data and storage > manage storage > review storage > select the media you want to keep > save
Don’t you love when people don’t even try to look for settings?
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If you set message history, it’s completely automated. My app size rarely is over 1GB. You can even set the media quality under Data and Storage so it’ll use less storage if that’s a concern.
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In Android 13, there are two different battery optimization steps, are you sure, signal is unoptimzied? I have had no issues at all. Even now without Google GMS, I receive them within 20 seconds. Edit: You can also bulk delete pictures fairly easy within Signal in the settings. Imho its the videos though, that take away the most memory.
Battery optimization in Android 13 is such dogshit. They should have had it as its own setting category to give users full control over which apps we want optimized.
Instead, they just optimize everything and put apps to sleep if you need them infrequently, all so they can brag about the battery life of their devices.
I’m always one step from going full third-party OS.
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With root, it is not hard at all. You just net the “fix safetynet check” module for magisk. After that you’ll need to hide root within magisk: Hide magisk + Zygisk + enforce denylist. Some of the Apps might still detect the Magisk App somehow but for that, I recommend you “Hail” from Fdroid. It freezes / deactivates the apps you want and thaws them, whenever needed. In the frozen state, magisk won’t be detected, as it seems uninstalled to other apps. Hail is also incredibly nice for apps that drain your battery on idle. It is even possible to use GPay without any problems, though it is a bit tricky to set up for it to work. But there’s tutorials for that as well.
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Sounds like you want usability over privacy. Maybe look for another app that suits your purpose.
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what android version are you running just wondering? i assume you have battery optimization off blah blah blah
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There’s your problem, the pixels since the pixel 5 have been dogshit for battery life. My wife had a bunch of problems with her 6, so we traded for a 7. Same problems. My pixel 3 was one of my best phones and I knew a bunch of people with 4s who loved them. Seems like since the 5 it’s been nothing, but issues. Then they introduced their tensor chip which is just an overheating battery sucker.
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oof. ive a pixel 5 with latest grapheneos and messages come like ~10 after sent i think ?
Re: the notifications not coming, I’ve seen it similar from WhatsApp too. I reckon it depends much on which app you use more, so it gives enough battery time to keep aware of messages. Now I use Signal more, I think I’ve had more misses on WhatsApp.
That said, I’ve had a few weirder misses (for calls only, I think) that don’t seem to be from battery optimisation.
And we still don’t have unsernames
Usernames are coming pretty soon.
Definitely by 2030 probably
(I’ve been hearing that they’re coming very soon for several years)
Maybe if the devs worked with the community more then we could get them, but they don’t seem to accept PRs from folks outside their core team anymore (please correct me if I’m wrong)
No they actually are coming pretty soon, just in feburary this year, they had screenshots of the Signal app (a version that isn’t released yet) beiing able to register a username.
Yea well some people don’t share that reasoning with you.
Apple, for example, as much as they’ve done a lotta bad things as a business, they still have a bunch of support. What are you gonna do about it?
It’s hard getting these people to switch.