Blokada 5.1.0 battery and start on reboot

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Since installing official Blokada 5.1.0 the smartphone has started to drain the battery very quickly.
Also, Blokada does not start on reboot. There is no Always-on-vpn option on the system.
Huawei P Smart 2018 with EMUI 9.1

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I’m ignorant on the subject, but can the battery drain be caused by dns over https?

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Stefano… I am not an expert either, however, I use DNS over HTTPS on both my phone and tablet. Neither has any appreciable change in battery use compared to when I used 4.7.3 (no DNS over HTTPS).

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Hello,
it is possible that the battery life decreased due to Blokada getting stopped in the background all the time.
Refer to DontKillMyApp.com for possible solutions.

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We’ll need a log from you.

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Since yesterday I have removed the DoH and visibly the smartphone seems to consume less battery. For now I try to use it this way, until the next Blokada update.

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But we don’t know the exact issue if you don’t share a log with us. So how should we fix it with an update ?

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I have now sent the log to hello@blokada.org
Thank you :wink:

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Thank you very much :slight_smile:

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Have you seen my log file of Blokada 5.1.0? There is something weird?
What about start on boot (Huawei doesn’t have the always-on-vpn option)?

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All logs sent to the email address you mentioned are being analysed. If you haven’t received a reply email yet, please stay tuned.

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I’m having the same issue. I’m too using Huawei device & Blockada 5.1.0 consumes too much battery.

EDIT: Always on vpn works and it also starts on reboot. It’s the high battery consumption that’s causing me trouble.

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Hello,

May I ask how much battery (mAh) does Blokada use on your device and which tool did you use to narrow down the battery usage to Blokada? Could you attach a few screenshots about this usage?

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Hello thanks for writing back! I’m afraid i don’t have a single answer to the question “How much mAh does Blokada uses”. Because it keeps on fluctuating, usually in an increasing manner. I used the default system tool to measure the usage.

Here are the screenshots i just took in the intervals of ~5 minutes.

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Hi,
It seems to me that huawei is just estimating the battery consumption. Consider using betterbatterystats instead

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With Blokada 5.2 the battery consumption seems to be back to normal.
The startup problem remains, because the always-on-vpn option doesn’t exist on my Huawei.

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Hi, following the said gentleman’s advice @Stefano , I upgraded my Blockada to version 5.2.0 & it seems to have fixed my problem.

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