Same issue. It’s almost unusable bc it’s draining too much battery life on S20.
Maybe one of domains is reached too often. My top one blocked domain is “telemetry.sdk.inmobi.com” with 46k tries. Second one is “huqindustries co uk” with 17k tries and third one is “config.inmobi.com” with 15k tries. Try to add your top domain/s to whitelist and see if it helps.
We know about one case where the user delete Firefox Nightly version from the device and Blokada didn’t flood the log with the Forwarder message anymore.
And as @Kruemelmonster mentioned, in his case the Eufy Security App generated the open sockets.
It worth to check which apps are running in the background and doing something on the device.
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I don’t have any battery drain issues when I’m using AdGuard instead of Blokada…
Does Blokada 4 support DNS over https? I’m still experiencing this issue and I’d rather downgrade to 4 than to keep dealing with this.
Bingo! I removed Firefox and Blockade no longer appears at the top of the battery consumption list. It’s weird, as Firefox was never running in the background.
Edit – Nope. It’s still at the top of the list. Back to digging.
No, and it won’t support it. The engine of v4 isn’t compatible with the DoH feature and changing the engine would require a lot of refactoring of the code.
Is this going to be fixed. I installed v5.10 last time and the problem persisted so i went back to v4
Hi,
So far the issue reports regarding this matter decreased in the past. Try v5.11
I’ve been getting warnings lately/today on my S20 about blokada 5.11.1 consuming too much cpu.
lots of PLForwarder closed 1 old socket messages
gsam battery monitor pro shows blokada at 38% battery consumption
I am using Blokada for a long time on my Galaxy S9 without facing this issue. But now, since a month or so, I have these situations where the phone runs hot and drains the battery very fast. My current version is 5.11.1.
I followed the instructions on top of this thread, and it seems that Spotify sometimes fights against Blokada. The log is full of these ‘PLForwarde Forwarder reached 1024 open sockets, closing oldest’ messages in a 9-millisecond distance. My phone has been fully charged before this event and when I now have a look into the battery consumption log, I can see that Spotify used 24% and Blokada used 11% during just an hour. All other apps used less than 2% each.
The battery drain stops immediately after turning Blokada off and on although Spotify and all other apps are still running without change.
Hi,
You could for example try whitelisting Spotify and see whether or not that helps
I set Spotify to ‚bypassed‘ in the Blokada Apps list. Hope this is what is meant with whitelisting. But I don’t see a difference. The phone still starts consuming battery after starting Spotify; about 30% during an hour. I can only stop it by turning Blokada off and on again.
I have the same problem that Blockada 5 drains my battery quickly. I have also received several warnings about this.
The previous version has always worked without problems.
I have the same problem. It’s been like this for a few months now I think.
Happens every: 2-3 days.
Phone: Galaxy S9
The phone gets hot, battery level drains very quickly and I see those “Forwarder reached 1024 open sockets” log events every 5-15ms. There is nothing interesting in the Activity log, not even a lot of requests.
This bug pretty much makes Blokada unusable for me now. The risk of my phone dying while out of the house is just too high.
Happy to help debug 