Battery usage stats from an Android phone. The battery is down to 10% after 20 hours since last full charge. Signal has consumed 95% in that period and Conversations 5%

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   Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 20:43:33 JST Daniel Gultsch

   I installed #Signal and #Conversations_im on a clean install of #GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4a and measured the battery impact. The results are shocking!

   Both messengers had only one contact: my regular phone.

   I used my regular phone to send messages to the Pixel 4a (which was not used for anything else over the course of the experiment).

   I always sent the same message via Signal and #XMPP (mixing up which app went first). In total I sent ~32 messages in intervals of 10mins to a few hours.