Alfred's New Ramblings

Aviate Launcher battery drain.

Aviate the contextual launcher senses where are you and pops up the appropriate collection of apps for you. Since I don’t really use this feature and it is eating power.  One way to save power is to force it to sleep using Greenify.  The downside is when you are using the phone, you may need to wait for Aviate Launchter to launch itself.

Following the Google Services hack to keep it sleeping, I thought why don’t I deny Aviate Location permissions.  This is what I have done in the first line.

Privacy settings for Aviate

 

Battery performance, just before naptime. Those regular blocks of awake and screen on is the alarm going off.

Start of Aviate overnight test

Just after naptime.

After Aviate overnight test

 

The period just after charging stops shows little if any wakelocks.  I think I will keep this setting.




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