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Re:Wire is now on F-Droid by catdog on Saturday January 29, 2022 @06:50AM (#30125612)
Yep it works fine on more or less "vanilla" android but still makes it inconvenient to get there like having to flip the right "battery optimization" toggle. How to do it changes with every 2nd release of course.
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Re:Wire is now on F-Droid by southerntofu on Saturday January 29, 2022 @06:55AM (#30125638)
Wait, it's now hidden behind a "battery optimization" flag on *vanilla Android*?
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Re:Wire is now on F-Droid by yellow_lead on Sunday January 30, 2022 @03:37PM (#30140848)
Yes I think so, because the way these apps typically do notifications is with an Android service that polls or keeps a long running socket. If you don't turn off battery optimization specifically for that app then the OS will kill your service.
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