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Ultra power saving mode different text app??

Is it possible to use a different text app in ultra power saving mode, I'm running alliance custom rom and I use textra as my text app, I have disabled the default samsung messages app so if I use ups mode I have no text
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Samsung can promise that their own apps are energy efficient, because they designed their apps in-house. If people could choose any app to use in ultra power saving mode, that goes out the window - and Samsung doesn't want to deal with having to convince average users that ultra power saving mode isn't saving power because of third party battery hogging apps.

Late Notifications (L29) - Any fix?

Hi Guys,
I still have some late notifications once in a while from different programs.
Line (Messaging)
Google Calendar
HQ (Trivia game)
And a few others...
I have made sure to disable the "Auto" power manager setting for those apps and most of the time they do work normally. However once a week or so I miss a calendar notification or other notifications. I'm guessing this has to do with the aggressive background task killing on Chinese phones, or maybe the AI stuff? Either way, I want my notifications to work and come in on time.
Are there any hidden settings I am missing to disable background task killing? (I had an older Huawei phone that allowed you to disable Huawei memory management in developer settings, but that's not on this phone)
Thanks!

I'm having the same issue on a mate 20 pro, but up to now I could not find a resolution. It's annoying as our doorbell works with a push message that does not always gets delivered instant now.

Try locking the app along with turning off smart notification and turning on the setting to keep mobile active when in sleep mode. Seemed to work for my AL00 which has aggressive power handling.

on top of changing auto mod for app launch there's also battery optimization which isn't in battery menu but in application - special access menu. Try to disallow apps you need maybe it helps.

casinca said:
on top of changing auto mod for app launch there's also battery optimization which isn't in battery menu but in application - special access menu. Try to disallow apps you need maybe it helps.
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I had no idea that hidden section was even there. great tip!

n1tro said:
Try locking the app along with turning off smart notification and turning on the setting to keep mobile active when in sleep mode. Seemed to work for my AL00 which has aggressive power handling.
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How to keep mobile active during sleep?

rowihel2012 said:
How to keep mobile active during sleep?
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Go to Settings -> Battery -> More battery settings and enable Stay connected when device sleeps

rowihel2012 said:
How to keep mobile active during sleep?
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It's in Developer Options on my L29.

Tip: Turn on night mode under developer options

Sorry if this is old news for everybody here, but I saw night mode option under developer options and said what the heck and set it to always on. I did not expect it to do much because I already set the theme to Dark in Settings and that doesn't seem to affect anything but the notification bar.
well lo and behold, a couple of apps are now dark that previously weren't even though the apps have no dark theme setting. Namely Instagram and play store. Go figure. Of course there apps that I really want to be dark -- Gmail, Settings, and hangout -- aren't. That's Google for you.

Also Google Drive and Google Photos become dark

Sapper Morton said:
barth2;80874791well lo and behold said:
Sure, that mode it's intended only for battery saver mode, but you can force enable it; if you use a lot the battery saver feature, you will notice that it will reset the dark mode when turned off; so if you want a convenient switch, use the app linked below; you can set a QS Switch with it.
App link: Night Mode (Enable Night Mode from tile) - https://f-droid.org/app/io.github.subhamtyagi.nightmode
Source code:
https://github.com/SubhamTyagi/night-mode-tile
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Phone resets dark mode when it is in charge also, does this app force it enabled also in this case? Thanks
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qwertysmerty said:
Also Google Drive and Google Photos become dark
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Instagram too.

Sapper Morton said:
It resets only when turning on and off battery saver; but, yes, the app can easily toggle dark mode once it gets reseted, it's easily accessible in Quick Settings menu; otherwise you will have to go into developer options and enable it from there, everytime.
The following is only needed in Pie btw, Android 10 already has changed the way dark mode behaves.
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It's an old bug - turn off the dark mode in messaging and it will be fine.

asdfuc said:
It's an old bug - turn off the dark mode in messaging and it will be fine.
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could you please elaborate a bit?
Do you mean we can prevent the battery saver switching from disabling the dark mode always on setting? How exactly? Thanks

Google it. After unplugging charger it returns to night mode. Without this setting in messaging it won't return.

It must be this, becouse I am using battery saver mode all the time.

Battery Power Mode

Seems that theres a lack of changeable options for.power modes
If you select Medium Power Save it has the option to turn on/off 5G, Always on Display and limit CPU.
But if you activate theres other settings like Higher System Speed (which i assume is different from Refresh Rate because this is also listed at the bottom as restricted to 60hz )
So how do we turn on/off these other settings? I'd like to have medium power save with higher system speeds on.

I don't think you can modify some of those things with medium power saver on unfortunately. There seem to be some settings that are core to the medium power saving that must provide some of the main power saving them the rest is optional.

bloomylicious said:
I don't think you can modify some of those things with medium power saver on unfortunately. There seem to be some settings that are core to the medium power saving that must provide some of the main power saving them the rest is optional.
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I switched to optimised now, Medium Power is good but seems that calendar doesn't sync even if you manually press sync in the calendar app. Says not available in Medium Power Save mode. And trying in accounts settings, what was deleted from another family member on shared calendar doesn't delete on my screen unless i switch Power mode and resync.
Annoying.

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I switched to optimised now, Medium Power is good but seems that calendar doesn't sync even if you manually press sync in the calendar app. Says not available in Medium Power Save mode. And trying in accounts settings, what was deleted from another family member on shared calendar doesn't delete on my screen unless i switch Power mode and resync.
Annoying.
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I'm running medium power with 120Hz and calendar sync, to do that for know I just downloaded Google calendar and hide it from app drawer, that one takes care the sync until Samsung hopefully release update that allow sync, because it was the same with the S10 but after one update it worked to sync calendar with medium power mode.

Is there anyway to add app to Power Saving Mode in Note 10+

I have tried to root and use UPSM manager to add app to power saving mode. When I choose apps and click save, it said saved successfully but when I restart and go into power saving mode, I cannot see all what I have chosen, still the limited default apps shown and I still have to choose again which app I want to use and I cannot add more than what they allow there. (If you want to add more, you will have to remove the current in the list and get space for new one )
Is there any other solution that works ? Thank you !

Maybe bixby routines?

how will I add app in bixby routines and will that still work in Maximum Power Saving mode in note 10+ ?

I don't let bixby run, lol read it's eula.
Just know from what I see here that's it's pretty capable.
There's also the Macrodroid app, it may be able to do that.
You know that going into max power saving mode really screws up the display settings when you come out of it? It does on my version, that glitch may have been corrected.

I checked Macrodroid and looks like it is an app for automation. Still cant figure out how that will be able to serve my purpose to add more app in power saving mode ?
(If power saving mode could help me to save battery while I still can use all the most frequent apps I need, then I don't bother coming out of it, and so the display etc.)

You want a custom app list for the power saving mode.
Both Bixby and Macroandriod are for setting up routines. Both use a fair amount of battery.
Beyond that the other issue may be dependencies that the apps you want to run need apks that are deliberately shutdown to conserve power in the maximum power savings mode.
That's one reason it can save power so well.
Specifically what app(s) do you want to run?

I want at least these app:
- Whatsapp
- Messenger
- Covid tracing app (for entrance)
- Bus timing
- Outlook
- Camera
- Home camera
- And if possible: Spotify, and one or 2 apps more also for working.

nobtiba said:
I want at least these app:
- Whatsapp
- Messenger
- Covid tracing app (for entrance)
- Bus timing
- Outlook
- Camera
- Home camera
- And if possible: Spotify, and one or 2 apps more also for working.
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It's not happening is my opinion. You got a bunch of apps that are constantly polling the internet.
I won't even let WhatsApp on my devices. As for Covid, I'm in Texas and we're already over that junk.
Maximum power savings mode means minimum functionality. A major reason you're chewing up so much power are the social apps running in the background. I have none on my phone; if I can't use a site through the browser, I won't use it.
FB, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc are all data miners and not to be trusted.
My SOT ranges from 7-13%@hr in Optimized power setting. >.5%@hr at night with tap on AOD with phone/internet connected on my N10+'s.
These devices are also heavily optimized so it's more than just not having the social media apps.

I tried power saving with all these apps mentioned above (when I need some app I just use edit button then edit and remove one app to get space for other app in power saving mode) and I have my phone lasting from 8am to mid night. So good enough for me I believe. Now I only need a way that I do not need to remove, add them

Any body has a solution?