ARC B264 High Idle Battery Usage on Android 14

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As others have also observed, I’ve had fairly high idle battery usage on ARC builds for a while (S22, Android 14) but the most recent B264 has turned my phone into a pocket warmer when ARC is in the background, with correspondingly high battery usage, for example 25% over working hours. This makes it pretty unusable in practice. @Early_Access is this something team Roon are aware of? I can’t see any new reports so far…Thanks!

Edit: I did have battery usage set to Unrestricted, as I thought that was needed for correct operation. I have changed to Optimised so will see how that pans out.

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There is one here

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Sure, hence I said “as others have also observed”, but that was many builds ago, rather than highlighting any difference with this build.

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Yeah, it’s cropped back up again after getting better for a bit. Yesterday ARC used literally 50% of my phone’s battery doing nothing at all. @Early_Access can we seriously get this looked into?

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Try restricted, it may help more.

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I just tried to answer “is this something team Roon are aware of?”

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I’ve been bringing this issue up for months now and the Roon team hasn’t really done anything to try and solve it.

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Thanks, will play around with these settings a little. I’m guessing this will break things like smart downloads though at the very least.

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I’m guessing the increase in usage relates to this:

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…although today, when battery use is set to optimised, it seems to have got a handle on itself with regards to battery usage at least.