Batteries been draining fast on a brand new phone. Took a look at battery usage under battery applications. + See that antenna pod was at 24%. I have less than a dozen subscriptions and only have automatic checking for updates once an hour. Draw is very high considering that I’m not listening to podcasts very much. I’m at work. I’m asleep. Don’t understand why the draw is so high or how to correct it.
Can’t help but I have the same problem, also on a Pixel 8a.
AntennaPod is by far the app that draws most power, even when I’m not listening to podcasts.
Currently looking for alternatives to AntennaPod even though it’s a shame.
Charge your phone to 100% and then restart it. In almost all cases we had in the past, the battery consumption got attributed to the wrong app and was not actually caused by AntennaPod
Charged phone to 100%, rebooted it, actually shutdown and restart rather than reboot.
Noted that battery usage by app is from last full change rather than most recent reboot, so I now understand
why charging it was important.
Several days have gone by, checked battery usage, Antennapod is 30% of battery usage.
Just shut off bluetooth, keep forgetting to do that. No headphone jack in Pixel 8a, see what happens now.
AntennaPod vs Bluetooth, if there is an issue with attribution of battery usage we’ll find out if its bluetooth, there
is a connection between these two things.
I have 10 subscriptions and when I’d noticed the higher then expected usage changed to update frequency from one to two hours.
I notice the battery indicator is showing a less steep decline in the last few hours, and overall usage is back to 25%.
I wonder if this isn’t an artifact from having had bluetooth enabled.
The new phone, 8a upgraded from 4a lacks a headphone jack, so I purchased a bluetooth dongle for the car, which lacks native bluetooth.
Will keep an eye and be more careful about the bluetooth settings on the phone.
Bluetooth does not show as an independent application, but I would still be surprised if usage was attributed to AntennaPod.
I am not using the synchronize function. When I move to the new phone I did an import but never a synchronize.
When I was out at dinner yesterday usage moved from 25 to 28% because I had turned on. I assumed it was because I turned on Bluetooth when I was driving to the restaurant and left it on while I ate and did not shut it till I got home. But it’s now at 42%. I show about 5 hours of standby time and about 7 minutes of screen time and have no idea what’s actually causing the recorded percentage to be so high. That is percentage of battery as displayed by the phone utilization. I assume that’s a true reflection of usage but I don’t know that.