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by ReactiveJelly 978 days ago
Yeah this 2-column layout is super weird.

> Conversations (XMPP) seems best for battery life, traffic and RAM.

> Facebook Messenger and Element (Matrix) are the worst from the studied apps, draining up to 300x more power than Conversations when battery optimization is disabled. Keep battery optimization enabled for them, I guess. Need more data to see better.

> Element X (experimental Matrix app) is coming up with a more than 100x reduction in energy consumption (comparing to Element), drawing just 2x more power than Conversations.
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tentacleuno 978 days ago
Not surprised they've found Element to be so inefficient. It used to drain a LOT of my battery, despite me never actually using it. I find myself disappointed with Element apps in general (it's why I use Nheko Reborn on desktop).
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tcfhgj 978 days ago
I guess it's time to uninstall Element.

Have been running it alongside Element X so far, but the energy consumption does not justify the few additional features

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