High Battery Usage warning for DigiClock Widget

[Casey Cheung]

I installed a widget called DigiClock which I really like a lot, been using it for past couple weeks.

When I go into Device care app, I get a "High battery usage" warning/alert with an option to click on a button to "Put app to sleep".

Seriously? A simple clock widget can excessively drain my S9 battery?

Any advice?

 

[Casey Cheung]

Here's another screenshot attached for the same high battery usage warning.

 

[mustang7757]

I installed a widget called DigiClock which I really like a lot, been using it for past couple weeks.

When I go into Device care app, I get a "High battery usage" warning/alert with an option to click on a button to "Put app to sleep".

Seriously? A simple clock widget can excessively drain my S9 battery?

Any advice?

They see if that widget can be put in optimized or less background data? And yes simple apps/widgets like that can cause big battery drain.

 

[Casey Cheung]

If I press the "Fix now" button, this simply removes the clock from my home screen. I don't know of any way to minimize the battery usage.

 

[mustang7757]

If I press the "Fix now" button, this simply removes the clock from my home screen. I don't know of any way to minimize the battery usage.

If you go to settings> type battery optimized see if it's on the list

 

[Casey Cheung]

I found the "Optimize battery usage" under settings. Unfortunately, DigiClock is not on the list.

 

[Gary02468]

Any app can drain your battery if it's written badly enough. Alternatively, an app could be doing background work without your knowledge, such as mining cryptocurrency for the app's author.

 

[Casey Cheung]

I decided to put the DigiClock widget app into sleep mode for now and see how it goes. Interestingly, the "Sleeping apps" menu shows 2 other apps in sleep mode that I didn't know about. The other 2 apps in sleep mode are "Lookout" and "WinAmp". I don't recall ever putting these other 2 apps to sleep. Did my phone do that automatically for me? Hmmm.

 

[mustang7757]

I decided to put the DigiClock widget app into sleep mode for now and see how it goes. Interestingly, the "Sleeping apps" menu shows 2 other apps in sleep mode that I didn't know about. The other 2 apps in sleep mode are "Lookout" and "WinAmp". I don't recall ever putting these other 2 apps to sleep. Did my phone do that automatically for me? Hmmm.

They go into sleep mode automatically when not in use after few days.

 

[Rukbat]

And a clock app that checks the time every second, or even every minute, will eat a lot of battery, even if it sleeps between checking time. (This is Linux, so the app can tell Linux "wake me every minute at 59 seconds" and go to sleep Linux is running anyway, and will wake the app up every minute, the app [a widget is just an app with some special features] advances the time display, then goes back to sleep. But some clock widgets just sit there running, watching the time. That eats enormous amounts of battery. Greenify can help with that.)

 

[slim6596]

I installed a widget called DigiClock which I really like a lot, been using it for past couple weeks.

When I go into Device care app, I get a "High battery usage" warning/alert with an option to click on a button to "Put app to sleep".

Seriously? A simple clock widget can excessively drain my S9 battery?

Any advice?

S9? Or Note 9?

 

[Casey Cheung]

I have an S9.

 

[slim6596]

I have an S9.

Just wondering if this affected me since this is posted in the Note 9 forums.

 

[B. Diddy]

I've used that clock widget for a long time, and I've never seen it listed as a significant battery user in the Battery menu's app list. I'd just let it run, and then at the end of a charge cycle, see if it used a lot of battery.