With every version of Android it seems to be harder and harder to get real time notifications anywhere near real time.

Twitch notifications, Signal, WhatsApp, I often get these ten to thirty minutes too late.

I’ve excluded them from battery optimisation but that doesn’t seem to do anything. And I can’t find anything else.

I don’t care about battery usage. I’m always near a charger.

Android 13 on a Fairphone 3.

Edit: I’ve disabled DOZE according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40204605/android-completely-disabling-deviceidle-doze-in-android-m Hopefully that helps.

  • WIPocket@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    In that case, is Google Play Services allowed to run in the background / unrestricted / whatever? It is the means to delivering notifications for most apps.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, I couldn’t even restrict it if I wanted to.

      Might that work better with a degoogled OS?

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        5 months ago

        Honestly, no. Whenever I see late notifications its usually on a degoogled phone, so this was just my first guess. Good luck!

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          5 months ago

          Agreed. I’d factory reset and see whether it improves things.

          Under certain circumstances it’s possible that the service is getting killed due to lack of memory, but the FP3 has 4GB of RAM so that shouldn’t be happening. One could probably diagnose it with a detailed logcat. Unfortunately I don’t have the bandwidth to help.

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          5 months ago

          Honestly, no. Whenever I see late notifications its usually on a degoogled phone

          Usually, yes. But there is one exception: GrapheneOS. Since it allows you to use Sandboxed Google Play services, notifications work just like on any other Android device, you just need to disable battery optimization for Play services. But unfortunately it is only compatible with Google Pixel devices.

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            5 months ago

            How is that an exception? Sure, it is sandboxed, but I really do not consider that “degoogled”.

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              5 months ago

              The OS itself is degoogled by default, but it has a reliable and officially supported option for adding Google services, if you need them.

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                5 months ago

                Yea, I know, I use it myself. My point is that it is no longer degoogled once you regoogle it.