Comment on How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
If you turn off the battery optimization setting, does it get better?
I was missing a bunch of alerts for Signal because I downloaded it outside the GPlay store (which handles waking up processes better), and I got much more reliable notifications after disabling that setting. It uses a lot more battery though, but maybe that’s worth it for you.
I use molly’s unifiedpush edition, with ntfy, and that works for me. ntfy never crashed on me yet.
also, it’s not signal that handles waking up, but firebase when you get it from the google store, none I think if you install the apk, and unifiedpush if you get molly unifiedpush edition
Lucki@feddit.org 5 days ago
dontkillmyapp.com
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Mine is a Pixel running GrapheneOS, and it doesn’t seem to be on your list. My issue is that I’m not using Google Play Services, so I don’t get the benefits that it provides, one of which is managing notifications. So Signal has to manage notifications itself, which means it basically needs to always be running instead of the more typical Android model of being woken up when there’s a notification.
Or maybe it’s what you linked. Either way, I’d check that and see if it’s an easy fix.
mac@lemm.ee 5 days ago
For signal, you can look into a fork called Molly. I have Molly setup, along with molly-sockets, which allows for notifications via unified push