Which Lemmy android app is the most battery efficient?
Does it make a difference which one I use? I am using an old phone (~5 years old). Currently using liftoff! and connect. Feel like my phone is dying a lot quicker since I switched from using infinity for reddit a month or so ago
You should use one with an AMOLED dark mode. Usually the screen uses the most battery and if your phone supports AMOLED it actually turns the pixels off to make blacks, which is more energy efficient. I have Connect, Liftoff, and Jerboa and they all offer it as a theme option although Jerboa calls it System Black (I think that's the same thing anyway).
But only if you actually have an (AM)OLED phone. On OLED only bright pixels consume power. On LCD the backlight is equally as bright, no matter of the pixel colors, and actually, dark pixels consume very slightly more power than bright pixels.
It's good that you wear out the phone til the end.
There are a few things that could help you speed up your phone by a lot. I am assuming you are on Android. If you are on Apple I can't help you.
Older Android version there is a cache partition. Clearing that will boost the phone's speed by a lot. For that, google how to get into recovery on your phone and select "Clear cache" if that option is available. This is a safe operation where you lose nothing. DO NOT DO "Clear data" unless you want to lose all your data.
Uninstall unnecessary browsers. Many browsers keep running in the background and consume resources. Most apps do that, but browsers consume lots of resources. Maybe only keep the ones you can't delete plus maybe one you like.
Clear cache of the browser apps frequently. Especially Firefox seems to get slower the fuller the cache is. Also, cache consumes storage space.
Disable preinstalled apps that you don't use.
Force close apps that you do use but that don't need to be running in the background.
On older Android versions install Greenify and let it kill all apps that have no business running in the background.
i'm using mlmym using the browser.. I have a very low end (in today's world) MSM8974-based 2013 phone with an Android 11 custom rom and wefwef or jerboa is too much for it.