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LG G2, Kitkat. Screen and Automagic are taking most of battery life (35 and 25 percent). I have a few flows only, no one with gps or wifi connection. Battery drain is too big, now using Automagic is without a sense.
Sorry for my English.

That's strange. I have about 40 flows but battery consumption is just about 3%... (Galaxy S2 plus, 4.1)

Wakelock problem. That was before. But one more thing is very strange, Better Battery Stats showed me, that flow which is off for a months drain my battery, in partial wakelocks. In automagic trigger Speed. It may be a problem.

I think u r using some sensors as trigger like shake.. Just stop those
Flow which uses sensors and find ur battery back up after that..

Some triggers need to constantly check sensors in the background (shake, speed etc.) and can drain the battery if a flow uses such a trigger 24 hours a day.
The triggers should stop watching the sensors as soon as the flow is disabled (and no other flow uses the trigger).
Does the flow show up again in better battery stats when the statistics is reset and after waiting some more time? Are you executing the flow using an action Execute Flows from another flow?

Some triggers need to constantly check sensors in the background

Martin, could you please add some notification/description to those triggers so when a user select them - at least he is aware of potential battery impact.

Thanks!!

The triggers should already contain an info-text under the trigger-type which indicates that this trigger affects battery consumption. The help pages should also contain a warning.

I have been using AM for a while, but since recent automatic update, my AM seems to drain the battery the most compare with all other apps in my phone. Sometime up to 31% in not even a day. I have noticed AM drain battery so fast when using sensor. One time I created a flow that turn screen on/off with proximity sensor. AM drain the battery so much compare to proximity screen off app. This app use so little battery that it is not even on battery usage stat. So I don't use any sensor with AM. I was loving AM before, but now tempting to uninstall it. Any suggestion?

Hi,

Using the proximity sensor or other sensors for the whole day will drain the battery. You could temporarily turn the flow off when the flow is not needed with action Set Flow State: Disable FlowXYZ.
Proximity screen off uses a special wake lock type that turns the screen off when proximity is detected. It's a special feature provided by the system mainly used by the phone app to turn the screen off while you hold the phone to your ear so it's implemented in a way that uses almost no battery. Automagic can not use this mechanism to execute general purpose flows so it has to register for regular sensor events which consumes more battery.

Regards,
Martin

Thanks for the explanation Martin. Is there anyway to reduce the battery consumption when AM using sensor? I like the idea that AM can replace lots of small apps.

K