Some time ago it actually looked like DJI was improving the background behavior (= battery use) of their app, but recently I discovered it was looking pretty bad again. But luckily Android 8 Oreo has a fix for that!
This is how the battery use looked on my Google Pixel at the end of a day, a few days ago. I did not have the DJI Go 4 app open at any time during the day, and other apps like Spotify and Chrome was actively used during the day:
DJI Go 4 battery use before limiting background activity
But now I have tried the new Android 8 feature to restrict an app's background activity:
Change this setting!
And now my phones battery use looks like below after a days use. DJI Go 4 is not to be found in the chart at all:
DJI Go 4 is not on the battery usage list anymore!
I'm yet to find out what exactly I sacrifices by doing this. Maybe firmware updates from app will be slower, but I usually update via DJI Assistant on my PC anyway. I might now need to manually trigger synchronization of flight data, but if it's just that, I can easily live with it.
I would greatly prefer a well-behaving app from DJI instead of forcing restrictions on the app, but apparently DJI doesn't bother - or they don't know how to make it?
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