Exessive battery drain on Google Pixel with stock Android and Google services

[johschmitz]

• I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended
• I have read https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/Submitting-useful-bug-reports
• This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

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Bug description

Let me first start by describing the results of the the search for duplicate issues. There are multiple open issues regarding excessive battery consumption:

• Signal consumes half of my battery (no google services or microG) #9729
• battery drain on signal 5 (LOS+microG) on mobile network #10336
• Excessive battery drain  #12341

However, it seems that all of them are related to the non-usage of Google services and are therefore not being resolved with high priority. For this reason I would like to explicitly open another issue for the case that Google services are being used which is currently the case for me.

I am on stock Android 14 on a Google Pixel 8 and experiencing very high battery consumption as shown in the screenshot below ("Hintergrund" means "Background").

Steps to reproduce

• Run Signal on a Pixel 8 without any system modifications

Actual result: Very high battery consumption of up to 50 percent only from Signal
Expected result: Low battery consumption during background usage bellow 10 percent

Screenshots

Device info

Device: Google Pixel 8
Android version: 14
Signal version: 7.15.4

Link to debug log

https://debuglogs.org/android/7.15.4/99f1dbc35ebced1dff68fd07896388d1669c09c202add3bdc63a2792308e40cc