Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Preventing Doze Mode on Samsung Galaxy Tab 8

We have a relatively old Samsung Galaxy Tab 8 android device that we use as a monitor for OpenSeizureDetector.

The problem is that when it is not plugged in, we start to get fault 'pips' until we wake up the device.     There are no obvious 'Battery Optimisation' settings in the OpenSeizureDetector page of the device Settings->Apps menu.

It turns out that the battery optimisation settings are well hidden.  To disable battery optimisation do:

  • Settings -> Apps
  • Three dots at top of screen to open extra menu.
  • "Special Access"
  • "Optimise Battery Usage"
  • Select "All Apps"
  • Locate OpenSeizureDetector and set the switch to off (not optimised).
This should prevent OpenSeizureDetector being forced into 'Dose Mode' so it will continue to run normally in the background when the device is asleep.

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