Re: [Linphone-users] Why Android (Oreo) phones, are actually less reliable with TCP vs. UDP

[Greg Troxel]

"Brian J. Murrell" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, 2019-03-31 at 08:05 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the data point.  That does not surprise me, since I leave
>> k-9 running.  That's IMAP not SIP, but it's basically the same thing
>> as far as network/wakeups in the idle case.
>
> Are you using IMAP IDLE or polling?  If the latter, what's your polling
> frequency?

I'm using IDLE, which is more or less like SIP REGISTER and then waiting
for INVITE.   I think I'm refreshing every 12m or so.

>> With apps that only do what is in the user's interest (rather than
>> e.g. using energy for tracking and ads), and that are well written,
>> this is far less necessary.
>
> I would also agree with that.  I actually like the ability on my Huawei
> phone to be able to prevent apps from running in the background, or
> starting when the phone starts or from being able to be started
> "secondarily" (I presume that means by registering intents, etc.) just
> to start up and send you a notification-nag "Hey, why don't you order
> some food." or "Here's your offer today", for example.

I would suggest just not installing such apps :-)