What does auto-send exactly do? Trying to troubleshoot a sudden battery drain from this app, thanks

[zzyzx-dc]

I'm trying to troubleshoot a sudden battery drain. I've been using GPS Logger for days with no problem, but today it consumed 62% of my battery in four hours until the device shut off.

I am logging GPS points to Nextcloud via the Custom URL.

Under "Auto send, email, and upload," I normally have auto send turned off because it was already defaulted to off. The setting seems to indicate it will upload every 60 minutes.

Under the Custom URL settings, Auto send is turned on. What's the difference?

It has been logging successfully to Nextcloud for many days with no noticeable battery depletion.

However, the other day I turned the "Auto send, email, and upload - Auto send" toggle to on. Is this the source of the drain?

I have shut it off the main settings but it's still on in the Custom URL settings page, just as it was before. I will see if this resolves the battery drain. But is there anything else I can troubleshoot?

[mendhak]

The auto send settings are basically at two levels. The auto send menu has the "master" toggle. It needs to be switched on for any of the actual sending to happen every 60 minutes, or if the file name is dynamic and keeps changing. Then each sender type has its own toggle. The Custom URL has its auto sending toggle.

It its auto send toggle is turned off, then it won't be auto sending. If the top level auto send toggle is turned on there might be some auto sending going on but that would be to any targets toggled on.

[zzyzx-dc]

That's strange. I have switched the master toggle to off but I believe Phonetrack has my current location (and all locations since I switched it off). Do you mind if I append screenshots?

GPSLogger still seems to be consuming battery (6% in the last few minutes). I wonder if I changed a setting unwittingly that is producing that, because I've been using it for a couple of weeks and didn't notice a drain before.

I've attached my settings, some logs (I noticed a low on memory warning? and lots of failed gps fixes?) and my Phonetrack seeing my current location.

If we can't resolve the battery drain I may just revert the app to defaults and see if that works. Thanks!

[mendhak]

This seems to be logging the location to Nextcloud for each point the app is capturing. From what I can see, the auto-send isn't kicking in as you would see a large number of points being sent at the same time. Since you are seeing one point being sent every 1-2 minutes (which matches the logging interval) that's the normal Custom URL logging in action. The rest of the settings look pretty good.

If you meant to only send every 60 minutes and not 60 seconds, then you can turn off the 'log to Custom URL' but turn on the 'Allow auto sending'.

[zzyzx-dc]

Oh interesting, thanks. I assumed "auto send" was simply that no manual sends would have to be performed; this sounds like "auto send" within the app means sending at intervals.