Disabling battery optimization on Android smartphones

Most of Android smartphones optimize their battery by putting the Bluetooth and the GPS in a low consumption mode, which has a significant negative impact both in the connection range and GPS accuracy, among other features. Overall you can disable this feature by following this steps (see the video):

Here's how to disable the battery optimization on your Android smartphone for the Findster App, for specific brands:

Google Pixel

1. Go to your smartphone's Settings
2. Select "Apps & notifications"
3. Select "Advanced"
4. Select "Special app access"
5. Select "Battery optimization"

If the Findster App is not listed as “Not Optimized”, tap on "Not optimized" and then select "All Apps". Search for "Findster" and tap on it, and then click on "Don't Optimize"

Samsung

Depending the Samsung model, go to smartphone's settings and follow this steps:

1. Tap on "Applications" or "Apps"
2. Select three dot menu (top right corner)
3. Select "Special Access"
4. Select "Optimize Battery usage"

OR

1. Select "Device maintenance"
2. Select "Battery"
3. Select "Battery Usage"
4. Select three dot menu (top right corner)
5. Select "Optimize Battery usage"

On the "Optimize Battery" screen, if the Findster App is not listed as “Apps Not Optimized”, tap on "Apps not optimized" and then select "All apps". Search for "Findster" and disable that option.

Huawei

1. Go to your smartphone's Settings
2. Select "Apps" and the "Apps" again
3. Select three dot menu (top right corner)
4. Select "Special access"
5. Select "Battery optimization"

On the "Battery optimization" screen, if the Findster App is not listed as “Not allowed, tap on "“Not allowed" and then select "All apps". Search for "Findster", tap on it and then click on "Don't allow".

In case you have a Huwaei P30 or P30 Pro, please do this as well:

1. Please go to your phone settings
2. Select "Battery"
3. "App launch"
4. Findster
5. Toggle "Manage automatically" to "Manage manually"
6. On the screen that will pop up, ensure the following options are toggled:
   • Auto-launch
   • Secondary Launch
   • Run in background

MIUI

1. Go to your smartphone's Settings
2. Select "Installed Apps"
3. Search for Findster and tap on it
4. Select "Battery saver"
5. Make sure the option "No restrictions" is selected

Sony

1. Please go to your Phone settings
2. Select "Battery"
3. Select the (...) menu in the top right corner and press "Battery optimization"
4. Select "Apps"
5. Select "Findster".

LG

1. Please go to your phone settings
2. "Battery & power saving"
3. Select "Battery usage"
4. "Ignore optimizations"
5. Turn on to ignore battery optimization for Findster.

One Plus

1. Please go to Settings.
2. Select "Battery"
3. Select "Battery optimization"
4. Switch to the "All apps list" (top menu)
5. Select Findster and choose "Don’t optimize".
6. Then please go back to your smartphone Settings.
7. Select "Apps & notifications".
8. Tap on "See all *** apps".
9. Select the Findster App.
10. Then "Permissions".
11. Toggle on for Location.

Motorola

1. Please go to your phone settings
2. Select "Battery"
3. Tap the menu in the top right corner
4. Select "Battery optimization"
5. Tap "Not optimized"
6. Select "All Apps"
7. Find Findster on this list and Select "Don’t Optimize".
8. Go back to your phone settings
9. Select "Battery"
10. Turn Battery Saver Mode off*

* When your Motorola reaches a low level of battery (15% by default, though you can customize it), the battery saver mode automatically starts and ignores the battery optimization setting you've chosen previously, so steps 8, 9 and 10 are advisable.

Other Android devices

There are many other smaller brand smartphones available that use Android, these settings may differ. If your device is not in our list, please try to locate a similar setting as mentioned for one of the brands above and apply it to fix the issue with faulty tracking of the Findster application.