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About Simon7
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06-05-2018
a week ago
Simon7
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a week ago
Disabling Tracker protection and App Security consecutively had no effect on the battery drain. Switching off also Browsing protection has maybe cut down battery drain somewhat, though sample size is small as it's only been off for roughly a day. Also as I said earlier tracker and browsing protection should only apply when actively using the phone, while Freedome has been draining battery *especially* when the phone is not in use.
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2 weeks ago
Both wifi and mobile data are already enabled. The Freedome usage data I had already disabled earlier to see if that has any effect (haven't really noticed a change). Disabling any of the protective features seems counterintuitive given they are things the app is supposed to be doing. Also, all three seem operations that would only get used during active phone use (e.g. browsing), yet the battery drain occurs even when the phone is basically idle (for hours). But I guess I can try and see.
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2 weeks ago
1. Both wifi and mobile are already selected. 2. It did not occur to me that you can set apps to bypass vpn, but after setting this the few updates that were pending started to download normally. But bypassing the vpn is far from a good workaround, even though no truly personal data (I guess?) transfers between the phone and Google Store for a theoretical "snooper" somewhere in between. 3. This did not seem necessary, as the above worked (but I did try it for Chrome anyway, though I mostly use Firefox).
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2 weeks ago
Actually I've since noticed the problem hasn't gone away, occasionally the updates still just sit on "waiting to download..." and don't progress.
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2 weeks ago
Emptying Freedome cache and data had no effect, its battery usage remains at same high level.
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2 weeks ago
After my phone Nokia 5 recently updated to Android 9, battery drain by Freedome has shot up alarmingly and it's now the app clearly with highest battery drain. E.g. now with 66% battery left (12 hours after full charge), Freedome has used 17% (1 hr 7min) and the second highest app Skype only 4%. Most of the time during the past 12 hours the phone has been idle without active use, I'd actually say the Freedome active time of a bit more than an hour would roughly equate to my active use of the phone today. In the earlier Android version Freedome battery usage was always very small, like a few % during a whole day, so I'm very worried about it now shortening battery life drastically.
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3 weeks ago
It's v. 2.5.5.7918. But oddly enough, the updates started working normally today after several days of being blocked. I only turned the vpn off once more to install some updates, and some time later more updates became available which then got downloaded normally through the vpn. Strange, but it seems this is no longer an issue, thanks.
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3 weeks ago
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Recently within a week or so Freedome has started blocking my phone updating its apps from Google Play. The apps show up as having an update available, but when clicking on Update the download never starts and just shows as Waiting to download... The only way to update is to turn Freedome vpn off and then the updates do get downloaded. This problem appeared after my phone Nokia 5 had updated to Android 9.
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11-05-2018
10:18 PM
Do you have other VPN software running? I noticed that if you turn on NoRoot Firewall it shuts down Freedome VPN (which I guess makes sense that it's not possible to have two different VPNs in effect at the same time?).
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10-05-2018
08:23 PM
What the...? Why has my response from earlier today been removed, where I only provided additional information with several examples of Spanish online tv content which are geoblocked? You don't want anyone else to see and have proof that Freedome actually fails to deliver what it promises, or what?
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10-05-2018
12:56 PM
I am now trying to view Spanish online tv on another pc using Freedome, just to be sure the problem does not occur only on my laptop. Apparently at this moment (1230 EET) the live stream at cuatro.com is visible (in a normal Firefox session, as in Firefox Private mode the live stream does not start; in Edge Private mode it shows), so I think they only block some programs. I've mostly tried to watch it in evening time EET and that's when the geoblocked message started to appear recently. Also note that when opening the Cuatro live stream it first displays three advertisements before the actual geoblocking message (or live stream) appears. However, it happens with other Spanish channels, too. E.g. trying to view an episode of the serie Fariña of the channel Antena 3 it now only displays "Contenido no disponible en su zona geográfica": www.atresplayer.com/antena3/series/farina/temporada-1/capitulo-10-1990_5af2cf1c7ed1a85831a8e201/ Same happens e.g. just now with the live streams of the channels Neox, Nova and Divinity : www.atresplayer.com/directos/neox/ www.atresplayer.com/directos/nova/ www.divinity.es/endirecto/ ("Este es un contenido geoblockeado. El video sólo se puede ver desde territorio español")
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06-05-2018
05:53 PM
Freedome no longer gives access to certain online tv content in Spain (in a Windows 10 pc), when I try to view e.g. the channel Cuatro (cuatro.com, I'd put the correct address to their direct online stream, but clicking on Post does no allow it) it now says the content is geoblocked. Never had any problems before, but it's been like this now for at least a few days (even though the ip I have via the VPN, 185.136.219.73 seems to be Spanish). As viewing geoblocked content was one of the primary reasons to buy Freedome, I am very disappointed now. =(
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