"Stay always protected" card re-appears on Xiaomi devices

[ameshkov]

Issue Details

"Battery optimization" on Xiaomi devices behaves weirdly and the OS can re-enable it automatically.

Now that we propose "disabling" battery optimization on the main screen, this re-enabling looks strange and causes lots of confusion.

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Proposed solution

1. We need to do a better research and see what can be done about that on Xiaomi devices. For example, it seems that on Xiaomi it is necessary to enable "Autostart" before disabling battery optimization, otherwise it will reset after reboot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/qsbpv5/battery_optimization_settings_reset_after_reboot/
2. We need to see if this is specific to MIUI or there are more Android forks that can behave like that.

If AdGuard is running on such a device, we should provide the user with instruction on what to do.

Alternative solution

No response

[johnconner122]

It is gone if you set unrestricted mode on this page.

[liveonloan]

Poco F5 MIUI Global 14.0.6 (TMRRUXM), Adguard 4.3.
I have this problem too. Turn off and on the protection in Adguard, and battery mode resets to default. Adguard autostart is enabled, application is pinned. There was no such problem in previous release 4.2.

[ameshkov]

@liveonloan

Adguard autostart is enabled

Do you have it enabled in MIUI own settings?

On MIUI 14, there is a new permission to start from the background for each app, in Settings > Apps > Your app > App permissions > Background autostart.

Also, on MIUI 12 there's another "Autostart" available from the app settings:

There was no such problem in previous release 4.2.

On v4.2 there was no background optimization mode detection in AdGuard in general.

[ameshkov]

Here's what I suggest to do for now in our app:

Important points:

1. The information block should be clearly visible (maybe use a "warning" style for it)
2. It should only be shown to the users of MIUI.

Suggested text:
On MIUI you are required to additionally manually enable "Autostart" in Settings > Apps > AdGuard. Starting from MIUI 14 there is also a new permission "Background autostart" available in Settings > Apps > AdGuard > App permissions, it should also be enabled.

[ameshkov]

Temporary solution in v4.3.1: don't show that card on MIUI devices.

Better solution is planned for v4.4: #5137