{"id":6550,"date":"2026-10-08T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=6550"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:20:11","slug":"elements-mobile-protection-high-battery-usage-on-android-device","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/support-articles\/elements-mobile-protection-high-battery-usage-on-android-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Elements Mobile Protection high battery usage on Android device"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>Usage time of the Android mobile is reduced by 80% as long as Elements Mobile Protection is installed.<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>Elements Mobile Protection will always do a full scan of the system when the Android mobile device is restarted. If you restart the device daily or very often, the Elements Mobile Protection application can drain a significant amount of battery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also check that you do not have scheduled scanning set to do a daily scan:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the Elements Security Center portal<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Security configurations &gt; Profiles <\/strong>page<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>for Mobile <\/strong>tab<\/li>\n<li>Click on the profile that is in use on the device<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>Malware protection <\/strong>settings page<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the <strong>Scheduled scanning <\/strong>section<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that the <strong>Scan frequency <\/strong>is not set to <strong>Daily<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save profile<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If battery usage is still very high after checking the scanning settings, you can try to see if reinstallation of the app fixes the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usage time of the Android mobile is reduced by 80% as long as Elements Mobile Protection is installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-6550","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005176","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-08 17:20:11","import_hash":"1a756723c231ef40eff6c3899861da183fb5f687","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}