What exactly is “Quick device connect”, and is it secure? : oneplus
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/27
After upgrading to Oxygen OS 12 The “Quick device connect” service started nagging me for permissions as soon as I upgraded to OxygenOS 12: [Wayback/Archive] What exactly is “Quick device connect”, and is it secure? : oneplus.
Hardly any information on it except truckloads of messages of battery draining for which you can either upgrade it and if that still fails, disable it completely:
- [Wayback/Archive] How to permanently disable Quick Device Connect on OOS12? : oneplus
- [Wayback/Archive] Anyone knows what’s this quick device connect is it’s been draining up battery and heating up the device : OnePlus8T
- [Wayback/Archive] battery draining : oneplus
Update to a newer version of quick device connect (APKMirror link). After that, go to settings -> apps -> manage apps, select “show system apps”, find quick device connect, clear its cache, revoke all permissions and force-stop the app (Don’t clear data though, that will reset the permissions).
- [Wayback/Archive] Android 12: “Quick device connect” drained my battery by 10% on 8T. This is ridiculous. : oneplus
- [Wayback/Archive] Quick Device Connect is killing my battery. What do i do? : OnePlus8T
There are two ways of stopping it:
- Simple way of disabling it:[Wayback/Archive] How to Stop Quick Device Connect in OnePlus Phone – YouTube
- Harder way (if the above fails) to force quit it, then revoke all permissions:[Wayback/Archive] How to Fix Quick Device Connect app draining more Battery🔋on All Oneplus Smartphones – YouTube
Query: [Wayback/Archive] “quick device connect” – Google Search
Related: [Wayback/Archive] OxygenOS 12
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