Increased Battery Drain From android.hardware.biometrics.fingerprint?

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Here’s my bug report concerning my issues with that process eating CPU time and energy:

Fingerprint process gets stuck in active state and eats energy and CPU time

REPRODUCIBILITY: Every now and then OS VERSION: 4.5.0.19 HARDWARE: 10 III UI LANGUAGE: Polish REGRESSION: No DESCRIPTION: From time to time, all of a sudden the process controlling the fingerprint sensor gets kind of “stuck” in an active mode (i.e. as if the sensor was continuously reading the fingerprint and not switching off). In such state, it consumes a lot of CPU time and therefore also battery power. Normally, this process only becomes active for exactly 00:00:01 (one second) when …

Sadly, it doesn’t seem to have attracted Jolla’s (or actually anyone’s) attention.