> I'm going to create a socket connection to our own server instead. It's for internal users anyway, so they won't mind the battery drain.<p>Wait, what?<p>This is <i>why</i> this is such a hard process. You're doing something that you shouldn't do, and if apps were allowed to do this (like they were in the past), then battery drain would happen (like it did) and people would get angry and mis-attribute the problem (like you pointed out).<p>It's a <i>good</i> thing that this isn't allowed, and developers like this are why.<p>> Screw this. I'm going to tell my users to just use a laptop instead. At least those things work.<p>This is your real problem, you're trying to apply laptop paradigms to a phone. A phone != a laptop. Let me know when you get push notifications working while your laptop is sleeping.