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Same android phone , same apps but one drains battery faster. (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the title say, I have 2 android phones , both factory reset and logged in with google accounts. Checked the dns logs on both-

Phone 1 connects to google server but is minimal

Phone 2 is going bonkers, connecting to google server , xtracloud server etc.

Phone 2 battery drops 5% in a hour and phone 1 doesnt drain at all.

Which bring me to the conclusion that phone battery draining has something to do with google accounts as phone 1 google account has fake name and details but other has real name and also a phone number linked to that account.

Please feel free to correct me. Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here's my little experiment:

Fairphone 4, brand new, totally stock Fairphone OS, a few resource-light apps installed, light use for a week: 23 hours of use time from 100% to 20% battery on average.
Wiped the same Fairphone 4 after a week, installed CalyxOS (deGoogled Android), reinstalled the exact same apps and used the phone the exact same way for a week (I still do in fact...): 44 hours of uptime on average.

I know with 100% certainty that literally the only difference between week #1 and week #2 was that the phone didn't spend its time constantly reading the sensors and sending surveillance data to the mothership.

So there ya go: even if you're mad and you're a fan of Google's dystopia, the extra load on the system does come with a significant performance pricetag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is very interesting, makes me wanna share my experience too, in my case between 2 different custom ROMs, but with the same phone:

Lineage OS for microG but without device registration, cloud messaging and safety net disabled
/e/OS which is essentially lineage os for microg + tracker blocker but with all the device registration, cloud messaging and safety net enabled

Both are rooted with magisk.

e OS would consume MUCH more battery compared to my previous installation of Lineage, so i was wondering if those microG settings can actually change this much, or if pheraps it is the tracker blocker or something else.. Another difference is that e/os has a more recent Android version than the version of LOS for microg i was using.

Was your Calyx install clean or it had Gapps or microg or something similar?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just MicroG.

I have another cellphone with vanilla LineageOS on it and it too saw a dramatic battery life improvement, of the same order as the almost doubling I see with the Fairphone. I don't think MicroG makes much difference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have had the same experience with vanilla vs deGoogled Android. The battery life and general performance improvements are noticeable, particularly on older/weaker devices.