If you want to keep it installed but automatically “disabled” 10 seconds after the screen goes off. Try “Ice Box” app. It will remain disabled until the next app launch.

Android for kids

In my pixel 5 for the past 2.5 years I charged using the “adaptive battery” slow charging function. (Which charges the phone in like 6 hours).

And during the day I charged up to 80% or 90% when my battery was going low for the rest of the day.

Also I was charging the phone every 2 or 3 nights because in the pandemic I was not using it a lot.

I think now the battery life is about the same. Maybe 5% worse than new. But it is also hard to test this because the os and the apps and the usage changed between day 1 and today.

An app called “Batt” reports 564 charging cycles though.

I can’t remember… But I do remember that most people mentioned better battery life.

The ones that didn’t find better battery life are less but they exist and maybe this is because it depends on regional aspects or system configuration.

I wonder if there are any gains on the Pixel 5. I heard on the Pixel 6/7 some people got better battery life.

Yeah I agree with that.

But generally apps that do something more advanced get outdated every year with new android versions with different permissions and API. This is why I was asking.

But I guess this app has nothing that got impacted.

For just the data. There is a developer settings “keep mobile data always active” something like that.

But i think it made little difference for me in terms of battery drain so I leave it on.

At the end battery drain for me is just handled by whatsapp and how crazily the app decides to start spamming the phone with wakelocks. Android/Google barely do something to cripple this app wakelocks.

But isn’t Greenify outdated or they still update it?

Another thing I’m thinking: I’m interested in running some adb shell command every few minutes or hours to change the WhatsApp standby bucket from active to working_set that seems to reduce a lot of wakelocks.

Currently my standby (after tweaking for days) is not that bad. Like 0.4% per hour at night using wifi when I go to sleep.

WhatsApp despite of the restrictions I added is still the app with most partial wakelocks.

I haven’t rooted in a long time. But if you tell me there is an app out there that can restrict or deny apps background usage (to increase deep sleep state %) and that you can only do it with root.

Then I’d say root might be necessary in those situations.

For example WhatsApp is the number one standby battery drainer in my phone. If I check partial wakelocks like 70% of them have the WhatsApp logo. (In BBS app). If I had a way to reduce them by 90% just keeping new messages and call working and root is needed for that then I’d want to root my phone.

I tried “Apps Ops” and it let me deny some of the permission. But maybe there is something more restrictive out there that needs root.

I always liked the material design interface. How smooth are the corners etc.

And now with material UI the apps integrate better with the theme’s primary colours. So that it’s also cool.

As long as it is optional of course.

I like it.

I play warzone with my friends and they all own a Playstation 4 or 5.

So I ended up using the android playstation app in Windows 11 so we can all share VoIP all the time when playing.

First I tried the WSA. But it was impacting games performance. Stuttering every 30 seconds. Other thing I didn’t like from WSA is that it installs Hyper-V or something like that (that causes VMWare to not like AMD-V setting).

Then I tried bluestack limiting the app to just 1 core and this one doesn’t seem to impact game performance. So I’m staying with bluestack.

I have an 5800X3D CPU. And game is generally GPU bottlenecked for me.

Amazon warehouse deals if they have units in stock.

I don’t like them for me. I hate all the Samsung software injected into android.

But for regular people they are probably the most recommended ones in the android ecosystem. So I recommend them sometimes if the budget is good.

I might not like the software. But the hardware seems good quality. And software still has some cool functions.

Somebody told me it has a way to hibernate apps that are in the background. And I think that is amazing.

Lol. I’m pretty sure there must be something there draining the battery that can be disabled. (Maybe preference of LTE over 5G, stuff like that).

I have a Pixel 5 and I always had full day battery life (I’m not a heavy user). So good battery life.

But I used to charge it every 3 days and this year on the 2nd day I need to charge it.

And the battery menu can’t be trusted. It doesn’t even update quickly.

I really want this. But at the same time I’m really worried about how much battery life this is going to drain. If it’s less than 1% every 24 hours I’m ok with it. If it’s more, nope.

Google in the past years is focusing a lot in adding more and more services while forgetting that what the people just want is to have a phone that lasts the entire day and can fit in normal pockets.

I’m not going to start raising bugs because this is an alpha and there is no time for bug fixing at the moment.

But sending this comment from the app (editing from the desktop). I’m really happy to be browsing Lemmy with my account and my favourite Reddit app. And the smoothest one.

I basically enable compact layout as default. Then I change post title size to small (so I can fit more posts at once) and I’m good to go! (There are probably a few more configs I change like material ui, etc, but those are secondary).

I think you should create a community for the app. It looks already good. There are probably lot of potential users that would join to discuss.

Thank you Dev!

I found some but they still looked huge and flashy. Not small like the Jabras or Microsoft.

I only care about design because I plan to use them with the webcam on.

I’ll take a look at the page later! Thanks

These could be nice upgrade for my Pixel Buds A series. I’m using them for Teams (low latency bad quality). (Not just music high latency high quality).

However, what I really also want to have are gaming headsets (with the long microphone and low latency) that are a bit more low profile and not huge.

At first I thought it was a matter of physics, but after seeing 2.4Ghz low latency in these tiny earbuds I guess it’s possible.

Can’t believe low profile on-ear headsets are not popular. They are all over the ear or huge.

And as you said the ones they generally make for teams sucks with BT high duplex latency.

Thanks for the insight!