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by gruez 498 days ago
>Once you have Magisk stabilized, install the Advanced Charging Controller, and configure it to halt charging at 80%.

That will reduce future wear, but won't suddenly make the battery better. If anything it'll make the battery even worse, at least in the short term.
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chasil 498 days ago
Installing Lineage by itself will drastically reduce power consumption on many devices, as vendor bloat is wiped. A net gain is possible, even with ACC 80% in place.

With a Pixel, there is less bloat, so it is less of a factor with this particular device. However, you don't get the full suite of Chrome/Maps/Gmail/Drive/Photos/etc. installed by default, and what you have not installed will not drain your battery.

In any case, one would hope that Google's safeguards are equaled by ACC.

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JudasGoat 498 days ago
My 4a went from 3 day battery life to less than a day, immediately after the "update".
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brailsafe 498 days ago
This seems surprisingly high to me, unless you're constantly on extreme power saving mode. I liked the 4a and still have it in a drawer, but replaced it partly because I couldn't order a new screen and the battery life was frustratingly terrible after a while
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ikr678 498 days ago
It doesnt have to be on powersaving- just by leaving wifi and bluetooth off I would regularly get 3 days on a charge.

Data is cheap where I live, but also I dont use my phone to stream music/video.

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compsciphd 498 days ago
wifi uses more power than cell data?
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ikr678 497 days ago
It seems to in my house - possibly the wifi signal is not strong enough where I leave my phone and it is constantly searching. I also find that on wifi data, apps constantly update and sync themselves - they don't do this on metered network data.
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gruez 497 days ago
>It seems to in my house - possibly the wifi signal is not strong enough where I leave my phone and it is constantly searching

Sounds like you should move your AP? There's no way that communicating with an AP tens of feet away is going to require less power than communicating with a tower hundreds of feet away.

>I also find that on wifi data, apps constantly update and sync themselves - they don't do this on metered network data.

You can set wifi connections to "metered" on both android and ios. It doesn't allow you to cut off data entirely (like you can on cellular data), but should have similar effects to being on cellular.

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