fruitjammer Eagle_Owl phone-company mutualscorpion You're attributing something to an OS update which is almost certainly unrelated to it for 6th, 7th and 8th generation Pixels. 9th generation Pixels are the only ones with relevant changes. People will claim any update increased or decreased battery life. Your battery life variation has to do with your apps and network. Apps can use more power some days than others, same with the network. Doesn't make it related to when you last updated.

            fruitjammer Your power consumption increase is due to your apps and network, not the OS update.

            Now a completely different thing - when I tried to install F-Droid and AuroraStore's apk in private space, it wouldn't allow me, saying the package format is invalid. I was able to install it on a Pixel 7 though last year.

            This is also not related to the update. Your issue is that you're trying to install older or different variants of apps in another profile. Nothing to do with the update and not a bug in the OS. It's a bug in F-Droid. F-Droid wrongly reuses app ids for alternate variants of apps signed with their own keys which results in this usability issue. They also publish an old version of F-Droid as the main download link on their site. This is the tip of the iceberg of the major issues with F-Droid.

                GrapheneOS OK, thanks for the explanation and please pardon my ignorance as an uninitialized end user. I will try to do something about the app battery usage.

                  GrapheneOS This is also not related to the update. Your issue is that you're trying to install older or different variants of apps in another profile. Nothing to do with the update and not a bug in the OS. It's a bug in F-Droid. F-Droid wrongly reuses app ids for alternate variants of apps signed with their own keys which results in this usability issue. They also publish an old version of F-Droid as the main download link on their site. This is the tip of the iceberg of the major issues with F-Droid.

                  Thanks again for the explanation. I was trying to find the old version of F-Droid but I wasn't able to (maybe I didn't try hard enough), so I just downloaded again from their main page and this time it worked. I guess they must have updated it but I don't have the previously downloaded one to compare.

                    Update: A reboot solved the majority of my issues if not all. Right now, the charging speeding is normal again and battery draining speed seems to be back to normal as well. Never thought it would be resolved this way.

                    GrapheneOS I also noticed that over 5gb of cashe was occupied. After deleting the cashe with SD maid, the battery consumption seems to have relativized again. Before the update I had a screen on time of well over 5 hours. After the update only about 2 hours. No new apps installed and since I'm at home, no changes to the network.
                    I don't know if it's because of the update, I just noticed that there was less screen on time after the update. I'm trying to find out what the problem was. I'm not trying to blame graphene OS.... Please do not misunderstand

                        phone-company You don't need to clear cache yourself. Your battery consumption is due to the the apps you're using, how you have them set up and your network along with your overall configuration. The changes are not due to this update and we know that.

                            GrapheneOS no, no other apps then before. Don't know what happend here. Was a hickup or something else... All is fine again...
                            I only noticed that in addition to the high battery consumption, the cashe was also unusual. After deleting and restarting, everything was fine again. I don't know why

                            Maybe it was due to an app update. I just noticed that it was quite fast after the GOS update. But only after charging the battery for the second time, which is why I now think it was more of an app problem. I'm still using the GOS version and the battery is holding up as it should. So everything is fine.

                              14 days later

                              I am stuck on build 2025021100 trying to upgrade to the next stable release (I assume). The system updater keeps saying it's "Installing system update" 2/3 done, for hours and hours. Once in a while it will say, that the installation failed but that the verification succeeded. Rebooting doesn't help, as the updater comes back after less than an hour after rebooting. It also seems like this is draining my battery..

                              I just left the phone on the charger for two days to make sure it could have a chance to do it's thing, nothing changed, still just 2/3 there on the updater.

                              How can I un-stick the updater without a phone wipe? Anyone know why this is happening?

                                cloudfodder That means something was going wrong with using deltas to update. We plan to add automatic fallback, but it shouldn't ever happen in the first place and it's very strange that a small number of people sometimes have an issue.