Battery life and speed of use with grapheneos

tonysupp

I've read several posts with very conflicting answers. Does Grapheneos improve or worsen battery life compared to stock Android? Does the phone run smoother or slower with Graphene?

mmobder

tonysupp they're conflicting, because it all depends on your apps. If you install 10 applications that semi-relies on Google play services and you don't have one, those apps may behave weirdly thus staying active longer than needed, pinging network 100x times harder and thus killing battery.

Johnnyloans

tonysupp

I've seen the GOS head dev say stock OS will turn off 5G at advantageous times to save battery (you could completely disable 5G in GOS)

If you choose to not use google play services or unified push, some apps are built to still receive notifications--like signal--but they open a connection themselves. With more apps, it is redundant--more battery.

Not every app can use unified push.

Johnnyloans

tonysupp

Sorry, to answer your question--i don't know.

I havent used stock and gos on the same phone; but, if I had long enough to compare, then the battery is degraded haha

GOS will have less background software/bloatware.

MineralWater

I would say it improves the battery time.

But of course it depends on what you do. If you watch Video for hours or browse the Web, it needs battery power.

But if you don't do much with the phone, you can expect to lose 1-2% battery per 24 hours with cellular phone, messengers and mail running in background.

If I remember correctly, Stock Android had drawn more power in idle mode.

WestQuester

MineralWater But if you don't do much with the phone, you can expect to lose 1-2% battery per 24 hours with cellular phone, messengers and mail running in background.

This can't be right.

littlerack

MineralWater But if you don't do much with the phone, you can expect to lose 1-2% battery per 24 hours with cellular phone, messengers and mail running in background.

What a story, bro) You can't get that even with cellular OFF and WiFi on doing nothing.