That would indeed be the perfect way to test my hypothesis of adaptive battery being responsible for better battery on stock.
But I’m perfectly happy with Graphene now, and I don’t want to go back to stock for a month for more data collection.
But I would love to see some data and testing for the hypothesis if someone else who is on stock is willing to do the work.
Nothing is blocked from using Play Services on my device. The biggest reason of me using sandboxed Google Play Services was actually to eliminate excessive battery drain from constantly open web sockets, since I also had a terrible experience with battery drain when using Lineage without GApps.
SOT isn’t a great measure, you’d want a continuous power consumption
I agree, there’s so much variability in daily usage patterns, so SOT isn’t a great metric, as I noted in another comment. Still, it can be useful, and that’s why I waited until gathering at least 15 charging cycles per OS so that I can minimize daily variability by increasing the sample size. I also wanted to incorporate idle time in the analysis, but I only tracked idle time for 11 cycles on GOS, so I couldn’t include the idle dimension in the comparison. Plus, my Pixel 8 is my daily driver, so I would have been phone-less for 2 months, which is not realistic.
is this with or without accounts/apps
This is just me using my phone as usual, with all apps and services that I usually use. It would have been more statistically accurate to test out the OSes in a vacuum without anything installed but the bare OS to eliminate confounding variables, but that wouldn’t be representative of what it’s like to actually use both OSes on a daily basis, so I tested both while using both normally as I would.
Keep in mind without Play Services, some apps will maintain their own data sync, which can really hurt battery life
Yes, I also noted the same in my post:
you can use a more strict setup without sandboxed Google Play Services, which may actually decrease battery life due to constantly active web sockets
And I used to get insane battery drain from Signal’s websockets when I was using Lineage without GApps (link), which was one of the biggest reasons for me to use sandboxed Play Services.
My Pixel runs forever without Play Services. I’ve found it to be the single largest consumer on all my phones.
Do you use Signal and other messaging apps on your device? What’s your average SOT?
Yes, screen on time is not the best metric to gauge battery life, but it can still be a useful metric to look at.
Dread it, run from it, statistics still arrives ;)
Hope you ace/aced it!