Android 15 improves standby battery life by up to 3 hours on some devices

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24 points·ChrisArchitect··4 comments

But also people relying on some services staying active may be totally hosed. Your foreground service is now time limited to what is it, 6 hours, 8 hours?

Rather than give users option to control, Android for the last sizable fraction of the decade has made its way by reducing possibilities & cutting options. More secure better battery, forever and ever, by turning down what is possible.

I have a BlackBerry KeyOne (and Key2, and Key2LE). That will be my last Android, as far as I'm concerned. Due to background services getting killed, I'd miss messages through every Matrix client I tried. If I tell my OS to run a program, I expect it to run until I say otherwise or it runs out of resources.

If I'm going to deal with much worse battery life anyways (compared to 2-3 days on my BB), I'm at least going to have a cheap device that's easy to repair, a 3.5mm jack, swappable battery, uSD card, and an OS that will do as I say. So I've moved on to a Pinephone Pro.

It's less stable, but I am indescribably fed up with Android (or iOS) killing background tasks that I expect to run

did they say where the doze mode code lands?

AOSP? Google play services?

anyone know?

AOSP. I don't know if it's landed yet, though. Once the QPR3 source code drops it'll likely be there.

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