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I feel the same way about that, but there is something far more annoying than it, at least to people who are even aware of it. That's the fact that Android hid
by mtgx 9y ago
I feel the same way about that, but there is something far more annoying than it, at least to people who are even aware of it.
That's the fact that Android hides a lot (even thousands a day) location requests as well as other types of requests from both Google's own apps as well as from third-party apps by routing them through the "Android OS" category in the battery usage stats. This way users are completely clueless about just how harmful these constant requests are to their battery life.
Android OS as well as Android System are two of the biggest eaters of battery life, and it's because of crap like that. My guess is Google doesn't want to show users exactly whose requests harm the battery the most because its apps are the biggest offenders (especially the ad-showing system).
I hope more people realize that this is going on and pressure Google into showing more detailed battery stats or at least assigning the location requests as well as other battery draining requests to the apps in question, rather than putting them all under the "Android OS" or "Android System" umbrella.