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I wonder how much battery it drains.

by dest 9y ago

goldenkey 9y ago
Theres a whole bunch of crap Android phones do now in thr background like the "Ok/Hey Google" assistant voice shortcuts. I turn it all off. But supposedly it only uses a special lower power chip to do these passive listening actions. Not sure about music recognization though -- seems like it would involve a decent amount of memory even if performing a convolution..depends how much buffer time.
- 0x00000000 9y ago
  A new one for me the other day was "Google Nearby". Enabled by default and some company in the airport using it to push ads to your notifications. Disgusting and maybe the final nail in the coffin for Android for me. As a long time diehard android user, iPhone sounds better and better every day.
  - dmitrygr 9y ago
    Could you please tell me which airport this was and if you remember the location and the ad? Thanks a lot
    - 0x00000000 9y ago
      It was either BWI or LAX and it said "Your ad here" with some url. I had no idea what it was so I long pressed on the notification and did some searching
    - hammock 9y ago
      Google Nearby is everywhere, I feel like I've seen it walking past Targets and a bunch of other places lately. Even small businesses
  - fredley 9y ago
    I've got a Pixel, won't be getting Pixel 2. My partner just got a OnePlus 5T though, and it looks very good. Definitely considering OnePlus as my next step.
    - hammock 9y ago
      OnePlus have always looked v good. But they don't work on Verizon so that's a non starter.
  - KitDuncan 9y ago
    Why not just use a rom without all the bloatware and maybe even without google services alltogether?
    - 0x00000000 9y ago
      My carrier forces all manufacturers to lock the bootloader. Also doesn't stuff like Google pay and netflix not work?
    - j_s 9y ago
      https://lineage.microg.org https://lineage.microg.org discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619416 supported devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices
  - finnn 9y ago
    In case anyone's wondering more about how that store did that, here's the docs: https://developers.google.com/beacons/ https://developers.google.com/beacons/
drampelt 9y ago
Looks like they've optimized it fairly well to prevent battery drain: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-google-pixel-2-now-playing-works/ https://www.xda-developers.com/how-google-pixel-2-now-playin... Personally I've only ever seen "Pixel Ambient Services" show up on my battery list once, and that was 1% usage after a fairly long day out.

I wonder how much battery it drains.

by dest 9y ago

I wonder how much battery it drains.

Theres a whole bunch of crap Android phones do now in thr background like the "Ok/Hey Google" assistant voice shortcuts. I turn it all off. But supposedly it only uses a special lower power chip to do these passive listening actions. Not sure about music recognization though -- seems like it would involve a decent amount of memory even if performing a convolution..depends how much buffer time.

0x00000000 9y ago
A new one for me the other day was "Google Nearby". Enabled by default and some company in the airport using it to push ads to your notifications. Disgusting and maybe the final nail in the coffin for Android for me. As a long time diehard android user, iPhone sounds better and better every day.
- dmitrygr 9y ago
  Could you please tell me which airport this was and if you remember the location and the ad? Thanks a lot
  - 0x00000000 9y ago
    It was either BWI or LAX and it said "Your ad here" with some url. I had no idea what it was so I long pressed on the notification and did some searching
  - hammock 9y ago
    Google Nearby is everywhere, I feel like I've seen it walking past Targets and a bunch of other places lately. Even small businesses
- fredley 9y ago
  I've got a Pixel, won't be getting Pixel 2. My partner just got a OnePlus 5T though, and it looks very good. Definitely considering OnePlus as my next step.
  - hammock 9y ago
    OnePlus have always looked v good. But they don't work on Verizon so that's a non starter.
- KitDuncan 9y ago
  Why not just use a rom without all the bloatware and maybe even without google services alltogether?
  - 0x00000000 9y ago
    My carrier forces all manufacturers to lock the bootloader. Also doesn't stuff like Google pay and netflix not work?
  - j_s 9y ago
    https://lineage.microg.org https://lineage.microg.org discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619416 supported devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices
- finnn 9y ago
  In case anyone's wondering more about how that store did that, here's the docs: https://developers.google.com/beacons/ https://developers.google.com/beacons/

drampelt 9y ago

Looks like they've optimized it fairly well to prevent battery drain: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-google-pixel-2-now-playing-works/ https://www.xda-developers.com/how-google-pixel-2-now-playin... Personally I've only ever seen "Pixel Ambient Services" show up on my battery list once, and that was 1% usage after a fairly long day out.