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Apple has admitted to reducing clock speeds of devices during updates to increase battery life. As for android, I have experienced this a million times also, b

Apple has admitted to reducing clock speeds of devices during updates to increase battery life. As for android, I have experienced this a million times also, but do not know the cause. But I do usually see an accumulation of new and stupid bugs as I get software updates. Incorrect app scaling and positioning, etc which were not the case for the first six months I had the phone.

sp332 3y ago
Older Android devices had terrible storage performance. Any time a background process is using storage, the device gets very slow.
- worthless-trash 3y ago
  I think that this comes from people using the cheap and nasty SD cards, some vendors automated the app data to the sdcard, which really sucked if the sdcard was slow/faulty.
  - sp332 3y ago
    One of the biggest differences was on an nvidia Shield tablet. They cut a ton of corners to fit the GPU and still hit a $200 price point. It didn’t even have fast charging, so sometimes the battery would drain during a game even when it was plugged in.
- MonaroVXR 3y ago
  In going to hell for saying this... But I never had this with my Android phones. Galaxy S2,S3,S4,S5 One Plus 6 and more
Gigachad 3y ago
It’s not to increase battery life, it’s that when batteries degrade, the voltage can drop bellow spec when the current gets too high. So when the cpu hits its peak frequency, the battery voltage drops and the chip glitches causing a reset/reboot. Apple added an update that could detect these power failure reboots and cap the CPU frequency so your phone doesn’t crash all the time. Around the same time, a lot of Android phones like the nexus 6P were plagued with this issue where the phone would just randomly shut down.
thebruce87m 3y ago
> Apple has admitted to reducing clock speeds of devices during updates to increase battery life. Every single modern device with a CPU does this dynamically. You are mixing up what batterygate was about. Apple released an update that would permanently throttle a handset if it rebooted (browned out) due to a degraded battery. Replacing the battery would bring it back to full speed. The feature still exists today. It’s a bit like the “limp home” mode in your car.

sp332 3y ago

Older Android devices had terrible storage performance. Any time a background process is using storage, the device gets very slow.

worthless-trash 3y ago
I think that this comes from people using the cheap and nasty SD cards, some vendors automated the app data to the sdcard, which really sucked if the sdcard was slow/faulty.
- sp332 3y ago
  One of the biggest differences was on an nvidia Shield tablet. They cut a ton of corners to fit the GPU and still hit a $200 price point. It didn’t even have fast charging, so sometimes the battery would drain during a game even when it was plugged in.
MonaroVXR 3y ago
In going to hell for saying this... But I never had this with my Android phones. Galaxy S2,S3,S4,S5 One Plus 6 and more

Gigachad 3y ago

It’s not to increase battery life, it’s that when batteries degrade, the voltage can drop bellow spec when the current gets too high. So when the cpu hits its peak frequency, the battery voltage drops and the chip glitches causing a reset/reboot. Apple added an update that could detect these power failure reboots and cap the CPU frequency so your phone doesn’t crash all the time. Around the same time, a lot of Android phones like the nexus 6P were plagued with this issue where the phone would just randomly shut down.

thebruce87m 3y ago

> Apple has admitted to reducing clock speeds of devices during updates to increase battery life. Every single modern device with a CPU does this dynamically. You are mixing up what batterygate was about. Apple released an update that would permanently throttle a handset if it rebooted (browned out) due to a degraded battery. Replacing the battery would bring it back to full speed. The feature still exists today. It’s a bit like the “limp home” mode in your car.