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VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days agoMakes sense, but with that setup, and a different custom rom on a phone with better life would deliver even better results.
I like my pixel, I like Graphene, but I still feel that’s a weak point.
j4k3@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The way root is managed and the security of OTA updates along with the demonstrated knowledge of how Android users groups and SELinux effectively work are far superior to anything else I have seen in any ROM that I have run previously. Most others were little more than novel demonstrations of CVE vulnerability exploits and setups intended for oddball extra use cases and not a primary device in their implementation. Graphene is a legitimate ongoing secured solution well worth supporting. The TPM chip is a huge deal here.
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Sure, that’s why I use it. My point was more that improved battery performance, at least to that degree, is a your-specific-usecase thing, not a Graphene thing.
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If vanadium was like a typical chromium browser, I’d still be burning battery. Vanadium is core to Graphene. It is part of webview which is how basically everything works on the device. Someone explained it to me a few years ago, bit I don’t totally understand it. I got bad/typical battery life with a 4a and Firefox derivatives for privacy. It was only after I went to vanadium for everything that my battery life went much longer. Like, right now, I’ve had a bad health day so on my phone more than normal. It is 10:30 pm and I’m at 55% battery. I’ve watched around 2 hours of YT, played a few dozen rounds of Gauguin, read a few articles and spent a few hours on Lemmy today.
I default to 480p video with webp and I turn off my router’s 2.4G and only use 5G. I’m also using auto reboot stuff in Graphene to clear anything in persistent memory and the same in the router. Those also help with battery.
It isn’t just the network, and it isn’t just Graphene, but it all plays a part.
The way Graphene does root is what actually sold me. Having root generally available on any android device is insane. Tethering root to USB debug is a great solution when combined with the TPM, OTA, and the Auth app.