Comment on Hands-On with the Retroid Pocket Classic; A Love Letter to the Game Boy Era
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 12 hours agoI’m not sure what the default retroid settings are, but android could be tweaked to at least have a better battery life than that I’d wager. Have you dug through the settings? I have old phones that last nearly a week on android if left with the screen off, no tweaking (galaxy s7)
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
There’s nothing to really tweak on Android because it is Android which hides most things from your control. I did everything I could. If you play every day and charge every day it’s fine. But if you treat it like a classic handheld you will be frustrated.
A real handheld like a Gameboy Advanced can be left in a drawer for a year and ready to go. That’s the experience that a Linux retro gives you. You don’t have to constantly think about charging. It’s instantly ready whenever you are.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
In Developer options you can limit background processes, deep sleep, and other power usage settings, which were the main ones I was thinking of.