I fucking love Louis, knows his shit, isn’t afraid to call shitfuckery out for what it is.
I genuinely can’t recall a video of his I’ve watched that hasn’t been informative, entertaining or both.
My opinion if him continues to climb, however, as instructed, if he ever uses adobe premiere for a video and I find out about it, it’s an unsub from me.
SOT for stock OS from last charge was 4h52m, SOT for GOS was 4h36m.
Battery curve shows sharper dips on the stock rom, though at times it’s usage (for work due to needing maps) is understandable.
Battery curve on the GOS has more gentle dips, but more consistently. Surprisingly at the same percentage of charge, the projected 0% is different by close to an hour between the two.
I have been using the stock ROM for a couple years now, whereas the GOS ROM has only been in use 6-8mths. So I expect there’s a level of learning occuring over time based on usage, as well as a likely (small) loss in capacity for the older handset.
I do often find both are surprisingly accurate at predicting with a reasonable accuracy when to expect to charge.
Great to hear! I still have one with stock ROM and I like it less and less every day. Slowly getting everything across to the GOS one.
I too have noticed significant difference in battery life between the two, stock ROM always runs out first, even if at idle.
The only adaptive feature I want is for charging, I want to be able to have the phone stop charging at a percentage determined either by me or the device for the battery health. To expand, my tablet has a battery protection feature, where if it is left plugged in, holds the battery between 40-60% for long times on the charger. The device draws until it’s down to 40% and then charges back up to 60%.
I only ever charge my pixels to 80%+/- and their batteries are still going an entire day with reasonably heavy use inc. Gps
I hope to see GOS continue to do great things.
(Posted from my GOS Pixel)
I was explaining today to a close friend that I (anecdotally) have noticed a significant reduction in battery usage on my GOS pix 6.
The whole device feels snappier, more responsive, and I can certainly attest that I got 9+hrs out of this thing at max brightness playing terraria. Can’t say the same for stock rom in the same conditions, while I don’t have the technical knowledge to prove it (and I’m happy to be proven wrong) I’m convinced the majority of my stock rom Pix’s battery is eaten by proprietary software phoning home.
With that said, unless I go out of my way to disable certain privacy aspects of this phone or implement spmit-tunneling on the VPN it’s set to go through, unfortunately many sites/apps break. For these instances I generally use the stock pix. (Eg. Gov services/KDE Connect).
I’m glad I picked up a second Pixel 6 at a good price, tried GrapheneOS out on it and I am slowly turning it into my daily driver. I couldn’t be happier with it so far, battery life seems better, I feel more like I “own” the device and that it isn’t up to sneaky shit etc.
It was by far, the easiest OS install I’ve ever done, I hope they keep up their awesome work. Now I just gotta find a good OS for my tablet.
I get where you’re coming from, however I reckon he’s doing a huge public service in this regard, imagine someone just happens to click on one of his vids and learns how scummy corpos are. That’s why I believe he should continue with these callouts, but yeah I’d like to see more actual repair stuff in future.