Google isn't intentionally slowing your phone
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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Neither was Apple.
Yes they did, that was objectively true and had a big lawsuit about it, and Apple even admitted as such
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-paying-113-million-lawsuit-slowing-down-iphones-2020-11
I know this is going against the circlejerk but that's not even the same thing. This was specifically done because their batteries were shutting off as their health declined. It is something that ideally should have been off by default, but it isn't "apple slowing you down to get a new phone" because the issue would go away with a new battery.
And in my experience it helped, previous phones from Apple, Samsung, and HTC got squirrelly around 10-15% after 2-3 years of use.
With the throttling they implemented (to prevent batteries shutting off) I made it to just above 1000 charge cycles on my current phone. Still was only unstable around 4-6% battery with 81% battery life.
Sarcasm was missed apparently.
🤦♂️ Google isn't making your shit slow. Jesus Christ people. Format the device and buy a new battery. The phone will work fine.
I've been repeatedly surprised by how much a new battery boosts performance. I don't quite understand why this is the case. I would think that at full power you'd get full performance even with a battery degraded to 70-80%. What exactly is going on with bad batteries?
When you connect to the internet all those eonderful background processes can phone home and send data and be commanded to collectmore. You will find that phones running LineageOS or GrapheneOS dont suffer from this as long as no gapps are active.
I picked my current and previous phones from the supported device list of lineageOS. Always run a non-stock recovery, kernel, rom and google-apps package. Even my now ancient galaxy s5 is still running fine. (even if nowhere near as capable as my newer devices)
I'll try that. Thanks! Already bricked another broken Nokia by not making a recovery when it wasn't even supported 🙃
More like app you installed requires more and more cpu or ram.
That happened after a wipe of the device. It can't be the app.
If you wipe the device and didn't turn Wifi on, you have the old versions of all factory installed apps. Once you turn on WiFi, all of them will update.
Not sure about android,iPhone user here. Speaking from experience, same app will behave differently with different version. If always keep the app to latest version, usually will reach a point where it becomes sluggish
Unlock the bootloader, root the device, install a custom recovery and then a custom rom. You can find all of that at xdadeveloprs.com. I don't think they slow things down. My 4 year old galaxy note 20 ultra is still working flawlessly. Planning on buying another one after this one goes.
Is it possible that connecting to WiFi triggers app updates in the background? Those can be somewhat intensive especially when batched.
Additionally, the Google Play Store no longer notifies when app updates occur, so this process is a little more opaque than it used to be.
You can debloat the devices, removing all the shit from Google and the devices manufacture.
I recently got a Lenovo tablet from 2017, and once I removed all the shit software, including Google’s, it is quite useable.
Fairphone