What’s really killing your phone battery life

MANY phone manufacturers may boast that their newest wares will last on a single charge for the whole day.

Wow! What an accolade, a technological breakthrough!

So what sort of battery is needed for this ‘smart’ phone to last a day? 4000mAh, 5000mAh?

Battery drain on an AOSP phone with a 3000mAh battery.

Sure the processing power as well as the screen size has increased dramatically over the years where they are most taxing on your battery, or are they?

So called tech reviewers on various ‘social media’ platforms will spruik the manufacturer’s newest wares in order to boost their income, so their reviews will not be without bias.

One deliberately overlooked aspect by the tech ‘gurus’ is the software, as realistically this is what makes or ‘breaks’ any computer.

Governments and corporations have ramped up their attack on people’s privacy (and technically therefore security), where this is the case across all ‘mainstream’ platforms.

In the smartphone operating system world, surveillance of the ‘user’ (or product) has increased under a health pretext, where the user has unlawfully, no opt-out choice, which is something that is deliberately not reported by any mainstream news sources.

You MUST be surveilled, and that’s it, period. It’s for your own good, allegedly.

We do not recommend any person to make their decisions on technology from mainstream media outlets.

Phone manufacturers, including Apple, load their hardware with ‘spyware’ baked into the operating system, in seemingly innocuous settings that go under the labels of Wi-Fi Scanning and Bluetooth Scanning.

Another computer that gives away your location is the baseband modem, which is active 24/7 when a SIM card is inserted, but this topic is not part of the scope of this article.

In these OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) devices, this setting contributes significantly to battery loss, as this process runs in the background, pinging cell towers and devices 24/7 and ‘phoning home’ to corporations and governments your precise location many times a minute.

Your so called privacy is thrown under a bus the moment you use a computer or phone, where one can only mitigate some of the data the authorities obtain.

With reference to Android powered phones, some manufacturer's phones can run the basic open source, non spyware loaded version of Android called AOSP (Android Open Source Project).

With this bare bones operating system one can turn off the two settings mentioned previously, at the  end user and developer levels, where they are truly off.

There are limitations to using this version of the operating system, where one can search forums on this topic.

The AOSP is available from developers of LineageOS, e foundation or GrapheneOS.

Others have got into the privacy bandwagon, with ‘generic’ hardware and a fork of LineageOS, under the label BraxOS on a BraX2 smartphone.

We do not recommend the use of Apple products if privacy is of concern to you.