Gadgetory

did the title of this video get you to click on it good this is something really important we need to discuss about the current implementation of android battery optimization something that's been driving me absolutely crazy and using the LGB 20 of late has been the really austere battery optimizations found in the more recent build of Android starting with marshmallow and then getting even more aggressive on nougat as we await battery technology to evolve to keep up with our current daily lifestyles we're employing a number of different tricks to keep our mobile devices powered throughout the day for examples newer versions of fast charging like the supercharger on the mate knife maybe we really can't get the phone to run longer per amp but for those times you do need to plug it in maybe we can abbreviate the amount of time you need to keep it connected to a charger the other side of the equation addresses software how do absent services relate to battery drain especially those apps running in the background and that's where battery optimization can go and take a running leap into a toxic dumpster fire I'm being really cheeky about this and there are some things that battery optimization does well like reining in those runaway apps that keep waking your phone up and utilizing the CPU times they don't really need to be unfortunately what I've been finding in my usage of phones like the LG B 20 on Android 7.0 nougat I don't seem to be getting any better battery longevity and those services that I rely on to stay alive in the background of my phone just seem to be getting interrupted a very specific example would be Netflix I'm really trying to convince my wife to just fully cut the cord and get rid of what's left of our cable package we've been streaming a lot of content through chromecast to our TV and the way that chromecast alerts every single phone on your network to what's playing and allows them to control what's playing I'll have to rant about in a separate editorial Netflix and chromecast a perfect example a battery optimization run amok where after about two episodes of sitcom this management software has killed Netflix running in the background obviously I'm not using it so I don't need it and then if we go to pause or play something different or just fire up anything else we have to go through that dance of reinitializing the phone with the chromecast over the network and that interaction just takes so much longer so much more screen on time closing apps reopening apps that I can't believe I've actually saved battery in the long run and this has been happening more often with a number of services I rely on mostly those services which connect to other pieces of equipment like my car management software which connects to a plugin to the car computer and it's over a Bluetooth connection and then I'll finish a long drive and find that my phone didn't actually properly track all the information I wanted it to going back to phones like the otter eight huawei's custom software for managing the battery was obnoxiously aggressive about shutting everything off in the background now on the main nine they've actually kind of loosened the leash up a little bit there's still a ton of resource management happening and I'm not sure I believe always claims about machine learning really impacting performance over time but I find fewer apps are just cut off at the knees when you minimize them from your screen and of course googles darling the pixel XL just seems to handle background services much more gracefully ironically enough I forgot to charge my pickle before shooting this video so getting back to my v20 and you all should know by now what a big fan I am of this phone but this behavior from LG has become extremely irritating out of the box there's very little to alert the users to what's going on with their power management fire up a game and it's performing really poorly and then you dig into those battery settings and you see there's a game optimizer mode and it takes some time to even find where those battery optimization settings live and then the process of manually green lighting or bypassing those settings so that certain apps aren't killed in the background and that's all provided that the consumer even cares that much to do that deep of an investigation I think we know plenty of people in our social circles who would use something like this for a short period of time declare it not good battery and then just swap it for something else which seems to work better I know a lot of y'all are going to be frustrated by me saying this but I don't have these kinds of issues when I pick up an iPhone 7 plus so folks we want to hear from you back in the early days of Android we all tried to walk away from those app cleaners and app managers all expecting that Android would actually do a better job of managing this stuff and now Android is sort of building these types of features control and management software directly into the operating system is this the right way to help us manage our battery life or should there be better notifications and better alerts to users as to what's going on with their power and drop us a comment down below those are the kinds of conversations I love getting in - as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more pranky rants like these and it helped us out with some sharing on your favorite social networks for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now so I'm gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next video