alt Hacker NewsI was using GrapheneOS for years, until the battery died while I was on an important call, trying to get someplace. Plugged it in, but little did I remember that I had installed OS update that was pending app optimization phase that happens during next boot.
GrapheneOS has some hardening in this phase, which as I understand, essentially has to rebuild all apps without cache.
And as I have a ton of apps, I was parked for 30 minutes waiting my phone to boot up.
And because of this app optimization thing, I always delayed OS update finalizations, which probably isn't the best thing.
Unfortunately, GrapheneOS recommendation to this was to have fewer apps. Had to let it go after that.
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I have multi day battery life and I only charge to 80% so it was either user error or a hardware failure.
GOS has much better battery than stock pixel ui because of less services and telemetry.
i have mine set to auto-restart for updates and i shortened the 'restart when idle for n hours' value so it usually just does everything at night
> GrapheneOS recommendation to this was to have fewer apps
Sounds reasonable. People tend to install way too many apps on their phones and than blame the phone about short battery life or too many notifications.
App optimization happens in the background now, and pops a notification when it is done, asking to restart all open apps.