Dread it, run from it, statistics still arrives ;)

Hope you ace/aced it!

That would indeed be the perfect way to test my hypothesis of adaptive battery being responsible for better battery on stock.

But I’m perfectly happy with Graphene now, and I don’t want to go back to stock for a month for more data collection.

But I would love to see some data and testing for the hypothesis if someone else who is on stock is willing to do the work.

SOT isn’t a great measure, you’d want a continuous power consumption

I agree, there’s so much variability in daily usage patterns, so SOT isn’t a great metric, as I noted in another comment. Still, it can be useful, and that’s why I waited until gathering at least 15 charging cycles per OS so that I can minimize daily variability by increasing the sample size. I also wanted to incorporate idle time in the analysis, but I only tracked idle time for 11 cycles on GOS, so I couldn’t include the idle dimension in the comparison. Plus, my Pixel 8 is my daily driver, so I would have been phone-less for 2 months, which is not realistic.

is this with or without accounts/apps

This is just me using my phone as usual, with all apps and services that I usually use. It would have been more statistically accurate to test out the OSes in a vacuum without anything installed but the bare OS to eliminate confounding variables, but that wouldn’t be representative of what it’s like to actually use both OSes on a daily basis, so I tested both while using both normally as I would.

Keep in mind without Play Services, some apps will maintain their own data sync, which can really hurt battery life

Yes, I also noted the same in my post:

you can use a more strict setup without sandboxed Google Play Services, which may actually decrease battery life due to constantly active web sockets

And I used to get insane battery drain from Signal’s websockets when I was using Lineage without GApps (link), which was one of the biggest reasons for me to use sandboxed Play Services.

My Pixel runs forever without Play Services. I’ve found it to be the single largest consumer on all my phones.

Do you use Signal and other messaging apps on your device? What’s your average SOT?

Shelter is indeed fantastic, but you technically don’t need it if your main purpose is to isolate your work-related apps and snooze them for the weekend. You should be able to just use your phone’s existing Work profile without using Shelter.

The main value add of Shelter is that on top of isolating your apps to a separate sandbox, it allows you to freeze apps you don’t want running in the background and harvesting your data.