Samsung appears to be throttling 10k Android apps on Galaxy devices

Re:Samsung appears to be throttling 10k Android apps on Gala... by fulafel on Friday March 04, 2022 @09:54AM (#30555651)

If they did this in an above board way, this would be the default power profile in the OS/HW. Now they're charging users for high CPU performance, but only benchmark apps get to use it. It's a bait and switch where they try to fool people into thinking there's high performance at low power usage.

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Re:Samsung appears to be throttling 10k Android apps on Gala... by jcranberry on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:20AM (#30555999)

Are you sure its benchmarks which are the only apps which can use it?

The idea of making a blacklist of apps which take up 100% of a CPU despite not needing it to function sounds like a good idea to me. Some games might do that by endlessly spinning rather than sleeping or something until the next time they need to process state/draw a frame etc.

Benchmarks are obvious candidates not to put on such a list because when you use them taking up 100% performance is reasonable.

So depending on the apps on the list I could see it being deceptive, or just curating a list of apps which weren't developed with power usage in mind.

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