[Android General] deigue:
[MENTION=5488402]Davey126[/MENTION] Having gone through this thread and trying multiple ways and methods to optimize over the past couple months I think I have hit a roundabout.

Almost at the point where simply removing Amplify actually ended up improving my idle drain. I am starting to believe the minimalist 'leave it alone' and do minimum tinkering to approach the maximum out of my device. Over multiple battery-saving posts I've read, I seem to have seen you drop in your input into many things such as this one, Greenify, L-Speed etc.

To add a little background I have the OG Google Pixel. (7.1.1, PureNexus, Rooted, Xposed, ElementalX Kernel)

Having tried L-Speed, Amplify, Greenify, NapTime, ForceDoze and numerous other things, I have finally ended up removing everything except Greenify. I chose instead to remove the sources of the problem such as menacing applications like Facebook. Unfortunately of course, I need to keep some things such as WhatsApp or Messenger which I feel I might not be able to manage without.

All of the applications which seemed to feature 'Aggressive Doze' always ended up draining battery after waking up due to catching up of tasks and activity, so I even disabled that on Greenify. In the end I only have Greenify with most Xposed features checked, except Telephony wake and GCM notifications wake. (If certain apps need to wake the device, then I simply didn't add it to Greenify like WhatsApp or Messenger).

Also I do not entirely blame this thread or advice, of course it is a little outdated and results vary across devices. This is probably why something that is already very well optimized is seeing almost no improvement and possibly more harm from using multiple 'battery-saving' applications.

Finally, as a result I have been averaging about 0.3-0.5%/hr on idle drain. Of course, I wish to improve this as much as I can. However, I have grown tired of employing methods and realizing that it tends to produce more harm than improve battery. Thus, I wanted to ask, what are few things that have helped you maximize your battery efficiency on your device? I am asking this maybe in a more general aspect, so that it may apply across more devices rather than just a specific device and model. For example, sure I tried to use L-Speed. However, the numerous options tended to puzzle me and ended up making me to do hours and hours of testing and still made it difficult to realize if it was beneficial or not.

I think there are 2 main reasons why I wanted to ask you this in particular. For one, simply because I seem to like your way of thinking on this idea altogether. You seem to be interested in battery improving strategies without really making intensive alterations and defeating the purpose. It is very easy to get lost into the labyrinth of battery-saving strategies. With that being said, I thought you might have some good advice or few methods that I can achieve my goal of 0.1-0.2%/hr without causing to much issues. Secondly, because I know this is not entirely impossible. There is of course a corner case that anybody can run which involves using Airplane mode to restrict activity and alleviate many wakelocks. Having done this I know getting 0.1%/hr is actually possible. The trick is figuring out what all activities are running with WiFi running that accounts for the additional drain, and can it easily be mitigated or not? The real question is separating out the necessary and unnecessary background activity which is quite burdensome for niche android users.

Thanks for hearing me out!