{"id":8430,"date":"2015-10-26T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=8430"},"modified":"2015-10-26T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:56:39","slug":"androids-battery-drain-issue-wont-be-fixed-until-next-major-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/androids-battery-drain-issue-wont-be-fixed-until-next-major-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Android&#8217;s battery drain issue won&#8217;t be fixed until next major upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8432\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-riding-hood-the-wolf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-riding-hood-the-wolf.jpg\" alt=\"red riding hood &amp; the wolf\" width=\"840\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-riding-hood-the-wolf.jpg 840w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-riding-hood-the-wolf-225x193.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-riding-hood-the-wolf-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Courtesy: Vintageprintable1 Brothers Grimm, Red Riding Hood and Wolf stamp art<\/figcaption><\/figure>Android&#8217;s KitKat operating system ended its data connection once an app completed its transaction but Lollipop (5.x) doesn&#8217;t do that. Data access remains enabled long after an app has finished doing whatever it needs to do &#8230; and this is why Lollipop users get so much battery drain.<\/p>\n<p>As this issue has been reported over 3000 times to Google, it will be fixed in Marshmallow (6.0). But this means we&#8217;re going to wait a while.<\/p>\n<p>My theory is: Google keeps the connection open the better to track us with, my dear. By the time Google rolls out a new OS, I guess the company will have all the data it needs to successfully intrude in just about every aspect of our lives, God help us.<\/p>\n<p>If internet privacy&#8217;s important to you, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/epic.org\">EPIC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/eff.org\">EFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android&#8217;s KitKat operating system ended its data connection once an app completed its transaction but Lollipop (5.x) doesn&#8217;t do that. Data access remains enabled long after an app has finished doing whatever it needs to do &#8230; and this is why Lollipop users get so much battery drain. As this issue has been reported over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/androids-battery-drain-issue-wont-be-fixed-until-next-major-upgrade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Android&#8217;s battery drain issue won&#8217;t be fixed until next major upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,4],"tags":[2117,2119,2118],"class_list":["post-8430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-digital-life","tag-android","tag-battery","tag-lollipop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8430"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8444,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}