Most mobile power conservation relies on a "rush to sleep" policy. Throttling a regular 2D app is a tough sell, though.
ONEPLUS FROM GEEKBENCH OVER CHEATING UPDATE
Games require sustained usage and need to update the screen constantly, so throttling can save battery life. Normally, the throttling behavior is not user-controllable, but the users are tricking the service by modifying apps.įurther Reading OnePlus admits to throttling 300 popular apps with recent updateThrottling a game is not necessarily bad if users have control over the feature, allowing them to choose between performance or longer battery life is reasonable. By changing the package names of popular benchmark apps-thereby making the "Game Optimizing Service" treat a benchmark app like a normal app-scores dropped anywhere from 13 to 45 percent on the Galaxy S10, S20, S21, and the new S22.
Samsung's throttling app is called the "Game Optimizing Service." Users of the Korean message board found wildly different benchmark scores depending on whether benchmark apps had their original names or not. It's like benchmark cheating but in reverse. Instead of boosting the SoC speeds when a benchmark app is running, Android OEMs are now turning down phone performance any time a benchmark app isn't running. It sounds like the scheme OnePlus was caught running last year.
This time, the company is accused of throttling 10,000 Android apps-but not benchmark apps. Samsung is once again in hot water over how it treats benchmark apps.
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