Question OT - spam filtering with the 6a

[mmead1143]

Hey folks - move this if needed

I did the upgrade 3a to the 6a deal and couldn't be happier.

Anecdotally I've found with the 6a, I have almost NO incoming spam from text or phone calls. On the 3a I had been running Android 12 via Lineage and/or Descendent which all seemed to have the same google spam protections.

No matter the rom, on the 3a I'd have 10-12 spam calls/text until I had them fully "blocked" over 4-5 days...then they'd really settle down and I wouldn't see them at all.

With the 6a - I'm getting 1-2 per day and after a week almost none daily.

Just putting it out there - is it just me or anyone see the same thing? If so - just asking why that might happen if both devices had the same spam software.

 

[ctfrommn]

I havent had a single span call come through on this device, also coming from a 3a (XL) so maybe something has changed, maybe there are just fewer spam callers....not sure.

 

[damian5000]

So many people came from 3a and 3a XL. Probably because of the amazing deal. I loved 3a XL. Only issue with these 6a is just barely passable battery life, probably due to the 5 year old a-76 cores. Looking forward to 7a already, hopefully they upgrade to a-78 or better and fine tune Tensor to be significantly more efficient.

 

[ctfrommn]

I get great battery life. Turn off 5g & adaptive connectivity. This is a massively more powerful chip vs the sd670 with a barely bigger battery so it's not surprising it doesn't get as good or better battery.

It also takes about a week of normal use before everything is optimized.

 

[damian5000]

You'll have to show me if you could. Install Gsam and show me in a couple days a screen shot. I'm getting 6 hours onscreen over 10 hours or so.

Though I'm using LTE data only. 35% brightness. If you're using mostly WiFi it will definitely be a step up from that.

The core a-76 (middle) are 50% less efficient than a-78 in equivalent Exynos and Snap.

 

[ctfrommn]

I'm in the middle of kernel development which means constant flashing and testing so no data I could provide would be useful. But owning the 3a for 3 years I have a solid handle on what kind of battery life I got.

I could care less about the 2 random cores that mostly sit at idle. Comparing the barely passable SD670 to this tensor is apples and oranges.

My kernel on the 3a would get 10-12 hours SOT and I'm confident when I'm done with this kernel I'll get close to thats well.

That said, this is a very high end chip vs a very mid range one in the 3a so this will likely never reach the same battery life. The normal 3a with it's normal sized batter got like 6 hrs SOT which would be a much closer comparison.

Side note, this discussion should be taken out of this thread as this has nothing to do with the topic in the OP.

 

[damian5000]

Which cores are getting used the most in your experience? Just in my brief testing it does appear little used most but the impact of a-76 isn't non-existent.


All I can say is that using exclusively data, battery life is not good. 6-7 hours maximum on low screen brightness. Are you mostly on WiFi?

I'm sure a mod can split this and we can continue.

 

[neo_lithic3K]

Which cores are getting used the most in your experience? Just in my brief testing it does appear little used most but the impact of a-76 isn't non-existent.


All I can say is that using exclusively data, battery life is not good. 6-7 hours maximum on low screen brightness. Are you mostly on WiFi?

I'm sure a mod can split this and we can continue.

Hey folks - move this if needed

I did the upgrade 3a to the 6a deal and couldn't be happier.

Anecdotally I've found with the 6a, I have almost NO incoming spam from text or phone calls. On the 3a I had been running Android 12 via Lineage and/or Descendent which all seemed to have the same google spam protections.

No matter the rom, on the 3a I'd have 10-12 spam calls/text until I had them fully "blocked" over 4-5 days...then they'd really settle down and I wouldn't see them at all.

With the 6a - I'm getting 1-2 per day and after a week almost none daily.

Just putting it out there - is it just me or anyone see the same thing? If so - just asking why that might happen if both devices had the same spam software.

Yeah, I can't explain it if both phones have the same spam software and we're comparing the same periods in time. If you're in the US, I think it's at least partly due to FCC forcing all phone operators to adopt stir/shaken recently. I've noticed a significant decrease.

When i was on the pixel 4xl, I'd rarely get spam calls or text. My Google phone has call screening, so it intercepts most calls. A few years ago, there was a deluge of neighborhood spoofing so i had to use an xposed module to auto block phone numbers that start with specific numbers, but i haven't had to use that module in the last year or more. I also had a period of time where i was getting spam text from outlook email addresses. I had to configure the xposed module to block those text, but issue went away in the past year or so (maybe bc cell carrier did something?)

 

[DB126]

Similar blocking coming from 4a w/A12. Interesting your experience was different. Multiple upgrades to phone app on legacy devices and/or integration w/other Google components which contribute to spam identification/blocking likely a factor.

 

[ctfrommn]

Remember though the 3a hasnt really gotten an update since like April, longer on the kernel