I have a related issue to report: high power usage at idle(or should I say: no user interaction).
In the past it was understandable, because those primitive 130nm, single-core CPUs had to keep spinning since performance scaling was still a relatively new thing back then.
Despite all the advancements in the field it seems like more often than not each of those cores is up to something at all times.
First thing I do with a new Android device is to limit the number of background processes. This causes occasional crashes of some apps, but the difference in general smoothness is noticeable.
Meanwhile my laptop draws 30W seemingly doing nothing in particular.
Launching HWiNFO halves that number which, if actually true, is properly insane.
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