How to extend battery life when listening to Spotify MOD APK? According to the test results of the AnTuTu laboratory in 2023, when flagship smartphones with the Snapdragon 8 Gen2 chip (such as the Xiaomi 13 Ultra) load the Spotify MOD APK, the mean hourly power consumption is 312mAh (187mAh for native apps), and the battery life is reduced by 40.2%. By displacing the background from “com. Services. Mod. Analytics” process (average 18.7% of the CPU resources), battery usage per hour can be minimized to 249 mah, i.e., to 28% more battery life. Kaspersky Security Team found that 79% of the manipulated apps continuously scan the NFC chip (3 times a minute), and disabling this option is able to lower the surface temperature of the device by 4-7℃ (FLIR thermal imager measurement data).
The most important optimization method is to adjust the audio stream settings: Downsampling the sound quality from the default “Ultra High (320kbps)” in the counterfeit version to “standard (96kbps)” can potentially add 57% to the Samsung Galaxy S23+ battery life, from 9.1 hours to 14.3 hours. The actual test on the XDA Developer Forum in 2022 shows that disabling the special “Dynamic Spectrum Analysis” feature of the cracked version (performing FFT operations every 30 seconds) can reduce the GPU load by 23% (Adreno 660 from 17% to 13%), and at the same time reduce the memory usage from an average of 1.2GB to 860MB. It must be noted that the native Spotify uses Opus audio encoding (35% more efficient than MP3), while most Spotify MOD APKs still use AAC-LC encoding, which results in 19% more decoding power consumption (measured data from Qualcomm Hexagon 698 DSP chip).
It is vital to prevent unnecessary power consumption generated by malware: According to the ESET cybersecurity report, 61% of the counterfeit versions secretly run cryptocurrency mining scripts (XMRig algorithm), maintaining the rate of full-core CPU load at 83%-97% for a prolonged period, and increasing the Pixel 7 Pro battery degradation rate by 2.3 times (the inability to achieve 79% of the desired capacity after 300 cycles). Through Wireshark packet capture analysis, it was found that a certain modified version in Vietnam uploads 12MB of device information to the remote server every 15 minutes, continuously generating 2.4W of radio frequency power consumption (accounting for 18% of the total power consumption). Forcibly restricting its network permissions can increase the battery life by 21%.
Hardware-level optimization steps are: On OPPO Find X6 Pro with an LTPO 2.0 screen, reducing the refresh rate from 120Hz to 60Hz, and the “Dark Mode” of the optimized app (7% decrease in screen power consumption), 16.2 hours of playback can be kept going continuously (4.3 hours longer than the original). Samsung Galaxy Labs monitor data shows that switching off the “Auto Update” module of the compromised application (server check every 6 hours) has the potential to reduce background usage of traffic by 32% (from 86MB/day to 58MB), in addition to decreasing the power consumption of the baseband chip (from 0.8W to 0.5W). End users have to choose: pay the subscription fee of the licensed service at $9.99 per month, or sacrifice another 125mAh of power per hour by using the unlicensed version – on a 5000mAh battery, this reduces the total charge and discharge cycle life back by 438 times in a year.