I currently use Juice Plotter when diagnosing new apps & software power usage. Have read there may be a 'better' app out there for this task. Apparently Juice Plotter uses a good amount of battery on its own
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Often on the marketplace, I see comments such as "drains battery" or "saves battery" for many apps, such as task killers. Now, aside from the "oh look my battery seems to last longer" or "oh look my battery seems to suck now" subjective point-of-views after installing apps in question (there are various different reasons as to why battery performance can differ from day to day), how do people evaluate the effect of an app on battery? AFAIK if an app is not listed under "Battery use", then it has little to no effect on eating the battery (I don't know about helping battery usage).
Any input?
I use a fairly simple strategy to maximize my battery life. Two key applications help me wring the best life I can out of what I have going (Juice Defender and Spare Parts). Juice Defender presents a limited window of opportunity for background apps to sync themselves when the phone is asleep which helps with partial wake usage. Spare Parts allows me to examine relatively detailed statistics of what uses the battery when. And again partial wake usage seems to be the critical area one can take control of.
You can get some more detailed info about battery use with Spare Parts of course but probably the most important area to try to glean info from is "Partial Wake Usage". In order for many apps (news, rss, social networking services etc..) to function they have to periodically update themselves and most will do this from a partial wake state if the phone is off and in your holster or pocket. How efficiently these types of apps wake up get what they need and let the phone go back to sleep can have a huge impact on your battery life. How often these types of applications update themselves also plays a critical role in battery life as well.
I have generally excellent battery life, especially given all the apps I have that frequently update their data (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Daily Briefing, NewsRob, Engadget, Fmylife) and the fairly frequent texts and calls I get.
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Often on the marketplace, I see comments such as "drains battery" or "saves battery" for many apps, such as task killers. Now, aside from the "oh look my battery seems to last longer" or "oh look my battery seems to suck now" subjective point-of-views after installing apps in question (there are various different reasons as to why battery performance can differ from day to day), how do people evaluate the effect of an app on battery? AFAIK if an app is not listed under "Battery use", then it has little to no effect on eating the battery (I don't know about helping battery usage).
Any input?
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I agree. And I don't see how automated task killers can benefit our android phones.
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Starting to mess with my new SGS2, flashing and stuff.
So i figured at some point i'll have to settle on something usable in real life and that includes a fair battery life.
For that one may need an application to gather battery drain statistics over prolonged period of time. In graphed form, with apps draining, charging, trend analysis, reboots/loss of power, etc.
Is there such a thing ?
At the moment i got the DarkyROM2 and it has the short term battery graph. But i want something to span as long as statistics are being gathered (weeks ? months ?)
Ultimate case analysis app of power consumption ???
In my opinion, Battery Monitor Widget Pro is the best battery monitor + including graph with voltage usage, percentage, etc ... it also include battery calibration tool too..
but it dont manage apps that running. in that case, install "watchdog" to manage whats apps running,ram usage,etc ..
both apps is a must in your case.
watchdog by zomut llc ? too much watchdogs on market
Better Battery Stats is what you need, only.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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I want to install a battery monitor app so I can keep track on which apps is using battery, if so does it uses more battery?
Also which is the best battery monitor app? BetterBatteryStats or GSam Battery Monitor
I use betterbattery and it's pretty good. you get to see all the processes as well as what apps are waking your phone.
of course, it does not use any significant battery.
heard about the gsam, but didn't try it myself.
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i don't know if it helps, but instead of installing another app. use the built-in battery monitor, it tells you the percentage of battery that each app/process uses...including display. one less app to run/install
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I want to install a battery monitor app so I can keep track on which apps is using battery, if so does it uses more battery?
Also which is the best battery monitor app? BetterBatteryStats or GSam Battery Monitor
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Ive used both. Betterbatterystats is better in my opinion.
That in combination with the stock is a good indicator of whats eating your battery.
I never noticed any additional drain in battery with it installed
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Is there an app that measures the cumulative keep awake time per app versus time ... Along with battery percentage vs time. This would be useful in diagnosing apps that have excessive wakelocks and correlating there keep awake time periods with periods of excessive battery drain. As it stands right now with apps like better battery stats and the stock Android battery app,, you only know the cumulative keep awake or wake lock time as a single number rather than as a graph plotted versus time to overlay on top of the battery drain percentage graph. One always ends up speculating as to when that keep awake time actually occurred vs the battery drain.
So ideally I would want all of those statistics that come up in the stock Android battery app along with wakelock time, such as a CPU time total CPU time awake time etc versus time. A simple way to implement this would be to listen for battery percentage drops like many of the battery monitoring apps already do, but also record all of those other statistics and the current system time at the same time.
Is there anything already out there or anyone willing to add this functionality to their existing app?
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Is there an app that measures the cumulative keep awake time per app versus time ... Along with battery percentage vs time. This would be useful in diagnosing apps that have excessive wakelocks and correlating there keep awake time periods with periods of excessive battery drain. As it stands right now with apps like better battery stats and the stock Android battery app,, you only know the cumulative keep awake or wake lock time as a single number rather than as a graph plotted versus time to overlay on top of the battery drain percentage graph. One always ends up speculating as to when that keep awake time actually occurred vs the battery drain.
So ideally I would want all of those statistics that come up in the stock Android battery app along with wakelock time, such as a CPU time total CPU time awake time etc versus time. A simple way to implement this would be to listen for battery percentage drops like many of the battery monitoring apps already do, but also record all of those other statistics and the current system time at the same time.
Is there anything already out there or anyone willing to add this functionality to their existing app?
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Bump.
Is there an app that measures the cumulative keep awake time per app versus time ... Along with battery percentage vs time. This would be useful in diagnosing apps that have excessive wakelocks and correlating there keep awake time periods with periods of excessive battery drain. As it stands right now with apps like better battery stats and the stock Android battery app,, you only know the cumulative keep awake or wake lock time as a single number rather than as a graph plotted versus time to overlay on top of the battery drain percentage graph. One always ends up speculating as to when that keep awake time actually occurred vs the battery drain.
So ideally I would want all of those statistics that come up in the stock Android battery app along with wakelock time, such as a CPU time total CPU time awake time etc versus time. A simple way to implement this would be to listen for battery percentage drops like many of the battery monitoring apps already do, but also record all of those other statistics and the current system time at the same time.
Is there anything already out there or anyone willing to add this functionality to their existing app?
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Bump.
Bunp
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