I brought a HTC Wildfire. Its battery power usage is very high compared to what given in the specification. I use it in GSM and most of the time it is kept idle. The battery usage status shows the Android system and Standby uses about 30% each. How can i tune up the power usage? Is there any free app available to tune the power usage?.What are the unwanted process running in background and how to find them ?
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I just bought a G1 from a friend and am exploring how I am going to use this. I am not much of a cell user, I want this more for the wifi access and am playing with Google Voice. I have a pay as you go call plan, no data plan, and am in a wifi zone about 90% of the time I would want to use it. All is functioning well.
I am finding that the battery barely makes it through the day even with light usage. The power manager indicates that about 15% of my usage is wifi, even when I didn't actually connect. I am thinking that the device is working hard scanning for an open connection. Like I said, 90% of the time I am in a known wifi zone with a "remembered" account. So it doesn't really need to be looking all the time. What would be really cool is if there's an app to toggle wifi based on location. I think by GPS since it would be more accurate. Wifi could be off until I get to a given location, then it would automatically fire up and connect.
I want to check one application memory usage and cpu load and power of an appplication in android,What can i do for this?
View 1 Replies View Relatedmy Infuse 4g uses 25% of the battery when it's in deep sleep during the 6 hours I sleep. Yes, it is in deep sleep. Yes I have BBS. There are only one or two wakelocks for only a couple minutes each for twitter sync and things like that. How can it possibly be using that much battery in deep sleep? It's on CM10, but the problem only appeared after having it installed for several days. Normally I get maybe 2-5% use over my sleep period.
I thought deep sleep = deep sleep and it has a constant near-zero power consumption.
Just curious what brightness setting everyone is using? I'm talking normal, run-of-the-mill settings not what you crank it to when you're outside, and not what you turn it down to for playing games in the dark. I want your normal setting. Anyone have an idea of how much power usage is impacted? (Like, does 100% Brightness use 50% more power than 10%, or does it use 400% more power?)
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'm wondering about apps that are a little more than battery power monitors. I'd like something that will show me the apps that are running and taking up the most memory and causing the biggest power drains on my phone.
Something that would log this so I could look it over during the week and get an overall view and make decisions on what to keep and what to erase.
I'm thinking something that would show me what apps I used, how long they were running, how much memory they took up, how much battery power was used, etc.
Is there such an app out there? I'm wanting to look at the differences between the free apps and paid apps to see if it makes a difference also.
I'm running a Sprint GN2 currently 4.1.2. I haven't gotten the update yet.
How can reduce the power usage in my application.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAlternative to i Heart radio - (which only plays clear channel) Check out "tunein radio" just found my Friday night HIGHSCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME ON THIS APP!!!!!!!
View 10 Replies View Related2 wks with Samsung; I installed clock/weather widget and noticed today temp stayed at 41F and didn't change the whole day even though it was in the mid 70's. I returned from a meeting at 3pm and noticed the little circle turning it suddenly changed at 74F. I don't really mind it but wonder how it works; does it work off the phone or on it's own. Why didn't it change temps after 8 hours of being on? Just curious how widgets work and if they dance to their own tune?
View 7 Replies View Relatedmade a lot of different customization to my current smartphone. i'm having an xperia arc (the old model) which does not have that much RAM nor CPU.after booting it, it runs fairly well. but some hours after that, its getting really slow. sometimes i have to wait 10 seconds until my UCCW clock shows up on my main desk.
i'm using the go launcher task manager to kill processes, but that seems not enough.how to tune up my smartphone? is there a great app on the marked i haven't noticed?
I had the phone for a few days and I have downloaded some tunes into the music application on the phone and I see you can save the tune as a ringtone and also trim it which is all good, however, after I have saved the tune as a ringtone, when the phone is switched off and back on again, the chosen ringtone has gone and the "save tune" I had within ringtones has also gone.
I have tried contacting HTC and they are talking about something about route of the SD card and making folders which I have not got a clue about what they are talking about and they don't seem to give clear instructions in how to transfer a song from your PC to the phone and then make it into a ringtone.
Can you tell me how I can switch off the little music that is played when I turn on my phone.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to fine tune the music playback? Any equalizer settings?
View 1 Replies View RelatedThey all scare out of me when they go off, is there a way of setting a tune thats more calming in the morning
View 13 Replies View RelatedRooted with Z4Root. I deleted most of the bloatware but wanted to know how to get rid of the T-Mobile tune at startup and shutdown? Anybody done this?
Also a question. If you UNroot, wil the bloatware still be gone? I assume so but want to make sure.
I don't know if it's my phone or what but when I look up the Other Usage on my phone, it shows it "Running" more than 2/3 of the time.And on Network Usage, "Android System" and "Media" use a great deal of the phone as well.I think this might have to do with my "android.process.acore" crashing every once in a while when it's asleep. Based on everyone's feedback I might have to return the Moment for a third time.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI know there is a dedicated section for apps, but they work different on each phone, so what are my fellow DHD users using.
My current Top 10
1 Winamp
An excellent replacement, tried a few after being spoilt rotten by the iPhone's music player. In Winamp, I've finally found a music player to compare to this.
2 Peep
The standard HTC Twitter client looks good and is easy to use.
3 Tune In Radio
Not really used this much but used it loads on the iPhone. A huge directory of stations to listen to.
4 MP3 Music Downloader
Get music tracks for FREE (legally debatable) But what I like is the ability to preview on the go, nice if you think "I wish I could listen to that track right now"
5 Google Maps
Superb free navigation, used it to find a pub I wanted to go to (on foot) Drains the battery if you have it on for too long though
FOUR GREAT GAMES
6 Paper Toss
7 Angry Birds
8 Teeter
9 Bubble
10 Backgrounds - shed loads of free backgrounds to choose for your phone, nice and easy to use, all in catagories for easy navigation
Has anyone had any luck with aftermarket power supply's. I'd like a car/ac charger or a stand alone power pack. I usually use my DEXIM. but it does not work with the Behold 2. I've tried a car charger/battery unit by Wireless Gear that said it was compatible with all Samsung phones, it came with 5 power tips and a USB outlet that still would not work, even using the OEM USB cable. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I will go with OEM Samsung if necessary, but there selection is limited.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a rooted Galaxy S3 with Android 4.1.2, and for some strange reason they've changed the screenshot combination away from the Power+VolDown that other Androids use to Power+Home which can't realistically be pressed one-handed. How can I change it back to Power+VolDown?
View 6 Replies View Relatedmy phone is karbon A9+ and i wiped the cash,system and data and after that flashed a Custom ROM ! but now the phone just power on in download mode!! how to power on, for recovery or normal power on ! the phone just have the black screen with "Entry QPTS Downloading" Text..i will back to India 5 month later ! can it be fixed or i have to wait for 5 month to come back and send it to service !
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have installed Power Strip, and the very first time I was asked to use my preferred home screen, I selected the existing one (using a GS).
What I want to do is to have Power String dock displayed if I do a double click on the home key. I played with the settings but it seems that it doesn't work. Any hint?
Just wondering, how much space does an Android 1.5 and 2.1 OS roughly take from the device's ROM?
View 2 Replies View Relatedthere an app that monitors data usage?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThinking about getting the new Samsung Galaxy S (Vibrant) when it comes out in Canada and the end of month... With the GPS turn by turn I understand it uses data... anyone know how much data it uses for the GPS? Is it a ton?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI encounter an ANR in Album. I saw from the report that the CPU usage is nearly 100%, in which mediaserver occupied 80+%. It looks like it was decoding thumbnails. My questions are: 1. Is it possible for ANRs to happen because the CPU is really busy? 2. Do we have plan for Album to have a more efficient way to decode thumbnails?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMany times (not all the times), my emulator is running 100% of one of my two CPUs on the machine. Can anyone tell me why it is so, and how can I reduce the cpu usage?
View 13 Replies View RelatedIs there any API by which we can get CPU or Memory usage of android? I have tried one code as below: Please look into it and let me know if this is the correct way?
package com.infostretch.mainactivity;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;..............
1 I want to see the usage of memory in the android through the procrank command,but throw a error error: creating kernel interface. Why/ 2 if use the top command, but the info of the %MEM is not correct. Because all the pid's info's sum will >100% ,so Why?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI wrote an app that acts as a Google Reader client. It downloads an XML from Google, parses it and afterward analyzes web pages with regular expressions to find image and stylesheet tags to make the pages available offline. So far so good. The problem is the above mentioned tasks are pretty CPU intensive and I also use gesture to mark items as read etc. The gesture detection gets really bad when done during the synchronization phase (see above).Those tasks from the synchronization phase are not time critical. I would like to tell the OS that the UI thread is far more important than my background thread. I just don't know how to do that efficiently.In an ideal world the OS would take care of that for me, so I started out with "Thread.currentThread().setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY);". That didn't have any obvious effect. Then I sprinkled "Thread.yield()" in all major areas, in particular in the loops. But that also didn't seem to have much of an effect. Before I know start to to all kind of silly stuff, I'd like to pick your brains on how this is done properly? I am absolutely willing to use Thread.sleep(20) in some of the places I use Thread.yield. A little bit of a pause might be a good thing for the battery heat and power consumption, but I can't let the pause get really long, e.g. 250ms, because I wouldn't get any work done and would keep the phone awake unnecessarily (I am holding a partial wake lock). On the other hand I am not sure if a small pause now and then, like a 20ms pause, then 50ms work, won't take too much a toll on the CPU for switching tasks and in the end burn the battery too fast. Also, what seems like a good pause for the G1 might be not so much of a good idea on different hardware, like a Netbook.
View 20 Replies View Relatedwhenever any (non-android) java project in my eclipse ide is built, a "Loading Android Sdk Content" Job is started although no android project is open. Furthermore adb is started in the background, causing 100% CPU usage. When killing adb DDMS prints: Code...
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