I've never had a smartphone before and I was wondering if 500mb 'net usage is more than enough (per month) to use it reasonably. Also, any ideas what I could get up to without breaking this limit? (how much browsing e.t.c.)
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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 was wondering how many of you actually use the green answer key. Since I usually don't. When you dial a number, it's much closer and faster to tap the shown name, or to tap the on-screen "call" (if you don't have the number in people app) then to go all the way to a physical button. When you're answering a call, you mostly swipe the on-screen lock bar to answer. At least I do. So, the only usage of "the green key" for me, is when I'm sending MMI codes (checking data plan). What about you?
View 13 Replies View RelatedSoo running the froydvillain 1.4.4 tried different kernels. Would ask this on their IRC channel but I think they would lynch me :P The max stable I get is 748 was running it for like 10 mins :P (768 wont boot) Was running mostly 691 and now 614 . But dont know what will the difference in power consumption be. For example when playing with the phone and it will have to go to the 691 will it hold a lot less? Or its just a minor difference?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI just purchased a htc hero for my wife. She is on Telus in Canada with a 500 meg data monthly plan. I installed the 3G Watchdog. My wife says she is using data even though she is only using wifi. I would appreciate any tips for turning off notifications or other ideas.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter pretty much a day of doing nothing on the phone except a few texts (GPS and WIFI were on all day), I got home and started playing with the phone. It got SOOOOOOOOOO slow (and I'm not nitpicking, I'm talking WinMo-hang-slowness....believe me, I understand a little bit of lag, but this was insane!) so I checked the Applications and Manage Applications. Now I know everyone's first answer is "get a task manager, etc" but I am not going to give into that, because I believe it'll cause more problems, or at least potential for more problems, by adding more variables to the equation if something goes wrong. I was looking at some of the applications that seem to be using quite a bit of RAM/ROM and had a question for the community:
The biggest 3 applications were:
Mail - 34.80 MB (34.25 MB Data + 556 KB Cache) and using 6.78 MB Ram
Contacts Storage - 4.09 MB total (all data) and 11.56 MB RAM
com.android.providers.calendar - 2.78 MB total (all data) and 11.02 RAM
What does everyone else's look like? I know I'm not going to be touching the Contacts Storage or com.android.providers.calendar stuff, but what happens if I clear my data and cache in mail? I have it hooked to an Exchange Server at work. What exactly gets cleared, and will that help with any of my lag? Do these numbers look pretty representative of everyone else's?
I've been searching all over this forum as well as the internet on how people are using their HERO and the battery performance they're getting out of it. I've seen answers from 9 hrs with heavy usage to 36 hours with minimual usage. That's about all the detail I've been able to find. (Maybe I'm just not good at searching?)With that, I decided to do a little tracking of my own. I logged my usage and battery performance over a 27 hour period and thought I'd share it with the community. Not sure if this is even helpful but maybe it'll provide some sort of baseline for others to compare against.I recorded the battery level in % based on the stock battery meter, the time I recorded the battery level and any activity that occured between the current time and the previous time recording. For example, between 7:00AM and 10:19AM the battery dropped by 10% and I had received 2 emails, 2 calendar reminders went off and I had surfed the web for about 10 minutes.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a programme which shows memory usage by application?
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen I click on 'your account' it used to show me my remaining minutes, texts, data etc.Now, it doesn't. Anyone else had this problem? Tried phoning Orange but, surprise surprise, not much help - they didn't even know you could view remaining minutes from the phone!
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am using Limited Data plan with 150 Mb/Month .. is there any Apps in Market that counts my usage ? I heard About 3G Watchdog ? is it works With EDGE ? Also i can't count My Call Log every Month Seems bit frustrating to me . I can use Only 490 Minutes/Month I need Any App From market that can count my Call duration.
View 6 Replies View RelatedSo I changed my DPI setting to 150 since in launcher pro I use 5 rows instead of 4 so it doesn't overlap etc. And wanted to ask if changing the DPI setting may affect the battery usage (recalculating screen) or CPU (making it slower) or the games will lag? etc.
Changed it back, I think was lagging and the text boxes were smaller not on the whole page. And the confirmations had green lines in the middle.
How I did it:
1. Root Explorer , mount R/W in system
2. Open in text editor.
3. Edit the build.prop line with ro.sf.lcd_density=150 and save the file
4. mount R/O and reboot
Still if someone knows something about the battery usage and cpu etc. So I know in future if I should play around with this one.
Ever since I installed the Android 2.1 update I have noticed a significant increase in my battery depletion when I am using the camera app. This is even if I am using the camera app for a very short period of time. For example, I might take three or four shots in the course of two minutes and my battery drain would be on the order of 7% - 8%. This is way more battery drain from the camera app than I ever witnessed when I was using it with Android 1.5.
I also noticed on the battery status screen, where you can see how much percentage of your total battery life that various apps and system processes are using, that the camera app skyrockets up to over 90% of the total usage every time I use it for a few minutes.
How can I monitor my mobile data usage from my handset? Is there an app or is it built in the phone.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI love Sprint's true unlimited data.Switched from Att and the iphone after they changed the data plans. I was leaning towards the EVO anyway, but the new data plan was the nail in the coffin.I work night shift half the time and abuse tethering on my laptop while working nights.I pay for the hotspot app (i know i could root and do it for free but don't mind the fee considering how much i use).My first month (4 days left in the billing cycle) 21 gigs and change. And to just think, my city is getting 4G later this year and it will only be faster.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI downloaded the app "network" from market, now I would like to restrict my phone, but I don't know which category suits or meets what I am expecting the result to be. Sprint voice and 3g.
My options are:
WCDMA Preferred
GSM Only
WCDMA Only
GSM Auto (PRL)
CDMA Auto (PRL)
CDMA Only
EvDo Only
GSM/CDMA Auto (PRL)
Unknown
I am really wondering is should I use cdma only or cdma auto (PRL)? And what the heck is WCDMA?
i was looking is spare parts and i noticed that the usage for "0" was higher than any of the other programs i have used. what is it and can i possibly reduce it so that my battery will last longer? i also noticed every time i wake up my phone the 3g arrows light up and stay on for a few seconds. im wondering if that is related. anyone else having the same usage or know what it is??
View 10 Replies View RelatedI get around 5 to 7 hours use with mine, and i've only owned it for about a week, and this is after a couple of complete discharges aswell.So how much 'awake' time do you get?Another thing, does anyone else find it stupid how the awake time and up time don't reset after a full charge?!
View 11 Replies View RelatedJust wondering, how much space does an Android 1.5 and 2.1 OS roughly take from the device's ROM?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to port an application from Windows to Android that uses datagramsockets for communication. (C# to Java)
In the windows world, I created a messagereceived event listener that is automatically called when a UDP packet is received. The program continues to process data while it is waiting for a message to arrive.
In Android, there does not appear to be a corresponding event listener. All of the samples that I have found use loops to poll for the data and call the blocking datagramsocket.receive method to fetch the packet.
My program can't sit idle as it waits for the UDP packet, it needs to work even if the other end of the UDP system is down.how to replicate this process in java on the Android?
there 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 RelatedI have been disturbed by how much battery it seems to use while it's sleeping. After much poking around and reading and using various system/battery/monitor apps in a non-methodical manner, I think I found it. I noticed that a process called 'compass' at /system/bin/akmd was persistent in utilization on my phone. While it only ever showed like 1-6% cpu utilization, it seemed to be showing it constantly. I uninstalled a 'compass' app I had DL'd from the market, but that had no effect.
With some searching, I found some threads over at XDA that discussed this process misbehaving in some recent builds, although the conversations didn't seem to be about the EVO. Nonetheless, I decided to disable the auto screen orientation (Menu -> Settings -> Sound & Display -> Display Settings/Orientation = unchecked) and lo and behold, I'm not sure the phone even uses battery in standby now! (exageration for effect...)
Now, this will require more testing, but it seems to be at the root of *my* battery issues. And I'm thinking after reading at XDA that this could be a broad problem. I'm also hopeful though, that this could be a relatively easy software fix for HTC/Google. Especially because I don't particularly find disabling the screen rotating an acceptable long term solution... but one I can live with for now, if it makes the HUGE battery gains it seems like it might.
well the last couple days, my phone has been using data almost every second. i dont have the facebook widget, flickr or friendstream, only the weather one. my mail is set for every 5 minutes. i checked spare parts, it didnt show any apps using a large amount of data. i havent installed any new apps this week, so it shouldnt be a new app, though it could be an existing one.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHow much battery percentage do they both use? Like in a minute of Internet browsing I'll get 1% down.
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 RelatedWas going through the homescreens thread and getting some ideas, picked up the battery usage widget. Thanks for that. Is there an app (widget) out there that tracks the phone minutes, sms, mms and data usage? That would be great, as i have a light contract. At a glance it would be nice to see what i've used. I noticed there was a data widget, what was that called?
View 5 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.
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