I'm trying to find a widget I had awhile back, it monitored battery temp, cpu frequency, ram, and a few other things.. it was a free app. I know there are paid apps that show this but I don't want to spend money on a status widget. Thanks!
Elixir will do all of that.
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Let's try watch dog for CPU widget ! Process monitor , and supper box ... it haves some widget you need ....
To manager your power you should try power widget , it's convvenient
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System panel does a good job, has lite and paid versions.
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Elixir was the closest to what I wanted, but the battery drain was worse than b4.. I found what I was looking for, it's called Perfect System Monitor. Has the data I want with about 1/2 the battery drain of Elixir.. TY for your input guys
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Has anyone installed this CPU temp & usage widget only to notice your CPU usage gets stuck @99% usage? How accurate is the info in this widget? Is it because I have no task killer on my device & there may be several processes running in the background? I notice the CPU usage is down under 50% after a restart or boot up. Can someone add any enlightening information please.
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if you are referring to Temp+CPU yes I have been using it for ages. its not what is making you CPU go high, unless you have refresh for it set really fast. mine is currently set for 1sec
Hi Bro, i recommend Elixir app, that what are you looking.
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also if you refresh is set to a really long interval, it will appear to be stuck at 99% of its 99% at the polling time, and will say that for the duration its set at.
no need for a task killer. i personally use startup manager (be careful as the freebie is a trial and if it expires you cant undo what it changed easily) to prevent things i rarely/never use from starting up. a good writeup on why to not use task killers specific to android. i used *nix for years so i didnt even bother looking for a task killer. in nix within a day your ram is full and always stays full. its managed beautifully and makes multitasking a breeze
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
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I'm after a battery widget that is just a battery widget. I don't want one that reports back what my battery usage was all night just a widget to sit on home screen I can click that gives me information of the current battery status such as percentage left and battery temp.
I used to have a HTC one on stock sense 3.0 but since I've upgraded to ICS using ARHD i can't get the widget anymore. I got the old widget from htc sense app but I don't have this anymore.
I use this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/...o#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDUwMSwiY2NjNzEuYm13LnBybyJd it sounds like it will do what you want. The link is for the paid version, but you can also download a free version.
BMW & current widget are the more popular 1s...
Do the above all sit in the background though and use up my resources. I'm after a good reporting tools really rather than a 24 hour battery reporting tool.
I'll give the suggested a go though and see how it goes
Here's one that does nothing but report battery percentage and can be set to read temperature. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...UwMSwibmV0Lm1haWNhcy5hbmRyb2lkLmJhdHRlcnlzIl0. It uses little if any resources. I keep it on my main home screen just for reference.
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Here's one that does nothing but report battery percentage and can be set to read temperature. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...UwMSwibmV0Lm1haWNhcy5hbmRyb2lkLmJhdHRlcnlzIl0. It uses little if any resources. I keep it on my main home screen just for reference.
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Thats exactly what I'm after!! thanks Stev32k!!
shame its not the fancy HTC one but maybe they'll release it again on the new htc sense app.
I use current widget...not sure if it is what you are looking for, but I find it very useful to monitor battery draining applications.
System info widget is good. Shows batt, temp, phone storage, SD storage and ram. I think its 99cents
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Hello Guys! Since your talking about battery widget i have a question: after the ICS update on my sensation the stock battery indicator turns to orange color below 20% ( before it was 25%) but i cant find any battery app that show the same animation, all of them turn to orange below 25%! any seggestions??
Brand new to Android coming from iOS. Battery life is an issue. Reading up. Ran Carat and found the Battery Percentage App I installed was identified as a Battery Hog itself! Going to run a couple more days before using something like JuiceDefender Plus.
How essential are these processes?
GO SMS Pro (does it always have to be running? should I dump it and go back to stock messaging app?)
HTS Sense (assume no way around this except custom ROM)
TegraZone
Google Services
Media
Maps (Haven't even run G Maps once yet!)
Swiftkey 3 - wow, takes up 19MB. Hope it is really THAT much better than HTC keyboard?
And odd thing is that in many cases, I can't see how you close the app, let alone, REALLY close it. Of course this was no different than iOS, when you closed it, it still was in memory in the background so it would resume when you brought it back up. On iPhone you press the Home button to close it and go back to the spring board. Same here? I know - dumb newbie question.
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Brand new to Android coming from iOS. Battery life is an issue. Reading up. Ran Carat and found the Battery Percentage App I installed was identified as a Battery Hog itself! Going to run a couple more days before using something like JuiceDefender Plus.
How essential are these processes?
GO SMS Pro (does it always have to be running? should I dump it and go back to stock messaging app?)
HTS Sense (assume no way around this except custom ROM)
TegraZone
Google Services
Media
Maps (Haven't even run G Maps once yet!)
Swiftkey 3 - wow, takes up 19MB. Hope it is really THAT much better than HTC keyboard?
And odd thing is that in many cases, I can't see how you close the app, let alone, REALLY close it. Of course this was no different than iOS, when you closed it, it still was in memory in the background so it would resume when you brought it back up. On iPhone you press the Home button to close it and go back to the spring board. Same here? I know - dumb newbie question.
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It's not a dumb question at all. Android uses a different system to manage memory, and does a good job. To get better battery life, look at your settings and turn off automatic syncing, gps, location services, etc. The problem is that not all the time you will have wifi/data. The phone constantly is looking for data and that uses battery as well. You can kill the maps in the task manager, but it might restart itself when you reboot and update the app, and there's no way around this unless you root your phone.
To find the task manager, go into the apps menu, and look for Task Manager. You can completely kill apps from there, but I wouldn't worry about it too much, android does a good job most of the time. For those apps that are stubborn it's good for.
If you don't want to root, try going into settings and then apps. You can disable apps that you might consider "bloatware" such as AT&T apps and youtube, etc.
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Brand new to Android coming from iOS. Battery life is an issue. Reading up. Ran Carat and found the Battery Percentage App I installed was identified as a Battery Hog itself! Going to run a couple more days before using something like JuiceDefender Plus.
How essential are these processes?
GO SMS Pro (does it always have to be running? should I dump it and go back to stock messaging app?)
HTS Sense (assume no way around this except custom ROM)
TegraZone
Google Services
Media
Maps (Haven't even run G Maps once yet!)
Swiftkey 3 - wow, takes up 19MB. Hope it is really THAT much better than HTC keyboard?
And odd thing is that in many cases, I can't see how you close the app, let alone, REALLY close it. Of course this was no different than iOS, when you closed it, it still was in memory in the background so it would resume when you brought it back up. On iPhone you press the Home button to close it and go back to the spring board. Same here? I know - dumb newbie question.
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Actually on iPhone you don't just press home, you double click home hold the app when a minus comes up then you close it.wow I never knew how many clueless people could be with an iphone..anyways for the HTC one x you press the capacitive button to the right of home then you swipe up on the app to quit it.Now If you want to permanately remove bloatware/other processes, you have to root the phone ...although juice defender ult is a great app..the one x battery is great for me..even when I was on stock..maybe turn off fastboot( in power settings) turn off all the sound, Screen brightness low, touch settings(vibrate when keys touched..etc).check push notifications manually.. believe me android is more productive in battery life then IOS. Hope I helped. A thanks would be appreciated
Ya, I knew how to close apps in background on iPhone, just didn't explain it right. To bad there's nothing close to Intelliscreen X for Android. Really miss the collapsible notification widgets on the lockscreen. Widgetlock with Tesla Unread Counter is a step in the right direction. I guess with such a small screen the iPhone developers have always been forced to get creative with how the apps use screen space. Those guys at Intelliborn really pulled off an amazing app. Too bad none of the people that have not jailbroken their iPhones can use it.
Battery life is much much better now (still in first 24 hours of usage). Not sure what I had running, but it could have been the Battery Percentage App I downloaded that Carat listed on the Battery "Hogs" list that I uninstalled. Ironic a battery meter would cause much more battery drain. Unfortunately I read than on HTC they have no option to switch to % where other phone do. Haven't used JuiceDefender Plus yet, but maybe that will give me the info. The battery icon is so worthless for knowing "really" how much you have left except for a general estimate.
Oh and THANKS on the swipe up thing. Is there a "must know" guide for "power users" coming over from iOS to Android/Jelly Bean that would tell me more of this stuff. I never would have guessed it and was flip through the apps wondering "how the hell to I close all these?" Still in my first day though. Man this phone is fast.
Well, battery was doing great then I wasn't doing much with phone and could feel it get hot. I watched Battery go from 85-65 in about 30 minutes! I went into Carat and saw high CPU, but you can't see from Carat what is eating the CPU so downloaded Android Task Manager, great app. Used realtime processes report. Of course #1 CPU eater is the Process Monitor itself (only when you are looking at it). But I was seeing the PowerAmp "Service", "Music Enhancer" and "Sound Set" and "HD Widgets" all very active in CPU usage. Wasn't using PowerAmp or HD Widgets. Haven't even used any of the widgets!
Is there something other than carat that will give me an average CPU usage say in the last hour of all the background services and processes so I can determine what's eating the battery in a short period of time - or am I stuck just looking at realtime process info?
It looks like from a brief search PowerAmp service is "normal". I have a HUGE MP3 library of 3000 songs I just synced yesterday - is gradually processing them or something? I also downloaded Neutron Player. Both have excellent sound quality but the Neutron interface is geeky - PowerAmp more like iTunes but I'm an Audiophile so if I have to go to Neutron to avoid this PowerAmp "Service" from eating my battery from time to time I will.
I've been using the app button and the swipe up a lot now to clear out apps - but like iPhone I'm guessing in most cases it doesn't make a huge difference as Android, like iOS sort of sleeps the background apps anyway. Or should I be in the habit of checking and closing background apps not being used? It seems the "services" are what can cause the issue more (other than foreground apps). Still learning. Bare with me.
I'm not a gamer. If there was a setting (without needing root/custom ROM) to underclock the CPU a little, I'd probably take that for more batter life. Seems on the One X+ I'm guessing much of the extra battery capacity is offset by the higher clocked processor! It's probably just a matter of me finishing getting the phone configured the way I want, stop adding apps, then debug the CPU/Battery hogs and uninstall, change settings, or start using JuiceDefender. My guess.
Feel like such a newbie. Found the built-in Android Battery Usage screen. Shows Android Task Manager as using it the most! But I was having the hot temp/battery drain before I even installed that! Second is the Android OS. Third is WL Theme Viewer. That makes sense as that WidgetLock Theme view app created a big database. But the battery drain continued after it was done! Then Sounds Set, HTC Sence, Google Play Store, Carat, HD Widgets. What the hell is HD Widgets doing? So no jump out culprits - except Sound Set seems suspicious!
I have cpu sleeper and read about ds battery saver but am nervous the latter will mess with my alarm.
What do you guys use/suggest?
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DS Battery saver looks promising. I recommend downloading the free version, turn the screen off after you set an alarm for 1 minute or so & just test it. For example, after dl & activation of DSBS at, say 10:41, set an alarm for 10:42 turn off your screen & let it do its thing. In fact do multiple tests. Then, just in case, set an actual alarm clock as a backup when going to sleep.
I use Greenify for apps like Google Maps, Clock, or any app that is persistent and hogs memory and precious battery. So far all is well and i can use the apps as I please. Hope I helped!
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I use both DS battery saver and Greenify.
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I use Greenify for apps like Google Maps, Clock, or any app that is persistent and hogs memory and precious battery. So far all is well and i can use the apps as I please. Hope I helped!
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I use Greenify on basically every app to make sure they don't even have a chance of waking up lol. For instance google keep, which I know probably does not do background services besides sync the notes, but you can't be too sure, it might save me 1 minute lol.
Want to find a good weather app which will have the temperature on notification tray and would be quite detailed when I entered the app. But most importantly an app that won't make the battery suffer too much
I would suggest ezWeather, very nice and no battery drain for me.
just don't update too shortly, weather conditions doesn't change a lot in 3 hours, I'm using 24hrs update and never catch by rain w/out umbrella
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Arcus is pretty good. No noticeable battery drain and quite accurate.
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Haven't noticed much of a battery drain using Accuweather. Nice app both design and function wise. Widgets aren't the greatest though. I agree with what was said above that the update interval is most likely to impact battery life
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Yahoo Weather i think its been one of the best alternative weather apps for me !!
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I second this. I use 1weather all the time (update set at every 6 hours) and I have no discernible battery drain.
I have been using Beautiful Widgets since my days of the evo3d and have had no problems with battery drain.
Zooper
Zooper widget is pretty good. It has the option to only check weather when the screen is turned on. No battery use when the phone is asleep.
har5h
I've actually given up on weather apps and widgets and just go here http://m.wund.com/ when I need to know whats up.
good day.
eye in the sky weather is a good one.
Weatherbug Elite works great for me. I have it set to update every 30 minutes and to use network location not gps. I never even see it in the usage stats for my battery.
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It's really personal preference and more of a "try them all and see what you like best". Some are more complete and have full weather stats and radar (for the weather junkie in us) and some are more minimal and only include current conditions and a forecast. Some have nice looking widgets and some have crap for widgets.
I've tried them all, paid for them all because I like to support the devs, and came to my own conclusions: weatherbug elite is about as good as it gets for a complete weather app, but the widgets aren't pretty at all. Ezweather is gorgeous but not complete. Yahoo is nice but full of advertising crapware. 1weather is sharp as is arcus. Acuweather is OK. Palmary is OK. Weather is OK. Eyeinsky is OK but not updated. There are many more. Try them all and see which one you like
None of these had ever concerned me with battery. Ever
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WZ Weather is very nice. No drain. Looks good. Nice widgets. I've also been using yahoo, but it's always on the battery list. Uses 7 %. WZ doesn't even use 1 %.
Edit: EZ Weather of course.
Weatherbug or weatherbug elite
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Another plus for 1Weather....
No excessive battery drain with the proper settings....
Auto Refresh - Off
Under Launch Behavior: Refresh Automatically - Check
Edit My Locations: Follow My Location - Off
Edit My Location: Set a static location (I use home)
It only updates when i open the app..... also doesn't constantly ping my location...
I recommend BeWeather Pro
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Weatherbug Elite is by far the most comprehensive weather app I've found. Notification bar status updates, severe weather alerts, radar maps, live cameras, pollen count, etc.. Only uses as much battery as you tell it to.
1Weather, hands down.
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