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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

[Q]Dexter's Froyo-How to change Battery Status or sth like this...

My XT720 is using Rom Dexter's Froyo and when i want to know how much the battery left it has, i must use some widget suchas Battery Life, and it take some Ram Memory, about 3-5MB Ram.
So.. i wonder if it could use another battery status by changing it. at sample, the HD2 or Moto Cliq can use update.zip to change their status bar and it's icon.

you could have change the theme as you favorite....another apps to try Battery Calibration

I have a similar question In a thread regarding the LG evolution they managed to do a battery mod.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156721
I tried several times and almost bricked my microsd only to find out later that clockwork isn't compatible with xt720 in addition to being ever so finnicky.
If the above instruction do not work then would it be possible to run this through Metamorph quite like how someone did the Gingerbread theme-ing.
I applied that one with relative ease
Thanks to any and all who come up with something or contribute some relevant knowledge im missing

You can use metamorph to change one icon or zipthemer to change a group of them all at once. Zipthemer also creates an undo.zip in case you want to go back to previous.

lucas_max said:
My XT720 is using Rom Dexter's Froyo and when i want to know how much the battery left it has, i must use some widget suchas Battery Life, and it take some Ram Memory, about 3-5MB Ram.
So.. i wonder if it could use another battery status by changing it. at sample, the HD2 or Moto Cliq can use update.zip to change their status bar and it's icon.
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I just saw that in the windows phone 7 launcher (available free in android market), there is an option in the launcher settings (under status bar options) which whch says: Display current battery percentage. After ticking that option, the battery percentage appears in the status bar! As far as i know, this is the only launcher which this feature. Hope that helps!

I don't know but I do know the new XDA special beta2 is a nearly perfect ROM with battery accurate at 10% increments. Thats the best I've seen. Also Widgetsoid is pretty cool.

Woodrube said:
You can use metamorph to change one icon or zipthemer to change a group of them all at once. Zipthemer also creates an undo.zip in case you want to go back to previous.
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I tried metamorph and Zipthemer but the best way i can put it is;
Its missing the Theme Control File
So i threw one in and even then, no dice
I guess clockwork doesn't need a Theme control file??
And i guess this framework is limited to that phone model

[Q] Live Wallpaper & Battery Drain

Does live wallpaper contribute to battery drain more so than regular wallpaper?
I am guessing it might as it probably requires more system resources to run.
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jordanishere said:
Does live wallpaper contribute to battery drain more so than regular wallpaper?
I am guessing it might as it probably requires more system resources to run.
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Yes.
A normal picture will conserve most battery.
On an AMOLED screen a dark (best black) picture will conserve even more.

It really depends on the live wallpaper. I notice no extra battery drain with MultiPicture LWP, but it only shows images. While it does run in the background and updates every 4 hours or when I double tap the screen, it isn't constantly moving or interactive with sensors.
Something that is constantly moving (especially at a high frame rate) or uses the accelerometer will use more battery life.
If there is battery drain with MultiPicture LWP, it's so minimal that I don't notice a difference.
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How long do you sit staring at your Homescreen? Most of the time it's as long as it takes to launch the app that you want to use, isn't it? Which shouldn't be long at all.

on cm7 nexus live wallpaper i notice no additional battery drain at all. Setting screen timeout to under 1min helps alot too

What about those stock live wallpapers from Samsung like the Galaxy live wallpaper or Northern Lights wallpaper, do they consume so much more than normal wallpapers?
Like how much more?
If normal wallpaper with normal use of the phone drains the battery in 24 hours, will one with stock Live wallpapers like the two I mentioned, make it 23 hours?
Or is it so drastic that it will make it 20 hours?
Hours are only for reference.
Thanks.

Just try it out, go airplane mode, screen always on, both types of wallpapers for say 2-3 hours compare battery drain.

DirkGently said:
How long do you sit staring at your Homescreen? Most of the time it's as long as it takes to launch the app that you want to use, isn't it? Which shouldn't be long at all.
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This is exactly the point I wanted to inquire about.
Question: how exactly does the process of live wallpaper work on Android in terms of cpu and memory, thus battery drain?- not being a developer, I really don't know the particulars.
In other words, if the home screen isn't actually being displayed (say, the phone is "asleep", or you have an app open, like the browser, the dialer, or Angry birds) does the LWP process still run full bore in the background, calculating it's fractals or whatever? Or is it suspended whenever the home screen isn't displayed?
For that matter, even if it does remain running in the background, which of these is likely to consume more battery: the algorithm/calculation processes, or the actual manipulation of the pixels on the display? (I realize that may depend somewhat on the nature of the wallpaper too).
Because like Dirk said up above, I really don't think anyone spends that much time on their phone with the home screen just sitting there, (you're either using it or you're not) so if it's the latter case -if manipulating pixels eats the most juice- then for the most part, LWP shouldn't have much impact on battery drain. If the former, then static wallpapers are certainly better, but I still don't see a need for a plain black background. Unless you have an insane screen timeout set, like 10 minutes.
Anyone? Thanks!

Its actually very subjective due to phone, apps installed and running, as well as the live wall paper you are using during that time..
For myself i do use some of the live wallpapers from the phone itself and for some better programmed ones, it may take up 2 - 3% of battery when running for about 5 hrs. Badly designed ones or those which come with ads do take up lots more, remember one i downloaded took up to 15% battery for the same time frame.
If you are particular for battery life.. i would suggest to use those darker themed wall papers as it does make some difference overall.. at least to me

Yeah, my battery life has been abysmal, I just inherited this phone (SCH-i500) from a family member; but after a little conditioning, it does seem to be improving somewhat.
Anyway, then can I assume you're saying that some live wallpapers hit on the battery even when they're not being displayed?

personally, i don't find using LWP affects my battery in any significant manner... given that i use LWP that display simple looping animations. Some LWP make use of your accelero/gyro sensors and some consume some extra resources due to touch interaction. I personally think these are the LWP to avoid though they appears to be a great eye candy.
Then again, each time i wake my phone, i would only stay approx 1-3 seconds on home screen before running an app or performing another task rendering my LWP useless.
In my understanding, just because an app(including LWP) is in your memory(ram) or in the "running" list in app manager, does not mean its using up your battery. Its the process that requires CPU that consumes power. And once you're away from homescreen, they LWP rendering stops almost(if not) immediately thus does not consume your battery that much. I also believe that bright coloured or high contrast(white focus) LWP(or even regular wallpaper) will use up more battery given that most of our battery issues comes from big displays.

Hevlaska said:
In my understanding, just because an app(including LWP) is in your memory(ram) or in the "running" list in app manager, does not mean its using up your battery. Its the process that requires CPU that consumes power. And once you're away from homescreen, they LWP rendering stops almost(if not) immediately thus does not consume your battery that much. I also believe that bright coloured or high contrast(white focus) LWP(or even regular wallpaper) will use up more battery given that most of our battery issues comes from big displays.
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Thanks hevlaska, this is the information I was looking for. Seems to me then that a relatively non-interactive LWP shouldn't be a drain on the battery.

Nymblz said:
In other words, if the home screen isn't actually being displayed (say, the phone is "asleep", or you have an app open, like the browser, the dialer, or Angry birds) does the LWP process still run full bore in the background, calculating it's fractals or whatever? Or is it suspended whenever the home screen isn't displayed?
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This really depends of the developer. The most important method of a wallpaper is
Code:
onVisibilityChanged()
That method is called whenever the wallpaper is hidden behind other application or comes back visible. When going unvisible all the processes of WP should be terminated but this is allway not the case if the WP is designed badly.
So, even if you hide your wallpaper it may still have some cpu heavy process running if the developer has decided to do so.

a static image its a better solution for more battery

mikpel said:
This really depends of the developer. The most important method of a wallpaper is
Code:
onVisibilityChanged()
That method is called whenever the wallpaper is hidden behind other application or comes back visible. When going unvisible all the processes of WP should be terminated but this is allway not the case if the WP is designed badly.
So, even if you hide your wallpaper it may still have some cpu heavy process running if the developer has decided to do so.
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Okay, so this was the information I was really looking for.. Thank you!
Now if it were just easy to look at the source code of the files inside a LPW apk to see how that's been set.. I've seen threads here on that but apparently dex files are a PITA, and besides that there's the whole reverse-engineering stigma.. not that I'd want to do that even if I could.. which I can't. (I have no head for programming, I've tried)
That said, I've found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14049173
I guess if I get really, really curious.. for what it's worth, I could try it. I'm a fan of Magic Smoke and Plasma, I'd use those if the onVisibilityChanged() is set in them.

hi,
i use a static pic as background and an non stock battery to.
it works perfect. So now it's your turn to take the things you want. More Battery vs. LWP.

Battery Life - Do I Need These Processes Running

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.

jazee said:
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.

jazee said:
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!

Need a weather app which doesn't use too much battery up

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

1 weather
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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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1 weather
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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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