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So, with all this talk of over clocked/undervolt kernals, smartass gov, setcpu, and juicedefender, I was wondering what the definitive way to optimize battery is (without doing a bump charge).
I dont need any crazy quadrant scores or anything. I just need a phone that can play the occasional game here and there, surf the web, and text message; all while being lag free.
I have done all the "normal" battery savings like turning off 4g (live in 3g only area anyways), backlight lowered, no live wallpaper, ect. My question is what is the "best" method for squeezing out the most juice?
I know there are MANY opinions as to what the best is, but I thought I would poll the masses here and get their 2 cents on the subject.
Well, I pay attention to my current widget. There's certain areas where battery drain is a problem with mobile data turned on. I turn off mobile data when I'm in those areas. Being mindful of that has been the #1 battery saver for me. In fact, I even run with automatic brightness instead of a very low brightness setting and I get better battery life now than before.
I seem to get better battery on lower, mainly because when I do auto, it goes full blast most of the time, and likes to switch about 20 times from high to low while im texting.
My main question here is out of the more detailed methods (new kernal, setcpu, ect.) works best. I know kernals seem to give better performance and battery to some, but I read some of the kernal builds have some hiccups still.
Just wondering what you guys have found is best and most stable of the "detailed" methods.
footballer62 said:
I seem to get better battery on lower
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Of course, I do as well. I was just saying that turning off mobile data in the areas that tend to cause my phone to draw 700+mA saves a significant more amount of power than turning the screen to low.
I'm currently planning to try out setting Tasker to automatically turn off mobile data when connected to problematic towers.
My main question here is out of the more detailed methods (new kernal, setcpu, ect.)
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Well, I'm running BAMF 1.3 with the smartass governor. It saves quite a bit of power and has very little setup (you don't have to set up profiles with setcpu).
The newest Tasker adds CPU frequency control support... it doesn't currently work on the ROM I'm running ... but I'd imagine when we get CM7, it'll work. Presumably you could use that to always scale down the CPU until you open up specific apps that benefit from additional clockspeed. It could save a bit of power.
NEW APP in the market - LTE OnOff - switches phone from 4G to 3G to save batt.
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I'm currently planning to try out setting Tasker to automatically turn off mobile data when connected to problematic towers.
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I purchased Tasker a while back just because it sounds cool, but I've never really found useful tasks to run with it for how I use my device; still looking though!
Yours sounds ideal for some areas I go to. Please remember to share the Tasker profile you come up with for that functionality.
Thanks!
Zshazz said:
Well, I'm running BAMF 1.3 with the smartass governor. It saves quite a bit of power and has very little setup (you don't have to set up profiles with setcpu).
The newest Tasker adds CPU frequency control support... it doesn't currently work on the ROM I'm running ... but I'd imagine when we get CM7, it'll work. Presumably you could use that to always scale down the CPU until you open up specific apps that benefit from additional clockspeed. It could save a bit of power.
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Hello guys, Im coming over from the eris/custom rom to TB this past week. I was wondering what kind of life you are experiencing with the custom roms here like BAMF. I haven't rooted it yet but am planning to since the current battery life is not acceptable in my daily life. I love the phone but need to figure out if I can keep it or not by helping my battery life. I have 4g disabled since it is not even avail in my area yet but still only getting 6-7 hrs. Thanks for any help, opinions, or redirects.
hehe...
This is great. Reminds me of hypermiling with my car/hybrid to get the most gas out of it. Well...it's about that time again with fuel costs going up.
So what is the equivalent term of hypermiling for handhelds/phones? Hyper-???
squeeze said:
So what is the equivalent term of hypermiling for handhelds/phones? Hyper-???
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Never mind. I guess the thread title was fine "battery optimization". But those gas/hybrid nerds (like me) love using the term hypermiling.
I like using setcpu profiles or custom kernels
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Hello guys, Im coming over from the eris/custom rom to TB this past week. I was wondering what kind of life you are experiencing with the custom roms here like BAMF. I haven't rooted it yet but am planning to since the current battery life is not acceptable in my daily life. I love the phone but need to figure out if I can keep it or not by helping my battery life. I have 4g disabled since it is not even avail in my area yet but still only getting 6-7 hrs. Thanks for any help, opinions, or redirects.
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6-7 hours? Jeez. I have a fairly stock rom (perfect storm, which is more or less just bloat free) with 4G off, backlight to around 35%, only one gps running - the google one for the HTC weather, I use wifi when at home, I have nothing that pushes except my main gmail and the htc weather, do texting all day, and about an hour of internet a day. With this setup after 16 hours I have always had over 50% battery.
How many things do you have pushing data? Facebook or twitter? And if so what is the interval? Also, how much on the net are you, and how often do you game?
squeeze said:
This is great. Reminds me of hypermiling with my car/hybrid to get the most gas out of it. Well...it's about that time again with fuel costs going up.
So what is the equivalent term of hypermiling for handhelds/phones? Hyper-???
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Battery optimization is just a term I figured work, but hypermiling sounds pretty sexy Increases your battery mileage of course!
I'm using Superpower to disable data connection when the screen off. Seems to be working well.
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6-7 hours? Jeez. I have a fairly stock rom (perfect storm, which is more or less just bloat free) with 4G off, backlight to around 35%, only one gps running - the google one for the HTC weather, I use wifi when at home, I have nothing that pushes except my main gmail and the htc weather, do texting all day, and about an hour of internet a day. With this setup after 16 hours I have always had over 50% battery.
How many things do you have pushing data? Facebook or twitter? And if so what is the interval? Also, how much on the net are you, and how often do you game?
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Never game, 2 gmail accounts, fb few times a day, no twitter, net 2-3 times a day. This is stock sense on the phone though. Thats why I was looking into the dif roms to see what battery life was like with dif kernel on it. I will prob root and toss a rom on there to see if it gets me better life (which im sure it will), but considering waiting until the 16th (rumor out that fairly big update coming and want to see if that may help at all).
distortedloop said:
I purchased Tasker a while back just because it sounds cool, but I've never really found useful tasks to run with it for how I use my device; still looking though!
Yours sounds ideal for some areas I go to. Please remember to share the Tasker profile you come up with for that functionality.
Thanks!
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Tutorial on Tasker CPU profiles can be found here
jbh00jh said:
NEW APP in the market - LTE OnOff - switches phone from 4G to 3G to save batt.
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This really is the best way to save battery at the moment.
I made my battery last the whole day after I installed Automatic Task Killer from the market. It kills selected processes as long as the screen is off. I get home after 9 hours at work and I still have ~40% battery left. Before I installed Automatic Task Killer my TB was dead after 9 hours.
There is so much random bloatware on the TB from vzw that it eats the battery fast. I just need to root I had a Eris on a custom ROM before the TB and I could go 2 days easy without a charge.
This seems to be a fix for the time being. Too bad there is no way for developers to make a one click root like on the Eris. I will have to bite the bullet and do it the old fashioned way.
Can you reference where you heard this "April 16th update" rumor? I'd like to read about this one and see the credibility behind it.
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Can you reference where you heard this "April 16th update" rumor? I'd like to read about this one and see the credibility behind it.
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X2
and what is suppose to happen with this update?
I use an app called System Panel that's got all kinds of nifty information available to the curious.
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Can you reference where you heard this "April 16th update" rumor? I'd like to read about this one and see the credibility behind it.
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They are all just rumors (like any other update/upgrade "news") but...
http://htcsource.com/2011/03/rumour-htc-thunderbolt-to-get-gingerbread-update-in-q2-2011/
http://technology.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979166628
http://www.wirelessgoodness.com/2011/03/27/htc-thunderbolt-getting-android-2-3-gingerbread-update-in-q2/
http://androidcommunity.com/htc-thunderbolt-getting-gingerbread-by-summer-20110326/
Should i switch to iPHONE because i hate the low battery life of SensaTION and just wanted to ask of iPHONE 4 has better battery life or not....
Please dont ask me for buying 1800-1900 mAh batteries because those available near my area and on ebay are CHINESE- it is written on them that they give only 500 cahrging cyacles and I'm the man whose cell hangs on the charger around 3 Hours a day while fully charged
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The battery of iphone 4 is lower than the sensation, but the software of sensation (android) consume more than ios
sorry for my english!
My battery life is great for a smartphone
All phones are different as to how much battery life you get, depends on what Rom / Kernel / Radio you are using.
Coredroid 2.6 with Faux Ultimate Kernel is great for battery life for me.
Have you calibrated your battery ?
UK-Sense said:
My battery life is great for a smartphone
All phones are different as to how much battery life you get, depends on what Rom / Kernel / Radio you are using.
Coredroid 2.6 with Faux Ultimate Kernel is great for battery life for me.
Have you calibrated your battery ?
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how i calibrate my battery? with an ICS ROM?
Erik_18 said:
how i calibrate my battery? with an ICS ROM?
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try on this forum HERE
or use from the Market THIS
UK-Sense said:
My battery life is great for a smartphone
All phones are different as to how much battery life you get, depends on what Rom / Kernel / Radio you are using.
Coredroid 2.6 with Faux Ultimate Kernel is great for battery life for me.
Have you calibrated your battery ?
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battery is calibrated- rom is CM7- Faux kernel- brightness 0%....
Dont get even a whole day of battery life from it...
Sense makes it even worse- so now I'm on CM7
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nexus2515 said:
battery is calibrated- rom is CM7- Faux kernel- brightness 0%....
Dont get even a whole day of battery life from it...
Sense makes it even worse- so now I'm on CM7
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I'm a G2 / iPhone 4S user and I can honestly say that iPhones' battery is crap. Might be the bug everyone's on about, but seriously - I don't even think it's a bug, just the iCloud service, and all the rest background info and diagnostics that are sent all the time. I switched all of them off, and still it sucks battery on Idle more than Android. I can get through a day, sometimes two on the G2 with MIUI, iPhone drops like 15-20% overnight, and about 10-15% per hour daytime.
I, personally got tired (and bored) of the OS in a couple of months and selling the 4S.
Maybe it's just me, but I get excited when I see news of new ports, kernels, hacks etc on my Android RSS feed, on iOS feed all I get is "amazing new wallpapers" news.
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I'm a G2 / iPhone 4S user and I can honestly say that iPhones' battery is crap. Might be the bug everyone's on about, but seriously - I don't even think it's a bug, just the iCloud service, and all the rest background info and diagnostics that are sent all the time. I switched all of them off, and still it sucks battery on Idle more than Android. I can get through a day, sometimes two on the G2 with MIUI, iPhone drops like 15-20% overnight, and about 10-15% per hour daytime.
I, personally got tired (and bored) of the OS in a couple of months and selling the 4S.
Maybe it's just me, but I get excited when I see news of new ports, kernels, hacks etc on my Android RSS feed, on iOS feed all I get is "amazing new wallpapers" news.
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I must agree, iPhone battery is worst. My Dad has iPhone 4s and My wife has iPhone 4 so I know how quickly the battery drains especially the 4S. There are also other things that bothers me about IOS. It is not as user friendly or intuitive as you think. I used to think that out of the box, iPhone has the more user friendly OS but not anymore.
I found out that you can not attached files as easy as you would like android when composing e-mail. There is no conditional call forwarding options in the call forwarding settings. Turning wifi on/off is not as easy as placing a widget on the home screen for toggling. No text reflow. browser doesn't play flash (There are a lot of sites that my wife visits that plays flash videos and her ipad/iphone can't play it). I'm sure there are more
slovoflud said:
I'm a G2 / iPhone 4S user and I can honestly say that iPhones' battery is crap. Might be the bug everyone's on about, but seriously - I don't even think it's a bug, just the iCloud service, and all the rest background info and diagnostics that are sent all the time. I switched all of them off, and still it sucks battery on Idle more than Android. I can get through a day, sometimes two on the G2 with MIUI, iPhone drops like 15-20% overnight, and about 10-15% per hour daytime.
I, personally got tired (and bored) of the OS in a couple of months and selling the 4S.
Maybe it's just me, but I get excited when I see news of new ports, kernels, hacks etc on my Android RSS feed, on iOS feed all I get is "amazing new wallpapers" news.
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Wanna Xchange with my Sensee....? B-)
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aren't almost all, if not all batteries made in China these days?
if it makes you feel better you can pick up a Official HTC Evo 3D battery. 1730mah.
I have it in my Senny and have been pretty happy with it.
anyway, from what I understand, IPhone 4/4s batteries are 1420mah...
also, the battery in the Iphone is gonna wear out at some point, then you'd have to deal with the hassle of sending it to Apple for a replacement.
you'll loose the bigger screen and customization of Android phones, and have to deal with a boring OS.
not worth it imho.
If I was in your shoes and have battery problems, I'd just get a new, bigger battery... but that's me...
whatever you choose, good luck.
flash miui, your battery life will be much better since its very light. or trying using an ics rom(preferbly the senseless ones) it has really great battery life
Mainspring said:
aren't almost all, if not all batteries made in China these days?
if it makes you feel better you can pick up a Official HTC Evo 3D battery. 1730mah.
I have it in my Senny and have been pretty happy with it.
anyway, from what I understand, IPhone 4/4s batteries are 1420mah...
also, the battery in the Iphone is gonna wear out at some point, then you'd have to deal with the hassle of sending it to Apple for a replacement.
you'll loose the bigger screen and customization of Android phones, and have to deal with a boring OS.
not worth it imho.
If I was in your shoes and have battery problems, I'd just get a new, bigger battery... but that's me...
whatever you choose, good luck.
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Tried a lot to get a newer EVO3D battery, but in my area, locally it is available for 70$..and the OEM chinese costs 45~55$...
Even i am confused about apple's battery life, but on my friend's iphone, we browsed internet for about 1/2 hour, played infinity blade for another 1/2 hour and for next 1 hour, we used cydia app store to browse and install packages which included 5~7 reboots...
Stil he just lost 17% of his battery life and you all maybe shocked to hear that he had his fone lcd brightness @ 70% :-O
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stanleynhan said:
flash miui, your battery life will be much better since its very light. or trying using an ics rom(preferbly the senseless ones) it has really great battery life
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On CM7 right now- rom's size -54MB...lighter than even MIUI...
BUT still if u say, I'll try MIUI, but tell me which MIUI rom is best for battery life and link back plz..
I'd surely like to checkout
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Wanna Xchange with my Sensee....? B-)
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No, I'll do with an iPhone, what an iPhone is best at - I'll sell it ))))
I agree with the commenter above, I didn't want to rant about the OS, but since we're on the subject - iOS is far less user friendly, because of the closed and unintegrated OS architecture.
For example: Apps can not communicate with one another. Like when you are in a RSS reader the "full" article will open in a webView space, meaning it's not the Safari browser, but an interface the developer created, that has the safari rendering engine inside. So, every app developer has to "create" a browser of his own, witch is a bad idea and often feels like an afterthought. If you use services like Read It Later, there is no guarantee that an App will allow you to save the article for later reading, because the app can't see it's installed - you have to hope the developer included it in its "share" option. There is almost always a "read in Safari" option, but you can't change it - you can not assign a browser you like and use as your default browser. same with Camera, Gallery app etc.
The things mentioned above, like browser without text reflow, t9 dialing, easy way to toggle BT, WIFI, Brightness etc...
Settings is a clusterf*ck! I don't know where the whole iOS = Consistency thing came from, but believe me - there is nothing consistent about iOS Settings. Some apps will have settings right inside the app, some will integrate their settings into the OS settings menu, some will have both. For example in an IM app you'll have your settings for color theme inside the apps Options menu, and separate ringtone options in the OS Settings. More than that - Even some Games will throw some options into the OS Settings. So you want to turn off notifications for your emails. You go into Settings, and you have to find Mail Settings among Guns'n'Glory, GT racing, Location Services, Mobile Networks etc... And clicking on Guns'n'Glory might give you an option to turn ingame Vibration On/Off, for example - Why not include the option inside the game menu!??
iTunes is another bi*ch As it turns out you can not sync your phone to more than one computer in 2012 - wtf? Real world example for you here: I chose that my Work PC will be my computer i sync my iPhone with, because I spend more time with tech at work than at home, so now i'm on holidays for 2 weeks and I can't even put any music on to my iPhone! for 2 freaking weeks my iPhone enjoys the autonomy, while I'm out of office - it's ridiculous.
We are spoiled by Android. It's far more productive. iOS is good for launching apps - nothing more. Imagine your current Sense device as it is now, but stripped of everything, but the app drawer. You unlock your device, and there is nothing but the app drawer there.
no u should on it
nexus2515 said:
Tried a lot to get a newer EVO3D battery, but in my area, locally it is available for 70$..and the OEM chinese costs 45~55$...
Even i am confused about apple's battery life, but on my friend's iphone, we browsed internet for about 1/2 hour, played infinity blade for another 1/2 hour and for next 1 hour, we used cydia app store to browse and install packages which included 5~7 reboots...
Stil he just lost 17% of his battery life and you all maybe shocked to hear that he had his fone lcd brightness @ 70% :-O
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You have to consider that we do have a bigger screen and the iPhones is much smaller
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stanleynhan said:
You have to consider that we do have a bigger screen and the iPhones is much smaller
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We also hve bigger battery then...
Also i checked the user reviews on GSMARENA.com for sensation XE and EVO3D--- Everyone was crying for battery life..means that a bigger battery won't help much
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Bad battery life?
Look at the screenshot attached
Stick with the Sensation. Flash a custom ROM.
As usual....
HTC > Apple
Android > iOS
Sensation > iPhone
sromer said:
Bad battery life?
Look at the screenshot attached
Stick with the Sensation. Flash a custom ROM.
As usual....
HTC > Apple
Android > iOS
Sensation > iPhone
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For me, i never get more than 9 Hours on that...
U are on Z710E or Z715E and also tell me which rom is it
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If you haven't tried it, give SENSEaY a try. I almost gave up on the sensation and started looking at the sgs 2, but since flashing that rom I routinely charge every other night, sometimes every 3 nights. In the post there are tips for saving battery life. I think mostly turn off pocket mode and phone finder helps a lot.
Another thing I want to point out is the Evo 3d oem battery is only $14 on Amazon, I don't know if you can get that shipped to you somehow. 15% extra is not a lot, but it does help.
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Sounds good - get an apk posted!
Looks like an app I would be interested in. If you want to beta test before you release to play store, just let the xda guys here beta it. Thanks!
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Thank you for your effort, if we will need help with testing I'll let you know.
Definitely recommended holding off on putting it on the market until it's gone through a couple of months of testing here on XDA.
Looks like something i might be interested in reviewing on my YouTube channel.
Send me a PM if your interested in having it reviewed when it's available =)
My viewers will like this.
Sounds very interesting! If you need an additional tester, i'm your man
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Looks like something i might be interested in reviewing on my YouTube channel.
Send me a PM if your interested in having it reviewed when it's available =)
My viewers will like this.
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Thank you.
Always looking for improvement. Specially when it comes to battery consumption. Can't wait for the release!
Have used BatteryXL and am using GreenPower Premium. If you need some real-life testing, I'm available as well.
Sounds cool. Looking forwards to it.
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Sounds like a great app,looking forward to it.
How does this calibrate the battery? If it involves deleting batterystats.bin then it doesn't. That file has no affect on battery life or battery calibration. I mention this because there's at least one app, if not several, currently in the market (including one called "battery calibration") which does exactly that. That myth has been debunked though, by an Android systems developer.
Sounds great! Use Wireless Chief at the moment, but development seems to have stopped.
The advantage of wireless chief is that it uses root to disable the radio. Apparently this is the only way to really and completely disable radio. Will your app use this method also?
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waiting the apk..sounds nice app
Any update?
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Any update?
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Application was finished today, now we only need to make trial version and also we need to finish UI.
Awesome. Looking forward to it.
Thanks.
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would be awesome!
Aww jee thx
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I'm fairly new to the XDA world, and all the "fun" that comes with it. I have been totally wrapped up in why my phone does what it does when it does it. A few times a week I'll run a dump file on Better Battery stats, run quadrant score while making a minor tweak on a governor or OC etc. Lately I have been addicted to this Cool Tool app, and thought I'd share. For all I know, you all may know all about it, but I don't see it on the threads here in SGS4G.
It's...... well.... COOL
It has alot of user friendly setting choices. It floats anywhere on your screen, while running your browser, or an app whatever. I keep mine up in the notification bar ( see screenshot). It does not appear on your lock screen.
Anyways, I have mine set to show CPU usage and freq. free ram, network traffic, battery temp, and my favorite- most resource intensive process. So while I open my browser and go to a website, I can watch what my phone is doing, how much cpu and at what point, and what %. Plus when I'm on my homescreen , I can see what resource it randomly draws from, system_server, events/0, android.email(and watch the network and cpu jump as my phone checks the email)
Could be one of many , but I like this one and you should check it out. Thoughts?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ult#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImRzLmNwdW92ZXJsYXkiXQ..
I haven't tried that one yet, thanks for the pointer!
Along with BetterBatteryStats, I've used Quick System Info Pro, as well as System Tuner (Pro) and Battery Monitor WIdget (Pro) for a long time and find them pretty valuable. The support from 3C on the last two has been beyond excellent. Looks like Cedric has merged his apps together as well.
Nice! I'm going to check those links out, Thanks. I'm definitely interested in your thoughts on Cool Tool, Jeff. Let me know after you've had a chance to go through it?
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I'll try it for a bit, mainly because it is fun. It would have been handy for the CPU-speed overlay when I was tweaking the governor for Hefe Kernel, for sure.
Looks like it is likely a battery hog, especially that "top resource" feature - which more often than not is reporting ds.cpuoverlay - this app?
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Yeah, ds CPU overlay is pertaining to this app. I haven't noticed a battery difference tho. The only place I see it in bbs is in services, and it sits very low, that's a dump file after a full day. And in stock battery stat after a full day running, it doesn't show on list of %(yet xda and and other minimal apps do) Good point tho. Don't want to cut ourselves off at the knees trying to save our shoelaces.
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I suspect that it is running the standard utility "top" and parsing the output. That approach self-pollutes since you're always running when you "randomly" sample to see what is running. I don't know if that made sense, but...
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Cool tool!
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Loving the performance of this tablet but one thing I wish nvidia would add is the option to force MSAA in games, maybe an nvidia control panel for per app graphics settings? I know it's only a 8" display but aliasing is quite visible and since we have performance to spare in most cases it would be great addition.
I don't suppose anyone is working on way to force this? anyway, minor annoyance from what is a great tablet.
Shocky2 said:
Loving the performance of this tablet but one thing I wish nvidia would add is the option to force MSAA in games, maybe an nvidia control panel for per app graphics settings? I know it's only a 8" display but aliasing is quite visible and since we have performance to spare in most cases it would be great addition.
I don't suppose anyone is working on way to force this? anyway, minor annoyance from what is a great tablet.
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Check the developer options there is the ability to adjust this.
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ShrekOpher said:
Check the developer options there is the ability to adjust this.
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Doesn't work, tried a few games and couldn't see any difference.
I have no issue forcing 4x from dev' in most games.
But something I learn helps improve that is forcing higher dpi/resolutions.
Working on the same principle as 4K down-sampling on 1080.
Check out texdroider, have root access, backup your stuff.
But as long as you're rooted it's as easy as opening the app, click YES YES YES whatever and reboot.
It's default change value (240?) is the one you want.
It also allowed me to use apps that only 10' tablets are supposed to be able to use, and they look great.
That free Chess game after forcing 4x AA and using a higher forced DPI looks amazing.
Though don't be shocked if it gets hotter than you might feel safe with after a while, ha.
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