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[APPS] PowerTutor - Contacts and Messaging Destroying Battery?

I've been using a power usage app designed for the N1 called "PowerTutor" for the past week or so (app link, homepage link).
Ever since I've started using it, I've noticed that two apps are constantly using tons and tons of battery, despite me never using them: Contacts and Messaging. Notice in the screenshots below they have been running 100% of the time since my last reboot and using the most battery, more than any of the apps that I actually use:
Left: Current Power Usage (As of this second).
Right: Total Power Usage (Since reboot).
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These apps never go away. Now, I understand how Android task management works, so the fact that they are running isn't the problem; but the fact that they are using battery constantly seems to be a huge issue, since A) I never use them and yet B) together they have by far the highest power consumption apps on my phone. What the heck??
What is going on here? Does anyone else use PowerTutor?

Interesting find...
Seems like no one dares to comment on this...now I´m curious.

The app must be messaging your contacts in the background...
Or maybe this app drafts a message to one of your contact, then discards it and then drafts the same message to another contact and again discards it and so on....
The tutor in the name suggests that it wants to teach you a lesson... Don't install random apps on your phone and them give it permission to use whatever resources that it wants...

If you using CM ROM so maybe you lock messaging in the memory (CM setting > performance )

I messaged the developer and he responded with this:
It may be related to a bug (it's more of a limitation of the Android API) in PowerTutor. In reality Android gives no way to know what application is currently in the foreground so we have to estimate it using some information they do give us on the priority of each application. Unfortunately the phones I have work with don't have this problem so it's difficult for me to debug. The problem is related to the Messaging and Contacts applications having foreground priority despite not actually being in the foreground.
Try simply filtering out OLED (click on the OLED panel in the application view) to get more meaningful numbers for now.
-Mark
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Interesting...
My question then is, if we were to filter out OLED, wouldn't that mean we'd be missing out on some data (data that is actually valid)?
Though I'm not sure I understand what it means to have an app listed in multiple categories? And what that will do when one category is filtered out.

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BriEE said:
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Hah, thanks for the bump. I am subscribed to this thread but actually uninstalled PowerTutor long ago. It seemed too inaccurate.

[APP] GPS Notification

GPS Notification is a passive application that displays your current GPS information in your notification bar. It starts automatically whenever something uses the GPS.
It is available on Google Market and Amazon for $0.99! I've been developing this for several months, but haven't been advertising it at all. Perhaps it is time for that to change!
Google Market
Amazon
GPS Notification is very configurable. The icon displayed in the status bar can display the number of satellites in view or use, or your speed, or your accuracy, making this a convenient "at-a-glance" tool if you're using a Maps app and want some GPS related information not being shown.
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Pulling down the notification shade will show more detailed information, such as the signal strengths of each satellite as bar graphs, and if your GPS has a lock, even more information such as your accuracy, speed, bearing, lat/lon, and altitude
The application is configurable, although you will never need to configure it if you do not wish to. You can have the settings screen run the GPS for as long as you are there, to see your changes immediately.
I would appreciate comments and feedback! In particular, while I've tested on my own devices, I haven't tested on all of them. Note that the application doesn't really look great on Honeycomb; that may be another update down the line.

I've been using this app for a while and have found it very useful. Really Google should think of including something similar to this in the default GPS notification, but in the meantime this works well
Good job.

Thank you for the kind words! Any problems, or requests, or ideas?

Hi there,
this is for sure a nice app. But better watch out, that you don't violate the forum rules. They say that it is not ok, to try to sell (advertise) any app unless there isn't a free version (can be ad-supported) shared for the community.
Please check these links:
Forum Rules (espacially post 2, point 11): http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=263#td_post_81
There is a thread on XDA where you can place your paid apps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=993
It would be bad, if a great app like yours would get banned...
Cheers, berkley

Shoot, you are right. Is there a way to move the thread entirely?

Great app and thank you. Please see attached screen shots of pull down notification issue. I think it is related to the color choices on the transparent areas. I believe that Android has a specific color option that should be used on transparent areas to ensure that regardless of the color theme, the correct color displays when there is transparency.
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[APP] BetterBatteryStats adds battery history back to Gingerbread

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I wrote BetterBatteryStats because I was missing the great battery history that Spare Parts allowed to call on Froyo:
- Process stats with User and System CPU time
- *removed till issue #1 is fixed* Network Usage with bytes sent and received
- Wakelock stats (the most important one when it comes to battery drain)
- Other Usage stats: Awake, Screen On, Phone On, Wifi On, Wifi Running ratios
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This app is still under development and may contain bugs. If you find one you can keep it but I'd be happy if you could also report it to me.
BetterBatteryStats is calling the "batteryinfo" service of Android to retrieve data already lying there without generating overhead.
BetterBatteryStats is focussing and has been tested on Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb (3.1, thanks to daveid) and the APK is set to run only on those versions only.
What are wakelocks and why should you care about them?
When it comes to Android the most discussed and commented topic that I know is battery drain / battery life. I'm a quite heavy user because I spend a lot of time on the train every day reading my mails, surfing and listening to music but still my phone is off for a long time during the day and while I accept the battery being drained while I use the phone I care about it draining slowly while "doing nothing".
And here's the point: my SGS2 drains about 2-10 mAh where it was up at 20-100 mAh before I started cleaning stuff up (readings were taken with "Battery Monitor Widget" after leaving the phone alone 1/2 hour).
Try it yourself
Thanks
to nobnut and brandall for their support, testing and constructive feedback in the early stages of the development
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Check it out seem to work well, been playing with it for few mintues.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

[Apk][Share]AccuBattery, the best battery monitor!

In the name of GOD
Hello community!!
I found a battery monitor in the playstore. It is so good!! So I'd like to share with you people! It's called the Accubattery.
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Almost every phone contains a little bit of hardware that can measure the current flow into or out of your battery, in mA or µA. We track this data continuously, but also segment it by screen state (on vs off) and which app was in the foreground. With this data, you can see clearly how your battery was used.
Battery life is probably the most common concern for smartphone users: some are finding it hard to get through a full day on a single charge, others find that after a year or so of use, their battery drains much faster than before, and the issues just keep lining up.
AccuBattery is a relatively new battery life monitor for Android devices (it supports the latest Samsung Galaxy S7s, Google Pixels, and so on) that focuses on accurate battery stats, but also on a research-based suggestion to avoid fully charging your battery.
AccuBattery allows you to set alarm that you actually charge your battery to 80%(Can be modified) and comes with clever tools to let you know when you've reached that level, so that you can unplug. This way, you can get the full 500 cycles(More than 1000, if you charge from 30 to 80 ) out of your battery, until you start to see a noticeable drop in battery life.
I still have my two year old Z2. It still holds battery like a new phone( with slight less capacity due to heat generated due to flashing roms). I used to charge my phone between 25%-80%.​
Download link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites.accubattery&hl=en
Press thanks if I've helped you!!:fingers-crossed:

Inspired by AccuBattery I have created a raspberry pi 3 image which can stop charging your phone automatically after it reaches a certain percentage. Works on non-rooted phones.
https://metabubble.net/android/how-...roid-when-a-certain-battery-level-is-reached/

Looks very nice!

Question Adaptive Battery performance

While Pixel phones are generally known for creating little interfearance with app perfoamance, in terms of things like managing battery life, I noticed a rather vague option where the OS will improve your phones's battery life by doing things probabbly like sleeping and or ricksting background usage for unused apps and the like.
From what I understand the 7 isn;t the first phone to have this feature as I saw people talking about it ont he 6 series too, though what I was manily wondering is for people who have this turned on or have used it int he past, if they have noticed any issues with some of their apps, such as missed notifactions?
I turned mine off more as a just in case, as comming from Samsung previpously who is nortiorus for being very heavy handed when it comes to their battery savng measures, I'm just wondering how much impact this option has (if any at all), so if it might need to start being listed as a potential problem to check in places such as don't kill my app, or if Google somehow manages to make it a lot less intrusive?
I haven't been able to find any technical infomation on what excatly the feature does to trey and determine just how invavse it might be.
Keep adaptive battery & battery optimization on - Pixel Phone Help
To have apps use your phone's battery only when you need them to, keep adaptive battery and battery optimi
support.google.com
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I've never turned it off since it got introduced. No issues at all. It's supposed to learn how you use your phone, so I'd imagine you shouldn't have missed notifications. And if that's the reason my 7 Pro gets it's 8-10+ hours of SoT, I'd keep on using it.

Never turned off and I think that MUST stay on, because the battery life is really good.
Without it would certainly not be so good.

I am using the way adaptive charging tuned off and adaptive battery tuned on