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GSAM BATTERY MONITOR VS BETTERBATTERYSTATS FOR FREE
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Badass Battery Monitor has all of these functions as of this writing, but data is presented in a different way.

GSAM BATTERY MONITOR VS BETTERBATTERYSTATS HOW TO

There is a great tutorial included as to how to determine what is draining your battery.

Better Battery Stats: Great little app intended to replace the Battery History built in app removed in Gingerbread.

It's missing some of the features above (actually all of them), but it does have other features that Badass Battery Monitor doesn't have. It's way way way to busy for my liking though.

Battery Monitor Widget: This app includes an ton of detail, and nice history graphs.

Some phones seem to publish a new alert for every % drop in battery, while others will wait to send the alert until the device is woken up for some other reason (the latter seems much better), but in either case, this app should have minimal to no effect on your battery.

I made sure this app only consumes resources when the device sends an alert for battery state changes, or when you're actively interacting with it.

GSAM BATTERY MONITOR VS BETTERBATTERYSTATS FULL

Low battery usage: A number of the more full featured apps tend to consume a lot of battery by doing regular polling - even when the device is in deep sleep.There is another app out there (Better Battery Stats) that does this as well - and does a good job of it.

GSAM BATTERY MONITOR VS BETTERBATTERYSTATS MODS

They removed this in 2.3 (some Mods still include it - Cyanogenmod for example).

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Find out what is draining your battery: In Android 2.2 and earlier there was a built in BatteryStats program (it was hidden) from which you could find all sorts of useful information such as who was holding WakeLocks, etc.

Configuring these to find the best settings will require some work - but hopefully your device does a better job than mine (thanks LG). With this app, you can customize the power profile used - it even has some canned ones from other devices. Unfortunately, my phone manufacturer did a really bad job of this - and so all monitor programs that are based off of this information show bad results. For example, an active call will take X amount of power / second.

Custom power profiles: All battery utilization is dependent upon your device manufacturer providing appropriate Power Usage values for different types of functions.

This was the key item that I always want to see, and I don't want to open an app just to see it. Other apps have this - but non all in one place.

Percent and time estimate quick view: A way to always see how much battery is left, and easily see estimates of remaining time.

What makes Badass Battery Monitor different? There are no ads - it uses Internet Access for graphing, but otherwise requires no special permissions.

GSAM BATTERY MONITOR VS BETTERBATTERYSTATS FOR FREE

You can now download Badass Battery Monitor for free in the Android Market. With that in mind, and as a way to learn how to write a basic Android application, I decided to create my own. Features Hunt down those battery draining Apps with the App Sucker Always know your battery state and time left estimates with a optional status bar notification Overlay the stock. Unfortunately, even the good ones don't do everything I really wanted. There are an amazing amount of battery monitoring apps out there - most of them are pretty terrible, but there are a few really good ones. Temporarily uninstalling a top offending user app and then observing how or if the battery is now draining might tell you if that app was indeed consuming more resources than you would like.I've always been intrigued with device monitoring, so when I got my Android phone, I really wanted to know more details as to it's power usage. Most of the battery saver apps shut down the background process and helps regulate what apps are allowed to run in the background. So, the top of the list that WLD presents to you is a good place to start with your candidates, again, bearing in-mind that wake locks are not "bad" but are a tool used by apps to keep some resource (like the CPU) alive and kicking so that it can do things like syncing in the background, etc. Do battery saver apps really work In short, yes battery saver apps do work, and they help extend your battery life from 10 to 20.

Then, you'll see the top apps, in descending order (highest up top), of the apps using CPU and presumably only the ones using a wake lock. When you run Wakelock Detector it will show you the awake percentage (in red) in the status bar at the top of the screen. So, I'd use GSAM Battery Monitor as your first step (which you've done) and then "dig deeper" with Wakelock Detector.

Yeah, GSAM Battery Monitor will give you a heads-up that there might be apps that are keeping a system resource awake (CPU, screen, etc.) more than you would want or expect (I don't want to characterize apps as using "too much" or "too many" wake locks since that would be dependent on the app and it's normal usage).