"Deep Sleep Battery Saver" .. great way to save battery on Tablets

[dan330]

I really appreciate you doing the test and posting the results.

my NOTE8... on 4.4.4
airplane mode.. it ate the battery about 1.5% and hr.
DS.. pushed it down to 1% per 3 hrs.

maybe it is Lollipop .. maybe it is just the Note8 series .. maybe it is just my device.

 

[funkylogik]

I'd say it's a lollipop issue but the dude says in that email it should work on rooted lollipop and my tab is rooted lollipop rommed but DS doesn't seem to be doing what it used to...

 

[EarlyMon]

Juice Defender, MacroDroid and now this.

Does anyone know the difference?

Not snark, honest question ok.

 

[funkylogik]

Me no understandy

 

[EarlyMon]

Me no understandy

They're apps with similar claims over similar mechanisms.

 

[codesplice]

I think the big difference is that JD hasn't been updated in over three years. I doubt that it works very well at all on 4.0+. JD also doesn't claim to make apps sleep better (or whatever DS says).

But yeah, they seem to pretty much do the same thing - toggle radio connectivity and synchronization on a set schedule.

 

[EarlyMon]

Cool, thanks.

 

[codesplice]

PS: I haven't looked much at it, but I think MacroDroid is trying to be Tasker for Muggles non-nerds.

 

[dan330]

I think if it were just toggles to switch on and off networks and syncs...

why is DS so large an app? 3.62 MB.
toggles don't need to be that large.

JD is only 1.5 MB. even that seems large to be just a toggle.

so.. I am hopping there is more it is doing that is JUST for battery savings.
if NOT.. then I am worried what is all that extra programming for??? snooping? tracking? logging?

 

[codesplice]

I think if it were just toggles to switch on and off networks and syncs...

why is DS so large an app? 3.62 MB.
toggles don't need to be that large.

JD is only 1.5 MB. even that seems large to be just a toggle.

so.. I am hopping there is more it is doing that is JUST for battery savings.
if NOT.. then I am worried what is all that extra programming for??? snooping? tracking? logging?

Pretty images, widgets, notification entries, etc.

Also, work-arounds for platform limitations (the way that apps are able to control GPS, Wifi, and Mobile Data has changed quite a bit with recent Android releases, so some of them may be kind of hacky).

DS does seem to be a much more polished app all-around.

 

[EarlyMon]

Most proper phones will hibernate if left in airplane mode and screen off. (Or as shown, will do that without messing with radios but not everyone gets my mileage. But anyway...)

Not sure what secret sauce is added here (or needed) to force hibernation, as I understand it, it's keeping 2G and shutting down everything else, yes?

As long as it works without borking Android, more's the better.

 

[dan330]

I agree.. that most cases...
android should sleep just fine.

but I know that I put this Note8 on airplane mode.
and I can see that android OS.. background functions come on.. and eat up battery.
and shows that it is NOT staying hibernation mode.

maybe just an issue with 4.4.4 on Note8 ATT version with NO service.. in airplane mode.
this is with it being a fresh hardrest.. and just a few apps loaded like "flipboard" and angry birds loaded.

 

[EarlyMon]

Android sleeps fine - often as not it's TouchWiz, or sometimes Sense, or whatnot, and more often - carrier bloatware.

 

[funkylogik]

Or apps like Facebook, g+ etc waking the cpu to poll for notifications even though there's no data?

 

[dan330]

yeah.. I don't do social networking.. like Facebook.

I do have hangouts loaded.

 

[funkylogik]

I'm not a huge fan of Facebook, I don't even keep the app on my phone, just my tablet, but I am addicted to g+