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dan44762000

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i currently have no problem with my battery life and am very happy with it but i am intrigued and wanting to try this app out to see if there may be other thing i can do to get that little bit more juice from my battery .


what i am wondering though is if this app will contribute to more battery than its worth ?
 
If you have no problems with batt life, you probably don't need it... but it is nice to know what apps are using up what amount of battery life. Sometimes you might get a "rogue app" that failed to close properly and it just sucks your battery dry.

It also gives you an idea of how much remaining battery you have, and average expected battery life from a full charge, so you get a lot of info from it. It has some other nice features, like how much your signal (be it low or high) has taken up... did your battery drain quickly this time because you were in a low signal area? You can look at this app and tell.
 
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If you have no problems with batt life, you probably don't need it... but it is nice to know what apps are using up what amount of battery life. Sometimes you might get a "rogue app" that failed to close properly and it just sucks your battery dry.

It also gives you an idea of how much remaining battery you have, and average expected battery life from a full charge, so you get a lot of info from it. It has some other nice features, like how much your signal (be it low or high) has taken up... did your battery drain quickly this time because you were in a low signal area? You can look at this app and tell.

that's why i wanted it , even though i have no issues with battery life it would be nice to be able to monitor my battery and see what is using what .
 
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I've been running GSam for months with no adverse issues. My battery life is consistently close to 20 hours, but I'm a light user. I see NO impact on battery life from GSam. GSam is a great app for seeing what is using your battery. Wake states, stay awake, GPS, etc. stats all given in reports. I've told forum members numerous times to use this app to find battery 'leaks' and they all thank me after.
 
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Pls do tell why.


Thanks


It just is so much better...

I'll demonstrate


From my widget (top part of the screen) I can see from a glance whether I have a high or low amount of partial of kernel wake locks. This shows me if I am having an issue or not.

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When I go into the app it self, I look at Kernel wakelocks, I see multipdp (which I know is due to data network connectivity)

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I can easily see which apps are holding partial wakelocks (stopping the phone from sleeping):

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I can break down the states my phone was in:

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and I can easily see what apps are waking my phone..

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Its just more intuitive. You don't sit there with BBS going "Kernel is keeping my phone awake, wtf does that mean?" You sit there with BBS going "Ebay has woken my phone 223 times even though I'm not using it and my hullomail app is keeping my phone awake slightly"
 
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SUroot said:
Its just more intuitive. You don't sit there with BBS going "Kernel is keeping my phone awake, wtf does that mean?" You sit there with BBS going "Ebay has woken my phone 223 times even though I'm not using it and my hullomail app is keeping my phone awake slightly"

That is all true. The trouble is if you are not rooted you cant access the alarms section of BBS (unless newer versions have changed?).
That is where GSam is useful, because on the app usage section, you can select from the drop down at the top 'view number of times waking device' which gives the information that you are unable to get through BBS without root. As I am not rooted, I personally use both apps and correlate the information from both.
 
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Yeah, I have since uninstalled it as I don't know what any of that stuff tells me about background usage. I just turn most social apps etc to restrict background data for when I'm away from Wi-Fi and I got 9 hours at work today before I plugged in at 28%!

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Its great to be free, but if i could actually discern something useful out of it...

Its just more useful than the stock monitor because you can decide when it resets itself whereas i think the stock monitor only resets after unpluging from >90% charge? Plus it seems to show more apps than stock one, like apps that use 0.1%
Youre right though, i mostly just use it out of interest but when ive had dev's ask me to test an app ive used better battery stats and that app that measures cpu use while the phones "asleep" cpu spy?
 
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