Reminds me of the smartwifi blackberry app. It would poll your location every x minutes and turn on WiFi if it was at one of the preset locations. This looks more exhaustive though.
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Still, from reviews, people tend to change their opinion of the app after a few days. Just finishing the learning period here, so I'm game. I'll give it a good amount of days to see what the 'average' amount of power saved is (or wasted, as the case may be).
I can't speak for every Motion owner, but my battery usage isn't exactly the same every single day. In point of fact, it widely varies. I also - - consciously or subconsciously - - adapt my use in any given day based upon how much power I have left as the day goes on. If I have a relatively high amount of power left at 5am, I might just listen to a couple more hours of podcasts or music, whereas I might NOT if I'm running lower than expected and don't want to have to plug in. Thus, any "testing" I might do has to take that purposeful variance into consideration.
(sigh) This stuff is all so subjective. That's why a 'test' needs a decent period to conduct.
That being said... It's probably going to be snake oil.
I've always had location on. I don't understand the problem. I honestly don't even think turning it off even helps battery; just my opinion though.
Ok i don't know what happened today phone has been off the charge for less than six hours and I'm at 5%battery left and the phone was used less then yesterday :-\
Whoa. That's insane. Do you think it's the app? That's a lot of power lost.
Honestly its hard to say whether it works or not. Having to leave location services on all the time isn't my idea of saving battery juice and I definately won't enable the sending of data to them.
Also I can't really get a feel for it till I've tried it on differant roms. I'l give it anithere week and try it out on other settings.
Location is only used when called on by the app, however this app is constantly determining your location, especially if you have WiFi on. Hence the battery drain.
We could change the permissions with lucky patcher. Make so it cant access location
Edit: I just did. Lets see if that helps battery life
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