Quickly draining battery problem solved in one easy step

It could be a few different things. I'm not personally familiar with the gas buddy app but what causes the battery to drain is either processor usage or data transfer on any interface I.e. mobile data, gps or bluetooth. So in other words either it's an app locally on your phone or something talking to your phone. In my opinion one of the best apps you can get that's definitely worth paying for is called juice defender. It works wonders, even the free version. Another thing you can do is pull down the notification screen (can't think of a better name lol) on your phone by dragging down from the top of the screen and disable any unnecessary interfaces. If you think it's an app beating up your phone system download an app called OSMonitor which allows you to see running processes. One Word of caution though. Osmonitor is resource hungry if left running as a process and will drain your battery quickly. From there you should be able to narrow it down much better

 

Let us know if and how well you were able get it situated or if you need some more help

 

One other thing you might consider.
If you open an app and then hit the Home Key, whether it's Gas Buddy or Dolphin Browser, you've left that application open and it will continue running in the background.
You either have to hit the menu key and see if the app has an option to exit or hit the back button until it closes.
Taught my wife that and her battery lasts all day now.

 

If you want to always be able to view your exact battery percentage left, search the market for "battery widget."

If you aren't familiar with putting widgets on your screens, touch and hold your finger on an available space on your home screen, touch widgets and search from there.

 

"Fast Reboot" app free from the market.
Place it on your home screen and hit it every once in a while to reboot all your apps.
It shows what it is rebooting.

 

Now this is and isn't true. What a lot of people don't realize is that an "app" by sense of what most people think of an app is typically made up many different sub-apps or components. Certain components like services actually can run in the background and can actively utilize system resources. However, because the android OS is more or less a linux distribution the operating itself is very good at handling background apps and completely closing or freeing up memory from apps that don't need it anymore. If an app is actively using resources unless it is a system app it appears on your bar at the top of your phone. Most people believe that task killer applications do them good, whereas, the truth is that it can actually cause issues because most times it prevents them from closing properly.
I can't for the life of me find it now but there is a great article with an awesome diagram on the web about how the android os handles apps. It actually puts them in a suspended state when not active (open on your screen), unless like said before, it is a service which has the right to run in the background and utilize system resources. If I find it I'll post it. Really interesting stuff

 

I have never had any battery issues, I just keep background data off gps off and sync off, and with cygenomod7 beta the power bar has a option to turn data off. when i need data or gps etc i just use it then when done i turn them off.

 

Doesn't work on mine. I've tried it on several apps and they all show still running on the running app list.

edit: I saw that as an option in CM7, though.

 

You could also get an app called SuperBox (version 2.4). Amongst its many features is taskkiller, which appears in the Battery Saver section. If you're unfamiliar with a taskkiller, it allows you to "kill" apps you don't need running that drain the battery (maps, media share, Skype, etc). You can re-install Gas Buddy and "kill it" when you are not using it or need it to be active.

Two other great features are Cache Cleaner & App2SD. Touch Cache once & it will read what can be cleared. Then touch Clear All to remove all that junk & space will free up on your phone. You'll be able to figure out for yourself what apps you don't need running.

After doing that touch History, wait a few moments and then touch the Clear All rectangle at the top. The longer that bar is Green, the more is being cleaned up. Hope this can help you


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