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It allows you to create a shortcut of an app in the notification bar for ease of access.
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i think it would be a cool little feature to be able to scroll side to side in the monitoring history screen. i like the 2hr and 8hr plots for the higher resolution but i think it would be a neat addition to be able to scroll side to side through this.
anyway, i bought the full app the day the paid version was released and love it. keep it up!
Here's my suggestions.
-add a file explorer like root explorer,(can see hidden & system files), but with an astro-like ui.
-add an auto task killing function.
Those two add ons right there, would make it a $10 app IMO, and if you priced it lower, it would be the best selling android app hands down.
Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.
I'm a happily paid customer -- I had a few questions for the developer:
-- Why do you have the option for logarithmic plotting of device use and CPU activity? Is it because battery/energy consumption rises logarithmically with CPU activity? What am I missing that makes logarithmic plotting better than linear?
-- I like to have my SystemPanel constantly monitoring and plotting my battery consumption, but I'm already running out of space in my notification bar/system tray. Is it possible to add an option that removes the system tray icon while it still runs in the background monitoring?
-- Someone mentioned including the charge rate when the phone is charging; I think that's an excellent suggestion.
-- One can take screenshots (as I have when I want to record and demonstrate power consumption patterns), but it would be great to have some kind of data or graph image export feature.
Thanks for the great app!
I appreciate the reply! I'd also like to second the scrolling graphs. Thanks again for your work and responsiveness, dev.Thanks!
Removing the notification icon is currently the #1 requested feature. The reason this is not optional is because Android requires us to provide a notification icon when running a "foreground service" (as of Android 2.0). A "foreground" service is one which will not be arbitrarily killed when more memory is needed by other apps. A foreground service will still be killed when memory is critically low, but it won't be killed as a result of "everyday" memory-intensive activities such as recording a video (which is a case where a non-foreground service might get shut off). All that said, there may be a practical solution to this problem (without doing any cheating/hacking/evil). I'm looking into it. Worst case I'll make it more customizable for future versions.
Logarithmic plots make it easy to detect small quantities. For example, if some process is running at 2% CPU all day long, it might be difficult to see its usage pattern on a linear plot. Such a process might have a very negative effect on the battery, due to the device not being able to fully sleep while it was running.
As of 1.0.1, the default scale for "device usage" is linear. Making this logarithmic by default was an oversight. Defaults are saved only the first time you visit the preferences, so you'll need to manually set it.
Export to Excel/OpenDocument would be quite neat, but might be a whole heck of a lot of work. Generating a downloadable web page might be a bit easier, but still would be a fair amount of effort to create. Might be something for 2.0 though.
Pardon the noob question, Ive used the light version for a while now and just purchased the paid version.
The only complaint about this phone was battery consumption AFTER up and awake time are equal. After my last FDR a few days ago all was well, reinstalled ONLY Google Earth and did an update for facebook (though i dont use it) and google maps. Afterwards, though not immediate, I noticed my awake time was at 100% again after only a couple of days.
With the paid version I understand I can archive installed apps to the sd card. If I archive navigator and facebook to the SD (still not sure how at this point as only G earth and Sys panel show up), do an update for both and end up with the same problem, can i revert to the original installed app through the archive?
Ever thought of doing a monitoring widget ala the flavor of this? eRay - Android app on AppBrain
I personally think that would be kickass for this program as I love informative widgets. I'm sure keeping down the memory would be a challenge though.
Don't want to add auto task killing. I still can't find any evidence of it working beyond anecdotal reports of "I installed brand X auto task killer and now my battery makes it all the way to lunch." My understanding of the Android architecture suggests it's a bad idea.
I do want to add more features geared toward finding bad apps, e.g., excluding times when the device was powered from the "top apps" list and tracking network consumption as well.
I can't speculate on a file manager at this point. Likely would be a separate product and it'd need some killer feature(s) to make it somehow unique/a step forward.
i think it would be a cool little feature to be able to scroll side to side in the monitoring history screen. i like the 2hr and 8hr plots for the higher resolution but i think it would be a neat addition to be able to scroll side to side through this.
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I noticed a little bar on the left of the applications list, which I'm assuming shows the activity of each app. Scroll down to the System App and you can see the bar go up, then back down. I would think that inactive apps would show no activity, but Spare Parts and Toggle Settings were listed as inactive apps and both showed activity. Is that an indication that they should be killed?
When looking for a "bad" app, one that won't let the phone sleep, what should I be looking for? Being in the active list after exiting doesn't seem to a problem. Should I check for CPU usage? Should I turn monitoring on for a couple of hours and then compare it to ..... what? I'm not sure what to look for.
Oh, and I still have the inactive list of apps, but I don't have system processes at the end - at least there's not another heading that says system processes.
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