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any feature you enable in my app will use extra battery, but very little.
any app you install that runs in the background will take extra battery. however, the more apps run in the background, the more it will use CPU, which will drain the battery much faster than you think.
the difference is, each app needs to run in its own process pool, so two apps running consumes more than 2 features running in the same app
conclusion, you must uninstall my app OR meterberry and then test, thats the correct way of testing, having both apps installed will drain battery as twice as much10-06-12 12:51 PM - Thanks Sultanany feature you enable in my app will use extra battery, but very little.
any app you install that runs in the background will take extra battery. however, the more apps run in the background, the more it will use CPU, which will drain the battery much faster than you think.
the difference is, each app needs to run in its own process pool, so two apps running consumes more than 2 features running in the same app
conclusion, you must uninstall my app OR meterberry and then test, thats the correct way of testing, having both apps installed will drain battery as twice as much
If I find that one of the two has definately got to go it won't be AOS !!!10-06-12 01:01 PM - Hello Sultan Al Sooz, firstly thank you for a great app. I popped here some weeks ago and decide to see why everyone was raving about you and posted a question requesting for temp meter as well as average drain meter capabilities to be added in your app. You did not reply after a day or two and I thought here is another developer that people just praise yet he doesnt even reply. Your app had already added taking of screenshots - i deleted screenmuncher, it added a torch, i deleted my torch app. In less than a week i popped in here and read that some folks are already testing a new version of AOS that has the very same features that I had requested. needless to say i was pleasantly surprised and waited eagerly. I got it and at once i deleted battery watch, since AOS 14.8 now had battery meter, and i deleted meterberry since AOS again added temp meter.
However I have two questions. The first is, when i receive say a bbm, the led light would sometimes flash red maybe once or twice before flashing the correct cyan bbm colour. With whatsapp it's different, it would flash green and then white and then green again. green being whatsapp set led colour and white being email led colour. Is there a conflict somewhere? Secondly, see the pic attached. If i receive a message at night the screen part of the meter seems to either go on for an entire hour or shows that the screen has been on for an entire hour. Very strange indeed
10-07-12 06:30 AM - Sultan,
Allow me to add my thanks for the continuing support, bugfixes and additions to an app that has became a makor part of my 9900
Couple of questions (for anyone to answer, if they can):
- Wallpaper mode. I've enabled this and noticed that the battery is draining extremely quickly compared to before. Is this normal? Also, if I change the "image change interval" to "screen off-on", sometimes the image doesn't change, other times it changes through a couple of images at once. Is this problem just on my phone? Also, how about an option to change the image every say, 5 occasions of screen-off-on instead? That'd be ace. Am I correct in thinking that setting a low time delay for wallpaper change (1 min) would eat the battery compared to setting it to 30mins?
- Battery monitor. Excellent! Love the notification bar setting. However I find I'm quite interested to see the ADR too.. what's the chances of being able to add this as an option in the notification area ALONG WITH the battery percentage i.e. "78% (adr 2%)" ? That'd be fantastic.
Thanks for the hard work, time and effort. Much appreciated.
Last question - what do you guys recommend as a file manager? Ideally, one that'd allow multi-selects for copy/paste operations, small thumbnail views of images, and ideally a 'favourites' or 'bookmarks' option for jumping between common locations. TIA!10-07-12 06:48 AM - Me not responding to users is somehow difficult to believe, but im human after all, so its possible
ok, so for red led in bbm, its cause my app waits for 1 second until it shows your bbm led, so the OS bbm red led starts then my app takes over. to stop the red led from showing, just turn off the LED in BBM sound settings from within your phone Sound Profiles.
as for whatsapp, its cause of whatsapp sends your messages as emails, and my app sees that and shows you an email led and a whatsapp led, to confirm just switch on popups feature in my app and you will see what im talking about. i might have to do something about the whatsapp messages in my next release, it should NOT be a big issue to fix
as for the 60m screen time, its a bug, i will have to fix it, i also have the same issue, unfortunately i noticed it yesterday and no one else has reported it, strange !!10-07-12 07:44 AM - Thanks for the swift reply.
Extremely quickly? Hard to quantify. My battery life is pretty good, but after enabling the wallpaper feature (1 min change), my battery dropped from 90% to 75% within around 30 mins. That's why I was asking if it were possible to add the option "change every 5 screen-on-offs", or 10, or 20. That way the number of changes would be directly linked to your phone use. Does the feature take any battery cycles if the phone's locked, but set to change every minute?
Thanls for answering the ADR/notification Q - didn't realise it was a RIM limitation10-07-12 08:05 AM
