Certainly any competent hardware hacker could lash together a testbed to measure battery draw. Of course the phone would be wired to a workbench, and the data collected would have to be time-correlated with the testing activities, but not rocket science.
On Jan 20, 4:00 pm, Filip Havlicek <havlicek.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, that's exactly what I wanted to avoid, I'm not really sure someone > will find that money for me :) > > Prakash, yes, but you can't get that data programmatically, at least I > didn't figure out how. > > Roger, thanks, I considered looking for some solutions involving rooting the > phone, but since it isn't mine, I'm not sure my bosses would feel OK about > it. Nevertheless, could you elaborate more about that option? I mean > something like code samples, web links etc. If it would be easy enough to > get that data, I might be able to persuade them. > > Thank you for all your replies. > Best regards, > Filip Havlicek > > 2011/1/20 Roger Podacter <rogerpodac...@gmail.com> > > > there are ways to do what you want, at least on the nexus one, with > > just the battery, its driver, and the IC fuel gauge inside the > > battery. a recent project i've been playing with does just that, but > > it involved root access which is probably not what this forum is all > > about. nonetheless, for the sole purpose of gaining additional > > control and functionality from the battery, we did just that. > > > you can get real time power measurements across the sense resistor in > > the battery IC fuel gauge, and its accurate especially for what you > > would need. > > > but aside from all that pain to go thru, i dont think there are any > > other options that i know of. > > > On Jan 20, 7:29 am, Prakash Iyer <thei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On the phone there's is a what's been using the battery. This says > > display, > > > contacts etc. I assume this is reasonably accurate on a process level... > > > On Jan 19, 2011 9:33 PM, "Mark Murphy" <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
