One solutions is to have a spare replacement battery with, they only cost $25 and the battery can be changed in a minute, can't do that with an I-phone.
Mark On Jan 13, 4:31 pm, enervat...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been thinking about battery life issues as a somewhat clueless > new user and what strikes > me is that there is between little and no debugging scaffolding to > profile what affects battery > life. > > Currently there are some pretty high level guidelines: > > 1) not turning on your android saves battery life > 2) turning on your android, but turning off all of the networking saves > battery > 3) turning on 3g drains battery life > 4) turning on wifi drains battery life > 5) turning on the GPS drains battery life > 6) turning on the screen drains battery life. > > Unfortunately, these are pretty useless from a dev standpoint since > they don't tell me > *how much* it drains battery life so I can make intelligent tradeoffs > against interactivity > vs. battery life. > > It would be really really nice to either have some numbers to work > with, but much much > better would be to have some sort of profiler-like utitity -- sort of > a battery equivalent of > gprof, say -- to guide us to making more battery friendly apps. I > don't know about the > rest of the developers here, but I'm pretty sure that not too many of > us go about developing > apps wondering if we can set the battery drain speed record :) > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---