Most of the smartphone CPU has multiple speed stages. Take Samsung Galaxy S II as example. It has 6 stages ranging from 1.2 GHz, 1 GHz, 800 MHz, 500 MHz, 200 MHz and deep sleep mode. Do you know which speed stage does your Android phone uses the most? If no, CPU Spy for Android is the application that will tell you. CPU Spy displays the time of the CPU spends in each frequency state. It is a useful tool to diagnose battery problems. And understand it better to tweak by overclock / underclock and undervolt.
CPU Spy for Android
Samsung Galaxy S II had a poor battery life. Yes, Samsung Galaxy S2 battery life is bad if you don’t change anything and leave it as stock settings. But no worry, there is lot of tweaks and hacks to increase Samsung Galaxy S2 battery life. How to improve Samsung Galaxy S2 battery life? In short, disable those stuffs that you don’t use.
Increase SGS2 battery life
Using Bluetooth device with Android HTC HD2? You probably face short battery life with your HTC HD2. One of the root caused ~ high Bluetooth battery drain (60mAh) in standby mode. Thanks to XDA Developers, we have a fix on this Bluetooth high battery drain issue. What you need to do? Just wait for kernel developers / ROM chefs to implement this fix on their latest release. Or you can try to apply the patch yourself.
CurrentWidget ~ Android widget that display electric current usage
04 Nov
Posted by Jayce as Software
Battery life is very important to my HTC HD2. Does Android on HTC HD2 use up lot of battery than Windows Mobile? This is the question that I would like to find out. CurrentWidget is one of the tools that can help me keep track the electric current usage. It is an Android widget that shows how much current (milliamperes) the device is using from the battery or receiving from the charger. And also log the value to csv file for further study…
CurrentWidget
JuicePlotter is a battery usage graph that combines full at-a-glance information about your battery consumption. It is perfect for me to track battery usage on Android HTC HD2. And it shows screen brightness, radio usage, charging status and battery temperature. Besides, its home screen widget shows an accurate estimate of how long it will take to fully discharge / recharge battery.
JuicePlotter
Frank S.