Disable cellphone standby modules to increase battery life?

[Guest dagrim1]

I stumbled upon this site:

http://www.chinadigitalcomm.com/android-f2...life-t1385.html

And it does look quite interesting, did anyone already try this kind of stuff on the vega? At work now so can not test it but since we have no cellphone functionality we might be able to remove unnecesary modules in order to increase battery life?

[Guest thedicemaster]

if you try it, you will get an annoying no-signal icon in the notification bar all the time.

[Guest ashbash]

if you try it, you will get an annoying no-signal icon in the notification bar all the time.

Is there a way to get rid of that as well, ... im probably getting a bit ahead of myself here!

It would be an interesting mod though, probably free up a reasonable amount of memory too!? :unsure:

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[Guest Clark80]

For some reason my vega doesn't have this installed...

I checked my running applications and also battery manager option - no phone signal in sight

[Guest Lennyuk]

For some reason my vega doesn't have this installed...

I checked my running applications and also battery manager option - no phone signal in sight

that because Advent were supposed to have removed all phone related parts on the vega.

[Guest ashbash]

that because Advent were supposed to have removed all phone related parts on the vega.

Oh so its probably a pointless discussion then .... :unsure:

[Guest Lennyuk]

Oh so its probably a pointless discussion then .... :unsure:

well only if Advent have actually done what they said they would do.

[Guest ashbash]

well only if Advent have actually done what they said they would do.

Fair point, will have a look when im home ... :unsure:

[Guest thedicemaster]

the vega(at least with mcr r6) does have phone-related files(phone.apk and telephonyprovider.apk) however it doesn't use much ram.

as far as i can see right now, it uses up 656KB of ram(almost nothing considering there's 512MB RAM in the tablet)

[Guest dagrim1]

the vega(at least with mcr r6) does have phone-related files(phone.apk and telephonyprovider.apk) however it doesn't use much ram.

as far as i can see right now, it uses up 656KB of ram(almost nothing considering there's 512MB RAM in the tablet)

Afaik it wasn't about the ram but about battery use...

[Guest ashbash]

Afaik it wasn't about the ram but about battery use...

I am far too pedantic to allow something not needed to be running, it uses memory, cycle time (even if does nothing), battery etc etc... :unsure: its gotta go!

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[Guest thedicemaster]

pretty much the only cpu cycles an idle app in android uses are the ones it takes for your task-manager app to view the name, status, and icon.

[Guest ashbash]

pretty much the only cpu cycles an idle app in android uses are the ones it takes for your task-manager app to view the name, status, and icon.

Fair point but its something, still i dont like stuff running that shouldnt be ... but I had a look last night and the apk's are there but not running anyway! doh

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[Guest zixxy]

I've had it running on my system for a few days now, and I see a little better battery life.

Take a look at my instructions

You'll see on the battery stats 86% of my usage had been used by the Wireless Standby process... theoretically it'd use 24% of the total battery - but that's only because the Vega was on standby for a lot of the time. The more you use the tablet, the less of a difference it'll make, however it makes sense not to use more power than necessary.

[Guest darrenjdoc]

I've had it running on my system for a few days now, and I see a little better battery life.

Take a look at my instructions

You'll see on the battery stats 86% of my usage had been used by the Wireless Standby process... theoretically it'd use 24% of the total battery - but that's only because the Vega was on standby for a lot of the time. The more you use the tablet, the less of a difference it'll make, however it makes sense not to use more power than necessary.

Thanks for this. It worked first time and hopefully will prolong the battery.

Cheers :D

[Guest rpmccormick]

If you are able to benchtest, please report back. I think it is very unlikely that this mod will tripple the battery which is what the graph suggests. I know airplane mode makes my phone last 5 times longer, but that's without wifi, and the Vega doesn't have a GSM modem to be sucking away batter life in the firstplace.

...point being, I think that battery graph is bogus.

I am interested in keeping those files so that I can dial out on SIPdroid by via contacts/maps/otherapps. SIPdroid works without those 2 files, but only if you dial from within the app, not when you use apps to dial. Skype can actually dial from apps without them, but SIPdroid fails to if ether file is missing.

If it gives you 150% battery (or 300+ if the battery stats app is truly accurate...no way), then I may have to sacrifice SIPdroid link-dialing.

[Guest ashbash]

I've had it running on my system for a few days now, and I see a little better battery life.

Take a look at my instructions

You'll see on the battery stats 86% of my usage had been used by the Wireless Standby process... theoretically it'd use 24% of the total battery - but that's only because the Vega was on standby for a lot of the time. The more you use the tablet, the less of a difference it'll make, however it makes sense not to use more power than necessary.

Mmm... dead link? :D