Useful app for checking battery usage

[Guest Simon O]

Paul tweeted about this app and it looks pretty useful

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tools.power

"You can view programs that are running for their power consumption

Kill or uninstall the high power program can extend the standby time"

Could be useful for people concerned about battery usage.

[Guest Rotmann]

PowerTutor does the same but eats a little battery itself because it makes an history, graphs etc.

[Guest That-Guy]

Thanks for the heads up going to give it a try :P

Would be good for people to post results up too, may help us get better battery performance somewhere down the line!

[Guest dunfiedoughball]

Thanks for the heads up going to give it a try :P

Would be good for people to post results up too, may help us get better battery performance somewhere down the line!

Guys,

What is seen as high battery use? Most of the things on my phone use less than 1% but launcher pro and beaufiful widgets use just under 5% each.

At what % is an app seen as using too much?

cheers

[Guest stanno]

What is seen as high battery use? Most of the things on my phone use less than 1% but launcher pro and beaufiful widgets use just under 5% each.

Launcher Pro is top of my list my quite a way - 6.5%. Would the Froyo stock launcher use less?

[Guest Cyburner]

For me the most draining things are:

Analogue Clock: 5.88%

Launcher Pro: 3.08%

Phone: 2.04%

[Guest ezablade]

Presume the figures are the percentage of the amount of battery used since last recharge? ie 5% is 5% of the amount used (if 90% battery left, 5% of 10%)

If so, a high percentage when little battery has been used is to be expected if you've been using an app, but, if your battery is at 10% and an app is showing as using 80%, then it's time to worry.