Angry Birds - battery usage

[Guest androrphin]

I was wondering how quickly Angry Birds runs down your battery on your ROM.

For instance, I am running CM7 N152 and tens minutes of AB uses up about 8% of my battery.

[Guest weeo]

9% on mine CM7 N139

[Guest deksman2]

On my Ginger Blue V5 Rom, Angry Birds is roughly 1% per minute.

[Guest t0mm13b]

Regardless of battery usage, Angry Birds is processor and graphics intensive so yes the battery would get a roasting from the game. No point going on about how much battery is chewed up.

Factor in the following, if you have wifi enabled, in a strong 3g signal area with minimum signal switching or if you're in a area where its weak and the signal switching from one tower to the next is sky high, GPS, what ever background apps you have.... :rolleyes:

Highly doubt its to do with whatever nightly you're on regardless...

[Guest Shapetsau]

Angry Birgs take about 6% with BlueGinger V5.

[Guest Pondlife]

Isn't this going to be changed by what screen brightness you have?

[Guest Shapetsau]

Well, at first automatic brightness was on and it took 6%. Then I put brightness 100% and the result was 5%. When brightness was zero, AB used 5% of battery. GPS, Wlan and mobile data was turned off ofc, we don't measure what the phone uses, we measure what AB uses.

[Guest androrphin]

Just an update, if anyone is interested. I'm now running N160 and 10 minutes of AB drops the battery by 5%. This is either quite an improvement (or I'm doing something wrong :o. )

I haven't wiped battery stats between ROMs.

[Guest pingprime]

I'm using a free Android app called LightSaver.

It's about doubled my AB playing time by throttling down the screen brightness. I've noticed the battery is also way cooler. Downside is you can't play in bright sunlight (but who does?)

Here's how I tested it:

1) Note the battery level

2) Play AB for 30 minutes

3) Note change in battery level. On my Samsung Galaxy S, its usually 14% (full brightness)

4) The battery will be warm so switch off your phone for about 30 minutes or longer until cool. This is important so you get an accurate reading.

5) Run LightSaver at 20% brightness

6) Repeat steps 1 to 3

For me it only went down by 7% - and the battery is still cool.

Here's the Android Market link:

https://market.android.com/details?id=pena.lsaverf

LightSaver is also nice for customizing the screen color for EReader Apps like Kindle, etc.

[Guest targetbsp]

You can't really measure it over 10 minutes because the battery gauge isn't linear (at least mine isn't.) so you'd all have to start from the same %. And even then, how quickly it drops from 100 to 90 seems to vary upon how long it was left to charge. Then there's screen brightness, screen type, battery health, running background apps etc.

In short, whilst fun, I wouldn't base your rom decision on this thread. :)

For what it's worth, I don't play AB but my phone will run a Kairosoft game from 100% to 1% in approx 4 and a half hours, min brightness oled screen, original (nearly year old) battery, 'clean' CM7 rom (lots of background apps uninstalled or disabled), 2G with wifi on.