Battery Drain with 3rd party Home launchers?
- I'm bumping this because there has been a newer player in the game of launchers: Go Launcher EX.
I've been using Go Launcher EX on my HTC Thunderbolt. Up until 2.21, Go Launcher EX was great and I loved its features. But 2.21 is less stable on my Thunderbolt, so when I went searching for other's comments, I saw some people saying that Go Launcher EX was more of a battery-drain than LauncherPro or ADW.Launcher.
Can anyone confirm this? Perhaps I'll try a three-day test, using one launcher for a whole day and switching with each recharge. Would Battery Use and Where's My Droid Power? be the best ways to try benchmarking this?
On the topic of widgets in other launchers, is this really an issue if the third-party launcher is set as the default and the manufacturer's launcher is not running (either via a reboot or a Force Close)?
I eventually ended up sticking with Go Launcher Ex anyway, because I like it enough to just deal with the battery drain.
By the by, I checked Battery Usage and Wheres My Droid Power, and both of them noted Go Launcher Ex as using more battery than either Launcher Pro or ADW... but it still wasn't being listed as high enough to be as much of a battery drain as it was... so I suspect there's some fundamental problems with the way Go Launcher Ex works that's causing the battery drain.04-20-2011 07:14 PMLike 0
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