Recent content by Joe Btfsplk

I am an electrical engineer(MSEE) and have recently spent a bunch of time testing chargers and cables. I stumbled across this thread when doing an unrelated search and find so much confusion and misinformation that I'd like to help a bit. First: . This is complete nonsense. Ignore it. Now...

Actually, looking at apps' battery usage will not smoke out the kind of problems that were eating up my battery. The actual processor time consumed by the app may be quite small, but its effect can be to keep the device from going to sleep, which affects battery life big time. The "awake"...

I'm the usual new device (Nexus 7) buyer who charged off in all directions simultaneously, provisioning my tablet with apps and customizing practically everything. During that process I found that my battery life became totally unacceptable. Just sitting overnight the device lost about 30% of...