2.0.1 battery drain?

[Roy Aguilera]

whatabout dxtop/? that a battery drainer?

Nope, just makes the phone lag bad.

 

[mclarryjr]

Dolphin does drain your battery. I stopped using it a while back.

did not know that I have been using since it came out but I'm always around a charger so never seen a change.

last weekend I was out of town for my sons hockey tournament and inside the arena I had no signal ( which killed the battery) so after he won I went to take some pictures it only had 15% I was upset.

 

[Roy Aguilera]

did not know that I have been using since it came out but I'm always around a charger so never seen a change.

last weekend I was out of town for my sons hockey tournament and inside the arena I had no signal ( which killed the battery) so after he won I went to take some pictures it only had 15% I was upset.

Yeah, I used to use Dolphin and after about 15-20 minutes of use I was at about 70/80% battery life left. Now I can go for a whole hour and only drop to 90-80%.

 

[droidweasel]

so,u think i should uninstall dxtop and wait out 2.1?

 

[Roy Aguilera]

so,u think i should uninstall dxtop and wait out 2.1?

If you like it use it. I could not stand the lag and slow widget redraw time. If you use Weather Widget Donate or Beatiful widget, act like you are bout to change screens (half slide) and take a look at your widget. No other Home Replacement that I have messed with does that.

 

[mclarryjr]

I had more problems with GDE then Dxtop and didn't try any other home replacements.

 

[potatoho]

I have noticed that some applications with the rolling advertisements tend to eat a few CPU cycles if you leave them running while in the background. I use NetMeter to check the CPU activity via the 'show tasks' option.

I use Dolphin all the time, and unfortunately on my Eris it did have a tendency to have 2-3% background CPU activity which correlated to the ads on the bookmarks screen; i.e. if you visited the bookmarks screen 3 or more times it would then consume 2-3% of CPU activity until you exited Dolphin.

My solution was to purchase the Dolphin Plus thingy which removed the ads and solved that issue for me. There is still one other issue which I haven't tracked down, and it's kinda weird. When I leave Dolphin on google.com it sucks up 8% of CPU cycles. I haven't found another site which does that, so I would suggest not to use google.com as your start page on Dolphin.

Pandora was another app where the advertisements caused 2-3% CPU cycles in the background, so beware of that if you leave it running while paused. My solution to that was to upgrade my account to Pandora One which removes the ads and also got rid of that extra CPU activity.

There was another app I used the other day. Hmm what was it? Honestly I don't remember but it was using a significant bit of CPU while idling. I suspect that they all use the same advertising API and it leaks or something or otherwise doesn't know how to handle background or sleep modes very well.

Anyways, since fixing those issues my Eris runs with minimal drain during the day whereas I was constantly charging before. Ha ha, not sure why I'm in the Droid forum.

 

[droidweasel]

just installed home ++ i gotta say i like it alot. something new to play with. keep my mind off 2.1......haha

 

[mclarryjr]

I'm the same way have to have something new to play with or I'll get bored.

 

[droidweasel]

I have noticed that some applications with the rolling advertisements tend to eat a few CPU cycles if you leave them running while in the background. I use NetMeter to check the CPU activity via the 'show tasks' option.

I use Dolphin all the time, and unfortunately on my Eris it did have a tendency to have 2-3% background CPU activity which correlated to the ads on the bookmarks screen; i.e. if you visited the bookmarks screen 3 or more times it would then consume 2-3% of CPU activity until you exited Dolphin.

My solution was to purchase the Dolphin Plus thingy which removed the ads and solved that issue for me. There is still one other issue which I haven't tracked down, and it's kinda weird. When I leave Dolphin on google.com it sucks up 8% of CPU cycles. I haven't found another site which does that, so I would suggest not to use google.com as your start page on Dolphin.

Pandora was another app where the advertisements caused 2-3% CPU cycles in the background, so beware of that if you leave it running while paused. My solution to that was to upgrade my account to Pandora One which removes the ads and also got rid of that extra CPU activity.

There was another app I used the other day. Hmm what was it? Honestly I don't remember but it was using a significant bit of CPU while idling. I suspect that they all use the same advertising API and it leaks or something or otherwise doesn't know how to handle background or sleep modes very well.

Anyways, since fixing those issues my Eris runs with minimal drain during the day whereas I was constantly charging before. Ha ha, not sure why I'm in the Droid forum.

went thru all that for nothing...using an eris. lol