Note 3: Interesting discovery regarding battery drain...

[anon24860]

How do you determine the size of your wallpaper? I've got a pretty large photo, taken directly from my gallery but cropped down from whatever app does that sort of thing (I'm assuming stock TW).

It's got to still be pretty big. And yet, I lose very little battery overnight. In fact, I'm up to over 8 hours max screen (7 hr+ average) and 1 day 2.4 hrs battery life. Of course, I'm on the Beans ROM.



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[anon24860]

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[cootiesboy]

I also disable bloatware like google+, amazon apps, etc that I don't use. I also had a drain before and found out that it was Google Chrome that was draining my battery so I deleted it. So it could be some rogue app that's draining your battery


One more thing, if you don't want to hold your home button you can download some type of floating icon that you can double tap to close your apps. The one I'm using (the floating light icon) is toucher pro which is free but I'm not sure if you need to install go launcher to use it.

 

[Frozen Corpse]

So if I move my 43 kb background image to my phone from my external, should I see a slight bump in battery life?


By the way, this is a great topic.

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[dustrho]

I made this wallpaper using Gimp which is about 6 KB in size. Feel free to use it on your phones.



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[Alain_A]

I made this wallpaper using Gimp which is about 6 KB in size. Feel free to use it on your phones.

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Doesn't matter what size. I took yours cropped it even smaller like 566 bytes. When I installed it, the phone bumped it up to 34 kb with a resolution of 1080?1920.
Also I have played with some other pic from my photo gallery. After making it small the phone always bumped it up to anywhere from 34 to 39 kb

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[dustrho]

Doesn't matter what size. I took yours cropped it even smaller like 566 bytes. When I installed it, the phone bumped it up to 34 kb with a resolution of 1080?1920.
Also I have played with some other pic from my photo gallery. After making it small the phone always bumped it up to anywhere from 34 to 39 kb

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Where do you actually see that happening? The image I'm using doesn't appear to have been altered in any way, still show as only being 6 KB in size.

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[Alain_A]

Where do you actually see that happening? The image I'm using doesn't appear to have been altered in any way, still show as only being 6 KB in size.

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Once you install it to your phone. create a new page without widgets on it then take a picture and look at the details from the gallery or photo.

The original being in your gallery will always shows 6 KB. Just like mine at 566 bytes.

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[anon24860]

2.2mb here. No widgets but the dock is there. The 2.2 seems to refer only to the shot itself. Doesn't seem to affect my battery life though.

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[Alain_A]

2.2mb here. No widgets but the dock is there. The 2.2 seems to refer only to the shot itself. Doesn't seem to affect my battery life though.

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The shot itself should still represent the original.
I'm thinking unless I think wrong.
The pic has to cover the entire screen. So probably the screen needs a certain amount of kb to cover it.


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[anon24860]

I'm thinking that the size represents the actual screenshot, not the size of the wallpaper. I still don't know how to tell how big the wallpaper is, but I'm sure it's pretty large since it's large enough to scroll through 5 screens. It's cropped down about half from the original 3.1mb, so I'm guessing it's about 1.5 mb.

I'm glad it doesn't really affect my phone that much.

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[dustrho]

Well, if we're talking about the file size of the home page after taking a screenshot of it, then mine is 327 KB. I only use 3 screens but will be condensing to just one very soon.

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[anon24860]

So, the size DOES refer to the image, not necessarily the size of the actual screenshot itself. Thanks.



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[Alain_A]

When I took my snapshot of one screen I only had one ( home page ) with a few widget and the second one no widget what so ever.

Humm interesting to see the home page for hours without widget.
Today I put a pic from my gallery which is 3.2 mb then charged the phone at 100% and used it as normal. For me only received on call and make 3. After 9.5 hours my phone went down of 14%. I think that's pretty good

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[Alain_A]

Ok removed all widget from home page. Let see what it does. Home page is the only I have right now

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[Alain_A]

According to this something is using wifi while it is turned off. Can't find what it is for now

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[Alain_A]

Found this

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[Alain_A]

Wifi being off for a few days now and still show active for 3 hrs +

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[Alain_A]

Why am i not seeing the last pic?

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[Alain_A]

Hummm

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