What widget would use less battery?

[Cwey55]

I used to use the Google Now widget on my home screen on my GS4 because I liked how it pretty much showed me everything I needed at the right times. Mainly the weather and my upcoming calendar events complete with navigation to those events if I put the address into the event.

So far I haven't activated Now on my G4 because I've been testing out Smart Notice, which I really haven't seen much benefit from but also haven't seen hardly any battery drain from it either which is good.

You think I'd see a dramatic drop in battery life if I ditched the LG widget and fired up Google Now? I'm thinking yes because it pulls info from more sources...

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[belodion]

Your reasoning seems sound to me. I've had Google Now disabled on other Androids for some time as part of an attempt to improve battery, but I liked it so much I think I'll fire it up again.

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[ansextra]

I tried the LG widget and launcher for the first few days I had the G4. Now I'm back to Nova and Google Now. I'm much happier.

 

[Cwey55]

Guess the only way to know is to try it out...

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[Jonneh]

I use the Google Now launcher since that's what I had on my Nexus 5.
I don't notice battery drain, but I can't compare mine to yours because I haven't experienced yours, lol.

 

[Cwey55]

I turned it on but it's almost the end of my day so we'll see if it sucks up the battery more tomorrow on a full normal use day.

 

[Fred Wilson2]

The OP is not talking about the Google Now launcher, rather the Google Now widget.



Fred

I use the Google Now launcher since that's what I had on my Nexus 5.
I don't notice battery drain, but I can't compare mine to yours because I haven't experienced yours, lol.

 

[Jonneh]

I know, but the Google Now launcher uses Google Now on the left-hand side constantly...so I guess I assumed (wrongly?) that it'd use the same amount of battery if it's pulling the same exact user info each time. I guess the widget could act differently than the real thing, though.

 

[Cwey55]

I was assuming the same thing. Nonetheless we'll see how it acts compared to the smart notice one...

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[Cwey55]

So far today, first day running the Google Now widget in place of the stock smart notice widget, have seen a bit faster battery draw, but it's tolerable because like I said I do use it more and get more information from it than I did smart notice, I also navigated (with location on GPS only) for about 25 minutes too so that's a contributor to be considered as well.

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