Battery Life Poorer Since 0.60 On Smartphone

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It might just be me, but my battery life seems to suddenly be much poorer
since installing 0.61 & 0.62 on my Smartphone.

It's possible something else is going on with my phone, but I don't really
think so.  Posting here to see if others are showing similar signs.

I'm going to let it ride for a couple more days and then revert back to
0.60 to see how that performs.  I'll let you know.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by craig.la...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2009 at 7:25

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I've noticed this too. I think it's because PT is using less memory and thus 
has a
better shot at staying open longer while in the background.

Original comment by netbym...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2009 at 9:33

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Battery usage is one of those things that's damn near impossible to nail down, 
and I
can't think of much I would have done for .61 that would have changed it.  

The only thing I can think of is some manual Garbage Collection I implemented 
as a
quick-fix for reducing memory usage.  I've removed that in the latest dev build.

If you can try and compare the latest dev build (http://is.gd/1do7) against 
.62, let
me know if it helps any with the battery life.

Original comment by jakestevenson on 26 Jan 2009 at 3:02

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Yesterday @ this time I got my battery alert after 5 hours of normal use. Today 
I'm
still @ 70% battery with 0.60. 

Installed dev build today at lunch and my phone was dead before I got home.  It
wasn't the most fair test, so I'm going to give it another shot tomorrow.

The battery drain is really significant to me.  I'm surprised more people have 
not
been commenting on it.  I hope it's not something that's just isolated to my 
phone. 
That would suck.

Normally battery life for my crappy Smartphone (Verizon SMT5800) is about 9 - 10
hours for normal usage (thanks largely in part to the data).  I'm lucky to get 5
hours running anything after 0.60.

I'll report my findings tomorrow with another day using the dev build.

Original comment by craig.la...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2009 at 10:14

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I really haven't seen more of a drain on my mogul -- it's off the charger from 
7AM to
7PM.

Are you getting a lot of communication errors?  I look forward to hearing 
whether the
dev build was any better.

Original comment by jakestevenson on 29 Jan 2009 at 1:45

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Almost four hours of use and I got my battery alert using the dev build.  I 
have been
seeing quite a few communications messages pop up, but 0.60 seems fine.

Dunno.  Guess I'll stick with 0.60 for now and hope that something gets 
revealed in
the future.

Original comment by craig.la...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2009 at 3:45

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Are you changing any settings from the default?  Have you enabled any 
notifications?

Original comment by jakestevenson on 29 Jan 2009 at 4:29

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Ok, here are my settings for the Smartphone:

Manage Accounts

   craig_lambert (just the one twitter account)

Avatar Settings

   Show Avatars Selected
   High-Quality Avatars Selected

UI Settings

   Max Length:  100
   Show Times Selected
   Clickable Links Selected
   Merge all Timelines Selected
   Theme:  Highlight Blue

Other Settings

   Automatically Check New Version Selected
   Automatic Update:  10 Minutes
   Configure Notifications (untouched and blank)

That should do it.  Let me know if I can do anything else for ya.

Original comment by craig.la...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2009 at 5:05

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The merge timelines may adversely affect battery life.  It takes a good bit of
computation to mix all three sets of items together!

Do you have any notifications enabled?

Original comment by jakestevenson on 29 Jan 2009 at 5:18

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Nah, no notifications.  I did, but it just would go off every 10 minutes 
anyway.  :)
 I still like the feature.

Tomorrow I'll run the dev build again without the timelines merged and report 
back to
you.

Original comment by craig.la...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2009 at 5:51

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Doesn't having 2 screen names invoke the same merging routine that the
friends/messages timeline does? If it does I've had 2 accounts set up in PT for 
a
while without a battery life problem. Now it seems to be eating mine up. To 
test this
I only had PT open during lunch today. I came home with a lot more battery than 
usual.

Original comment by netbym...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2009 at 12:38

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I think I finally found the problem.  A bug in the popup-notification 
("Updating..."
and "Communication Error") caused the screen to constantly redraw itself several
times a second.  I'm really surprised this did NOT affect my battery 
noticeably, it
definately should.

I have fixed it in the dev build (http://is.gd/1do7) as of 10:00 central time.  
You
may want to download it and try it to be sure it helps for you.

Original comment by jakestevenson on 30 Jan 2009 at 3:56

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Definitely a lot better.  Thanks so much.  I got about 7 hours before the 
battery
alert came up.  I thought it was completely charged, but there is a chance it 
wasn't.

Regardless, I saw a noticeable improvement.  I'd swear I could just watch the 
battery
drain from it before.  :)

Awesome job.  I love this ap!

Original comment by craig.la...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2009 at 11:29

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Fixed in v.63

Original comment by jakestevenson on 31 Jan 2009 at 7:31

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