[SGVLUG] New Linux Tablet

[Matthew Campbell]

Good pull Julie, that is indeed where you find the battery/app
breakdown.  Other widgets and apps can pull up that same display.

Tom, you can kill rogue apps from settings -> Applications -> Manage
Applications -> Appname

Matt

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Julie <tearsea88 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A single charge unplugged at 9am would be about 50% charged by 7pm if I don't
> make that much calls or use my phone much during that time period.  So I think
> it really depends on a lot of factors.  I know the new Yahoo Mail app is a total
> battery drainer.
>
> As for how to find that nice percentage number Matthew said, go to your phone
> settings, select "about phone" and one of the option is "battery use".  Again,
> this can be slightly different from one Droid to another.  And on mine, it said
> my wifi only use about 3% of my battery.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tom Emerson <starman9x at gmail.com>
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 8:56:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] New Linux Tablet
>
> I stopped in to the verizon store this evening and asked - the
> official sales stance is "6-8 hours of use" per charge.  He couldn't
> tell me the actual capacity of the battery, nor was it
> displayed/written anywhere that I could see.
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It does drain the battery.  On the Android there is a nice utility
>> that reads your phone logs and prints out a nice shiny pie chart of
>> what used your battery today.
>
> is that in the market?  [what app is it?]  I know for the droid you
> can get (some?) information from the "settings" app / "battery
> manager" panel.  this shows the current state-of-charge, and tapping
> the battery picture shows you the useage "since it was last unplugged"
> (in other words, when "running on the mains", it doesn't appear to log
> it, but then, does it matter?)
>
>> Mine is:
>> 55% display light
>> 17% cellular network
>> 22% wifi network
>> 6% cpu
>
> I've not seen cell/wifi come up on mine when I've checked (most
> "applications" are between 2-5%, the OS seems to be 5-7%, and the
> display, like yours, hits upwards of 50% - interestingly, I saw an app
> that I didn't realize "was still running", and it was chewing up 12%!
> time to consider a task killer...) [and yes, I know "that can make
> things worse..."]  supposedly, clicking the "back" button (to get to
> the main screen) will tell the app to "stop" after a short while, but
> clicking the "home" button puts apps in the background/idle state and
> will NOT stop them until memory is tight.  this UI really needs and
> explicit "I'm done with this app, now kill it" button...
>
> anyway, back to the galaxy - took me a while until I could find an app
> where I could "type" on the on-screen keyboard to see how well it
> would work in a note-taking situation.  with auto-correct on, it did
> fairly well (but I would recommend proofreading all the same)  then I
> tried the voice dictation...
>
> so, I said, "how well does this take audio notes if you are in a noisy
> environment where you cannot talk too loudly"
>
> it chewed on that a moment, and entered "this is a TEST" - well
> how-de-doo, boys - it understood WHAT I was doing :)
>
> so, I said, "now THAT is FUNNY", and it came back with "nasa" - great,
> just what the world needs - an electronic comedian to take notes for
> you...
>
>
>
>
>



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