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SCREEN and PHONE IDLE Eating Up Battery

It will be much easier to interpret these numbers if you provide a bit more context: how long since the phone was unplugged from the charger and how much of that time was the screen on for? To me 20% of usage by the screen sounds low, which suggests that you've not used the phone much and it spends most of its time on standby (which also means that you'd expect standby usage to be significant).

The screen is really the most power-hungry item in any phone, so high % of power being used by the screen is normal. If I use a 3rd party battery monitor on my phone (because the battery information in Settings on a Pixel 2 running Android 11 is frankly useless) it tells me that my screen is responsible for 67% of my power usage on this charge cycle. Though as different apps (including the manufacturer's own battery monitoring) may use different ways of calculating these things the answer can depend on which app you use.

(As for my phone's Battery settings, Google are actually worse than Apple these days at telling you things like what actually uses the battery. I think they really want you to not think about what's going on on your phone, just trust them and turn your brain off - which, given their business model, is perhaps not surprising).

How to get camera intent record automatically video when launched ?

Hello everybody,
I can't find anywhere information on how to get camera intent record automatically video when launched.
This is what I use to get the intent but still user has to press the record button. Is it even possible to automate something like this using camera intent or I have to build my own version of camera app.

findViewById(R.id.btn).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@override
public void onClick(View v) {
Intent recordVideo = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE);
startActivity(recordVideo);
}
});

Help How to stop whatsapp deleting the messages

I don't know as I've never done this. Thoughts that occur to me:

* What happens if you reboot the phone? That will certainly interrupt what WhatsApp is doing now, the question is whether it will remember what it was doing? If it doesn't then you can stop it that way (force-stopping WhatsApp might also do this). But I don't know whether this will work.

* Backups: WhatsApp should be keeping a daily backup of chats (7 days I think) in internal storage (WhatsApp/Databases for the chats). It may have a backup in Google Drive if you set that up. What I don't know is whether deleting a chat will delete any media (WhatsApp/Media folder in your internal storage) - you may want to take a copy of the contents of that folder in case.

Implementing a NN created on PC on Galaxy s21

Hi
I will first denote that I am a total beginner, so please be gentle ;)

I was asked the next question:
I have a NN for finding objects that run at 30 fps, on an NVIDIA RTX2070 GPU (or in general a standard desktop GPU). Given that the RTX2070 power consumption for that NN is 175 watts, what will be the power consumption for that NN after we optimize it and run it on the GPU of a galaxy S21?

I will like to mention that this question could be missing information required to know the exact solution (on purpose). Thus, what I am actually looking for (besides an answer) is to understand the process, meaning what is the optimization of the NN?, what are the actions required to "move" a NN to a mobile device?, how can I evaluate the power consumption required to run an NN?, are there maybe some known ratios between PC GPU's and mobile GPU's?
and any other thing you think is relevant.

Thank you very much in advance

The Blacker Hole

I don't know about an actual black void, but we had another recent thread about a screen protector causing a visible circle on the screen, which a salesperson claimed was the screen rather than the screen protector. And when @jack58 replaced the screen protector the problem went away (and this was also an s21).

So I suspect that your supervisor just doesn't want to admit they made a bad purchase (even to themself).
I have the S21+ 5G
Yeah, I went back in to T- Mobile store and let the salesperson and the supervisor know they were flat wrong... showed them my new glassfusion screen protector from Zagg and asked them "Where is the Dang hole?" They made no comment, just smiled. They had the balls to tell me that all new android phones do that. Really, do I look that stupid???

Screen protector for Samsung SM G360V

Yesterday I cracked my screen protector for my Samsung SM-G360V Galaxy Core Prime, and want a new one. For whatever reason, I am having trouble finding a screen protector for the SM G360V, but I am finding a lot of results for the SM G360 (without the V at the end).

Do those two phones have the same dimensions--at least for the area of coverage that I need? Can I apply a screen protector designed for the SM G360 and use it on my SM G360V?

"V" meaning it's the Verizon variant of this phone doesn't it? That's what I've read about US carrier variants of Samsung phones. AFAIK it's physically the same dimensions as other variants of the SM-G360, and so screen protectors should fit no problems.

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