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2.1 OTA - Camera eating battery after close

Frisco said:
Hmm.. I just spent several minutes trying to make that bug happen: opened camera.. took two photos.. closed camera by "backing out".. checked battery usage and no camera listed.

I then tried to make the bug happen by doing the same thing, only instead of "backing out," I pressed the home key; no camera listed in the battery usage area.
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So to exit an application and close it you should back out by hitting the 'back' soft key? That does not appear to work for me. Any ideas?
 
This is the first time this has happened to me and I only give this a small percentage factor to be being related, but yesterday late afternoon/early evening, I was taking some pictures with the phone. Didn't check battery usage so this is pure speculation... Left phone on kitchen counter overnight and sometime through the night, the battery drained 100%. It had NO juice at all to even turn on for a few seconds. I had to plug it in and then turn it on.

Now, it shouldn't have been too low on charge else I or my wife would have plugged it in. My presumption is, it wasn't near the "it needs charge" range just yet.
 
dg370 said:
So to exit an application and close it you should back out by hitting the 'back' soft key? That does not appear to work for me. Any ideas?
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That was the first tip I ever received here in Android Forums.. it was OTD, waaaaayy back in the olden days. :D

Kidding aside, yep.. backing out instead of going to the home screen directly stops the application you were on from using more resources in the backgound.

As far as causing the camera to stop being detected by the battery use meter, I can't reproduce that bug in my 2.1 OTA so I don't yet know if it'll work for those of you with the bug.
 
I never use the Home button... always back out of things using the back button...

So it's been 21 hours since my last charge, the battery use for the camera is still reading 96%... and my battery is at 60% with normal use

This reading is just a cosmetic mistake... the camera isn't actually using the battery... I believe if your seeing this and also getting battery drain, then something else is causing it.
 
After a few days of playing with this, I've decided it's a non-issue for me. I can't replicate the problem I was having a few days ago. I'm still not happy with how quickly the battery drains, but I don't think I can blame the camera.

mdeblaz: The only times I've seen my camera battery usage high is when the camera is really left on. I have not seen my phone display the behavior you're describing (96% usage - but not really). I thought mine was doing that the other day, but can't duplicate it. Maybe your phone is just lying to you!
 
Frisco said:
Kidding aside, yep.. backing out instead of going to the home screen directly stops the application you were on from using more resources in the backgound.
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Only if the application was designed to operate that way. Many do not honor that method of exiting.
 
hallstevenson said:
Only if the application was designed to operate that way. Many do not honor that method of exiting.
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So I've noticed as I check the application manager from time to time.

I'm a bit pro-active when it comes to clearing caches and going in to force stop apps, though. I've seen advice posted saying not to force stop certain apps, but so far have not seen adverse affects from doing that nearly every day, often more than once a day.
 
Frisco said:
So I've noticed as I check the application manager from time to time.

I'm a bit pro-active when it comes to clearing caches and going in to force stop apps, though. I've seen advice posted saying not to force stop certain apps, but so far have not seen adverse affects from doing that nearly every day, often more than once a day.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one :p
 
Day 2 without the camera glitch. Just checked it and I'm starting to believe it's rectified itself somehow. I guess it's drifted off into the Andriod Ether.
 
Mine seems to be normal today too. I used the camera this morning, backed out. Usage started at about 13%, then has gradually decreased during the day. Oh well, either way didn't seem to affect my battery.
 
This is still a mystery to me (or simply just a bad meter reading). I rebooted my phone while traveling on a plane and haven't had the wrong camera reading in the battery use area as I described above since. I was in New Orleans for a few days and after the reboot, used my camera and the battery reading didn't come back...

But the plot thickens! I haven't turned my phone off since then... but did use Maps quite a bit to find my way around and now the WRONG reading - 91% usage - is designated to Maps. However, I have no battery drain, and the application obviously isn't running. My battery has been lasting me 2 days. I've used Maps a little bit since then, but not 91% of the time.

So it seems like the culprit App for this wrong battery usage reading is random...
 
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