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I use the HTC 'battery use' widget to see what is taking up my battery power. This afternoon I installed and then chose to uninstall SMSpop, Handsent and two notes applications. After I did the typing on my keyboard got really slow so I turned the phone off (soft reset). When I turned it back on it ran very fast - faster than I've experienced before - but when I looked in the battery use widget I noticed that the only items listed were Display, Wifi and Cell Standby. I thought that was weird, as 'Android System' is usually first on the list, taking the most power, so I went into Settings --> Applications --> Manage Applications --> Running and looked at the Android System info.

Every value is 0.0B - for Storage and Cache.

Does anyone know what has happened? I don't understand why the battery isn't showing the Android System, as running I'm applications on the phone, or why the values are now 0.0B.

I'm rather worried and would appreciate any insight.
 
As seeing its been a couple days, is your phone still running fine? I would check it again after another soft reset or two and see what's up. But if your phone is still running, I would think you're good...I think it probably would have died otherwise?
 
Hi, Thank you for replying. Yes, my phone is still running. There's still no sign of 'Android System' using any battery power so seemingly I don't need it? I'm thinking that the Android System shouldn't have been using that much power and the soft reset fixed it.

Since I did the soft reset and also followed some battery saving tips my phone is now running way faster and the battery is lasting a lot longer. I'm currently at 45% battery at 23hrs 45mins use, including 9hrs 50mins with wifi on. So very happy, albeit a bit confused!
 
Well that's good it hasn't crashed. I would presume that your phone has no issues, and that either your phone is still using Android System and is silly and doesn't display its usage, or it isn't supposed to display its usage but it did that one time. Either way I think you're fine.

Just curious, what kind of battery savers are you using?
 
In an effort to increase battery life, I have:

- Installed the 'Power control' widget so I can quickly turn on/off wifi, syncing, GPS, bluetooth (& don't have them on if not using them)

- Turned off background syncing in 'Accounts & sync' for Facebook for HTC/News/Stocks/Twitter/Weather, as I don't need them. I have gmail on auto sync.

- Turned off automatic updates for all the things I don't need (Peep, Latitude, News etc) by going into each app & checking settings The only one I couldn't turn off completely is Facebook, which I've set to once a day.

- Make use of the 'scenes' function. If I'm at home I have my pretty colourful home background. If I'm out I turn on a cool mostly black home background with only a few icons (which is how I like it - I have all game apps on the screen to the right & all setting icons on the screen to the left).

- Turned off animations (I didn't notice them anyway?)

- Turned off vibrate alerts (can activate through silent mode if needed) & haptic feedback.

- Set the screen brightness below the 'auto' level & I turn it right off at night when I'm mucking around with the phone before bed - It's plenty bright enough although it does go an annoying slightly purple colour rather than grey tones.

- Set screen time out to 30secs & I push the power button to turn the screen off when I'm done anyway, so that's less than 30secs on.

- Also I uninstalled Task Killer and noticed no ill-effect.

- And I experience increased speed when I turned on 'USB debugging' under Settings --> Applications --> Development and used the USB to charge. I don't really know what this is but I saw it as a fix for phones that became slow after installing 2.2. It made my phone super fast immediately after I did it. It is now slower but still faster than it was.

And that is all I can think of!
 
Okay, some of those are really good.

With the scenes, are you having to manually change them every time you go somewhere else? That sounds like a hassle to me.

And I agree about task killer. I could have sworn it helped, but it might've been the fact that I did other battery savers around the same time.

USB Debugging is weird...I'm pretty sure its for app developers, but it works to help performance. Why didn't they just build whatever it does into the system?
 
Yes, you do have to manually change the scene but it's not a hassle. You just push 'Menu' button while on the home screen then 'Scenes', pick your alternative screen then 'Save'. It then switches over. It takes maybe 20 secs total? I just do that in the morning if I'm out for the day and won't be near a power source.

The USB thing is weird but I'll roll with it!
 
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