Hello all

[HellesAngel]

Nice to meet you all, virtually. Of course I'm here because something went wrong - a recent update has hosed the battery life of my HTC Desire which is a shame because up to that point the device had performed perfectly. I expect you all know why, and probably have a solution, at least that's what I'm hoping...

Perhaps one day I'll be posting solutions too. I've worked the past 15 years as an embedded software engineer writing operating system, platform and device driver software for a good number of the phones you see around you. Although I have zero knowledge about Android I'm pretty curious what goes on the inside, if only my day job didn't get in the way of so much interesting fiddling.

Cheers,
HellesAngel

PS. Helles is a type of beer in Bavaria, Germany.

 

[Steven58]

Hi, Welcome. I will move your query to the appropriate forum.

Steven

 

[uzetaab]

Here's a quote from my battery thread, it might solve your problem, but the whole post might prove useful.

Spare Parts:
By Android Apps
This app allows you to tweak a few things to increase battery life, like turning off some animations which consume more power. It also logs a lot usage history that can be useful.

It's best function is that it can list apps that put the phone into 'partial wake mode' which can drain a lot of battery.

Launch app>battery history>first drop down menu> partial wake useage

If it lists any apps that have very high usage, you might want to consider removing that app. Note that if you, for example, listen to a lot of music, then the usage for the music app will show very high. Not much you can do about this other than stop listening to music.

*note* there is a bug that some people experience where Calendar is listed with a very high partial wake, for a possible solution to this problem, try this thread:
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http://androidforums.com/65389-100-awake-time-short-battery-life.html#post589386