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[PRJ] longest battery power for each rom/radio/hardspl

Hi,
I read a lot about different hardspls and radios together with different roms result in faster or slower battery drain... But nobody really knows which is the best hardspl or radio combination for any rom.
that's why I set up a little website which could help with this..
http://www.smartwebdesign.ch/ppcbatt/
It's only very simple by now.. I don't want to put real work in it until I know what you think about!
If it's beeing used I will add a search interface for sure.. but for now I just want to know what you think and if people are willing to enter data...
Suggestions are highly welcome!
Greets Chaelli

nice intention
i think you should have a required field for the location where the phone is usedand the provider(some combinations work good in some regions/orivuders)
and the first fields should be drop down ones, to be able to select previously created entries, or create a new one(to be able to sort and filter data )
le:
it would be a good ideea , for all users to use the same tool to measure battery drain in standby, and with the screen turned on at maximum brightness
this would be an emphiric way of measuring battery drainage.

if you want accurate data, then only certified people can enter data into the site.
as mentioned, there are many variables, network, age of phone, how warm it is even.
dont think its possible personally, but a good idea.

Is there any software that can do a battery of tests on WinMo? Perhaps all chefs can cook them into their Roms so that it would launch right after the initial setup before any cabs are installed and perform the tests and at the end a summary will be displayed.

thx for the feedback!
@ravest: I will add these fields but not groub by them yet (useless until there is more data) - but I will add a possibility to show the details for every device/rom/radio where you can see these things (including the comments)
@others: I also thought about measuring.. but I don't think people will take the time to measure this exactely - that's why I've chosen to use a subjective measurement - usually one has a pretty good idea how one configuration works compared to another one (with the same usage pattern - which is usally not depending on the configuration but on the person...
I know that this is not good science.. but IF we get a lot of data I think the results would be usefull...

The only way to confirm battery life is in a laboratory, with the handset linked directly to certified test equipment and kept at constant transmitter/receiver levels.
Any public database of random opinions will be much less useful than individuals trying out all the different radio/ROM's for themselves.
As others have mentioned before there are too many variables on the way people use their phones, and different networks etc etc.

@optimiser: of course you are right - but I never intended to get an exact value - but an average user-feeling. People can compare different configurations on their personal phones !usually with other variables (like usage pattern, location, provider) staying stable! - and this is what's important.. one can compare the different configurations against each other

chaelli said:
@optimiser: of course you are right - but I never intended to get an exact value - but an average user-feeling.
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And therefore it is useless, as us humans, can't properly judge battery drain (which is measurable in mAmps) by "user feeling".
In order to measure battery drain you would need to set up a test procedure, which must include (beside the others) the following:
the same phone
the same period of time
same usage
and WORKING measurement tool. Not a software (because they tend to swtich of on standby mode) but plugged external measurement.
THEN you could approach some kind of fair measurement. Otherwise it's "how you feel", and as long as you are happy with your feelings, it's perfectly OK.
Cheers.

3G/Wireless connection monitor

I searched the forums but couldn't find any information, so i'm asking, is there such an application that monitors the connection you are using and displays info as to what application used what amount of data?
Pretty much something like spb wireless monitor for win.mo . I am using netcounter at the moment but it does not give detailed information about the amount of data used per application.
Thank you.

I used to use 3G Watchdog. Until I got unlimited data plan
It is a nice app (with widgets). It lets you define your monthly quota, monitor it, set some reminders when you reach xx % of your quota.
I'm not sure it can monitor the use of particular apps though. But for overall monitoring it's the best I've found.

I used that also but I was looking for an application that can show usage per application, just for my personal knowledge.
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me too - i think something like this would be really useful when investigating whats hammering your battery.
Maybe you could post a require in the development section

[Poll] Detailled Battery usage for each ROM.

Hello,
I just made a Public Google Doc sheet, where we can compare all the ROMs and battery drain to see wich one is working the best.
I hope that this form can be filled seriously and will show some interesting stuff.
The form is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDFfc0YtTGV5R0h1cnhOS1JfR3NKQmc6MQ#gid=0
and results here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhpXApcdNdskdDFfc0YtTGV5R0h1cnhOS1JfR3NKQmc&hl=en#gid=0
Please tell me if you want an acces to the sheet to edit and add some informations.
Thank a lot and I hope you won't find that stupid.

You should make it more clear what exactly should be on/off durung the test.
Having anything enabled besides the phone radio will increase the drain.
My experience varies between 0.4%/hour and 2%/hour depending on whether I enable mobile data and autosync or not for example.

Nice idea, but seem that that would be so complicated to present all the datas.
I am thinking that having the average score would be representative. Do you want the right to access the file to modify the form and add some extra informations?
Send me your email in PM.

Global variable make app or game slow ?

HI
there as you can see the title what i am looking for
Global variable make app or game slow ?
Thanks

No.
I don't know why it should. Using many global variable is not a good practice, you should avoid it but it shouldn't slow your app/game.

indietab said:
HI
there as you can see the title what i am looking for
Global variable make app or game slow ?
Thanks
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Yes they slow it because the global variables cannot be collected with the garbage collector, so the app or game becomes heavy.

The primary reason why global variables are discouraged in javascript is because, in javascript all code share a single global namespace, also javascript has implied global variables ie. variables which are not explicitly declared in local scope are automatically added to global namespace. Relying too much on global variables can result in collisions between various scripts on the same page. It is better to avoid them.

indietab said:
HI
there as you can see the title what i am looking for
Global variable make app or game slow ?
Thanks
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You should run test to see usage of your memory, to many globals with lots of data can slow you down. You should use it for constatnts.
Keep the memory optimal, and make sure you dont have any memory leaks.
Important, you need way to see memory usage.

In short: no
However, you should avoid having large variables arrays, lists, etc. that you do not use. As the global variables will always have a reference to them, the garbage collector doesn't destroy them (as mentioned before), so they keep occupying memory unless you clear them yourself (for example by setting them to null).
If you need the functionality (and the values contained in the variables), it doesn't really matter where you define them, just know that you have to delete them (variableRef = null) if you dont need them anymore...
Have fun.

indietab said:
HI
there as you can see the title what i am looking for
Global variable make app or game slow ?
Thanks
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I doubt it would

It's actually not possible to answer your question appropriately without more information. For example, if you have
Code:
window.x = 1;
at the beginning of your script then it won't slow anything down. If you have this though
Code:
window.x = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 999999999; i++) {
window.x.push("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ");
}
then that will obviously have an impact.
Also, do your variables *need* to be global, or do you not know a better way to do something, or are you just being lazy?
Context and a description would help, otherwise there's no correct answer.

Global variables could be painful about 10-15 years ago. Nowadays computing machines so fast and advanced, even if it makes slower, you won't feel it. Dont worry about your scripts, if you have got good algorythms. Visual effect and animations slow your app, think about it.
Also i advice to use Singleton class for storing globals

It's not really possible to answer this, not knowing exactly what are used as globals, but my first bet would be to say no, they won't slow down the app considerably unless you're storing "weird things" as globals. (For example, I don't think that having 10 booleans as globals would have measurable impact, it's another topic whether that would make any sense at all. Anyway, from what I know usually applications need to keep their state somehow and it's your job to figure out how to do that, using globals, singletons or whatever.) It's not going to be a good practice to overuse globals though, so I would avoid that to a degree.
More importantly you will need to learn how to detect the potential performance issues in your application: sometimes a badly written UI can cause much worse problems for sure, not to mention carelessly written networking routines etc.

Multiple user profiles for Internet Explorer are not possible? A workaround?

Greetings!
Hope you guys are doing well.
I don't have a background in IT so please excuse the wording and probably the incorrectly used terminology.
I was exploring the possibility of having multiple profiles with different browser settings for internet Explorer, more specifically a profile with flash plugin on and a seperate profile with flash plugin off, so that I don't have to go in the addons settings every time. You know for convenience purposes. I know that it is possible to adjust different settings for each new window but I don't want to do that every time.
I know that it is possible to define startup parameters for shortcuts, that once you run the application from a particular shortcut it launches with the included parameters. Please see the Picture, as I don't know how to properly explain myself. Replace the _ with . as I cannot post links since I am a new user.
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I am wondering are there parameters to turn off flash? Google was not helpful on this one. Could this be done, and if so then how?
Any help will be much appreciated as getting something like this to work would really increase my productivity.