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Power management has android heard of it ?

in windows 6.5 you can ajust the power level of wifi, with battery status you can see this power level, is there a program that does this in android ? and why are there 50 programs that all they do is turn off why fi when you unplug it what a waste of my time.
seriously need to fix the market so it actual has a decent search option is pathetic quite frankly.

I've no idea what you mean by adjust power level of wifi. However there are some advanced options. Hit menu when you go into the wifi settings. Most people don't realise they are there.
Also try Wifi Analyzer from the market - it may have some options you are looking for, although I can't work it out from your post.

Tasker & Ultra Power Saving question

Hey! I wanted to know if there was a way to set up a tasker profile to activate ultra power saving mode, once I hit a certain battery percentage..( would've posted this in the tasker forum, but, to my knowledge, only the note 4 has ultra power saving mode.)

ybwen said:
Hey! I wanted to know if there was a way to set up a tasker profile to activate ultra power saving mode, once I hit a certain battery percentage..( would've posted this in the tasker forum, but, to my knowledge, only the note 4 has ultra power saving mode.)
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i dont think tasker can do this automatically but you should be able to do it with some additional programming. Example - you can simulate screen input (screen tapping) so you can set a profile to open the settings, go to power saving option and enable it. Downfall is that you need the screen on, in order to do this, which you can use tasker to automate as well.

Is there a way to disable high precision location (GPS) on Android Pie?

I would like to leave a coarse location-based app running in foreground. Is there a way to somehow disable the GPS from running? Having GPS on constantly would destroy the battery life. In the past (Oreo and before), I could solely use Wifi/Cell to provide coarse location in battery-saving mode, but this no longer seems possible in Android 9.0 Pie.
Anyone have a solution? I'd hate to have to switch back to Oreo.
Samsung Galaxy S9+ rooted with magisk. So if there's some module that can shut-off the GPS radio while leaving wifi/tower location enabled I would be interested.
Thanks!

fyi...
The old battery saving option seems to be there.
On the Pixel phones you can enable it via "developer options" -> "featured flag"
Samsung decided to ditch this feature flag, why i don't know.
But with tasker and my unrooted S9 i could enable the battery saving mode.
Although you can't verify i think it works.
As i use Life360 which triggers the GPS when opened and haven't seen the GPS icon since i toggled to battery saving mode.
So as lomg as it works i'm happy.
Task:
Location Mode - > Mode: battery Saving

V6-Maniac said:
fyi...
The old battery saving option seems to be there.
On the Pixel phones you can enable it via "developer options" -> "featured flag"
Samsung decided to ditch this feature flag, why i don't know.
But with tasker and my unrooted S9 i could enable the battery saving mode.
Although you can't verify i think it works.
As i use Life360 which triggers the GPS when opened and haven't seen the GPS icon since i toggled to battery saving mode.
So as lomg as it works i'm happy.
Task:
Location Mode - > Mode: battery Saving
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Can you please explane by steps, never used Tasker Im quiet lost I coudn't find the steps you mentionned, thx a lot !

It aint that hard.
At the moment no time to make a guide.
1. Install tasker app from playstore
2. Give Tasker as described in their thread via ADB write privilege.
3. Create a task on action "Location mode" and let it do battery saving.

V6-Maniac said:
It aint that hard.
At the moment no time to make a guide.
1. Install tasker app from playstore
2. Give Tasker as described in their thread via ADB write privilege.
3. Create a task on action "Location mode" and let it do battery saving.
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Thank you

Battery Power Mode

Seems that theres a lack of changeable options for.power modes
If you select Medium Power Save it has the option to turn on/off 5G, Always on Display and limit CPU.
But if you activate theres other settings like Higher System Speed (which i assume is different from Refresh Rate because this is also listed at the bottom as restricted to 60hz )
So how do we turn on/off these other settings? I'd like to have medium power save with higher system speeds on.

I don't think you can modify some of those things with medium power saver on unfortunately. There seem to be some settings that are core to the medium power saving that must provide some of the main power saving them the rest is optional.

bloomylicious said:
I don't think you can modify some of those things with medium power saver on unfortunately. There seem to be some settings that are core to the medium power saving that must provide some of the main power saving them the rest is optional.
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I switched to optimised now, Medium Power is good but seems that calendar doesn't sync even if you manually press sync in the calendar app. Says not available in Medium Power Save mode. And trying in accounts settings, what was deleted from another family member on shared calendar doesn't delete on my screen unless i switch Power mode and resync.
Annoying.

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I switched to optimised now, Medium Power is good but seems that calendar doesn't sync even if you manually press sync in the calendar app. Says not available in Medium Power Save mode. And trying in accounts settings, what was deleted from another family member on shared calendar doesn't delete on my screen unless i switch Power mode and resync.
Annoying.
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I'm running medium power with 120Hz and calendar sync, to do that for know I just downloaded Google calendar and hide it from app drawer, that one takes care the sync until Samsung hopefully release update that allow sync, because it was the same with the S10 but after one update it worked to sync calendar with medium power mode.

Is there anyway to add app to Power Saving Mode in Note 10+

I have tried to root and use UPSM manager to add app to power saving mode. When I choose apps and click save, it said saved successfully but when I restart and go into power saving mode, I cannot see all what I have chosen, still the limited default apps shown and I still have to choose again which app I want to use and I cannot add more than what they allow there. (If you want to add more, you will have to remove the current in the list and get space for new one )
Is there any other solution that works ? Thank you !

Maybe bixby routines?

how will I add app in bixby routines and will that still work in Maximum Power Saving mode in note 10+ ?

I don't let bixby run, lol read it's eula.
Just know from what I see here that's it's pretty capable.
There's also the Macrodroid app, it may be able to do that.
You know that going into max power saving mode really screws up the display settings when you come out of it? It does on my version, that glitch may have been corrected.

I checked Macrodroid and looks like it is an app for automation. Still cant figure out how that will be able to serve my purpose to add more app in power saving mode ?
(If power saving mode could help me to save battery while I still can use all the most frequent apps I need, then I don't bother coming out of it, and so the display etc.)

You want a custom app list for the power saving mode.
Both Bixby and Macroandriod are for setting up routines. Both use a fair amount of battery.
Beyond that the other issue may be dependencies that the apps you want to run need apks that are deliberately shutdown to conserve power in the maximum power savings mode.
That's one reason it can save power so well.
Specifically what app(s) do you want to run?

I want at least these app:
- Whatsapp
- Messenger
- Covid tracing app (for entrance)
- Bus timing
- Outlook
- Camera
- Home camera
- And if possible: Spotify, and one or 2 apps more also for working.

nobtiba said:
I want at least these app:
- Whatsapp
- Messenger
- Covid tracing app (for entrance)
- Bus timing
- Outlook
- Camera
- Home camera
- And if possible: Spotify, and one or 2 apps more also for working.
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It's not happening is my opinion. You got a bunch of apps that are constantly polling the internet.
I won't even let WhatsApp on my devices. As for Covid, I'm in Texas and we're already over that junk.
Maximum power savings mode means minimum functionality. A major reason you're chewing up so much power are the social apps running in the background. I have none on my phone; if I can't use a site through the browser, I won't use it.
FB, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc are all data miners and not to be trusted.
My SOT ranges from 7-13%@hr in Optimized power setting. >.5%@hr at night with tap on AOD with phone/internet connected on my N10+'s.
These devices are also heavily optimized so it's more than just not having the social media apps.

I tried power saving with all these apps mentioned above (when I need some app I just use edit button then edit and remove one app to get space for other app in power saving mode) and I have my phone lasting from 8am to mid night. So good enough for me I believe. Now I only need a way that I do not need to remove, add them

Any body has a solution?