Why Your Phone Battery Dies So Fast
via The Surprising Reason Your Phone’s Battery Life Drains.
Sick of watching your battery icon seemingly go as fast as a stoplight from green to yellow to red? It could well be all the apps you have installed — even the ones you aren’t using.
A team of researchers at Purdue University released a study to TechNewsDaily that thoroughly examines what dozens of popular apps are doing on Android phones, and what many of them are doing wrong. (Though the study was only on Google’s Android operating system, the researchers say that they can do the same for Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows phone operating systems.)
Apps turn on parts of the phone, such as the processor, the GPS or the camera, when they need them, which is normal. But by digging into the code of apps, the researchers often found what they call “no-sleep energy bugs,” mistakes in the program that fail to turn the components off when they are done. Unlike computers, which are often plugged in and “awake” most of the time, smartphones try whenever possible to be in a “sleep” mode to save precious battery life.
I’m sure that doesn’t facilitate anyone from remoting into your phone…
n interesting thing about buying cell phones over here in the muddled East is that the IP of the phone is not registered to anyone which is why terrorists in the U.S. are often captured with many, if not hundreds, of cell phones. One buys a cell phone over here and then buys an appropriate chip for that phone for which you lay down cash and walk away! I find that the phones cannot be charged with minutes in the U.S. but if enough time is loaded into the phones over here in say, Kuwait or UAE the phones will work in the U.S. just fine as long as the minutes last and the FED cannot identify the IP of the phone nor to whom it belongs. It can still be monitored by the NSA or other acronyms though but the owner cannot be identified.