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Coding for Life--Battery Life, That Is Jeff Sharkey May 27, 2009 Post your questions for this talk on Google Moderator: /events/io/questions Why does this matter? Phones primarily run on battery power, and each device has a battery budget When its gone, its gone Apps need to work together to be good citizens of that shared resource Current measured in mA, battery capacity in mAh HTC Dream: 1150mAh HTC Magic: 1350mAh Samsung I7500: 1500mAh Asus Eee PC: 5800mAh Where does it all go? Source: Values measured using an industrial power monitor at 5kHz sampling rate, and taking average power with lowest standard deviation. Where does it all go? How do these numbers add up in real life? Watching YouTube: 340mA = 3.4 hours Browsing 3G web: 225mA = 5 hours Typical usage: 42mA average = 32 hours EDGE completely idle: 5mA = 9.5 days Airplane mode idle: 2mA = 24 days What costs the most? Waking up in the background when the phone would otherwise be sleeping App wakes up every 10 minutes to update Takes about 8 seconds to update, 350mA Cost during a given hour: 3600 seconds * 5mA = 5mAh resting 6 times * 8 sec * 350 mA = 4.6mAh updating Just one app waking up can trigger cascade What costs the most? Bulk data transfer such as a 6MB song: EDGE (90kbps): 300mA * 9.1 min = 45 mAh 3G (300kbps): 210mA * 2.7 min = 9.5 mAh WiFi (1Mbps): 330mA * 48 sec = 4.4 mAh Moving between cells/networks Radio ramps up to associate with new cell BroadcastIntents fired across system Parsing textual data, regex without JIT How can we do better? Networking Check network connection, wait for 3G or WiFi Networking How can we do better? ConnectivityManager mConnectivity; TelephonyManager mTelephony; // Skip if no connection, or background data disabled NetworkInfo info = mConnectivity.getActiveNetworkInfo(); if (info == null || !mConnectivity.getBackgroundDataSetting()) { return false; } Check network connection, wait for 3G or WiFi Networking How can we do better? // On