I've been using samsung calendar clock widget for a week or so now and I've noticed considerable battery drain!!
I've removed the widget and everything's back to normal.
Has anyone experienced something like this?
I mean you would expect samsung widgets to be perfectly optimized for their own devices..
Well, widgets do drain bit of battery, set them to less frequent or manual sync. Also, I find the phone laggy after using 3-4 big widgets.
if u using only samsung calendar clock widget and there a BIG difference on ur battery drain it's not normal.
I think it also depends on a lot of other stuffs like, your firmware, your rom, and what kind of widget etc...
I've tested and tested and it's definitely samsung widget (calendar clock).
With it, battery drains in 6-7 hours with normal usage, and in battery check, it shows Android OS more than 50 percent..
I'm on JVK stock rom..
Maybe samsung has not yet finished optimizing their widgets or something..
I guess I'll have to use similar apps for now.
Anyone knows good apps/widgets like that?
Any help appreciated!
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i would like to know if on the hero rom(or any other rom) do widgets drain battery? obviously widgets that use network do but i am wondering about the ones like the messaging, photo and mail widgets that do not need network. thanks in advance.
I think so because they refresh at automated rates correct? So when it refreshes it will use some battery
Any widgets that self update or refresh require data connections, and since using a data connection is the most battery-intensive feature of the G1, widgets will take battery.
Actually, anything that has to be constantly updated (like a clock widget) or anything running in the background also takes battery, as it has to process CPU.
Hi,
My wife got a Milestone some weeks ago and we've noticed that the clock widget keeps getting late (the system clock is always perfectly in time) if the phone is inactive for some time or if it's been used a lot. I've installed another clock widget and the same thing keeps happening. I've tried both widgets on my Samsung Vibrant and this doesn't happen. Did this happen to anyone else?
thanks
Rafa
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Fancy Widget
There another clock and weather widget called Fancy Widget on the Android Market. I've used that widget on my Motorola Milestone and it works fine.
We've tried 2 clock widgets already and both had the same trouble.
We've just realized that all clock related apps are progressively getting late. The phones' stock clock is always on time, but all other apps are late. Any thoughts on where the issue is?
We´ve tested without the task killer and the issue persists. I was starting to think this could cpu related, but I think that´s impossible, otherwise there would be thousands of Milestone users complaining about this.
rawfa said:
We´ve tested without the task killer and the issue persists. I was starting to think this could cpu related, but I think that´s impossible, otherwise there would be thousands of Milestone users complaining about this.
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This doesnt happen to me...
I have used several clock widgets from the market and various roms.
How much is the time drift?
Sent from my Milestone using Tapatalk
The time drift is gradual. It starts with 1 minute and if it can go up to 10...but then if you lock the phone and then unlock it the system updates the time to the correct time.
Okay I am slightly new to the theming scene and have been tinkering around with my HTC Desire 2.2 with ADW Launcher, Go Launcher and Launcher Pro. It is safe to say I have ADD with the look of my phone.
Anyway and perhaps its just me, but I have noticed my battery draining faster since I have been using icons packs lately with desktop visualizer. Which basically make each icon a widget right? Now it is my understanding that widgets drain the battery. The stock launcher is on blank, so nothing is running on it, I also use minimal widgets to try and reduce battery drain too.
But I thought the widgets used by icons shouldn't add to power usage as they aren't "running" is that correct?
Thanks for any input!
Is it normal for action Launcher to take up 8% of my total app battery drain? I'm on the latest beta of action Launcher and the latest stable oxygen os, with Franco kernel and magisk installed.
I also have a static wallpaper, and no widgets except for the action Launcher clock widget. Shutters disabled, quick page disabled.
I used to have high battery drain with Nova launcher, then I reinstalled the launcher and the problem went away. Hasn't had any strange power usage since then. So try reinstalling and see if the problem persist.
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I used to have high battery drain with Nova launcher, then I reinstalled the launcher and the problem went away. Hasn't had any strange power usage since then. So try reinstalling and see if the problem persist.
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Thanks! I did that, and also replaced the two action Launcher clock and calendar widgets with the OnePlus digital clock widget, and now my battery drain is significantly lower. Do you know if Nova Launcher uses less battery in general than action?
Does anyone else notice clock widgets seem to freeze every so often so the time shows incorrectly? I've turned off battery optimisation for the widgets but it still does it
Not on mine... I use Beautiful widgets for the clock and it keeps on ticking (I don't lick my Note 9)....
Are you a 3rd party or the Smasung clock widget? I think I used Sony Xperia widget on my V20. It featured this behavior occasionally if I had not touched my phone for awhile. It would update itself after stretching out and yawning some more. My note9 with in house widget is not doing this.
Using better dashclock and another widget (that's the name lol)