I have an application that runs a background service. This background service wakes and runs once every 2 seconds. The background service registers as a listener with the orientation sensor with the lowest possible rate of event delivery (application). When my service thread wakes it uses the latest value delivered by the sensor events, so there is no heavy-weight processing being done on the sensor thread. Furthermore, the background thread is doing very light processing when it wakes.
I've done tests that show that my background thread poses very minor power overhead, somewhere around 3%. The test was basically: charge to 100%, leave phone on for two hours with service running, record battery level. Repeat with service off and compare. However "Battery Usage" of my application is listed as some insanely high value (e.g., 40%). Over the same two hour period of the test, CPU usage was less than 3 seconds. What does "battery usage" mean? In my case, it clearly isn't an indication of "battery drain", but that is what the stat seems to imply. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
