How does it boost the battery ? How does it work ?
To save battery, 2 concept are used :
- The night mode : you define a range of time for the night. Then during the night,
the communication will be cut. So the battery will stop decrease. Go to
the statistic to see that the battery was saved. If not, you have
another application or process wich drain your battery
- The day mode
: when your screen is off, the internet mobile network is cut. No 3G
data. Your phone is disconnect from Internet and thus consume less
Can I help you to improve this software ?
Yes. Today, I need
- people which can do a better translation that now in any languages. Please, send me an email, then I will send you the file to translate
- all your suggestions
- encouragements
Why there is some strange things in the graph ?
- First, the graph is still in development. I have a lot of idea to improve it
- Second,
today the metrics are written on each minute. That means if you trigger
different actions on 1 mn, Battery Booster is not yet able to treat
these information correctly
- On
Android 1.5, there are limitations on getting the event
POWER_CONNECTED.
So, if you have an Android 1.5, a inactive background service is
created and a periodic alarm of 5 mn is set in order to catch the
information POWER_CONNECTED. But it is done only when the screen
is on. So you battery will not decrease with this function.
I want an option to shutdown
completly the mobile instead of cutting communication
The user interface is already ready for this. Unfortunately, it is not
possible for technical reason :
- The kit of developpement don't give the possility of
shutting down the
mobile. If somebody know a solution to get arround this limitation,
please
write me. I will be grateful
- There is no possibility to program a wake up interruption
which will stay alive when Android is off. So, the mobile can not start
automatically
How to
avoid to put the code pin request at each wake-up from hibernation ?
The kit of developpement don't give the possility of filling the code
pin or to avoid the code pin message when the mobile want to register
to a phone network. So far, there are the following
possibility :
- You can continue to fill the code pin manually. But this
software will lost interest
- You
can disable the pin code in :
- Open Android application menu
- Settings
- Security and location
- Set up SIM card lock
- Disable Lock
SIM card.
Be aware that disable the SIM card lock will decrease the
security of your phone. I did it, but it is a personnal choice
- You
can let the gsm communication (phone call and sms short message). The
drawback is that the efficiency of Battery Booster will decrease a lot.
But if you want to do it :
- Open Battery Booster
- Night mode
- Open the menu and select show advanced options
- Do not cut gsm (phone)
- Check Do not cut gsm (phone)
- I have 2 little other ideas to avoid this problem, but it is
complicated to implement it. It will arrive in a undefined delay.
My internet connection in 3G does not work any more
There is one case where you can lost your 2G/3G connection:
- you are in hibernation
- and you have the option : "do not cut gsm" enabled
- and you uninstall Battery Booster
You can check and restore it manually by:
- Open Android application menu
- Run Settings application
- Wireless controls
- Mobile networks
- Access Point Names
- If you see [disable], then you have to rename all strings to remove the [disable] letters. If not, Battery Booster is not responsible of your issue.
To avoid this issue : disable Battery Booster before uninstall it
Why is there less updates ?
There are several reasons to explain why there are less update than before:
- Until march 2010, I was working in this project all days. Since march, I have a new job and I don't have the time to work on it
- All main features was already developped. I am now workinng on the bug fixing mainly
- I
have some very good idea to add very good features, but it is some big
feature. As I said, I do not have enough time to work on it