Here are my numbers:
- Use background service only, no screen
- Location provider GPX
- Positioning interval 30 sec
- Wait for fix 90sec.
Battery consumption is 6% per hour in this fashion, giving me a full
day of tracking on my expeditions
On 22 Mai, 18:22, Victor Shcherb <
victor.shch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My rough numbers are :
> 1. 50% is screen
> 2. 30% GPS
> 3. 20% CPU (offline rendering). For sure if you use tile maps this
> percentage is much less.
>
> To drain your battery less you certainly need to use Background service.
>
> I definitely didn't see a problem taking into account consumption of :
> screen, GPS and mobile network.
>
> As I remember Android has special statistics based on GPS, Screen... feel
> free to provide more accurate numbers. These number highly depends on the
> device.
>
> Best Regards,
> Victor
>
> 2012/5/22 Horst Müller <
lungenfil...@googlemail.com>
>
>
>
> > Still, I think it's a good question if OsmAnd can do some things within
> > itself to save some battery.
>
> > For example: Would it be possible to produce some kind of pre-rendering?
> > That means, I know the area/route I want to follow. Still at home, I can
> > pre-render all of the necessary area and store it in a subdir. Following
> > the route OsmAnd simply reloads these pictures instead of rendering them
> > again.
>
> > Things like that. It wouldn't change the overall power need, but adjust it
> > better. At home I can plug in the power cord and don't have to worry about
> > energy consumption. Later on, I do.
> > I don't know if this would save battery or is programmable at all, I'm no
> > developer, sorry. But I think my main intention gets clear.
>
> > 2012/5/22 Robert Grant <
rgrant51...@gmail.com>
>
> >> Why not try using your phone in airplane mode with only Osmand background
> >> on and screen off? If you must have tracking, use the feature provided by
> >> osmand or another GPS only app like Strava. That's what I do for long
> >> battery. Just see if that helps.
>
> >> Robert
> >> --
> >> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> >> sanderd17 <
sander...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> You can't enable airplane mode when tracking with OsmTracker.
>
> >>> I think it's normal OsmAnd uses more battery: it has to render the maps
> >>> (hence use a lot more CPU or GPU power). Or download the tiles (so extra
> >>> power to the antenna). It has to calculate a route (more CPU power).
>
> >>> OsmAnd isn't a light application but I do agree that the numbers are a
> >>> bit high. I get the same numbers: tracking with OpenGpsTracker and
> >>> constantly following on the map with OsmAnd (not even routing): 82% of the
> >>> battery goes to OsmAnd and 12% to OpenGpsTracker.
>
> >>> On the other hand, these statistics might be a bit wrong. I don't know
> >>> how it's calculated when both apps need the GPS antenna.
>
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