Beautiful Widgets = Beautiful Battery Killer?

[poooookah78]

Hello all,

I purchased BW about a week ago and have loved it ever since. I use Beautiful Home and the silence widget as well. For a while now, I've noticed my battery life seriously lacking while on. I checked my battery usage and BW was in at 64% over display at only 20 %. I usually see display at 80% so this must REALLY drain the battery, right? Any other experiences with this. I've deleted the widget from my home screen but don't know what to do. I love the app and I'd hate to not use something like this (especially after paying for it). Anyone?

Thanks as always!

[Backnblack]

BW does run all the time as opposed to the screen which of course only runs when on.
I've been using it for a while now and have not noticed any decrease in battery life.

[poooookah78]

BW does run all the time as opposed to the screen which of course only runs when on.
I've been using it for a while now and have not noticed any decrease in battery life.

grrr.... I was hoping you'd have a miracle cure :P j/k. Well, I'm overclocked at usually 800 so I'm sure that pulls it down as well, but I just don't know, I mean this thing REALLY drained fast yesterday. Went from 60-30% in like 30 minutes just playing pandora with no screen on.

[Backnblack]

OC'd here at 1Ghz....Still get a good 8 hours before I need a charge.

[Miami1683]

it hasn't used my battery excessively either. Maybe there is something else working that's causing your drain

[poooookah78]

Man,

I feel privelaged. Of the quick responses that I got, they were all Admins or Mods... This forum kinda rocks.

[A.Brooks]

I'm not having any problems with BW at all. In fact I'm getting 40+ hours per charge. I'm not rooted/OC'd or anything, but even with regular browsing etc, I'm getting over a day easily.

For instance, unplugged phone ~7:15am Last night plugged phone in ~midnight Phone was still @ 60% saying it had another 20 hours in it. I was even using wifi yesterday, which normally I don't bother with, but even w/ wifi etc it was good. The biggest battery saver I found was putting brightness to 0%.

Phone idle 29%
Display 27%
Cell standby 23% (I work in an office with almost no signal so almost constantly searching for it)
Android system 7%
Android OS 4%
Beautiful Widgets 4%

So for me it's higher on the list than maybe you'd like to see it, but it's not a killer for me. Maybe uninstall and re-install?

[gwol]

I had the same issue with BW. The way I got around this was to not use the GEO Location, from the settings window, so it would not try to use GPS everytime it updates. I only trun on the GPS location setting when out on the road somewhere. What was happening was that when it would update every x number of minutes, it would trun on GPS and it would keep trying to find location with GPS and would not stop untill it got a good GPS signal. This just killed my battery life. After changing to not use GPS all is good, and never gets more than 2% of battery usage. Hope this helps.

[Guerrilla]

Just check your battery usage status. For me Beautiful Widgets only uses 2-3% of my battery at the end of the day and I keep my GPS on all day for all of my apps and have BW set to use it.

[A.Brooks]

I had the same issue with BW. The way I got around this was to not use the GEO Location, from the settings window, so it would not try to use GPS everytime it updates. I only trun on the GPS location setting when out on the road somewhere. What was happening was that when it would update every x number of minutes, it would trun on GPS and it would keep trying to find location with GPS and would not stop untill it got a good GPS signal. This just killed my battery life. After changing to not use GPS all is good, and never gets more than 2% of battery usage. Hope this helps.

Good call there, I did that from the start, didn't even think about turning on GPS updates figured it'd just be a lot easier especially since I work in an office where it can't get GPS signal anyway. I bet that's a big difference right there.