![]() ![]() This is often eerily described as parasitic drain. Parasitic Drain - If the electrical devices in your car or the lights on your car are left running even when your ignition is off, they will suck the juice out of your battery slowly but dramatically. ![]() You have a moral obligation to share it with others.There could be more than one reason for a car battery to drain. When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, The longer that bar is Green, the more is being cleaned up. You'll be able to figure out for yourself what apps you don't need running.Īfter doing that touch History, wait a few moments and then touch the Clear All rectangle at the top. Then touch Clear All to remove all that junk & space will free up on your phone. ![]() Touch Cache once & it will read what can be cleared. Two other great features are Cache Cleaner & App2SD. You can re-install Gas Buddy and "kill it" when you are not using it or need it to be active. If you're unfamiliar with a taskkiller, it allows you to "kill" apps you don't need running that drain the battery (maps, media share, Skype, etc). Amongst its many features is taskkiller, which appears in the Battery Saver section. You could also get an app called SuperBox (version 2.4). It actually puts them in a suspended state when not active (open on your screen), unless like said before, it is a service which has the right to run in the background and utilize system resources. I can't for the life of me find it now but there is a great article with an awesome diagram on the web about how the android os handles apps. Most people believe that task killer applications do them good, whereas, the truth is that it can actually cause issues because most times it prevents them from closing properly. If an app is actively using resources unless it is a system app it appears on your bar at the top of your phone. ![]() However, because the android OS is more or less a linux distribution the operating itself is very good at handling background apps and completely closing or freeing up memory from apps that don't need it anymore. Certain components like services actually can run in the background and can actively utilize system resources. What a lot of people don't realize is that an "app" by sense of what most people think of an app is typically made up many different sub-apps or components. Norton Music, Band-in-a-Box improvement products (tools and toys) and much more I chose Metro PCS because it's a business line and I wanted the flat rate plan since telemarketers call me daily (and I don't want to pay for their ads). I bought an Optimus M a few months ago and have enjoyed it very much. Some day I might put Gas Buddy back on to find out, but right now I put a bookmark on my browser so I can find it in a hurry. Was it Gas Buddy or just a coincidence? I have no idea. I can now leave the phone on stand-by (locked) for 10 or so hours and only a little sliver of black shows on the battery icon. "Remove the battery, wait about 10 seconds and replace the battery. So was it Gas Buddy or just a coincidence that it happened at the same time? I don't know.Ī day or two later I remembered what the woman at the cell phone store told me to do whenever the phone acts weird. This never happened before so I posted some things on this forum to try to fix it.Īfter a couple of days I uninstalled Gas Buddy and my battery continued to drain very quickly. The little battery icon was half black/half green. 6 hours of stand-by (locked) drained more than 50% of the battery. I downloaded the Gas Buddy app about a week ago, and all of a sudden my battery started draining very quickly. I haven't added many apps: Calculator, DaTuner, Dolphin Browser Mini and File Expert is all I have on my phone now. I've been dealing with computers since the 80s but am still a newbie with "smart phones". This might be old news to some, so please be tolerant if I'm beating a dead horse. ![]()
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