Wakelook Detector for Android tells you which apps drain the most battery using the feature
Android apps can make use of a power management feature called Wakelock to use the cpu, prevent the app from being terminated by the system, or turn the screen on even if the phone has been locked by the user. The idea here is to tell Android that the device or the app needs to stay on to perform an operation. While that is often a good thing, think retrieving information from the Internet, it may also have an ill-effect as apps can make excessive use of the feature which in turn drains the battery of the Android device at a rapid rate.
Wakelock Detector is a free app for Android that keeps track of all other apps that make use of the Wakelock feature.
The following procedure is recommended by its developer.
- Install the application on your phone.
- Charge your phone to about 90%.
- Unplug it from the power source and wait one or two hours so that statistics can be accumulated in that time.
- Run the app afterwards and use the statistics to find out which programs may be causing battery drain on your device.
When you run the application afterwards you will see a list of non system apps that are sorted by the longest using time by default. The screenshot below shows that the AppUsage app had the longest using time followed by WhatsApp.
You can add system apps to the mix with a click on the options icon at the top right, the selection of settings from the context menu, and enabling advanced mode on the page that opens up.
You can switch to the display of screen wakelocks using the top left button. This highlights apps that keep the screen turned on even after it should go to sleep, and apps that turn on the screen while the phone or device is in sleep mode. It is ideal for finding out which apps break the sleep mode of the Android device and drain battery because of it.
The application offers a couple of additional features that you may find interesting. You can only display running apps, indicated in green, or all apps instead, and also sort the tables in different ways if you like.
I'd recommend you go through all lists the program makes available to you, look at apps listed there that seem to use the feature excessively and decide whether you want to continue using the application or not.
I for one decided to uninstall the AppUsage application as it was not really worth it after all. While it provided me with interesting information, it is not really something that I had to run permanently on the system.
Now read: Android: improve battery life and free up RAM by disabling services
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.