Benchmark your phone with PCMark
PCMark is an excellent benchmark for Android that enables you to test your phone's performance, battery life and storage performance among other things.
Running benchmarks on a mobile device is not really something that is that interesting to most users unless they either want to test tweaks they made, compare different versions of an operating system or framework, or have multiple devices at their disposal that they want to compare.
While it can be useful to run a benchmark on first start, and compare it to benchmark runs in the future to find out how performance and battery life changed over time, it is not really useful for a one-time benchmark test.
This does not make benchmarks useless, and especially not if they provide comparison results from devices that other users of the application ran.
PCMark
PCMark for Android Benchmark is a free application that is compatible with all Android 5.0 and newer versions.
The size of the initial app download is not that large but that is because the benchmarks are not included in that initial download.
The app ships with two benchmarks, work and storage, that you need to download before you can run them. Both benchmarks have a size of several hundred Megabytes and it is recommended to download the benchmarks when the device is connected to wireless Internet.
The work benchmark download includes a separate battery benchmark that you can run as well. The latter requires a charge status of at least 80% though for that.
Benchmarks run several minutes without user interaction with results being shown afterwards.
PCMark displays the score but gives a rating as well which is often more helpful. In addition to that, you may check benchmark scores of other devices to compare their performance to the device you ran the benchmark on.
The score and battery life of each device is listed by PCMark which is not only helpful when you compare your device to others, but may also be useful when it comes to new devices that you may purchase in the future.
Looking for a device with great battery life? PCMark's device comparison chart can help you with that. Need the fastest device? PCMark can help with that as well.
The work benchmark measures the devices overall performance and battery life by simulating every day tasks such as watching a video, browsing the web or editing photos. Tests use "real" apps when possible to reflect near real-world performance on the device.
The storage benchmark on the other hand measures internal and external storage performance, and database performance.
PCMark keeps a history of previous benchmark runs, but could make it a bit easier to compare your device's performance to other devices.
Your device's performance is not visible on the "best devices" screen which means that you have to look it up first and remember it to compare it to other devices.
Closing Words
PCMark is a specialized application for Android devices that enables you to measure your device's performance and battery life.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?