powell601 Posted September 28, 2010 Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 I purchased a DROID 2 yesterday and installed FACE on it as soon as I left the store. The installation was simple and everything seems to be working flawlessly....with one exception: The battery died completely in less than 8 hours when running the software. I had originally set FACE to poll GPS every minute to test. I then changed this to hourly. I set the minimum events to 15 and the timer to 1 hour. The target user told me that they were having battery issues, so I remotely disabled the GPS, and set the minimum events to 250 and the timer to 6 hours. The phone completely died less than 3 hours later. I have a few questions: 1. If the GPS is enabled, but unable to target a location, does it continue to repeatedly attempt a location until it gets one, or does the timer restart upon an unsuccessful location query? 2. I understand that the program is always running continuously in the background, but does anyone know if this puts a constant heavy load on the battery? The battery has been hot to the touch several times while not in use. I have adjusted the polling intervals....and hopefully this does the trick....or I may have to uninstall from the target device...which I DO NOT want to do. Any and all opinions are welcome. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheated_on Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 I am having the same issue with the target phone's (Samsung epic) battery draining quickly. Anyone have a suggestion on how to save the battery life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ian Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 The first thing to try is disable GPS capture completely and extend the report timer length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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