battery polling question
 

when/if I change the battery polling from default value (5000) to 20000 what does this do? It says it enhances battery life, but how and why?

and has anyone done this, does it work?

Re: battery polling question
 

The more often the battery is polled, the more energy is used. Polling the battery is essentially testing the max voltage the battery is able to discharge under a period of time. This drains battery life slightly, but if done more often then it should can have a detrimental effect on battery life.

Re: battery polling question
 

so will I see a difference in battery life, or mess anything up on my phone by changing this value form 5000 to 20000

Re: battery polling question
 

You *should* see a difference in battery life depending on what you do. Obviously if you send/receive email every 5 minutes it won't make much of a difference. You won't mess anything up by changing the value, I've used it on my phone and have seen improved performance.

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i guess i still dont get what the polling does? is it essentially checking how much battery life you have???

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yup, it checks, but also consumes battery power in order to check.

Re: battery polling question
 

+1...

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So the tweak suggests changing from 5 to 20 second polling. Why stop there? Why not 30, or 60? Anyone tried higher numbers to see if they make a difference?

Re: battery polling question
 

I would say go for it. The longer the period, the more inaccurate your battery meter will be. If you would rather have better performance then I'd try 30 or possibly 60 and see if there is a difference.

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because you still want it to be somewhat accurate. you dont want your battery to be at 10 when its says 100 (exaggeration)

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+1...

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Right, but if it polls every 30 seconds or every minute it can't possibly miss more then a few 10ths of a %, right? Poll 20 == 3 times a minute. Poll 30 = 2, 60 = 1

Seriously, the gauge is wildly inaccurate at 1% intervals anyway ;)

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I did not see any change in battery life by changing it to 5000. Honestly it seemed liked drained faster.

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but 5000 is the default value, so you shouldn't have seen ANY change...

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I have mine set at 60000, but don't see much difference in either performance, or battery life...

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Yep mines at 60K now, no difference. I'm beginning to smell PLACEBO on the whole thing ;)

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yeah one thing on battery life, all the tweaks and everything just don't seem to do much......maybe on stand by it does, but now I'm running the HD manilla, and after a hard reset the battery life is default, and I am seeing the same performance as before..... maybe there isn't anything to this battery life thing and we just need to wait for a new radio or rom from HTC....???