Tuesday, 15 September 2015

HUSH, A New Tool that Reduces Battery Drain in Smartphones – A Report

Are you wondering how all that battery life goes missing on a smartphone? In the worst scenario, even if you are a task killing ninja, there seems to be a list of applications that take away all your battery life.  Even when your phone is asleep, there are apps that silently hog away your battery. Study reports suggests that about 28.9 percentage of battery power is drained by apps when the screen is off.  Out of the 45.9 percentage of daily battery drain , 28.9 percentage occurs because of apps that frequently run in the background. So according to a research report, a new tool called the HUSH that is developed by Purdue researchers, comes with an objective to solve this problem.
Battery Life Saver - HUSH
Battery Life Saver – HUSH
During screen off the phone hardware should enter the sleep state, draining close to zero. Apps wake the phone up periodically during screen-off to do useful things, but then later, the app should let the phone go back to sleep.  But the apps are not letting the phone go back to sleep because of software bugs and also due to incorrect use of Android  power control application programming interface that is called wakelocks.

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