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A battery is a portable electrical power source which is often used in mobile devices.

An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy.

Each cell contains a positive terminal, or cathode, and a negative terminal, or anode. Electrolytes allow ions to move between the electrodes and terminals, which allows current to flow out of the battery to perform work.

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How to handle iPhone 'Low Battery' pop up during a game

I was wondering how low battery alerts can be handled during a game. I used Cocos2D to make my game. I have the game pause when an interrupt such as a text or a call come in. But what about low battery alerts? Are they the same as other interrupts?…
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Android 2.0 Best Method to Check Battery Level/Charging?

Okay let me start off by saying I have been looking around a lot for an answer to this question. I am trying to figure out what is best practice and what best for battery life. Here is my situation: I would like my application to suspend its…
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Is location provider really a battery drain?

I need to implement location-based service. I don't need fine location, so no GPS is needed. Easiest would be to start listening for locations updates at app start, and leave it ON: …
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What are the most battery-consuming things you can do in an iPhone-app?

I am making an app that quickly drains the users battery. For this, I am planning on using the sound-framework for vibrating, location services, download large but empty files from the internet, use the flashlight on the back of the phone, and so…
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Android disable display off while charging

In my application I need to disable display power off when device is charging. There is an option in Developer Menu to disable it, so I can to send Intent for user to enable it. Also I've found info about PowerManager and WakeLocks, but it is for…
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Preserving battery life when using Xcode - your settings/recommendations?

I often find myself wanting to open Xcode and do a little coding on international flights and while I'm away from power, but it's a quick way to empty my MacBook Pro's battery. What settings do you use to preserve battery life while running Xcode?
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Script to play a warning when battery level is under a threshold in MacOS

I am using a MacBook and the battery is unreliable. I am trying to find a script command that will enable the laptop to play a beep when the battery level is lower than a threshold. After some search and tests, I found a quick solution below: 1) I…
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Getting around Meizu App Auto-Clean

I am having a problem where a Meizu phone is killing my Application, because of what seems to be a Meizu specific setting, where apps are killed after running and consuming power in the background for 3 minutes, after standby. Certain apps on the…
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How to measure power consumption of my application on Android?

I have developed an Android application and I would like to know the power consumption of my app on an Android device. I came across various threads on Stack Overflow but none of them helped me. Is there any application in Android which measures the…
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How to calculate remaining time of android phone battery?

I am developing battery health app on Android Studio. I want to know how to calculate remaining time by playing music or video, browsing website, or standby. I have seen many android apps like this but can not see the source code. I want to see the…
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Fetch the battery status of my MacBook with Swift

I want to setup a Playground to fetch the battery status of my macbook. I have already tried the following: import Cocoa import IOKit import Foundation var blob = IOPSCopyPowerSourcesInfo() I am currently receiving an error as below Use of…
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How do you manage battery health of your development devices when is always plugged in?

I know this question is not programming related, so for this I made community wiki. Developers are the best guys to answer the question. I am addressed to those that do development on devices that runs on batteries, like phones, gadgets etc.…
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Does the accelerometer drain battery on Android Wear? (Android watch)

I'm creating an Android Wear app that tries to detect some of the hand movements, to do it, I need to continuously monitor the accelerometer output. I'm wondering how it will affect the battery life. For phones, I know that there are methods like…
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Does OpenGL ES drain more battery than standard 2D graphics?

I'm contemplating writing an app which does a lot of moving 2D graphics. I'm not very familiar with the standard android 2D graphics API, and I'm a lot more comfortable with OpenGL so I'm naturally considering using OpenGL instead. My consideration…
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Android - Drain battery quickly on purpose

I am nearly finished with my app and last functionality to be made is to call specific action when battery level reaches below specific level. So for test purposes I am wondering - how can I drain battery? P.S - Using AVD wont work since my app is…
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