Patches & battery life?

punkrockmano · 10/27/2010, 10:23 PM

I have a question about patches for you guys. Do you guys know if patches have any affect on your battery life? This is for the palm pre plus

sledge007 · 10:39 PM

depends on the patch...I would think some patches like hide music player or device menu megamix wouldn't affect battery life, but others such as add haptic feedback(vibration) or animations(they eat the battery a lot but look cool) would. Any patches specifically? or just generally?
facebook chat spoof, probably doesn't do much until you turn it on, then that one would. Just depends on whether or not it adds a visual enhancement or not ie if you had show battery percent, add date dd-mmm-yy.... all those things are displayed on your screen so there has to be a certain amount of draw off your battery, some of them might not be a lot, but it all adds up.

from a pre-Pre+ point of view....I'm not going to call mine a minus....they should be called the Palm Pre.....the Palm During....the Palm Post......my opinion.....call yours whatever you want

fryedchikin · 10/28/2010, 06:12 PM

Patches can have either a positive or negative impact to battery life depending on what the patch actually changes.

For example, if you use a patch to increase the length of the vibrate notification and receive a lot of messages, this will have a negative impact. If, on the other hand, you use something like Mode Switcher to turn of Data and GPS when they are not needed, you should see a positive impact.

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sledge007 Forum Moderator Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Calgary Alberta Posts: 5,067 Likes Received: 721 Thanks: 972 Thanked 890 Times in 647 Posts	depends on the patch...I would think some patches like hide music player or device menu megamix wouldn't affect battery life, but others such as add haptic feedback(vibration) or animations(they eat the battery a lot but look cool) would. Any patches specifically? or just generally? facebook chat spoof, probably doesn't do much until you turn it on, then that one would. Just depends on whether or not it adds a visual enhancement or not ie if you had show battery percent, add date dd-mmm-yy.... all those things are displayed on your screen so there has to be a certain amount of draw off your battery, some of them might not be a lot, but it all adds up. from a pre-Pre+ point of view....I'm not going to call mine a minus....they should be called the Palm Pre.....the Palm During....the Palm Post......my opinion.....call yours whatever you want __________________ Sent from my TouchPad, laying in my hammock. Last edited by sledge007; 10/27/2010 at 10:39 PM.
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10/28/2010, 06:12 PM	#3 (permalink)
fryedchikin Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 104 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 21 Thanked 43 Times in 15 Posts	Patches can have either a positive or negative impact to battery life depending on what the patch actually changes. For example, if you use a patch to increase the length of the vibrate notification and receive a lot of messages, this will have a negative impact. If, on the other hand, you use something like Mode Switcher to turn of Data and GPS when they are not needed, you should see a positive impact.
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