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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
I've been able to see close to 7-ish hours with what I call "regular" use. This is of course weighted on the amount of time you spend on the particular application. It does, however, show where you battery use is going.
If I'm sitting and watching movies or playing games, then that number drops quite a bit.
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Ditto for me. I am getting at least 7 hours of use. I get lots more if I close apps and listen to Audible instead of reading or movies.
I also installed an app called Badass Battery Monitor. I do wish it had a more socially acceptable name, but it does have quite a few features I use. There is an option called APPSUCKER that shows, listed in order of % battery impact, all your programs you use. Of course, this is weighted on the amount of time you spend on the application so you have to weigh the results against that. It is handy however as it shows you what is using your battery.
I also installed Startup Manager..Blue clock with an arrow wrapped CC around it.
I gambled that the developer will improve the code for the Fire. It seems to let me control what I want to except for the ones Amazon has forced the user to install.
There is probably some file attribute that has been set to be read only....or however the OS accomplishes this.
I would like to credit the persons who recommended these, but I have read so much it is becoming a mush. The battery monitor was free and the startup manager was a tad pricey but I am anal about trying to have things "clean". I am not convinced that having the items in memory does not slow down the system. It seems ro run faster, for me anyway, when I clean up andd/or clean start the system.