Thread: Auto rotation will eat battery life
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theonelaw is offline theonelaw
2010-10-28 , 04:11
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#10
Originally Posted by mikec View Post
I wanted to remind everyone that enabling autorotation in any application including phone, and web browser will use more battery life, as your accelerometer will be switched on as a result.

accelerometer activation does not show up in CPU usage as it is low level hardware activity.

so Less Auto Rotation=More Battery Life.
Brilliant mention of this as a reminder,
turning off this feature may get interesting where it is used in other apps.

Perhaps we could make a script to lock this down
and only enable it for specific applications/usages
on an as-needed basis.

To be sure it is not a large amount of energy but it adds up over the day.
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