Android M is bringing a lot of new and interesting features to the veteran mobile operating system. One of them which particulary stands out is called Doze and will aim to greatly improve battery life through a number of nifty tricks.
The app is basically a glorified battery saver that controls when the device should enter a deeper sleep mode to save juice. The application activates when you’re not using your device, leaving only the bare essentials open for network access. Any syncs and open tasks which don’t specifically require network connections are halted immediately, allowing the battery life to skyrocket. App standby comes with Doze and works alongside it to suspend low priority apps that are eating juice or using unnecessary background data.
The result of the test runs has been very impressive, with standby time more than doubling on a Nexus 5. The comparisons were done between Android 5.1.1 and Android M, so it’s not even like they were using an older version to smear the results. After 8 hours in standby, the Nexus 5 with Android 5.1.1 consumed 4% of its battery life, whereas the Nexus 5 running Android M only drank a minuscule 1.5%. After 24 hours, the Lollipopped version had eaten 12% of its battery life while on standby and by 48 hours, the Nexus 5 with Android 5.1.1 inside had devoured 24% of its battery power. In comparison, the Android M powered dvicehad used just 4.5% over 24 hours and 9% over 48 hours. That really is a lot of energy saving.
Android M could well be the real deal.
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