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Comment by MrVitaliy | Hacker News Reader

Some of my buddies who have Android phones claim that poor battery life is due to the cheap background apps that come with the phone and run all the time in background. Even after those apps are killed, within few hours they respawn and keep hogging the holy electric juice.

Can you post a list of your default, background processes and idea on their CPU usage?

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Currently I have the following services/processes running in the background:

  3G watchdog
  Bump
  Spotify 
  DRM Content
  Software update
  Android system
  Task manager
  Voice commands
  Digital Clock
  Social Hub
  Social Hub (again, different icon)
  Accuweather widget
  Google services
  Maps
  IMEITracker
  Wi-fi sharing
  Email
  Vortex Galaxy (live wallpaper)
  Samsung keypad

Currently using 217MB ram total.

I have never used/not configured the following things:

  Social Hub
  Voice commands
  Email (besides Gmail but that is not what is running)

I haven't used maps today but I have not rebooted the phone since I did a few days ago so it might be stuck from then.

As for the CPU usage I am not sure since it does not show cpu usage for services as far as I can tell.

As for applications I can think of that would require background services or cpu usage in any other way:

  Bump
  Notifo (for awesome HN notifications among other things)
  Weather widget
  Gmail
  Dropbox
  Facebook
  Twitter
  Skype

It would probably be nice to find a way to either turn off Social hub (which comes with the phone) or replace the other applications with that. I didn't feel like setting it up so I just went with the normal Facebook/Twitter applications/widgets.

Actually considering removing them both because really they don't really add anything to my life besides making it easier for me to write random thoughts and things on my wall/timeline and there are too many people broadcasting their every move already.

I should probably mention I do use power savings mode all the time but that simply turns off wifi/gps/stuff whenever it's not needed which I think should be default anyway.

Eek! This reply turned out huge :|

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