Hi all,
My first message on this board appearantly has to be a dualfaced one. First of all, I really like BirdieSync as at home I work with Thunderbird and Sunbird, whilst at work I synchronize with Outlook. BirdieSync is great for me as I don't need to replace any of my existing applications.
However, there appears to be some possible bad news too. I only recently installed BirdieSync on my Palm Treo 500V (WM6 Std Smartphone), and since then I started noticing that my battery ran out like crazy. So I checked the running tasks, which were empty (as I tend to close applications from time to time). However, when switching to processes view in the task manager, I noticed BirdieWatcher.exe.
I seriously suspect that this is causing my battery drain (battery runs out 3 times as fast than before). I will try without BirdieWatcher for some time to see if there really is such a big difference.
In the mean time, has anyone noticed this as well? I can't find anything on Google related to the watcher app and batteries....
BirdieWatcher.exe = batterydrain?
Re: BirdieWatcher.exe = batterydrain?
Hello spacemanbow,
That's rather strange. BirdieWatcher.exe is inactive most of the time. I suppose that to consume some battery, a process would have to regularly consume some CPU time ?
That's rather strange. BirdieWatcher.exe is inactive most of the time. I suppose that to consume some battery, a process would have to regularly consume some CPU time ?
Birdy
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Re: BirdieWatcher.exe = batterydrain?
@Birdy
I've been running for about 24hrs without birdiewatch.exe (just killed the process, and did not sync with the pc anymore) and worked a lot with the 500v. The result was that the battery consumption was considerably lower.
One would indeed assume that an inactive process wouldn't consume a lot of battery. However, I've read some reports on other applications (e.g. Battery One) which prevent the device to go a "deeper sleep" mode or something like that.
I would really like to investigate this further, but up to now I haven't found a suitable CPU monitor and process explorer for WM6 Std smartphones... If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.
I'm not a WM6 apps programmer, so I don't know if the following is possible. Instead of having a background application like BirdieWatch.exe, would it not be possible to have a plugin (or conduit in the old Palm world) which runs via ActiveSync, and is only activated when ActiveSync pushes (or pulls) data to (from) the device?
I've been running for about 24hrs without birdiewatch.exe (just killed the process, and did not sync with the pc anymore) and worked a lot with the 500v. The result was that the battery consumption was considerably lower.
One would indeed assume that an inactive process wouldn't consume a lot of battery. However, I've read some reports on other applications (e.g. Battery One) which prevent the device to go a "deeper sleep" mode or something like that.
I would really like to investigate this further, but up to now I haven't found a suitable CPU monitor and process explorer for WM6 Std smartphones... If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.
I'm not a WM6 apps programmer, so I don't know if the following is possible. Instead of having a background application like BirdieWatch.exe, would it not be possible to have a plugin (or conduit in the old Palm world) which runs via ActiveSync, and is only activated when ActiveSync pushes (or pulls) data to (from) the device?