Great improvement in battery performance. That said, your post is excellent and very detailed! Thanks for sharing! it will happen with the Android builds soon I'm sure! this has happened with the desktop builds. and then once things are working, look at optimizing them!. and I think that's the point - Sync has only been available on Android devices for a few weeks! It would have been interesting to see what DropBox, DS Cloud etc were like when they first came to Android devices - I suspect they may well have had "bugs" and battery consumption issues, etc too! My point is that, give the devs chance, and I've no doubt battery consumption will be drastically improved! It's a similar story to the very high CPU/Memory issues that some of the earlier builds of the desktop version had - the developers focus in the first instance on getting things working. Throw in BitTorrent Sync's general inability to properly move or delete any folder that contains non-empty subfolders and the Synology version's excessive CPU usage, and I just had to unlink everything and shut it down on all devices until (inevitably) these development issues are addressed. But BitTorrent Sync would be preferable because it's decentralized.Įven though BitTorrent Sync's power consumption is manageable on my S4, it's demoralizing in comparison to Synology's CloudStation and Dropbox. I'm currently prepared to drop Dropbox entirely in favor of CloudStation Dropbox is only acting as a backup for me anymore. ![]() It also sits there as an already quite functional backup system to be quickly brought online in case an issue arises with Dropbox or DS Cloud. I left the software installed so that I can instantly update and test. On an S4, it's still not a disaster since the inexpensive batteries are easily swapped, but this kind of power consumption is easily a dealbreaker on phones with less baseline battery time and non-replaceable batteries.Įven though BitTorrent Sync's power consumption is manageable on my S4, it's demoralizing in comparison to Synology's CloudStation and Dropbox. >10%/hour battery drain still allows a full work day, but if data plan and video usage are thrown in, so is battery paranoia. Dropbox and DS Cloud provide 24/7 sync with extended Deep Sleep, using little enough battery so that you can "set it and forget it." BitTorrent Sync, on the other hand, is awful-yet, it's manageably awful. Even when all sync folders are removed (making the app useless), BitTorrent Sync's constant wakelocks still cause 5 times the battery use of the others. Pause, automatic sync, size of data set all have no beneficial effect on the ability to Deep Sleep. 2.7%/hour, l2_hsic kernel wakelocks = 8.3%, Deep Sleep = 65.6%īitTorrent Sync's Android app uses 20 times the power of Dropbox and DS Cloud combined because it prevents Android Deep Sleep.11.9%/hour, l2_hsic kernel wakelocks = 40.2%, Deep Sleep = 47.8%ĥ) BitTorrent Sync paused with SmallData and no automatic sync.essentially the same as with SmallData only in #2 aboveĤ) BitTorrent Sync paused with SmallData and automatic sync.10.9%/hour, l2_hsic kernel wakelocks = 63.5%, Deep Sleep = 19.6%ģ) BitTorrent Sync running with SmallData and automatic sync + LargeData and no automatic sync.3G: 0.7%/hour, l2_hsic kernel wakelocks = 3.5%, Deep Sleep = 82.4%Īfter #1, I didn't bother with separate 3G trials because it didn't appear that it would make a dramatic difference for comparision purposes.Ģ) BitTorrent Sync running with SmallData and automatic sync. ![]() l2_hsic kernel wakelocks (because it's the main culprit for preventing Android Deep Sleep, though other wakelocks are well-represented)ġ) BitTorrent Sync not running, Dropbox with LargeData, DS Cloud with SmallData.For the duration of the test, the phone just idles with screen off and no changes to data. data sets (1.1.33-now): "SmallData" (60MB/60 files), "LargeData" (14GB/18,000 files)Įach trial begins with the battery at 100% unless otherwise noted. ![]() ![]()
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