Graphics Analysis of an NES Game's Select Menu

Post by simoncion » Sun, Jul 05, 2015, 11:14 PM UTC

maccard wrote: post #11

jeremiep wrote: post #10

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Yet my phone battery used to last a week and now it doesn't even last a day. Mobile CPUs may be able to handle all that bloated code fast enough, but not long enough.

When your phone battery lasted a week, what did you do on your phone, compared to what you do on it now? If I leave my laptop on standby the battery lasts at least 3-4 days, but if I use it continuously it lasts under 7 hours. Similarly with my smartphone, if I leave it on standby I get 2-3 days, but with "normal" usage - (moderate browsing, emails, texts, phonecalls) I have to charge it either daily or every other d…

Post by simoncion » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 4:09 AM UTC

maccard wrote: post #13

simoncion wrote: post #12

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I'm not the OP, but when my feature phone battery lasted a week, I made some phone calls every day or two, and used the phone as a daily alarm clock. If Google Play Services decides to not burn all of my battery in busy waiting or whatever, and if I make zero phone calls and have a daily alarm, my smartphone battery will last between two and three days. When my phone was new and I was commuting with it, I would typic…

> When my phone was new and I was commuting with it, I would typically get between eight and ten hours on a charge. Sounds like you got a dud phone. but being serious, It's one of the trade offs of modern smart phones. THey're designed to last roughly a day of usage. If you use them like you used your old phone, you'd get 2-3 days out of them, but then you might aswell just run with an Alcatel[0] and get the super lo…