Live Wallpaper Battery consumption tested

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So here it goes... people are always asking about how Live Wallpapers influence the battery consumption of the phone... in this case i tested on a Galaxy s3 i9300.

For this test i kept the screen on until the battery gone down to 30%.

This is how i made the test.

I used the Live Wallpaper Magic Bubbles, you can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ljYnViYmxlcyJd

I think this LWP is good coded so there's no problem about that influencing the consumption of the battery.

I kept the brightness on full too. (100%)

To keep the screen on during all the process i also used the app, Screen On Toggler: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...9udG9nZ2xlciJd

To keep the results fair as possible when doing the test Without the live wallpaper, i took a screenshot of it and then crop it and applied it as wallpaper so i could have the same colors coming out of the screen.

So this is all the details i think... the rom used was foxhound 1.7, although i think it doesn't matter.

This was the result then.





So as you can see its a big difference and yes the LWP has a big hit on the battery consumption... although of course you will not keep the screen always on.. this was just a test so i hope its helpful to you. Next time i will had a test but with a black background... or a darker background... to see the difference between a colorful BG and a darker BG.

Please post your opinions and thoughts...

you must have bad screen burn in by now

a very useful test for our information, thanks very much.

Two posts on the same subject is a waste .

jje

thanks for the test..
i used to have a nice battery life when using jellybean wallpaper from google play
most of the time, the cpu stayed at 200mhz but since a few update, it hog cpu at 600mhz.. thr is where i left live wallpaper and never went back

Just my observation.
A well coded LWP will only consume battery when the home screen is showing, and to that end I don't think, unless you spend endless hours staring at your home screen, that the consumption is really fairly indicated by this test, although it's a useful bit of testing. Thanks

Originally Posted by mwatson

you must have bad screen burn in by now

with 7 hours?
i guess my screen,which always shows the notification bar since i bought it, must be useless right now.

Originally Posted by JJEgan

Two posts on the same subject is a waste .

jje

My fault, i clicked twice on "submit post"

Originally Posted by slaphead20

Just my observation.
A well coded LWP will only consume battery when the home screen is showing, and to that end I don't think, unless you spend endless hours staring at your home screen, that the consumption is really fairly indicated by this test, although it's a useful bit of testing. Thanks

Yes, just like i said... no one will have the screen always on of course... but since there's no other way of testing this with fair results... Just a test for information...

Originally Posted by Meraklis56

with 7 hours?
i guess my screen,which always shows the notification bar since i bought it, must be useless right now.

Yeah.. i thought that was a bit stupid... if you have a phone that cant stay on for more than 5 hours oO, although i did search about that matter and found that the people who got it have the phone turned on day and night.. lol. probably like in the stores...