The inbuilt Battery Saver app, which is found in your list of Settings, on Lumia phones has been updated and the changelog seems to indicate another imminent update for Windows Phone 8.1.
The new app promises a realtime live tile, something that's not possible at the moment even with the app update.
It also promises the addition of a Battery Saver option in the pulldown Quick Settings menu.
The changelog says this will work with a new build of WP8.1.
• Foreground vs Background metrics: Usage bars now show foreground and background showing you how much power a particular app consumes whether you’re using it or not using it.
• Time Filters: We’ve added a filter also in the usage view where you can now specify the timeframe of data to look at. Can now show data from the last day, 2 days or a week.
• What Does Battery saver do anyway?: Re-worded the settings page to more clearly indicate what battery saver mode does.
• Real Time Live Tile: If you pin the battery saver app to start, it now updates in real time! (Requires build 8.1.14203 or higher.)
• Quick Settings: You can now add battery saver to the quick settings menu and cycle through the battery saver options there. (Requires build 8.1.14203 or higher.)
• Turn On until next charge: We added a new option to let users turn on battery saver until next charge!
• Improved Battery usage scaling: The usage data now scales to actual device battery capacity with full width mapping to 100% capacity. Additionally, the bars now use a logarithmic scaling algorithm to make the bars more visible when usage is small for a particular app.
It now lets you see which apps have been using battery power over the past 24 hours, 48 hours and seven days.
This screenshot is from our Lumia 830 and it highlights just how little battery drain there is from even our most used apps.
Battery Saver maintains the previous functions of showing you how much battery power you have left as a percentage, how long since the last charge and how long in hours and minutes it estimates you have left.
It also lets you select whether or not to force battery-saver mode to kick in on your device when power gets low.
Get the update here:
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