Comments on: Find Out What Apps Are Draining Your iPhone Battery Life with Carat

By: Pete Mortensen

Pete Mortensen — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:14:17 +0000

Location services are a hack to keep it running in the background. It’s not actually doing any location monitoring, but it’s acting like it is so that it doesn’t go to sleep. That does mean it drains battery (and makes quitting it a good idea after you get a hog report), but only because all continuous background tasks do.

By: ifdefmoose

ifdefmoose — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:09:14 +0000

My guess is, there’s a reason they tell you that you need to let it run for 7 days before it can provide useful results.

By: James M. Shih

James M. Shih — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:07:33 +0000

It does work. If you do the reading, the location service sign is on all the time but it’s not turned on. They haven’t figure out a way to get rid of the sign, I’ve been running it for almost a week and finally got a report from the app. I found out what’s the hogs draining my iphone battery and am glad I’ve installed this app.

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:38:46 +0000

Sounds exactly like my story. Gonna give it a couple more days then killing it.

By: Frankns

Frankns — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:46:20 +0000

Edit: battery LIFE (I hate auto-correct some days)

By: Frankns

Frankns — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:45:33 +0000

Been running it for three days as an experiment … In that time:
– it has found no bugs, no hogs
– it rates my performance score a perfect 0
– my battery relief is rated at 14 days

During that time I have charged the phone 4 times, used Waze GPS perhaps 10 times or more, sent numerous emails over the built in account and over Sarrow, surfer the web, and connected to multiple WiFi networks as I walked through the city.

I don’t see any evidence that it is doing anything.

These are a bunch of bright guys … my guess is the app is broken/not fixed.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:45:06 +0000

Doesn’t work. Doesn’t seem to do anything. Deleted.

By: MotionMan

MotionMan — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:50:52 +0000

That was the first thing I thought of, too, Nikolaus.

MotionMan

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:11:22 +0000

Why are people clicking OKAY for Carat (a process monitoring app) to use Location Services in the first place? I just told it NO.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:04:13 +0000

I can’t be the only one that finds it hilarious an app designed to save battery life ends up draining it… hehe