Saturday, 1 January 2011

Tweak for more battery life on the Advent Vega

The Advent Vega has pretty impressive battery life, but if you want to squeeze even more life out of the beast, you may want to try this hack.


If you look at your battery stats, you'll see that the Device Standby process is sucking down a lot of the battery use... strange, that's the process for your cellular radio... and the Vega doesn't have a phone!


So, let's connect the Vega to the computer, and run the following ADB commands (these are from the android development kit).


adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
adb shell mv /system/app/Phone.apk /system/app/Phone.OLD
adb shell mv /system/app/TelephonyProvider.apk /system/app/TelephonyProvider.OLD
adb reboot


The Advent will reboot and when it comes up it'll be no longer running the useless process.


You'll also get a notification telling you that there is no signal... annoying, but at least you know it's worked!



To undo the changes, just run this script.


adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
adb shell mv /system/app/Phone.OLD /system/app/Phone.apk
adb shell mv /system/app/TelephonyProvider.OLD /system/app/TelephonyProvider.apk
adb reboot


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