battery saving with Mobile 5.0, CF 2.0

[Tony Thijs]

Hi,

Are there any backgrounders available about best practices where it comes to
saving power -and the battery while programming with Visual Studio 2005, the
CF 2.0 beta and the Mobile 5.0 SDK?

Kind regards,

Tony Thijs

 

[Guest]

Here're a few links

http://www.demsey.org/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=579ec066-4871-4b0b-8e19-4fba8eb98c7e

http://www.mobilizedsoftware.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=46200579&pgno=2#_

But basically it comes down to saving processor cycles.
- If you do some job in the background threads use Thread.Sleep as much a
possible. Don't loop continuosly.
- Try to suspend your program execution (or redraw the screen) when it goes
to background.
- Whenever it's possible avoid polling.