In this version of PowerTutor the Power Profiler service is run on 11 | startup and power consumption traces are sent back to the PowerTutor team. This 12 | helps us identify common power consumption problems for real applications. The 13 | information will be used to improve PowerTutor and recommend power efficiency 14 | improvements to other software, with the end goal of increasing your phone\'s 15 | battery life.\n
\n 16 |We gather\n 17 | - CPU use\n 18 | - Amount of WiFi/3G traffic (not its content)\n 19 | - Screen brightness\n 20 | - GPS activity (but not location)\n 21 | - Audio use (on/off, volume)\n 22 | - Total power consumption\n 23 | - Application resource utilization\n 24 | - Phone mode, e.g., airplane mode or call status\n 25 |
26 |\nWe do NOT gather any of your personal data used in applications 27 | or phone call logs. None of these data will be associate with you or your phone. 28 | We use a cryptographically secure hash function to protect your identity.\n 29 |
\n 30 |PowerTutor will send back traces only when the phone is plugged in and 31 | will prefer to use Wifi to send back the traces, although your carrier\'s data 32 | service will be used if Wifi is rarely available. If you would like to disable 33 | sending traces you can do so in the menu or by turning off background data in 34 | the android options. 35 |