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| <p>Device manufacturers must provide a component power profile in |
| <code>/frameworks/base/core/res/res/xml/power_profile.xml</code>.</p> |
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| <p>To determine values for power profiles, use hardware that measures the power |
| being used by the device and perform the various operations for which |
| information is needed. Measure the power use during those operations and compute |
| the values (deriving differences from other baseline power uses as appropriate). |
| </p> |
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| <p>As the goal of a power profile is to estimate battery drain appropriately, |
| power profile values are given in current (amps). The Android framework |
| multiplies the current by the time for which the subsystem was active and |
| computes the mAh value, which is then used to estimate the amount of battery |
| drained by the application/subsystem.</p> |
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| <p>Devices with Bluetooth, modem, and Wi-Fi controllers running Android 7.0 and |
| higher can provide additional power values obtained from chipset data.</p> |
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| <h2 id="multiple-cpus">Devices with heterogeneous CPUs</h2> |
| |
| <p>The power profile for devices with CPU cores of heterogeneous architecture |
| must include the following additional fields: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Number of total CPUs for each cluster (expressed in cpu.clusters.cores).</li> |
| <li>CPU speeds supported by each cluster.</li> |
| <li>Active CPU power consumption for each cluster.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>To differentiate between active CPU power consumption and supported CPU |
| speeds for clusters, append the cluster number to the name of the array. Cluster |
| numbers are assigned in the order of CPU cores in the kernel device tree. For |
| example, in a heterogeneous architecture that has two (2) clusters with four (4) |
| cores:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>cluster0 consists of cpu0-3</li> |
| <li>cluster1 consists of cpu4-7</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>The Android framework uses these CPU core numbers when it reads statistics |
| from the <code>sysfs</code> files in: |
| <code>/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<number>/cpufreq/stats</code>. |
| |
| <p>Example of cluster CPUs and speeds:</p> |
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| <pre class="devsite-click-to-copy"> |
| <array name="cpu.active.cluster0"> |
| <value>200</value> |
| <value>300</value> |
| <value>400</value> |
| </array> |
| <array name="cpu.speeds.cluster0"> |
| <value>600000</value> |
| <value>800000</value> |
| <value>1200000</value> |
| </array> |
| |
| <array name="cpu.active.cluster1"> |
| <value>400</value> |
| <value>500</value> |
| <value>600</value> |
| </array> |
| <array name="cpu.speeds.cluster1"> |
| <value>800000</value> |
| <value>1200000</value> |
| <value>1400000</value> |
| </array> |
| </pre> |
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| <h2 id="values">Power values</h2> |
| <p>The following table describes available power value settings. To view the |
| sample file in AOSP, see |
| <a href="https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/master/core/res/res/xml/power_profile.xml">power_profile.xml</a>.</p> |
| |
| <table> |
| <tr> |
| <th>Name</th> |
| <th>Description</th> |
| <th>Example Value</th> |
| <th>Notes</th> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>ambient.on</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when screen is in doze/ambient/always-on mode instead of off.</td> |
| <td>around 100 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>screen.on</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when screen is turned on at minimum brightness.</td> |
| <td>200 mA</td> |
| <td>Includes touch controller and display backlight. At 0 brightness, not the |
| Android minimum which tends to be 10 or 20%.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>screen.full</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when screen is at maximum brightness, compared to |
| screen at minimum brightness.</td> |
| <td>100 mA-300 mA</td> |
| <td>A fraction of this value (based on screen brightness) is added to the |
| screen.on value to compute the power usage of the screen.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>wifi.on</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when Wi-Fi is turned on but not receiving, |
| transmitting, or scanning.</td> |
| <td>2 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>wifi.active</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when transmitting or receiving over Wi-Fi.</td> |
| <td>31 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>wifi.scan</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when Wi-Fi is scanning for access points.</td> |
| <td>100 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>audio</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when audio decoding/encoding via DSP.</td> |
| <td>around 10 mA</td> |
| <td>Used for DSP audio.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>video</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when video decoding via DSP.</td> |
| <td>around 50 mA</td> |
| <td>Used for DSP video.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>camera.avg</td> |
| <td>Average power use by the camera subsystem for a typical camera |
| application.</td> |
| <td>600 mA</td> |
| <td>Intended as a rough estimate for an application running a preview |
| and capturing approximately 10 full-resolution pictures per minute.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>camera.flashlight</td> |
| <td>Average power used by the camera flash module when on.</td> |
| <td>200 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>gps.signalqualitybased</td> |
| <td>Additional power used by GPS based on signal strength. This is a multi-value entry, |
| one per signal strength, from weakest to strongest.</td> |
| <td> 30 mA, 10 mA </td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>gps.on</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when GPS is acquiring a signal.</td> |
| <td>50 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>radio.active</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when cellular radio is transmitting/receiving.</td> |
| <td>100 mA-300 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>radio.scanning</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when cellular radio is paging the tower.</td> |
| <td>1.2 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>radio.on</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when the cellular radio is on. This is a multi-value entry, |
| one per signal strength (no signal, weak, moderate, strong).</td> |
| <td>1.2 mA</td> |
| <td>Some radios boost power when they search for a cell tower and do not |
| detect a signal. Values can be the same or decrease with increasing signal |
| strength. If you provide only one value, the same value is used for all |
| strengths. If you provide two values, the first is used for no-signal, the |
| second value is used for all other strengths, and so on.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>bluetooth.controller.idle</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the Bluetooth controller when idle.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| <td rowspan=4>These values are not estimated, but taken from the data sheet of |
| the controller. If there are multiple receive or transmit states, the average |
| of those states is taken. In addition, the system now collects data for |
| <a href="#le-bt-scans">Low Energy (LE) and Bluetooth scans</a>.<br><br>Android |
| 7.0 and later no longer use the Bluetooth power values for bluetooth.active |
| (used when playing audio via Bluetooth A2DP) and bluetooth.on (used when |
| Bluetooth is on but idle).</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>bluetooth.controller.rx</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the Bluetooth controller when receiving.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>bluetooth.controller.tx</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the Bluetooth controller when transmitting.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>bluetooth.controller.voltage</td> |
| <td>Average operating voltage (mV) of the Bluetooth controller.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>modem.controller.sleep</td> |
| <td> Average current draw (mA) of the modem controller when asleep.</td> |
| <td> 0 mA </td> |
| <td rowspan=5>These values are not estimated, but taken from the data sheet of the controller. |
| If there are multiple receive states, the average of those states is taken. If there are |
| multiple transmit states, specifying a value for each transmit state is supported |
| starting in Android {{ androidPVersionNumber}}.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>modem.controller.idle</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the modem controller when idle.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>modem.controller.rx</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the modem controller when receiving.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>modem.controller.tx</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the modem controller when transmitting at different RF power |
| levels. This is a multi-value entry with one value per transmit power level.</td> |
| <td> 100 mA, 200 mA, 300 mA, 400 mA, 500 mA </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>modem.controller.voltage</td> |
| <td>Average operating voltage (mV) of the modem controller.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>wifi.controller.idle</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the Wi-Fi controller when idle.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| <td rowspan=4>These values are not estimated, but taken from the data sheet of |
| the controller. If there are multiple receive or transmit states, the average |
| of those states is taken.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>wifi.controller.rx</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the Wi-Fi controller when receiving.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>wifi.controller.tx</td> |
| <td>Average current draw (mA) of the Wi-Fi controller when transmitting.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>wifi.controller.voltage</td> |
| <td>Average operating voltage (mV) of the Wi-Fi controller.</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>cpu.speeds</td> |
| <td>This is a multi-value entry that lists each possible CPU speed in KHz.</td> |
| <td>125000 KHz, 250000 KHz, 500000 KHz, 1000000 KHz, 1500000 KHz</td> |
| <td>The number and order of entries must correspond to the mA entries in |
| cpu.active.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>cpu.idle</td> |
| <td>Total power drawn by the system when CPUs (and the SoC) are in system |
| suspend state.</td> |
| <td>3 mA</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>cpu.awake</td> |
| <td>Additional power used when CPUs are in scheduling idle state |
| (kernel idle loop); system is not in system suspend state.</td> |
| <td>50 mA</td> |
| <td>Your platform might have more than one idle state in use with differing |
| levels of power consumption; choose a representative idle state for longer |
| periods of scheduler idle (several milliseconds). Examine the power graph on |
| your measurement equipment and choose samples where the CPU is at its lowest |
| consumption, discarding higher samples where the CPU exited idle.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>cpu.active</td> |
| <td>Additional power used by CPUs when running at different speeds.</td> |
| <td>100 mA, 120 mA, 140 mA, 160 mA, 200 mA</td> |
| <td>Value represents the power used by the CPU rails when running at different |
| speeds. Set the max speed in the kernel to each of the allowed speeds and peg |
| the CPU at that speed. The number and order of entries correspond to the |
| number and order of entries in cpu.speeds.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>cpu.clusters.cores</td> |
| <td>Number of cores each CPU cluster contains.</td> |
| <td>4, 2</td> |
| <td>Required only for devices with <a href="#multiple-cpus">heterogeneous CPU |
| architectures</a>. Number of entries and order should match the number of |
| cluster entries for the cpu.active and cpu.speeds. The first entry represents |
| the number of CPU cores in cluster0, the second entry represents the number of |
| CPU cores in cluster1, and so on.</td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td>battery.capacity</td> |
| <td>Total battery capacity in mAh.</td> |
| <td>3000 mAh</td> |
| <td> - </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| </table> |
| |
| <h2 id="le-bt-scans">Low Energy (LE) and Bluetooth scans</h2> |
| <p>For devices running Android 7.0, the system collects data for Low Energy (LE) |
| scans and Bluetooth network traffic (such as RFCOMM and L2CAP) and associates |
| these activities with the initiating application. Bluetooth scans are associated |
| with the application that initiated the scan, but batch scans are not (and |
| are instead associated with the Bluetooth application). For an application |
| scanning for N milliseconds, the cost of the scan is N milliseconds of rx time |
| and N milliseconds of tx time; all leftover controller time is assigned to |
| network traffic or the Bluetooth application.</p> |
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