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Question by Bonfi_96 · Aug 19, 2014 at 11:42 PM · androidiosmobileoptimizationbattery

Save battery on mobile

What's the best way to save battery life on a very simple game? I lowered grap$$anonymous$$cs settings to the minimum and and I capped the framerate to 60 fps but the game still burns 1% of the battery per minute.

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Answer by SpectreX · Aug 20, 2014 at 12:11 AM

You should use 30 fps instead, it's not that noticeable and if you want to lower the energy draw that's a way to cut your battery leec$$anonymous$$ng. Also you might look into optimizing your scrips, lowering pixel counts where you don't need them in your textures, etc.

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Answer by Bonfi_96 · Aug 22, 2014 at 07:31 PM

Setting the rendering path to "Vertex lit" seemed to decrease battery usage by 50% on some devices. T$$anonymous$$s choice was suitable to my game because I'm not using any light, shadows or lightmap.

If you want to use t$$anonymous$$s option in your game I reccomend to do various tests to verify it's effectivity.

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