Doze feature in Android Marshmallow: how does it work and is it worth it to wait

The Android Marshmallow Google the company introduced a large number of new features, but one of them will surely be interested in any and all smartphone users. We are talking about Doze - a new technology that allows to significantly extend the life of your smartphone battery. In this article we will look at this function a little bit closer and try to find out whether the Google promises reality.

We can say with certainty that any smartphone owner would love to have a gadget it worked as long as possible by charging to charging. Therefore, developers are working hard to reduce the power consumption of mobile operating systems. Doze technology achieves this due to a new, more efficient sleep mode. This means that at a time when the smartphone is not used, it almost does not consume battery power. According to Google, it can provide significant battery savings.

You do not need to activate or configure Doze, this function itself is included in the idle time of the gadget, and follow those applications that try to wake him up (wakelock). When the device goes into sleep mode, Doze starts to block these applications and related events, except those that have a high priority. This means that you can still answer the phone and receive SMS, but no foreign notice will not be every time to wake up your phone.

However, for third-party developers a way to use the notification remains in their applications so that they come even in sleep mode. To do this, they should be marked as high priority. Alert when this will be delivered via Google Cloud Messaging servers, so the company will be able to check whether the notification of this application really need users. Thus, we can assume that, for example, messenger messages will be Android Marshmallow coming as usual, but the endless notifications from games and advertising you in sleep mode never You see.

Should we expect a significant increase from the Doze battery life? It depends on the mode of using a smartphone and set it on the software. You will not feel any effect in the event that if you constantly use your gadget. But Doze Sleep Mode really helps save battery smartphone, especially if you have multiple programs that are constantly BOTHER different notifications.

Of course, the idea of ​​saving energy in sleep mode is not new, we saw applicationsIn which with varying degrees of success, it is embodied. However, the appearance of this feature in your default Android operating system can only be welcomed.

And you've tried Android Marshmallow? And as he is in terms of gluttony?