Power Consumption

Summary

Measures average power consumption over a fixed amount of time while the device is in various states.

Usage

Test Cases

Put the phone into the following states:

• Idle, Screen On
• Idle, Screen Off
• Camera Preview

For each state, report the average power consumed over a fixed time (typically 30 seconds):

Precision

1/10 mA

How to Run On-Demand

Set up gaiatest on your machine.

gaiatest --address=localhost:2828 --type=b2g --restart --timeout=30000 --testvars=/my/path/to/test_vars.json /my/path/to/power-tests/test_homescreen_screen_on.py

Published Results

FxOS 2.0

Not available yet

FxOS 2.1

Not available yet

References

• Powertool
• Power Tests

Development

Design

Common Setup

1. TBD

All Cases

1. Invoke gaiatest programmatically (see command line above)

Results

• Result is average power consumed for each test (mA)

Project Roadmap

• Lead: Jon Hylands
• Tracking Bug: TBD

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