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Add to SafariWhen comparing Pixel OFF Save Battery AMOLED vs Clean Master, the Slant community recommends Pixel OFF Save Battery AMOLED for most people. In the question“What is the best app to help conserve Android battery life?” Pixel OFF Save Battery AMOLED is ranked 5th while Clean Master is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Pixel OFF Save Battery AMOLED is:
There are 5 levels to choose from - Mesh 1 is the lowest setting, and Mesh 5 is the most aggressive. You can choose which level to run at to best compromise between battery life and picture quality.
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Pros
Pro Adjustable agressiveness
There are 5 levels to choose from - Mesh 1 is the lowest setting, and Mesh 5 is the most aggressive. You can choose which level to run at to best compromise between battery life and picture quality.
Pro Reduces power needed by the display
Pixel OFF basically overlays a black grid over the existing picture to prevent some pixels from lighting up at all. This reduces the overall power draw from the display
Pro The selection of the app to be suspended is smart
Everything continues to work.
Pro Can hybernate / suspend permanently other apps
The battery charge benefits a lot.
Cons
Con Reduces picture quality
Because it overlays a very thin black grid, it is effectively reducing the resolution of the display...however the pixels won't be spaced out properly (for example instead of having 8 pixels evenly spread out, now you could have 4 regular pixels followed by a black pixel, followed by 4 more pixels and another black pixel. This will distort the image.
Con Almost zero benefit
Clean Master and similar apps were popular when Android still had memory problems (more than 2 years ago). Since then, virtually everything Clean Master does has been added into the base Android code. You can clear RAM through the settings on your phone if you feel the need, however Android is now smart enough to remove apps from RAM when needed (when more RAM is required by other more recently used apps, or when the background apps are taking up too many resources).
If anything, Clean Master takes more battery because it's constantly scanning, and any app it removes from RAM will have to be re-loaded in the future which defeats the purpose of more RAM (not to mention re-starting an app taxes the processor, draining battery faster). As the saying goes, "free RAM is wasted RAM".
