Smartphone batteries don't last forever, and some devices have
an almost-embarrassing screen-on time. Those big, luscious AMOLED and LCD
screens and taxing apps are an obvious drain on your battery, but there are
lots of things you can do behind-the-scenes to make your Android last longer.
Let's explore how to increase battery on your smartphone.
1. Dim the screen
brightness or use auto brightness
You love your smartphone's large, colourful display, but it's
the battery's mortal enemy. More than any other component of your phone, the
display consumes battery life at a devastating pace. Most phones include an
auto-brightness feature that automatically adjusts the screen's brightness to
suit ambient lighting levels. Thismode uses less power than constantly running
your screen at full brightness would, of course, but you'll get even better
results by turning your screen's brightness down to the lowest setting that you
can tolerate and leaving it there. Even if you do nothing else we suggest,
following this one tip will extend the life of your battery dramatically.
2. Keep the screen timeout short
Under your phone's display settings menu, you should find an
option labeled 'Screen Timeout', 'Sleep' or something similar. (On an iPhone,
look for Auto-Lock in the General settings menu.) This setting controls how
long your phone's screen stays lit after receiving input, such as a tap.Every
second counts here, so set your timeout to the shortest available time. On most
Android phones, the minimum is 15 seconds. If your screen timeout is currently
set to 2 minutes, consider reducing that figure to 30 seconds or less.
3. Turn off Bluetooth Wifi
GPS and Location
No matter now much you love using Bluetooth with your hands-free
headset, your wireless speaker or activity tracker, the extra radio is
constantly listening for signals from the outside world. When you aren't in
your car, or when you aren't playing music wirelessly, turn off the Bluetooth
radio. This way, you can add an hour or more to your phone's battery life.
4. Uninstall unnecessary apps
You can never be too sure what's running itself in the
background, what with all the multi- tasking, self-uploading, auto-replicating
features in today's modern Android apps, so at least minimise the chances of
something randomly hoovering up all your battery by constantly trying to
connect to some non-existent server, by deleting any unused or old apps.
5. Disable auto-syncing for accounts that
don’t need it
There’s a stealthy killer of battery life you probably don’t
know about. If you use a lot of apps, especially Google apps, you’ll accumulate
a lengthy list of services that sync in the background. You might not want some
of these services to be syncing in the background, but it’s not easy to know
which ones are doing it. Turning off auto-sync for apps that don’t need it can
save precious battery life.
Tags:
Tech