Ever wondered why your android battery life doesn’t last
long? If you are an android user and a fan of android like me,you need to apply
some simple tips to help make your battery life last longer and be able to
maximise the its usage.
There are a lot of factors or apps that suck the
juice out of your android battery life,but today in my tutorial, am going to
show you just how you can make your android battery last longer and maximise
its usage.
Simple tips
on how to make to android battery last longer.
1.Set a shorter time before your screen turns off
Your
sleep setting controls how long it takes for your device's screen to go black
when you're not using it. To reduce battery drain when you're not actively
using the screen, set a shorter time before
your screen turns off.- Open your device's Settings app .
- Tap Display Sleep.
- Select 15 seconds or 30 seconds to save the most battery life.
2. Applications
and features that consume your battery life: Navigate to Settings > Battery to see
an organized breakdown of what's consuming your phone's battery. Applications
and features will display in a descending list of battery hogs. If you see an
application you barely use or a feature you never use, you'll want to uninstall
the app or turn off the feature, rarely used applications eat the juice out of
your battery life while your phone is on and sometimes install updates
automatically when your mobile data is on.
3. Reduce
email, Twitter, and Facebook polling. Set your various messaging apps to
"manual" for the polling or refresh frequency, just as a test, and
you'll instantly extend your device's battery life by a significant amount.
Once you see what a difference that makes, try re-enabling just the most
important ones, and possibly reducing their polling frequency in the process.
4. Turn
unnecessary hardware radios off. It's great that today's phones have LTE, NFC,
GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, but do you really need all five activated 24 hours
per day? Android keeps location-based apps resident in the background, and the
constant drain on your battery will become noticeable, fast. If your phone has
a power control widget, you can use it to quickly turn on/off GPS (the largest
power drain), NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LTE.
6. Trim
apps running in the background. From Settings > Apps, swipe to the left; you'll
see a list of apps that are currently running. Tap on each one to see what
they're for; you can stop any apps that you don't need running in the
background all of the time.
8. Turn
down the brightness and turn off Automatic Brightness. It's probably obvious at
this point, but you'll be surprised by how much this one alone helps to improve
battery life.
9. Update
your apps.
Applications often get updated to use less battery power, so you should make
sure your apps are up to date. Even if you configured the phone for automatic
updates, some apps still require that you manually install updates. Check for
app updates in Google Play by hitting the menu key and going to My Apps.
10. Keep
an eye on signal strength. If you're in an area with poor cellular coverage,
the phone will work harder to latch onto a strong-enough signal. This has an
adverse effect on battery life. There's not much you can do about this one, but
keep in mind that this could be the culprit behind a seemingly weak battery;
it's worth popping the phone into Airplane mode if you don't need data or voice
calls.
11. Avoid app-killing apps: For a long time, app-killing apps were all the rage. Frustrated with laggy user experience, Android users of the days of yore began using all kinds of task managers to eliminate the apps they thought were hogging resources.
The problem is, these task killers became unnecessary even before they really got popular. Android has gotten really good at managing its own memory, and most of the apps that you murder this way will just spring right back to life. If anything, app killers suck battery rather than preserve it.
But there’s a new feature that’s been available since Android 4.0: the Recent Apps menu. Although this feature’s primary intent is to make swapping between apps faster, it is also possible to “swipe away” apps. Some myths have cropped up that it’s good practice to pull up the Recent Apps menu and swipe away any apps you aren’t using, effectively killing them.
This just isn’t true. For one, swiping away recent apps does not kill them.It is a good way to get an app to stop misbehaving (for example, if a Facebook photo gets stuck uploading, then swiping away the app will tell Facebook to cancel this action), but the apps you see on this list are not actively running in the background. The Recent Apps menu is nothing like the Task Manager on your PC, it’s just a visual catalogue to help you navigate your apps easier.
In the modern age of Android’s maturity, there’s no reason that killing apps should be a part of your everyday use of the device. Sometimes it’s possible for apps to go rogue and start hogging resources, but those are the kind of devils you want to put down for good. If part of your regular use of your phone involves app killing, you’re probably depleting battery life rather than saving it.
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