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Everybody would love to get their phone battery life to last
a few hours longer than usual and will
for sure appreciate some useful and
additional tips on how to go
about squeezing few more hours out of their battery life. I will be showing you
8 ways you can achieve that. Some of which are very simple, and we will start from the basics
things you need to do to ensure you keep
your device alive and later on we will move up to more complicated things.8 ways to extend your battery life includes:
1. Pay attention to your screen.
The new
screens of these era with 1080p screen
resolution is one of the biggest culprit of android battery drain, it takes a
lot of juice to power those displays.
Obviously, your screen brightness and your screen timeout plays a very
vital role here. The brighter your screen and the longer your timeout, the more
percentage of battery they consume. Always make sure you reduce your screen
brightness to the minimum when necessary unless in cases where you need a few
extra brightness from your screen then you can turned it up to just the right
level that suites you. Furthermore, it is also important you set your screen
timeout to few minutes, advisably not
more than 1 minute.
2.
Radio and Phone Signals
Radio signals
such as network signal (3G, 4G), GPS, Bluetooth, hotspot could be a really big
problem to your battery especially when you are trying to conserve your battery
life. 4G is the latest cell phone signals
as well as one of the biggest new features added so that more people can use them for faster data speed required tasks. But its
only problem is the battery consumption rate. Learn to use it only in
extreme cases (thanks to preferred network settings present in android
phones). This also applies to GPS and
Bluetooth on your device. When you are not in need of your GPS or Bluetooth,
turn them off to avoid unnecessary
battery consumption.
3. Watch your applications.
These
days, Smart phones are more powerful.
They have the ability to do some background activities like sync with Facebook
and Twitter, do all kinds of word processing and run office apps, and they have
an excellent multimedia experience with video games. It is no surprise that if you watch Netflix on 4G on a phone of 4.8-inch screen, your battery won't last more
than a few episodes .
Although Sometimes, an application can chew your battery
without being active. Always make sure you uninstall applications your don't
use by Doing this, go to your settings, and click the battery
option, there you can see a list of apps using your battery, go through the list
and note the ones worth uninstalling. After that go back and click "APPS"
option and switch to "ALL" tab. There you will see all the
applications installed in your phone. Go through the list and uninstall the
applications you noted down earlier. By doing this, you librated your battery from powering unneeded Apps.
4.
Widgets and syncing.
At
times I see some of my friends having lots of widgets on their home screen and surprisingly,
amongst those widgets, is the weather widgets. Then I start to wonder of what
use is the weather widget to this guy? Most
android users put up some unnecessary battery draining widgets on their home screen all for the
purpose of beautifying the home screen. Take for example the weather widget
which I mentioned earlier, most of them (if not all) require your GPS and data to
be actives in order for them to function
properly at the expense of our battery. Advice: Uninstall all your widgets from your home screen which you know you really
don't need daily.
5.
Avoid Phone Heating Up.
This one
is weird, but pay attention to this. A battery at high temperature will cause it to evacuate quickly while a low temperature has the opposite effect. Don't
place your phone in positions that will cause it to heat up like car dashboard,
T.V top, desktop computer top; doing this Will cause the phone to get hot and the battery drains faster. And if
you notice your phone temperature becoming
too high, turn it off, take out the battery (for removable batteries) and place
it somewhere cooler with some open air or before a desk fan for it to get a bit cold and then you can turn it on.
However,
it is also very important that you do
not freeze your phone or cause the battery to fall below a certain temperature
since condensation can also cause ruins
to your device. Just try not to go
overboard with cooling your phone.
6. block ads [root required].
People
sure know ads are annoying, but not many people really know how much they can hurt your battery life. Naturally, the more things you have acting on
your phone frequently is mostly likely
to cause power drop. There is no exception regardless of the website or application, it definitely will have an impact on battery life.
There are many ways to block ads on apps, but however, the option to remove ads by upgrading to a paid
version of a particular application is not always welcomed by most individual
out there, thus an ad-blocker is the
next best thing. There are many ad Blocker online. Just search Google for it
and you will have many options to pick from.
7.
Try a new kernel [root required].
Different
kernels for your device can significantly improve performance and battery life.
However, this option depends on the popularity of your phone. If you are using
a less popularly known device it will be very difficult to find a custom kernel
for your device. But that notwithstanding, flashing a new kernel into your phone van also
help improve your battery life and the process is usually very simple. Most kernels are packaged in zip files with regular
Flash support, but note that all phone kernel varies and it is therefore important
you read some articles containing instructions
on how to go about the flashing process. XDA-Developers.com is an excellent source
for learning about rooting, unlocking, and flashing of phones.
8.
Try a new ROM [root required]
Some
times the stock rom built into our android device by the manufacturers don't
really put the battery requirement into consideration. So many functions,
features and apps are packed into the device all with the view of attracting
buyers. In such a case, flashing a custom rom can be your best option. Custom
rom are ROMs built by individuals for a particular device and most of them are
meant to fix issues like battery consumption, ram management e.t.c in the stock
rom. Just like in the case of the kernel, custom ROMs differs from one phone to
another thus, to do this you have to search
for custom rom for your device model as well as how to go about the flashing
process.
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