Thursday, June 6, 2013

How to Increase the Battery Life for Android Phones

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Four out of ten android users ask questions or raise complains about poor battery life in Android phones. Do you know why? Poor battery life is one of the critical issues with Android phone and almost everyone is looking for ways to save battery.
One of the main reasons for poor battery life is application running in the background. Few android applications are poorly programmed to run in background and avoiding the mobile CPU to go to sleep even after locking your mobile. Most of the android mobiles have higher display resolution, brightness and contrast which also uses lot of battery power.
Most of the higher end android mobile have chipset that uses high frequency and sucks lot of battery. Before understanding ways to increase the battery life for android phone, you should understand what drains your android battery.
Settings –> About Phone –> Battery –> Batter Use
Here are 10 easiest ways to save your battery life.
1.    Exit application
Application running in background is a battery killer. Make sure you exit an application by pressing exit button or back button and not home button. Pressing the home button will leave the recently opened application to run in the background and it sucks the battery juice.
2.    Force Close
Force close to increase android battery life
Do not install apps that suck battery lot. Stop the application that eat battery power.
Settings –> Applications –> Running Services –> Click the application –> Stop the application
Though you close an application by pressing back button, it may still run in the background. You need to force close it in order to save the battery life.
3.    Avoid live wallpaper
Avoid live wallpaper to increase Android battery life
Live wallpapers runs in background every time you unlock your mobile. If you need to save your battery you need to compromise on not using the animated wallpapers. Do not download any application of animated wallpapers as well.
Settings –> Display  –> Wallpapers –> Disable Animation/live wallpaper
4. Wifi, bluetooth and GPS
wifi, bluetooth and GPS settings
Use wifi, bluetooth and GPS only when it required.
Settings –> Wireless and Networks –> Wi-Fi settings / Bluetooth settings. Settings –> Location and Security –> Use GPS satellites.
You can disable battery killers in seconds using these shortcuts.
5.    Disable the background data
Disable Background Data Android
Background data give permission to an app to use the mobile data and run in background. Example GTalk will use the mobile data if the background data is enabled and it will show you as online. This background running will kill your battery life.
Settings –> Accounts and Sync Settings –> Disable Background Data.
6.    Screen brightness
Screen Brightness Android
Most of battery power is used to light the display. It is necessary to keep optimum brightness to save the battery life. Do not compromise the readability.
Settings –> Display Settings –> Brightness –> Select manually / enable Automatic brightness.
7.    Widgets
These days there are lots of widgets available in the android market. Most of the widgets are live feed which always run in background and kill the battery life. Remove the live feed widgets unless it very much necessary.
Widget –> Press and hold –> delete.
8.    Disable Auto-Sync
Auto Sync Android
If Auto sync is ON, mobile usage peeks when it is connected to mobile data. This will automatically start syncing your accounts which will kill your battery life.
Settings –> Accounts and Sync Settings –> Disable Auto-sync.
9.    Signal Strength
When signal strength is low, the mobile battery will dry soon. Make sure you have good signal strength in your locality.
10.  Automatic Updates
Auto Updates Android
Disable automatic updates will ensure that the update of an application does not happen in the background. This small activity can save your battery life.
Go to play store –> Select the app –> Uncheck the automatic update
As you know, battery life is very important to use your phone to the fullest.  Above 10 simple ways can save you hours and hours of battery life. As you can see these steps aren’t technical and are just general guiding principles that anyone could follow in their day to day life. Do you know any other way to save Android battery life? Let us know in comments.
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2 comments:

  1. can also try this app "Du batter saver(free/paid)" ..try google to get paid version freely..:p

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