25 TIPS AND TRICKS TO improve battery life on your google android M smartphone.
Unlike Apple IOS and Blackberry 10 smartphone, Android has a much much larger customer base. The problem is not with the OS but the Company which makes the largest smartphone with Android. Samsung and LG have resorted to selling phones with various bells and whistles while the quality has suffered.
Some of these extra features kill batter ylife to a great extent. So how to extract the most out of your android smartphone? Well for beginners, I have personally installed a custom ROM (SLIM and Cyanogenmod work best). This is best done outside of your warranty and at your own risk.
But here are some of the basic things which will help.
1. Use a dark wallpaper: OLED screens look much better than their LCD counterparts. They are not only brighter but also save batterylife. So, the next time you are buying a phone, tick the OLED screen check box. Darker OLED screens switch off cells which are to show black/ darker colours hence saving battery life.
2. Use a lower display back light: With competition stiffening up, lots of companies are resorting to marketing gimmics using technical details. While a stronger back light looks more appealing, its harder on the eye and the battery. LCD brightness is best left on Auto option which is available on most phones.
3. Use a zero to 100 recharge cycle : I cannot stress enough on this. Today's batteries last longer when a zero to 100 recharge cycle is used. partial charging not only hampers battery calibration but also uses the number of charge cycles our phone batteries can run.
4. Reduce vibration: It really annoys many people when their phone keeps vibration during typing. It is irritating and uses battery. The same also goes for that whatsapp message reminder which keeps buzzing every minute or two. It is best to switch of vibration for most functions except the important ones like calling.
5. Shorter display timeout: An idle screen is better switched off. Go to settings, display, select the shortest display timeout as per your preference.
11. Disable Data options when not in use: Today's data networks are big battery hogs and phone batteries go out as fast as the data from your plan. Switch it off when not in use. Even better to switch it to 2G when traveling or in weak reception areas.
19. Switch off animations: Switch of animations such as live wallpapers. Everybody uses android and have live wallpapers on their phones. and yes, it wastes battery by throttling the CPU on your phone.
21. Kill unused apps: While most smartphones of today multitask, Android doesn't boast of a better multitasking functionality like sailfish or Blackberry. Click on the dual squares and the bottom of the screen and flick apps away to kill them.
22. Uninstall unused apps: Most phone come with loads of bloatware from the network or the manufacturer. For example Verizon puts its apps on the phone and samsung pushes its apps. Uninstalling helps free up the phone and making it feel more snappier.
23 Change emails from push to fetch Change the email check system from push to fetch. This stops the server from checking the emails from the server regularly. Instead fetch helps get emails when we want them.
24. Find corner of room with good coverage at night.We all know how phones are dangerous for our health. Hence keeping that away from our body at night is a good option. It might just help further to find a corner of the room when the phone gets that additional tower of reception.
25. Disable Google now: personally I've only found it to be a data recorder, battery eater and irritant. Switch it off and save that battery while you can. :P
Some of these extra features kill batter ylife to a great extent. So how to extract the most out of your android smartphone? Well for beginners, I have personally installed a custom ROM (SLIM and Cyanogenmod work best). This is best done outside of your warranty and at your own risk.
But here are some of the basic things which will help.
1. Use a dark wallpaper: OLED screens look much better than their LCD counterparts. They are not only brighter but also save batterylife. So, the next time you are buying a phone, tick the OLED screen check box. Darker OLED screens switch off cells which are to show black/ darker colours hence saving battery life.
3. Use a zero to 100 recharge cycle : I cannot stress enough on this. Today's batteries last longer when a zero to 100 recharge cycle is used. partial charging not only hampers battery calibration but also uses the number of charge cycles our phone batteries can run.
4. Reduce vibration: It really annoys many people when their phone keeps vibration during typing. It is irritating and uses battery. The same also goes for that whatsapp message reminder which keeps buzzing every minute or two. It is best to switch of vibration for most functions except the important ones like calling.
5. Shorter display timeout: An idle screen is better switched off. Go to settings, display, select the shortest display timeout as per your preference.
6. Notifications : Your phone notifications are there for a reason. But most app developers have started using it as a tool to market their products. Go to settings> apps and switch off functions which you do not use. Also its best to keep notifications off at night so as not to disturb sleep.
7. Switch of those extra sensors: Your phone doesn't need to keep those sensors on all the time. Switch them off. Stuff like Auto rotate and gesture control have shortcut options on Samsung phones. Swipe your finger from top right and select disable auto rotate.
8. Switch off those extra radios: Just like those extra sensors, these radios like IR, Bluetooth and NFC are also working overtime to drain your battery. Switch them off. Go to settings, select the radios that your phone has and switch off all except the phone radio when not in use.
9. Turn off GPS: GPS is a huge battery drainer and also sends information on your whereabouts to companies as alleged by some biggies. Switch it off when not in use. Your whatsapp friend doesn't need to know where you are at the moment.
10. Use offline maps: Various apps are available on Google play store which do not need to use your data plan all the time. this saves data and battery life. some goods apps are Nokia Maps and Navmii.
12. Switch to wi-fi : It is cheaper and faster and convenient to use especially when downloading large files. It is also easier on the battery compared to our 3g/4g LTE radios.
13. Switch off Wi-fi: what?? you might ask. But a wi-fi that's not in use but switched on is doing nothing much rather than hogging battery. Battery wear will only quicken once we step out of the house as the wi-fi radio keeps searching for the preffered wireless network.
14. Use the lockscreen: Use lockscreen notifications, these help keep the cpu at idle as much as possible and make less use of that screen back light. It might be an option on your phone or not depending on the make and model.
15. Widgets, the tiny evils : They might look fancy and keep your updated but they hog on your phones battery life like crazy. Uninstall them or remove them.
16. Update your phone If there is anybody that is working overtime to keep your phone running smooth, its the developers at the company labs. A newer version of the software is most often a battery saver except when other major software tweaks have been given a priority. In any case, update.
17. Disable auto update on Google play store: Our phones need not keep looking for updates every 24 hours. Hence its best to leave auto update apps off on Google play store. Save data and battery life.
18. Enable battery saving mode: It helps run the phone that little bit longer when we are commuting or when a power outlet is not available for longer durations. Most phones do have it either under quick settings or under control panel.
19. Switch off animations: Switch of animations such as live wallpapers. Everybody uses android and have live wallpapers on their phones. and yes, it wastes battery by throttling the CPU on your phone.
20.Use task manager often: Use the task manager often to see whats using the most batterylife. Kill those apps or change permissions to make sure they are not able to do so.
21. Kill unused apps: While most smartphones of today multitask, Android doesn't boast of a better multitasking functionality like sailfish or Blackberry. Click on the dual squares and the bottom of the screen and flick apps away to kill them.
22. Uninstall unused apps: Most phone come with loads of bloatware from the network or the manufacturer. For example Verizon puts its apps on the phone and samsung pushes its apps. Uninstalling helps free up the phone and making it feel more snappier.
23 Change emails from push to fetch Change the email check system from push to fetch. This stops the server from checking the emails from the server regularly. Instead fetch helps get emails when we want them.
24. Find corner of room with good coverage at night.We all know how phones are dangerous for our health. Hence keeping that away from our body at night is a good option. It might just help further to find a corner of the room when the phone gets that additional tower of reception.
25. Disable Google now: personally I've only found it to be a data recorder, battery eater and irritant. Switch it off and save that battery while you can. :P
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