Improving Battery Life of Android Phones
Regardless of how amazing an Android phone you have, its
advanced features, camera, display, etc., if it doesn’t have a good battery
life, it becomes more of a headache than convenience. You constantly have to
charge the phone after every hour or so or risk the phone battery dying on you.
Not only does it limit your usability and portability, but continually
charging the battery further deteriorates its health. Therefore, if you’re
tired of running to plug in your phone 16 times a day, get ready for some good
news.
Today, we’ll be looking at some ways you can improve the battery life of your
Android phone.
Switch On the Power Saving Mode
Most Android phones these days have this feature where the
phone automatically switches to a power-saving mode when the battery percentage
falls below a specific limit. In this mode, the phone reduces the brightness,
turns off some background apps, and generally preserves power for a few critical
apps only.
Therefore, if you want to improve the battery life of your Android phone,
you can manually set it to power-saving mode all the time. You will still be
able to use all your apps as you normally do and slow down the battery
consumption as well.
Adjust Brightness and Screen Timeout
Some features that use up a lot of battery are the screen
brightness and timeout interval. When you opt for auto-brightness, the phone
usually sets it to a higher setting than you actually need, and this drains your
battery way faster.
Similarly, the screen timeout is also set to around 1 or 2
minutes of inactivity before it turns off. For better battery life, you can
reduce the brightness and select the shortest timeout interval.
Uninstall Apps You Don’t Use
If you have apps on your phone that you don’t use anymore,
uninstall them for longer battery life. Even if you’re not opening them, they
still use up the battery as they keep running in the background. Moreover,
these apps also store data and cache that take up extra storage and end up
slowing down your phone. Therefore, deleting these apps help with battery life
as well as phone speed.
Keep a Simple Home Screen
With Android phones getting larger screens and vibrant
displays, we all want an aesthetically pleasing home screen. This includes
colorful or dynamic wallpapers, lots of apps, and even handy widgets.
However, the more stuff you put on your home screen, the
more battery your phone will require to display everything with the proper
colors and all its pixels. So, if you value your phone’s battery more than how
it looks, do away with all the clutter on your home screen. Remove the widgets.
Keep a simple wallpaper of one solid color.
Turn Off Notifications
This should be fairly easy to do because who really likes
the constant sound of notifications and pop-ups filling the screen. Besides for
any important apps and reminders, turn off all the notifications on your phone.
This will also reduce the workload of your phone, and consequently, reduce its
battery consumption.
Turn Off Location Services
Especially when you’re outside, using the maps app on your
phone or hailing a ride, you might have your location settings turned on. While
this is quite useful and too important to delete completely, try to use this
feature as sparingly as possible.
Similar to screen brightness, location settings also use up
a lot of battery in the background and drain it very fast. So, turn off your
location services as soon as you’re done using them.
Turn Off Vibration and Sounds
You might have turned on notification sounds or vibration to
alert you of an incoming call, message, or any other notification. Normally,
these don’t affect the battery
life of your phone that much.
However, if you’ve got a lot of apps or you’re the type of
person who’s constantly receiving notifications and message alerts, the
constant vibrations and ringtone sounds can use up excess battery. So, turn
these off when you know you’ll be receiving a lot of notifications.
Turn Off Google Assistant
Google Assistant is a pretty handy feature on most Android
phones. You can simply use voice commands to carry out tasks such as making
calls, playing a song, or checking the weather. However, for this to be
possible, Google Assistant has to be constantly running in the background and
using your microphone to instantly catch any of your voice commands. So, as you
can expect, it uses a lot of power and phone processing. Turning this feature
off or disabling the app can help extend your battery life.
Close Apps Running in the Background
Usually, when you’re using any app on your Android phone,
such as Facebook or Instagram, after you’re done using them, you simply turn
off your phone or go to your home screen. Now, you might think that you’ve
exited out of those apps.
But in reality, they keep running in the background and keep
draining your battery. Therefore, every time you close them, you have to make
sure that you properly stop the apps from running in the background.
Use Wi-Fi Over Mobile Data
Unless you’re somewhere with no Wi-Fi access and you’re
forced to use your mobile data, use the Wi-Fi over the mobile data. Running
mobile data on your phone usually uses up more battery as compared to Wi-Fi.
Conclusion
Following these few simple tricks will not only help the battery life of your phone
but also improve the overall performance of it with faster speed and
processing. Moreover, this will help in making each full charge of the battery
last longer so that you can comfortably use your phone throughout the day.
Alternatively, if you still feel like the battery life of your phone
hasn’t improved even after doing all this, you can opt for a power bank. You
can directly charge that and then use it to charge your Android phone as you
easily move out and about.
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