Smartphones have come a long way in terms of design, camera, or even
processing power. However, we have not seen much breakthroughs when it
comes to battery technology.
That said, here we have listed out some lesser known tricks that will help you get the most out of your smartphone battery:
1. Turn off vibration and haptic feedback
We like the mild vibrations while typing on the smartphone keyboard.
But they absorb a good amount of battery because we spend a lot of time
on typing throughout the day.
Besides, if you don’t need to get notified by vibration, then turn
the `haptic feedback’ off as it actually takes more battery power to
vibrate your phone than it does to ring it.
2. Go for Black coloured wallpapers
If your smartphone boasts an AMOLED display, then applying black
coloured wallpapers will help you save battery life. This is because
pixels that make the AMOLED displays only utilize battery power to
illuminate light colours and don’t need any energy to show black colour.
Simply put, the more dark or black pixels you have on your AMOLED
display, the less power it consumes to illuminate them, thus saving the
battery.
3. Don’t miss on Android updates
Updating apps might seem to be a cumbersome task, but it actually
helps in improving the overall smartphone performance and battery life.
This is because developers keep updating apps to improve on battery and
memory optimisation. So make sure your smartphone has the latest version
of apps installed.
4. Turn on airplane mode
This is not an everyday solution, but can help you cut battery usage.
Turning on airplane mode will cut you from the outside world, but will
allow your smart phone to last longer for multimedia apps such as
videos, music player or games that don’t need any connectivity.
It can do wonders if you are travelling in a poor network zone where
your smartphone antennas consume a lot of power to register on the
available networks. Simply turn on the airplane mode if you don’t want
to receive any calls, messages or use the internet.
5. Remove on-screen widgets
Android operating system is all about widgets that offer tons of
information on your smartphone displays. It is a good thing to have
everything on screen; however, it plays havoc on your smartphone
battery. Delete the widgets that are placed to offer information not
required throughout the day and still fetch data from internet such as
weather apps etc.
6. Turn off auto-sync
Apps such as Gmail, Twitter, calendar, constantly refresh
themselves to offer the latest information. This is required if you just
cannot afford to miss important information, but also takes a toll on
battery life.
Go to Settings > Google account and turn off auto-sync for apps you don’t need constantly updated.
7. Check GPS, Bluetooth, NFC
Also, don’t forget to check on Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, NFC and mobile
data if you are not using them. Switch off the Wi-Fi if you are
connected on mobile data and vice versa. The NFC feature may get turned
on if you restart your NFC-enabled handset, so keep a check on this too.
Source: gadgetsnow
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