One of the biggest issues with smartphones today is battery life. Does your battery often run out before you get home? even after charging it overnight?
Follow these 10 quick and easy tips to save battery power and minimize the number of times you have to charge your phone in a day.
Turn the screen brightness down as low as you can. Of course, when you’re outside in bright sunlight, it’s almost impossible to turn down the screen brightness and still see very well. But once inside, remember to lower it. The brighter the screen, the more battery power it will use.
Use a black wallpaper on an AMOLED screen. When a pixel is white it produces light. Therefore, using a black wallpaper produces less light and saves battery power. I recommend Zedge for wallpapers, ringtones, and notification sounds.
Turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, screen rotation, and sync whenever possible. Swipe down from the top of the screen where the notification bar is located to reveal quick settings. Click each quick settings icon to turn it on or off.
Use the battery saving location or turn it off completely. Sometimes it is necessary to have the location set to high precision. For example, when you use Maps to get driving directions. However, most of the time the battery saving option works very well and high accuracy is not needed. You will find this setting in the location.
Prevent apps from sending notifications. Obviously, there are some notifications you need, such as new messages, the weather, and possibly news updates. But do you really need notifications every time a new video you might like is uploaded to YouTube? Disabling some of your app notifications will not only save battery life, but also save data and RAM. Saving RAM will speed up your phone. And we all know how important it is to save data.
To disable unwanted notifications, go to settings and click on notifications. That will take you to a list of the apps on your phone and you can click on an app to turn its notifications on or off.
If your particular phone model doesn’t have the notifications option, go to apps. Click the app you want to turn off notifications for, then scroll down to Notifications. You will then see an option to turn off notices from that app. Repeat for each application.
Set the screen to turn off after 2 minutes or less of inactivity. Go to settings > display and click sleep to set the amount of time the screen will turn itself off after inactivity. This, of course, means you’ll have to re-enter your passcode more often, but your phone’s screen uses more battery power than anything else.
Turn off vibrate. Personally, I’m not a fan of keys that vibrate when I type, so turning off vibration is one of the first things I do. You’ll find key vibration in settings > language and input > virtual keyboard. From there, click on your keyboard and then preferences. Scroll down until you see vibrate on keypress.
Turn off the pulse notification light. This is the light that blinks to let you know that you have a new notification. In the settings, below the screen, you will find an option to toggle the pulse notification light.
Kill apps running in the background. Apps always run in the background; several completely unnecessary at that. There are one of two ways to see what apps are running, depending on the make and model of your phone.
In settings, go to apps. From there, scroll to the right (if possible) to run.
Otherwise, you’ll find a list of currently running apps in your phone’s settings in memory. Click on the app you want to remove. Then click on the three little dots in the top right corner. This should reveal a hard stop option.
Only turn off apps if you know what they’re doing. For example, it’s safe to turn off Chrome, Gmail, and LetGo, but the Android OS, system UI, and com.android.smpush should be left alone.
When you place your phone, press the power button to turn off the screen. This is always a good idea, especially when you’re out and about, as it not only saves quite a bit of battery power, but also activates the screen lock.