12 Android Tips and Tricks:
Posted By Tony Bravo , 6 April 2015
How to Make Your Android Phone Last Longer Battery Timing.
Battery life is one of the biggest issues in the Android world today. Take your Sim card out, turn off WIFI and never touch it and it'll sit there happily , lasting for a whole week on one carge . But try to use it for any thing "smart" and , well, that's where the problems start.
It's a pretty sorry state of affairs when we count the up time of today's smart phones in numbers of hours rather than days, with the standard metric of decent battery life being whether a phone can last a whole working day on asingle charge.
So are there any realistic things you can do to improve your phone's battery life, other than just switching it off, putting it a sock drawer and hoping no one ever wants to call you?
Yes, yes there are. Of course it's not possible to suddenly double your Android phone's up time by magically tweaking a few settings, but you should be able to squeeze out a few more hours of life from even the puniest of batteries without compromising on performance too much.
How are some easy, not-too-compromising methods of boosting your Android phone's battery life
1. Set a rigid bedtime
Some of today's phones feature automation tools, which let you, say turn off the mobile signal and WiFi after a certain time. Putting your phone in this sort of induced coma will save power , so if your phone doesn't support scheduled activities , install a management app like Task and turn off all non-essential stuff over night. Or stick it in airplane mode yourself. You will sleep better, too.
2. Deactivate WiFi when not needed.
If your phone's constantly sniffing out and trying to connect to every WiFi signal in the area like a robot dog on heat, you are wasting powers. Switch off WiFi when out and about or when you know you're not going to be needing it. A Home screen toggle will make this easy. Think of it as something boring but essential you have to do, like always putting your seat belt on.
3. Upload and sync only on WiFi
If you are a keen Drop box user or rely heavily on music syncing services, you will benefit greatly from only doing your uploading through WiFi . If's vastly quicker, which means less connectivity time for your phone and less strain on the battered old lithium reserves.
Android battery life.
4. Uninstall unnecessary apps
You can never be too sure what's running itself in the background, what with all the mu lti tasking , self uploading , auto replicating features in today's modern Android apps, so at least minimize the chances of something randomly hoovering up all your battery by constantly trying to connect to some non existent server, by deleting any unused or old apps.
5. Use push notifications if possible
Android built in email application is great and stylish and everything, but having it poll for messages every isn't the best for your battery. If your mail provider offers push notification support use it - the excellent standalone Hotmail app does, for example, which will help lesson power drain a little.
6. Check yourself
Apps like Battery Doctor will give you a much better indication of what's literally eating at your phone's battery over time than Android's own limited battery life checker , which could help finger something that's the key culprit in draining power. And if you can live without it, bin it.
7. Install a brightness toggle widget
Set your phone to its minimum possible brightness by default, as it,s your display that,s by far the biggest user of power. Then stick a big brightness high/low toggle widget on the home screen , in a place you can find it without being able to see it (like when using your now ultra gloomy phone outside). Then only max the brightness when you need to . It might help, and even the automatic brightness option uses a marginal amount of power , as the light sensor needs to ... sense light.
8. Dump the widgets
Yes widgets are a key part of Android , and we are trying to keep this guide practical and not simply tell you to nuke everything, but do you really need a constantly updating Facebook widget on Home screen ? it's just full of boring people's boring baby photos these days anyway , and updating widget content puts a constant strain on your battery throughout the day , even if you just activate your phone for a few seconds to check a text message .
9. Remove hap tic feedback
Surely your brain's had enough practice using touch devices that it knows if you've pressed something or not by now ?? If so, turn off all the hap tic feedback options. These little bumps and grinds use power each time you press a key, so try to get used to life without physical feedback.
10. Switch of G.P.S
Unless you are one of those people who's still using Four Square to tell the world about it every time you go out to the shop to buy a packet of crisps, there's little reason to have G.P.S constantly active on your phone. Turn it on when you need it , and use the option to have your phone detect your location through the WiFi connection . WiFi location in usually close enough an approximately for most apps. And if they do need G.P.S, they're clever enough to tell you anyway.
11. Put your phone on the windowsill..
A strong connection to your phone network requires less power to maintain, so the technical people tell us . So instead of keeping it in your pocket , stick somewhere and battery last longer. What a mind blowing revelation, eh?
12. .....and keep it cool
Batteries work best in cooler remperatures, with prolonged warm periods gradually lowering their efficiency over time . Putting your phone in a looser pocket might help , or perhaps just gently fanning it while it changes. That might not be the best use of your working day, but at least you will still be able to get on Twitter on the train home.
Posted By Tony Bravo , 6 April 2015
How to Make Your Android Phone Last Longer Battery Timing.
Battery life is one of the biggest issues in the Android world today. Take your Sim card out, turn off WIFI and never touch it and it'll sit there happily , lasting for a whole week on one carge . But try to use it for any thing "smart" and , well, that's where the problems start.
It's a pretty sorry state of affairs when we count the up time of today's smart phones in numbers of hours rather than days, with the standard metric of decent battery life being whether a phone can last a whole working day on asingle charge.
So are there any realistic things you can do to improve your phone's battery life, other than just switching it off, putting it a sock drawer and hoping no one ever wants to call you?
Yes, yes there are. Of course it's not possible to suddenly double your Android phone's up time by magically tweaking a few settings, but you should be able to squeeze out a few more hours of life from even the puniest of batteries without compromising on performance too much.
How are some easy, not-too-compromising methods of boosting your Android phone's battery life
1. Set a rigid bedtime
Some of today's phones feature automation tools, which let you, say turn off the mobile signal and WiFi after a certain time. Putting your phone in this sort of induced coma will save power , so if your phone doesn't support scheduled activities , install a management app like Task and turn off all non-essential stuff over night. Or stick it in airplane mode yourself. You will sleep better, too.
2. Deactivate WiFi when not needed.
If your phone's constantly sniffing out and trying to connect to every WiFi signal in the area like a robot dog on heat, you are wasting powers. Switch off WiFi when out and about or when you know you're not going to be needing it. A Home screen toggle will make this easy. Think of it as something boring but essential you have to do, like always putting your seat belt on.
3. Upload and sync only on WiFi
If you are a keen Drop box user or rely heavily on music syncing services, you will benefit greatly from only doing your uploading through WiFi . If's vastly quicker, which means less connectivity time for your phone and less strain on the battered old lithium reserves.
Android battery life.
4. Uninstall unnecessary apps
You can never be too sure what's running itself in the background, what with all the mu lti tasking , self uploading , auto replicating features in today's modern Android apps, so at least minimize the chances of something randomly hoovering up all your battery by constantly trying to connect to some non existent server, by deleting any unused or old apps.
5. Use push notifications if possible
Android built in email application is great and stylish and everything, but having it poll for messages every isn't the best for your battery. If your mail provider offers push notification support use it - the excellent standalone Hotmail app does, for example, which will help lesson power drain a little.
6. Check yourself
Apps like Battery Doctor will give you a much better indication of what's literally eating at your phone's battery over time than Android's own limited battery life checker , which could help finger something that's the key culprit in draining power. And if you can live without it, bin it.
7. Install a brightness toggle widget
Set your phone to its minimum possible brightness by default, as it,s your display that,s by far the biggest user of power. Then stick a big brightness high/low toggle widget on the home screen , in a place you can find it without being able to see it (like when using your now ultra gloomy phone outside). Then only max the brightness when you need to . It might help, and even the automatic brightness option uses a marginal amount of power , as the light sensor needs to ... sense light.
8. Dump the widgets
Yes widgets are a key part of Android , and we are trying to keep this guide practical and not simply tell you to nuke everything, but do you really need a constantly updating Facebook widget on Home screen ? it's just full of boring people's boring baby photos these days anyway , and updating widget content puts a constant strain on your battery throughout the day , even if you just activate your phone for a few seconds to check a text message .
9. Remove hap tic feedback
Surely your brain's had enough practice using touch devices that it knows if you've pressed something or not by now ?? If so, turn off all the hap tic feedback options. These little bumps and grinds use power each time you press a key, so try to get used to life without physical feedback.
10. Switch of G.P.S
Unless you are one of those people who's still using Four Square to tell the world about it every time you go out to the shop to buy a packet of crisps, there's little reason to have G.P.S constantly active on your phone. Turn it on when you need it , and use the option to have your phone detect your location through the WiFi connection . WiFi location in usually close enough an approximately for most apps. And if they do need G.P.S, they're clever enough to tell you anyway.
11. Put your phone on the windowsill..
A strong connection to your phone network requires less power to maintain, so the technical people tell us . So instead of keeping it in your pocket , stick somewhere and battery last longer. What a mind blowing revelation, eh?
12. .....and keep it cool
Batteries work best in cooler remperatures, with prolonged warm periods gradually lowering their efficiency over time . Putting your phone in a looser pocket might help , or perhaps just gently fanning it while it changes. That might not be the best use of your working day, but at least you will still be able to get on Twitter on the train home.
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