8 simple tips to save your Android Battery!

| May 2, 2011 | 12 Comments
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This post illustrates 8 simple ways, to solve the long-standing-issue of poor battery life of Android.

  1. Learn “what has been using the battery”
    Follow these steps and learn about your battery usage.
    1- Go to Settings
    2- Go to About Phone
    3- Go to Battery usage
    This screen gives you complete information as what systems and applications such as voice calls, cell Standby, Wi-Fi, Android Systems etc. are using the most battery.
  2. Use the Built-in Power Widget to Toggle GPS, Bluetooth, Wireless, and Screen Brightness
    Android comes with a built-in Power Widget with which you can easily toggle the settings on or off. Hole the widget icon for a longer while to make it available on your screen or choose Widget then select Power Control to add it to the screen.
  3. Use Battery saver Apps
    Installing a battery saver app certainly worker for me. There are several apps out there to help you rescue your battery, among which the most prominent are:
    > Green Power Battery Saver
    > Juice Defender
    > Battery Doctor
    In our next post we will analyze in detail the best app for you!
  4. Reduce brightness:
    Like on any phone, you can save substantial battery by reducing its brightness. To do so, follow these steps:
    1- Go to Settings
    2- Go to Display
    3- Go to Brightness
    4- Adjust the level to the lowest acceptable level!
  5. Turn-off unnecessary connections
    Turn-off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections when not required. Usually GPS and Google apps such as Maps and Places are known to be battery eaters. Try to use them minimum.
  6. Turn off unnecessary apps (Use task killers!)
    There are many apps that will be running in background and you won’t even be aware of it! Always turn-off unnecessary applications to save your battery. A best way to accomplish this is to install Task Managers. Such applications, usually called Task killers will inform you about which applications are running on your phone currently and will also allow you to kill them.
    > Advanced Task Manager
    > Advanced Task Killer
    > Watchdog Task Manager Lite
  7. Set Apps that need to be synchronize to synchronize after large update- intervals.
  8. Avoid live wallpapers! They will eat your battery!

You are done! Try these simple ways to enhance your Android Battery life!

 

 

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  • homer

    What a croc. All of that amounts to:

    “To reduce the battery use of Android”…. “Don’t use it”!…

    that’s just bullsh&t. How about these manufacturers start putting a decent battery into the damn things. I don’t want to learn how to not use my phone to save battery. I want to use it how and when I like and have a battery good enough to allow that.

  • ayesha.ahmed

    Likes!! :)
    but until that good times, we can play simple tricks to save the battery for our betterment!

  • alfi

    nothing really new. to me on htc desire it works the best to manually select either edge or 3g network. the battery life then gets 30-50% better (~1,5 day instead of one)

    • Donadony

      I don`t agree with you. I have an HTC desire, when max battery life is 1 day

  • Plague

    STOP advertising task killelrs which do not even help and can get your app data into bad state!

  • Ayesha-ahmad

    Well for me they worked… At least I got the track of what apps are running without being noticed!

  • http://twitter.com/mbvdl MarloN

    TASK KILLERS is a bad idea, it made discredit the rest of this article, as the author clearly does not know the O/S very well at all.

    • Ayesha-ahmad

      Thankyou Marlon, for enlightening me about the worst effects of Task killers. I have researched heavily about his and I shall put it in post so that others can also learn from it. Thankyou again. :)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/bharani.gnanasekaran Bharani Kumar

    To save battery on android phones . follow these simple tips http://www.getandroidapk.com/2011/05/28/how-to-increase-battery-life-in-android-phones/

  • http://bGoog.com Black Google

    Sweet tips, thanks! Did you also know when you use a black background instead of white it also extends your battery life a lot. There is a cool site called Black Google Mobile at http://bGoog.com that allows you to Google with a black background which works awesome on my Android, give it a try!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UTJ6TMZKSD7XHRV7FF3EOAK7GE dinar

    There are some other tips to improve android tablet battery have a longer life. http://www.androidhoneycombs.com/Android-Smartphone-Tablet-Battery-saving-tips.htm
    maybe it useful info

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