If anyone of you is to google how to save precious battery of your android phone, you will get a hundred articles and blogs that beleive they have the authority to say what kills your battery. The problem is that this guide are conflicting and does not provide user with a straight solution.
Well, let end the conflict here. Below are five tips that have been proven to work in decreasing the amount of battery life required to make it through an average day and help Android phones all over the place make it from sunrise to sunset without needing that midday charge.
The objective of this article is to provide all the detail needed to prove why a technique work and why everyone should follow it to save their battery. No more of those articles where some stuff work and some doesn't and the author doesn't even have the courtesy to speak why. Here are few tips with reason how they actually save your battery :
• Change your display to something black and lower down your screen brightness
If you're an avid reader, it is recommended you check out this recent study done by owners of the Samsung Nexus S. For those who dont like going through the spreadsheet, it is the in depth chart that show what uses the battery and by how much. There is a section which tell which color uses how much battery. If you look into it you will find that the black and red color uses the least energy. This is because they are dark color and the phone dont have to waste it energy in creating color for the display.
Furthermore, producing light require energy. The more you keep the value of brightness the more it uses away your battery. You can set the brightness to be automatic and the android system would look after how much brightness to provide when.
• Lessen the frequency of update of apps that run in background
All the apps that run in background update themselves quite frequently. This causes you both data and energy constantly. This includes all the apps such as Facebook, Twitter, foursquare, your weather widget and emails. I would recommend to set their update frequency to the lowest level or completely switch them off. You can always check the app when you open them. When you open an apps it update itself then. One point that is to be noted is the email update frequency. If you receive a lot of important email that you need to read immediately, dont lower its update frequency value.
• Turn off any service that you are not using
Be it GPS or Bluetooth, if you are not using it turn it off. GPS uses a lot of battery to communicate with the satellites. So if you not using navigation or not signing into some location in foursquare, switch it off. Same goes with the Bluetooth.
• Use wifi whenever possible
Connecting to a mobile data, be it 2g, 3g or 4g uses a lot of battery. To search for the tower, get hold of it and to check that you remain connected takes away a lot og battery. Beside, think of all the other user who would be competing for data in the same tower. In case of slow connection the overhead for sending and receiving packets is huge. So whenever you have a wifi access, use it as connecting to router takes less energy. Beside the signal strenght of wifi remain stronger than that of data connection and there is less competition too.
• Uninstall any apps that you dont need anymore
Apps can randomly open themselves in the background and may remain open forever if unchecked. This drain away lots of battery and other resources. Virtually all the apps do that and you can't do anything about it. The android kernel has been built such. So uninstall any app that you wont be using anymore.
There is one more thing that you must keep in mind dont use a task killer or use it just once or twice a day. Using it in every hour wont benefit you much. This will be dealt in detail in our next post on android.
Well, let end the conflict here. Below are five tips that have been proven to work in decreasing the amount of battery life required to make it through an average day and help Android phones all over the place make it from sunrise to sunset without needing that midday charge.
The objective of this article is to provide all the detail needed to prove why a technique work and why everyone should follow it to save their battery. No more of those articles where some stuff work and some doesn't and the author doesn't even have the courtesy to speak why. Here are few tips with reason how they actually save your battery :
• Change your display to something black and lower down your screen brightness
If you're an avid reader, it is recommended you check out this recent study done by owners of the Samsung Nexus S. For those who dont like going through the spreadsheet, it is the in depth chart that show what uses the battery and by how much. There is a section which tell which color uses how much battery. If you look into it you will find that the black and red color uses the least energy. This is because they are dark color and the phone dont have to waste it energy in creating color for the display.
Furthermore, producing light require energy. The more you keep the value of brightness the more it uses away your battery. You can set the brightness to be automatic and the android system would look after how much brightness to provide when.
• Lessen the frequency of update of apps that run in background
All the apps that run in background update themselves quite frequently. This causes you both data and energy constantly. This includes all the apps such as Facebook, Twitter, foursquare, your weather widget and emails. I would recommend to set their update frequency to the lowest level or completely switch them off. You can always check the app when you open them. When you open an apps it update itself then. One point that is to be noted is the email update frequency. If you receive a lot of important email that you need to read immediately, dont lower its update frequency value.
• Turn off any service that you are not using
Be it GPS or Bluetooth, if you are not using it turn it off. GPS uses a lot of battery to communicate with the satellites. So if you not using navigation or not signing into some location in foursquare, switch it off. Same goes with the Bluetooth.
• Use wifi whenever possible
Connecting to a mobile data, be it 2g, 3g or 4g uses a lot of battery. To search for the tower, get hold of it and to check that you remain connected takes away a lot og battery. Beside, think of all the other user who would be competing for data in the same tower. In case of slow connection the overhead for sending and receiving packets is huge. So whenever you have a wifi access, use it as connecting to router takes less energy. Beside the signal strenght of wifi remain stronger than that of data connection and there is less competition too.
• Uninstall any apps that you dont need anymore
Apps can randomly open themselves in the background and may remain open forever if unchecked. This drain away lots of battery and other resources. Virtually all the apps do that and you can't do anything about it. The android kernel has been built such. So uninstall any app that you wont be using anymore.
There is one more thing that you must keep in mind dont use a task killer or use it just once or twice a day. Using it in every hour wont benefit you much. This will be dealt in detail in our next post on android.
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