Boost Your Smartphone’s Battery Life To Experience Long Lasting Usage

Upgrading from a low end handset to a smartphone that you have been longing to buy from a long a time, you are surprised with its not so great battery life. People with expensive Android and iPhone complain for its battery thinking that what is wrong with the phone. That is the irony that some of the best smartphones powered by versatile and unique features are cursed with horrible battery life.

But if you are not an avid mobile user and use your handset sparingly the whole day then by end of the day you are left with little battery. Phones these days come with 5 watt hours batteries they can last up to 5 hours. The most basic solution to avoid this is to reduce the amount of power the handset you use per hour. You can try some of the most practical way by not using unwanted features and turning down features. Things like reducing brightness of the screen and removing apps in the background might help.

Here are some of the tips that might help you. Get your story here.

1) Dim The Brightness:

You like your smartphone as it has a large, colourful display. But, the battery of your phone is screwing up everything. The display consumes an ample amount of battery. Most phones come with auto brightness feature that can adjust the brightness of the screen to suit the lighting levels and system activity. This mode helps in using less power by using screen of your handset in full brightness.

2) Use Power Saving Mode:

Some smartphones, especially the Android ones have some of the power saving mode in their phones. With which you can hobble some features of your handset or shut down some of the apps when battery starts to consume below a desirable level.

If you can’t fetch a power saving option then you can look for an app like Juice Defender. Juice Defender plays and pause the radio on and off and manage with your handset’s CPU to optimize the battery life of your phone.

3) Do Not Use Vibrator, Strictly:

You should always put your phone on alert mode on incoming calls rather by putting it on vibrating mode. As, vibrating uses more power than playing of a ringtone does. The vibration motor rotates a small weight to make the whole phone wobble whereas; it takes a tiny membrane to make your phone vibrate.

To avoid all this you can turn off all the notifications and leave the phone through which you can see a call coming in.

4) Avoid Leaving Apps Running On Background:

Multitasking helps a lot, but at the same time burns all energy because the app you run uses the phone’s processor cycle. By using less of apps you can reduce the processor’s workload and cut down on your power consumption.

In some Android phones that consume lot of batteries, there is an app named Advanced Task Killer comes with an auto-kill feature that polices recent apps of your handset.

5) Turn Off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, When Not In Use:

Your phone’s Wi-fi is a very dangerous battery drainer. So, you should be careful enough that when you go outdoors make sure that you turn it back when you use data services within your Wi-fi network.

Then comes your Bluetooth, your wireless speaker and the extra radio is looking for signals from near about places. Turn off Bluetooth when you are not playing music without wires.

Final Words:

In the settings menu you have various options for disabling things like location, sending emails and other features. With all these settings contributing little effort to your phone’s battery life. When combined gives positive results.

Phone’s like iPhone 4S or 5 where you can disable Raise to speak feature using Siri settings that improves the battery life of these handsets.

Try any of these tips might be fruitful, as they really help.

About Author:

Nandan is a tech blogger for different topics from gadgets to lifestyle, and a passionate writer, currently working with zopper.com. Having a keen interest in writing he tries to learn all aspects of writing.