10 Amazing Tips To Boost The Battery Life Of Your Smartphone
Today smartphone is one of the basic needs for human life. It really helps the user to navigate with ease in day to day life. By taking this need into account, most of the mobile manufacturing companies started to build the affordable mobiles even smartphones within the range of every common man.
The big names called as brands also entered in this race and provided millions of devices to the market. On another hand, the high-value smartphone market has also increased and people like to buy costly smartphones too.
Due to this, the competition is also increasing and every brand is trying to sell more of its products with unique features. From the processing unit to the display and connectivity, all features are getting improved with every next day. But with the comparison of that, the battery performance has remained average till date.
Though newer technologies are arriving like fast charging (Different brands have their own name like Qualcomm's quick-charge or Motorola's turbo-charge etc.), Li-Po batteries or increased battery capacity etc. most of the people have complaints about their smartphone battery. And it's true that actually the problem of battery draining is common and no satisfactory solution found yet.
In such cases keeping your mobile juiced up is a really tough task for you, so that I'm going to explain this all about how to boost the battery of your android smartphone to the maximum. So let's start.
Functions of the Smartphone Battery:
The smartphone battery is nothing but the powerhouse to the mobile and provides energy for functioning every task on mobile. Right from the call to the GPS and display screen to NFC all these applications require the power and hence mobile battery is the very vital component of the mobile or the smartphone. It may be removable or not, but functioning is always similar, though both have their own pros and cons.
But the problem is not solved yet, so I'm going to explain about that all now.
For which functions the mobile or the smartphone needs the battery?
Right from switching it to on till switching off it completely, every mobile uses some amount of power according to the use. Every single application i.e. software (even battery saver application too) and hardware of the mobile phone needs power, including WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, call, memory, screen and much more.
As we have bought the mobile for our use, and it is essential us to use the mobile. Then how will we solve this problem? Have you any solution? Yes, then use it and if you have not got any one of these then keep reading.
# 10 Super Amazing Tips To Boost The Battery Of Your Smartphone:
As we discussed above, the battery is the most important in any mobile or the smartphone, hence I'm giving you these 10 tips, that will help you to boost your battery performance.
1. Turn off the unnecessary hardware:
A mobile or smartphone with the all advanced feature seems very great, but at the same time, it consumes a plenty of juice for the functioning of these features. Especially GPS and WiFi consumes more power, the Bluetooth and NFC are also power greedy. But nowadays their low power consumption variants are available in the market like Bluetooth 4.1/4.2 LE.
To avoid the fast drain of battery, this features should be keep switched off whenever not in use.
2. See which apps are using more power?
Navigate to the 'Setting > Battery' of your smartphone and look for the applications, which are using more power. It's generally given in the descending order of the power consumption. If any unnecessary application is found, then stop that. After that go to the 'Apps' and organize running applications to the best suited to you. If any unnecessary application is running in the background, stop it.
3. Use power saving mode:
Most of the current smartphones have power saving mode and it is useful to get rid of the fast battery draining problem. It has preset with different functions to optimize battery to the best level. Some mobiles have given this option in screen drop down menu or slide wall.
Many experts suggest that, to use this option for long lasting battery life. Whenever you are on tour, this power saving helps you to use mobile for a long time.
4. Screen timeout and brightness:
It seems annoying to open mobile after every 15 seconds, but you have to keep the screen timeout to minimum possible time in order to save battery. On another hand, you can also keep screen brightness to the lower value. Nowadays smartphones are really smart and have sensors to detect the environmental light condition, so that set screen brightness to 'Auto' for better viewing experience with battery saving.
5. It's about wallpapers:
Isn't it looking crazy? Yes, but it is the really important tip to save battery. As you can use custom wallpapers to your smartphone, you have to choose a static one. Because the live wallpapers & animated GIF image suck more juice. If you even want to save battery choose black or dark walls. It won't help in LCD displays too much, but in LED screens it helps amazingly.
In LED screens, each pixel represents the combination of three sub-pixels i.e. R-G-B. When the white color has to be shown, at that time all three sub-pixels lit up to give white color to the pixel and for different colors, it has the combination of R-G-B to different values. But for black color no any combination is made, it just doesn't lit up and hence there is no power requirement for black color in the LED screen panel. Do you get it? So choose wallpaper wisely according to your preferences.
6. Turn off vibration:
The vibration mode is useful when you are in public place or working especially in the meeting, that helps to get any notification or call from the mobile or the smartphone without disturbing other people. But it's a mechanical work that mobile has to do and it takes more power. So when vibration mode is not necessary to turn it off.
7. Turn off 'Auto-Sync':
In the variety of the smartphones option of 'Auto-Sync' for applications is available, and if you turn it on, then it gets synchronizing frequently after a few minutes even after 20-30 seconds for the latest update. Due to this function, it sucks a lot of battery and if network data/ WiFi is on then the power consumption is even more.
So turn this option to 'Auto-Sync' off and choose the manual mode for synchronization or updates of the app to save the power. But remember, then mobile won't give latest update notification like email or WhatsApp messages.
8. Disable/ uninstall the applications:
Every mobile or the smartphone have given some preloaded apps for general purpose. But all applications are not useful for every person, and if you have such apps simply uninstall them. Some preloaded apps can't be removed, they need to root the mobile. In such cases you can disable them by going to 'Setting > Apps > All Apps' and select the app that you don't want to use and click on it and then disable it. If you want this again then go to 'Setting > Apps >Disabled' and enable it again.
If the application is from external sources or from the 'play store' the don't forget to keep backup data before uninstalling that, if you need it in future.
9. Remove widgets from the home screen if not so important:
Most of the people like to keep widgets on the home screen or wall. These widgets also drain the battery. If you really don't need them, then remove them from there.
10. Look for signal strength:
If your area has poor network coverage or weak signal then mobile has to work hard to get the strong signal and till getting sufficient network strength, it may continuously try to hunt signal strong enough for smooth network navigation and this adversely affects battery life. So at that time if you don't need coverage then turn off network data or keep it on Airplane/ Flight mode.
Important things to remember with above 10 tips:
# 1. Before buying the mobile or smartphone make sure it is good enough to invest money. Check the reviews on different portals like YouTube, blogs and reputed websites for that mobile or the smartphone. The results may vary, according to different reviewer and smartphone models.
# 2. Buy smartphone with large battery capacity (in 'mAh'- the unit for battery capacity in milliampere-hour), but it is not necessary that large capacity battery will last for a long time. It totally depends on the hardware and software used and actual use that vary from person to person. (Or you can opt for a good quality power bank gadget with around 10000 mAh in traveling or tour for being on safer side)
# 3. The battery generally drains faster when it's hot, so avoid the heating for any purpose that affects battery life adversely. Use specified battery pack and accessories only. Don't compromise on that for the cheaper one. Also, avoid the charge from the laptop and the PC whenever possible, to avoid the heating problem.
# 4. Don't let your smartphone battery to drain completely often. For the better battery life, it is recommended that battery should keep between 30%-80%.
# 5. The last but the most important tip is to do not install any battery saver app, as this app itself sucks a plenty of juice for launching and auto-updating. And I have seen most of these apps contains online advertisement, that is more killer for battery life.
That's all about saving the battery of the smartphone and to boost it to the maximum. I hope that if you will follow these tips,then you will be able to get better battery life and you won't need to charge your smartphone too often.
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