Some not-so-obvious methods to save your phone battery's health and life.
1. Back ground apps:
This has been a huge issue with almost all ICS phones as the back ground apps hog processor resource even after exiting them. Now Captain Obvious would have told us "...and the processor need battery". There is an app in Google Play that caught my fancy. Norton Utilities. This app works wonders in terminating useless background apps, freeing the processor of most of its back breaking work. One may have this app as a widget and terminate all running apps with just a touch. Juice defender has a setting to bring down screen brightness up to 80% below Zero brightness setting.
2. Battery Technology:
Many a times I have noticed people over looking this. There are two basic types of rechargeable batteries. Nickel based and Lithium based.
Now Nickel based batteries are the old technology. They have the 'memory effect' which means if one charges without draining the battery completely, the battery life is reduced with every charge. Its the exact opposite with Lithium Polymer batteries. A user must charge his battery before it reaches 10%. If it does go beyond 10% please switch off the phone and then charge before you use it again.
Draining once in a month completely would be a good idea to re-calibrate the battery. Android is sometimes error prone to showing the wrong reading. And also, over charging your phone is a bad idea as this sometimes heats up the battery. The battery is sensitive to heat and phones such as HTC [which heat up a lot] may have real issues with battery life.
3. Try not to restart your phone:
Even if the world is coming to an end and the only hope to save mankind is by restarting the phone, but you want the battery to last long... don't do it! Start-up of an OS uses maximum processor resource to sync the SD card data and index the files, run back ground checks and such. Restarting the phone would use up precious battery that could have been used elsewhere.
4. Widgets and Ping-ers:
Widgets for weather, news, twitter etc continuously ping for updates with their main servers. You can stop them from ping-ing [transmitting and receiving data] by disabling that in Settings-> Accounts and sync. This way you can have your 3G and 2G on while still saving some juice.
5. Tone down the colors:
This may sound absurd, but sometime solutions may sound silly. But this one sure works. If you are having difficulties with battery and you use a 3rd party theme application, then tone down on the color scheme. Tone down on vibrant and rich colored wall papers [also live wallpapers]. Using vibrant theme makes it difficult for the screen brightness to contribute to saving the battery as color reproduction takes a higher priority. Go for darker themes with more black in them [very useful for AMOLED screens]. Also turn off Hap tic feedback [vibrators need battery!].
For darker more sophisticated theme Try me!
6. If your phone is cooking..:
If your phone feels hot, don't use it. Probably the cell radio or the processor is working on some background transmission or process. Try to terminate all application and turn off cell radio with airplane mode. Let it cool and then you may resume. This definitely worked when we tested our phones [Galaxy SL, HTC One V]. Such prolonged heating effects may affect your battery's life as well. Replace battery in that case, for visible changes.
7. Minimize the radio chatter:
Switch off unnecessary connections such as WiFi and Bluetooth when not in use. They can hog precious amps just by scanning for other devices and pinging data to them. They are also security risk.
And if nothing works, you can always have this with you. Portable USB charger
Also if your phone has heating problem and very weak battery..I would suggest you to change the battery and follow these steps. This should solve any such problem in the future.
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Ever wondered why your phone always disappointed you with ridiculously low battery and left you brooding when you could be listening to your favourite song, or watching that one movie on the go or share that funny video clip with your friend.
In this article, i will explain 7 non-conventional way you can save your batteries and some tips on improving your battery life.
1. Back ground apps:
This has been a huge issue with almost all ICS phones as the back ground apps hog processor resource even after exiting them. Now Captain Obvious would have told us "...and the processor need battery". There is an app in Google Play that caught my fancy. Norton Utilities. This app works wonders in terminating useless background apps, freeing the processor of most of its back breaking work. One may have this app as a widget and terminate all running apps with just a touch. Juice defender has a setting to bring down screen brightness up to 80% below Zero brightness setting.
2. Battery Technology:
Many a times I have noticed people over looking this. There are two basic types of rechargeable batteries. Nickel based and Lithium based.
Now Nickel based batteries are the old technology. They have the 'memory effect' which means if one charges without draining the battery completely, the battery life is reduced with every charge. Its the exact opposite with Lithium Polymer batteries. A user must charge his battery before it reaches 10%. If it does go beyond 10% please switch off the phone and then charge before you use it again.
Draining once in a month completely would be a good idea to re-calibrate the battery. Android is sometimes error prone to showing the wrong reading. And also, over charging your phone is a bad idea as this sometimes heats up the battery. The battery is sensitive to heat and phones such as HTC [which heat up a lot] may have real issues with battery life.
3. Try not to restart your phone:
Even if the world is coming to an end and the only hope to save mankind is by restarting the phone, but you want the battery to last long... don't do it! Start-up of an OS uses maximum processor resource to sync the SD card data and index the files, run back ground checks and such. Restarting the phone would use up precious battery that could have been used elsewhere.
4. Widgets and Ping-ers:
Widgets for weather, news, twitter etc continuously ping for updates with their main servers. You can stop them from ping-ing [transmitting and receiving data] by disabling that in Settings-> Accounts and sync. This way you can have your 3G and 2G on while still saving some juice.
5. Tone down the colors:
This may sound absurd, but sometime solutions may sound silly. But this one sure works. If you are having difficulties with battery and you use a 3rd party theme application, then tone down on the color scheme. Tone down on vibrant and rich colored wall papers [also live wallpapers]. Using vibrant theme makes it difficult for the screen brightness to contribute to saving the battery as color reproduction takes a higher priority. Go for darker themes with more black in them [very useful for AMOLED screens]. Also turn off Hap tic feedback [vibrators need battery!].
For darker more sophisticated theme Try me!
6. If your phone is cooking..:
If your phone feels hot, don't use it. Probably the cell radio or the processor is working on some background transmission or process. Try to terminate all application and turn off cell radio with airplane mode. Let it cool and then you may resume. This definitely worked when we tested our phones [Galaxy SL, HTC One V]. Such prolonged heating effects may affect your battery's life as well. Replace battery in that case, for visible changes.
7. Minimize the radio chatter:
Switch off unnecessary connections such as WiFi and Bluetooth when not in use. They can hog precious amps just by scanning for other devices and pinging data to them. They are also security risk.
And if nothing works, you can always have this with you. Portable USB charger
Also if your phone has heating problem and very weak battery..I would suggest you to change the battery and follow these steps. This should solve any such problem in the future.
@/\/!
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