Tuesday, July 19, 2011

7 Ways to Improve Android Battery Life


To be honest, Android phones are really hard to stand all day long. You should find yourself lucky it your Android phone battery lives for a day. Then in order to keep your smartphone alive the whole day long, you start deactivating all the features that makes your phone intelligent and stylish.

So what exactly we should do in order to make the Android battery live longer?? Well, you should feel happy reading these 7 Android battery saving solutions along with great tips which will definitely bring the difference and will add few more hours to the battery life.

Close-off status update
Now I do not say that not to use the Android features but there is no need to look for the latest updates on emails or tweets after every two minutes. You can simply reduce the frequency of notification that gets updated after every minute, so that at night when you are left with this saved battery life minutes. You can tweet at bed-time.

Shut-off auto-sync
If you have no problem living without Gmail and Google calendar, then it is better to turn off the auto-sync altogether but make sure that you manually sync your contacts once in a while.

Turn off GPS
GPS is a powerful power drainer which is not even required all the time. You will definitely observe a considerable improvement in the battery life.

Set a Wi-Fi timeout
Now this is highly useful to set a time-out for Wi-Fi connectivity. For this you need to go to ‘Advanced’ Wi-Fi management screen in Android by navigating Menu button then going to ‘Wi-Fi’ setting. This is a biggest reason for draining up of the android battery lilfe.

Gothic wallpaper
Try to make the home screen background not so vibrant and try to make it dark and dull as particularly OLED versions use more energy with brighter and white colours.

Don't drain the battery
This old advice of completely discharging the battery does not work any more with modern lithium-ion batteries. In fact perform better if you regularly charge them and keep them topped up.

Purchase an in-car charger
Last but still very important, you must have an in-car charger that remains inside the car along with a spare battery.