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August 24, 2010

5 tips to increase your Andriod phone battery life

Android Battery LifeEvery Android phone user loves to have a long-lasting battery. Android phones are hungry devices as they are designed to do multiple tasks like email, wi-fi, bluetooth, cloud sync apps besides basic phone functions. A number of factors such as design, display, faster processor, network(2g, 3g) impact the battery life.

Here are some simple but effective tips to optimize and increase your android phone battery life.

  1. Set display brightness to adjust automatically
    Let your OS automatically adjust the brightness of the device rather than doing to manually.
  2. Reduce the updates frequency of Email, Twitter and Facebook
    Set email,Social media and various messaging apps to “manual”, which results in getting the updates only when requested. This instantly extend the android battery life by a significant amount.
  3. Kill the useless background tasks
    Android OS has been improving at a steady pace in terms of automatic task management. Sometimes, letting OS kill useless tasks for you doesn’t work in most of the situations. Having a task killer apps like Advanced Task Killer, Taskiller
    can help neutralize unexpected network access and lengthen your battery life. Set the auto-kill options (do not include system processes) and your phone memory will be cleaned when the screen goes off.
  4. Turn OFF unnecessary hardware features on your phone.
    It’s great to have an Android phone with features like 3G, GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. But do you really need to those keep activated all through the day? Most probably not. So simply, Turn OFF 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth when not in use. You can instantly notice improvement in android battery life.
  5. Reduce RSS feed update frequency
    There are plenty of apps with default poll frequency to get updates. You can save a significant amount of battery life by setting RSS updates to manual.
2 Comments
  1. Aug 27 2010

    All excellent points. Another small way to save is to use black backgrounds on your Android whenever possible. There’s a cool new site called Black Google Mobile at http://bGoog.com that’s basically a black Google…

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  2. Sep 2 2010

    What about using dark wallpapers? It would help using less battery to display your phone screen than light.

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