11 Android Battery Saving Tips

Android Battery Saving Tips

The modern android phones available in the market today provides bright screens, retina display and cutting edge features which is the primary reason for battery getting drained off quickly even if you don’t use it for long. Some of the top android phones in the market like have powerful CPU and RAM but unfortunately they don’t have a solution for long running battery. 

Many android phone users are complaining about this on several android forums and blogs yet there is no concrete solution to this issue. As an Android phone user we have minimum options left to save the phone battery for till the end of the day. Here in this blog after a bit of research and analysis we have come up with following tips that will surely help you to extend your battery life. We have tested these tips with Android Phone from Nexus, HTC, Samsung, Sony and Micromax.

1. Features consuming battery:

In your Android Phone navigate to Settings => Battery, this will list down the apps and features which are consuming your battery in descending order. This will show the percentage of battery used by each of the apps/features. If you feel any of the apps or features you don’t need to use then you can disable or uninstall that app to save some battery.

2. Radios OFF:

Today’s phones are packed with all kinds of high-end radios like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS etc which are continuously running in the background even if you don’t need them. GPS is one of the major power drainer. You can quickly switch on/off these radios from your Android phone’s notification bar. Just swipe down to show the notification bar.

3. Apps refresh frequency:

Many apps on your android phone are automatically refreshing their content in the background like Facebook, Twitter, Email, WhatsApp etc. You can set the refresh frequency or polling to “manual” to manually refresh the apps. This will save some battery required in refreshing these apps.

4. Unused apps running in the background:

Unused apps keep running in the background until you manually close it from Settings > Apps. Here you will see the list of running apps. You can close the apps which you don’t require to run in the background all the time.

5. Clean Home screen:

We all use different kind of fancy widgets on our Home screen but be aware most widgets on Home screen refresh their data automatically and require considerable amount of phone’s processor and memory to keep itself updates. So to save some battery you can clean some unwanted widgets.

6. Phone Brightness:

You can improve you battery life just but tweaking the brightness of you android phone. Turn off automatic brightness feature and turn the brightness down on your phone. You will notice the difference with hours.

7. Updated apps:

Always keep your apps updated via Google play because most of the app developers keep fine tuning their apps for bugs and features. This way you will always have the latest stable version of your favorite App.

8. Signal strength:

Try to be in the area where your phone receive full cellular network coverage. If you have poor signal strength or reception then your phone will have to work hard to get onto strong enough reception. This will also affect your battery life and phone performance. If you are in a meeting or sort of and don’t need voice/data then it’s wise to put your phone on Airplane mode.

9. Take your phone’s help:

Some latest models comes with features like power Save Mode or Battery saving mode, you should use these features to improve the battery life of your phone.

10. Battery case or larger extended battery:

You can buy battery case hardware enclosures or extended battery to improve your phone’s endurance. Check for compatible models for your Android phone.

11. Check reviews before buying a phone;

This is self-explanatory, you should always check some reviews or ask a suggestion from your tech savvy friend before buying any android phone. Websites like Amazon and eBay have good reviews about Android phones. I always rely on Amazon reviews before buying any phone or electronic item.