You wake up in the morning late and you have a busy schedule to attend to. You need to make calls and send text messages. You reach for your handset only to realize your phone battery isn’t full enough to push you through and time is running out. What do you do? How do you avoid such?
Majority of us have smart phones if not one and this means that we have easy access to our social media accounts (facebook, imo, tinder, instagram and twitter without forgetting our favorite whatsapp), mobile games, news, e-mail and other pretty much anywhere or anytime we need it. The principal predicament with smart phones is that since we use them so much, they frequently run out of battery quite rapidly. This means that we all bring with us power banks or spare chargers to bring to work, plug into our cars and so on. If you go on and plug your smart phone into a regular wall charger and hang around for five minutes, you will likely see a 3% or so increase in battery life.
Good news, there is a way to double that. The first thing to do is to check your usage and stand by times under settings>general>battery>usage (this may slightly vary with brands). The usage time is how long you have used your device since last charge while standby is the total time ever since last charge. The usage time is supposed to be notably lower than the standby time except if you have been using your device every second you have had it unplugged. If not the case then you have a battery usage problem. This information will show you how your device is utilizing the battery life. If your phones battery drains out very fast don’t blame the phone but your configuration. To reduce battery drain and extend battery life;
Disable location and background app refresh for facebook. The facebook app for smart phones consumes a colossal amount of memory and a big deal processing power even when not in use. Turning it off the background notifications will in fact cause your battery percentage to increase.
Stop quitting your apps in multi-tasking. Most people recommend that closing your apps will save or lengthen battery life because it keeps them from running in the background. This is nay fictitious and it actually makes your battery life worse if you do it on a regular basis. When you slam the apps, you take them out of the phones RAM so when you reopen them your device has to load them back into memory over again. All that loading and unloading puts more strain on your device than just leaving it alone. Factually, apps in the multi-tasking menu are not running in the backdrop at all; the operating system freezes them where you previously left the App unless you have enabled background App refresh, the apps are not permitted to run in the background.
Disable push e-mail temporarily. Push e-mail enables your device get notifications promptly every time you get an email. This is superb when you have to know when every single email pops in. This, however, does impact the battery if configured improperly. You can try to change the setting to fetch e-mails every hour of half an hour. You could also try disabling push on individual accounts if you have several.
Disable push notifications for apps. Every time you get a notification, your phone wakes up from sleep for 5 to 10 seconds (depending on your display settings) and waits for your action upon each notification. If you receive, let’s say, 50 notifications like WhatsApp messages in a day and act on them that will drain your battery notably
Turn off battery percentage. Don’t you care about how much power is left in your battery? Everyone who is anxious about their device battery life is constantly checking it to see the percentage and how much it has dropped since last time they checked it. So, if you check your device twice as much, simply to check your battery life, you are in actual fact halving the time your device will last. Funny? Turn off your battery percentage!
Enable airplane mode while charging and while in areas of poor network. When your smart phone detects that you are in a place of low signal strength, it increases the power supply to the antenna to facilitate enough connection to receive calls and sustain a data connection. This will destroy your battery life if you are constantly in a location of one bar or no network at all. Bear in mind that if you need to make or receive calls there is absolutely nothing you can do.
Visit an Apple rented store. For those people using Apple devices, Apple has rolled out a new ‘Extended Battery Life Test’ for all iOS technicians that allows them to see meticulous report of battery usage on your device. If your physical battery is malfunctioning, they will replace it for free if your iOS device is under warranty. This is according to the Apples website.
Use an original brand charger. While it may be tempting to try and save a few coins by purchasing an off brand ‘china make’ charger on the streets for your phone, the damage it can do sooner or later might make you think twice. It’s constantly better to use the charger that came with your device. Off brand chargers are not built with safety in mind. This means there is a greater likelihood of these chargers causing fire or harming your battery.
Take off that protective phone casing. It’s evident that batteries heat up while charging. Phone batteries auger well in heat. Your casing could be generating excess heat and might negatively affect the battery’s life. While not charging have it back as it will help when your precious device drops down. Oops!
Leave your phone alone while it’s charging. Though this doesn’t affect the battery life a deal, the display screen ‘eats’ up your battery in the long run.
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