10 Tips To Improve Your Smartphone's Battery Life

Updated on May 15, 2016 Atul Dahiya moreContact Author Often we find ourselves in a situation when we need our Smartphones the most but the battery runs out on us. Does this sound familiar, Well, believe me you are not the only one, it happens with most smartphone users. In fact, low or poor battery backup is the biggest demon that haunts an Android phone user today. Even if it is not much of a problem when the phone is still new, the battery life will diminish with time. The battery would only last half the time 6 months down the line. So, the question you should be asking yourself is, how you can squeeze the most life or backup out of your phone's battery, What exactly can you do to make it last just a little longer, How to squeeze those extra few minutes, After all those extra few minutes could just be the differentiating factor.

Here are a few tips that should help you squeeze some extra juice out of your phone’s battery. There are apps that use very little battery, while there are some others that could completely drain your phone's battery, if not kept in check. A review of apps putting pressure on your phone's battery is in order at regular intervals. You can go to the settings menu of your Android Phone and see a list of apps in order of their consumption of your Phone’s battery. Review the list and find out the apps that you never use or use just once in a while and are consuming sufficiently large amounts of battery life. You might want to do away with or uninstall such apps. Most of the Android Phones come preloaded with an extra power saving/battery saver mode or stamina mode that makes your Android Phone’s battery go that extra mile.

Various Android Phone makers offer this feature with different names, just look for it in your phone. For example, nexus phones have a battery saver mode, Sony Xperia series has a stamina mode, while the Samsung Galaxy series phones have a power saving mode. Make use of this feature of your Android Smartphone to make the most of your Phone’s battery. Although, it hampers the performance somewhat and is a trade off between performance and battery life, you can still use the battery saver mode when you are not actively using your phone. It is small thing but will stretch the battery life significantly. You may wonder how much battery can be saved by turning down the screen brightness. However, the screen of your Android Phone is the biggest battery hog and consumes significant battery life. There are apps in your phone that are running in the background without you knowing about them and are draining your Phone’s battery.

You can go to the settings menu and look for such apps under the Apps heading. Review the apps listed there and turn off the ones you don’t need running in the background and sip your phone’s battery. It may not save a substantial amount of battery life but may save that last bit that may prove useful. The developers are always on their toes to improve the battery efficiency of their respective Apps. They strive hard to reduce battery usage while fixing other bugs with each and every update of their apps. Therefore, it is always advisable to keep your apps updated and check for new updates on a frequent basis. Did these tips help you improve your Phone's battery backup, There are some Apps that use your location to give you customized results according to your location. While these apps may save a lot of time and effort when you actually need them, they use up a lot of power and drain your Phone’s battery faster than you could imagine.