Last edited by yuvimessi on 2017/5/19 11:27
Ultimate Guide To Boost Your Battery Backup
Our smartphone now a days are more than just a phone, it's like our personal computers.
We all want almost everything from our phones, because wherever we go, we carry it with us.
We can't imagine a day without them and for some people out there can't even live an hour or a minute without their smartphone.
But, all the processing and computing ability that our handsets deliver us are increasingly impressive, but these come at a cost.
It needs power to perform every task, and that power comes from our battery.
Everything depends on how we use our smartphone, be it a 2500 mAh, 3000mAh, or a 5000mAh battery, there is always some ways to get more from your battery.
Without wasting any more time lets get to the points.
1. Keep an eye on which app is responsible for the most of the battery drainage. Navigate to Settings > Battery to see an organized breakdown of what's consuming your phone's battery. Applications and features will display in a descending list of their battery usage. If you see an application you barely use or any feature you never use, you'll want to uninstall/ disable that application.
2. Turn off the services which are not used by you or whenever it is of no use for that time being because these are the biggest culprit.
If you want to conserve power, then you should always turn off your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Location Service (GPS) when you aren’t actively using them. Also turn off background scanning of Wi-Fi and GPS (Location) which keeps performing in the background even if you have turned their particular services. To do so, go to Settings > Location > Scanning (from top - right), then turn off both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Scanning. If you really want control over your battery, you can also disable your mobile network connection when you know you won’t be using it as well. For example, when you're in exam hall or in an airplane/ flight. Just turn on the Airplane Mode to do so with one tap.
3. Avoid using Auto Rotate function. Also, avoid using the vibration function of your smartphone as much it's possible. To produce the vibration effect, your device has to spin up a small vibration motor every time, which can be really draining on your battery.
4. Disable Auto Sync/ Synchronization as it uses background processes that can consume both your internet data use and battery life. To turn it off, go to Settings > Accounts. Tap the three vertical dots in the upper right corner and uncheck “Auto-sync data.” Or simply, swipe down your quick settings and tap on Auto-sync to turn it off. You can also manually adjust which apps sync and how frequently.
5. Always choose Wi-Fi, over mobile/ cellular data as Wi-Fi drains far less battery than cellular service.
Also, it’s a good idea to disable your Wi-Fi when you aren’t using it too.
6. Limit your application's permissions over the resources they can access. For example, you don't need to give Instagram the location permission, so whenever you want to specify location onto your pictures on Instagram, just turn on the location service for that time being, and turn it off again when you are done with it. In this way you can limit the app's background activity and also save your battery's power.
7. Video Playback also affects battery life in its own way. There are lots of format of videos available on internet, but it what matters the most is that which encoder is used on that video. There are many of them too, but x264 and x265 is used the most. These are two different video compression standards that are used to compress video in size but still maintain the quality of the video. x264 is an earlier codec and is used in a lot of videos nowadays and x265 is a newer standard. Videos encoded with x264 are more in the file size but consumes less power than the videos encoded with x265 encoders.
8. You can also avoid Auto Brightness mode, as it constantly adjust the screen brightness according to the surrounding.
This also consumes some of the power. You can manually set up your brightness according to your need using brightness slider.
9. Shorten you screen timeout time which keeps your screen on even when you are not using it. 30 seconds can be a perfect screen timeout time.
10. Avoid Live wallpapers, Widgets, additional Launchers as these things consume power to perform their functions all the time. Try to set dark colored images as your wallpapers.
11. Use ad-free apps as these annoying things also consumes the battery as well as you internet data. Find ad-free alternatives of the apps you use or switch to their premium versions to avoid ads.
12. Update your apps whenever there's an update available for them on Google Play Store. They are often updated or configured to use less power and less storage.
13. The same goes for your device software/ firmware update which gets updates periodically. These updates fixe bugs and increase the overall performance of your device which in turn can save your battery power.
Sometimes because of the new firmware, the device will take sometime to calibrate with the new firmware. It is also recommended that a factory/ hard reset should be performed after any firmware update.
14. Cleaning device cache can also save your battery power. Clear your storage and app cache of your device regularly.
To do so, go to Settings > Storage & USB > Internal Storage > Cached data, then press OK. Also periodically (in every 2 or 3 days) perform a Wipe Partition Cache using the device recovery mode. Check you smartphone user manual to use your device recovery mode.
15. Restart or Shut Down your mobile for some time once in two or three days, as it helps retaining the smartphone's overall performance.
16. Charging pattern also defines the life of your battery power. Always have a particular pattern in the way you charge your mobile. Always try your best to charge your mobile to its fullest i.e. to the 100%. Whenever you want charge your mobile, make sure it is at the best minimal situation of battery which is at/ below 20% and above 5%. Maintain this cycle, and if by any means you miss it to follow by any emergency need of charging your mobile at that situation, it's ok, but after that restart the very same cycle. Also, try not charge your device over the USB Connection ( connected to the PC ).
17. Avoid any third party charging app that claims to charge your device fast because apps like that consumes battery rather than conserve it.
18. The best thing about ZenFone is that it has its own Mobile Manager which helps users to properly manage and control their device resources.
By using Notification Manager, Power Saver and Auto Start Manager one can turn off unnecessary notifications, make use of various power saving modes, and control background running apps respectively.
19. There is difference between closing apps and killing them. Whenever we swipe away any app from the recent app menu, it just gets closed but still it may be performing any task at the background. By killing any app, it closes the app, as well as stops all its background processes too. This thing can come handy, whenever you think that you don't need that app any sooner or don't want it to occupying any space in your memory. ZenFone has a Power & Boost feature which performs this task very easily with only one tap. But, remember the apps that you allowed in the Auto Start Manager will still be running in the background even after you use this feature.
20. If you think that you are getting somewhat less battery backup, it can further be improved by re calibrating it. To re-calibrate your battery, charge your phone to 100% without interruption then discharge it normally till 0% ( till the phone gets switched off ), then charge it back to 100% in switched off condition and keep it in that state for a little more time, now switch on your phone in charged condition and unplug when ASUS logo appears keep the phone unused for some minutes.
21. Further if you have rooted your smartphone with custom kernel and ROMs, it opens the gates to your device’s restricted partitions and directories. And with rooted device, you can remove useless apps (e.g., bloatware from carriers or OEMs), especially those that run as background services, wasting away precious battery power.
Increasing your battery life is a simple matter of minimizing your power usage. As one can see, that an Android smartphone has a lot of components that touch on power use. Optimizing battery life really depends on a large range of things. However, at its core, battery conservation is very simple if one observes all their action on the smartphone.
Even I have tried catching every point to boost battery life, I might have missed many things too. I will be updating this article everytime I get any new way to conserve battery power.
Also, if you have new way or technique to save battery life, leave a comment for that, I will add it here so that everyone can benefit from it.
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