Following are the step you should keep in mind to improve your smartphones battery life, which would help your phone to go whole day or more, just on a single charge.
- Set Brightness to lowest : The display brightness is the most important factor for reducing the battery life, the configuring brightest display will drain your battery faster. Turning the brightness to lowest level will increase your battery life. Or you can configure the brightness to "automatic" which allows the phone to smartly adjust the screen brightness accordingly to the ambient light or surrounding light.
- Turn off Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi when not in use: The features like Bluetooth, WFi, GPS and any other smartphone features consumes lots of battery. Turn off them when these are not in use. The some smartphone provide shortcuts widgets to directly turn off these features
- Reduce screen timeout: Reducing the screen timeout setting, will turn the screen off after the specified time instead of using power to display the screen longer.
- Use dark background themes or wallpaper: Light background themes and wallpaper consume lot of battery during standby, avoid using them. Use dark themes / wallpaper if possible.
- Close background apps: There are many apps which runs in background and uses phone's RAM and processor, these apps drains battery in processing and RAM use. Close those apps which are not frequently used to increase battery life.
- Cellular Setting: Smartly choosing cellular setting can help saving battery power. If you donot want to use network cellular, change the cellular data connection setting off.
- Choosing the Network having good signal area: Choose those Cellular Network which has good network signal strength coverage. If the network signal strength is poor the phone seriously uses lot of battery power to search for signal and connect to the network.
- Update to latest Software and apps: Always update your smart phone to latest software and apps, latest apps are often energy efficient and consume less battery power.
- Use battery saving apps: There are many battery saving app available for iOS, Android, and as well as for Windows, which smartly manages the battery use and increases battery time. The app like "CARAT" available for iOS and Android which shows how much power each running app consumes, and gives recommendations to improve battery life.
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