Your smartphone battery doesn’t last a day and you are recharging it too often? First, check the apps that consume the battery’s capacity throughout the day.
- Go to the “Settings”;
- Select “Battery”. An activity curve displays the moments you consume the most your smartphone battery and to what apps it refers.
And it is normal for a battery to consume throughout your web navigation, your message sending and your many camera shootings. Being able to understand how your battery discharges is great. Find solutions to lower the process is better! To maintain an acceptable battery autonomy, here below you will find some tips to make you more free standing from a USB port or an electrical outlet.
Tip #1: Switch on the standby intelligent power saving. Your smartphone will automatically try to optimize the battery according to your use.
- Go to the “Settings”;
- Click on “Battery”;
- Turn on the standby intelligent power saving.
Tip #2: Do you really need to be connected 24/7?
Whether it is the GPS, the Wi-Fi connectivity or the Bluetooth one, they require a lot of energy. Now imagine your smartphone, when connected to the Bluetooth, is endlessly trying to pair with another device. When connected to the Wi-Fi, it is constantly trying to optimize the best network it could connect on.
Switch off the GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection and all others mobile date you are not using at the moment. You will still be able to send and receive SMS and calls.
Tip #3: Deactivate the adaptive or automatic luminosity
Are you aware of this smartphone function with which your smartphone luminosity adapts itself with your environment luminosity? This explains why the luminosity is set to peak at night or when you are located in dark spaces. However, do you really need the maximum brightness? Here is the Konrow tip: manually control the brightness of the screen.
- Go to the “Settings”;
- Select “Display”;
- Deactivate “Adaptive brightness”.
You will observe consistent differences as for your battery autonomy. The screen is one of the most energy-consuming components of a smartphone.
Tip #4: Get used to close the apps you are not using at the moment.
It is common to push the “Home” button or “standby button” to put an end to your app use on your device. As a consequence: you never close the app you just used. They are still running in the background. This is a quick and easy tip to implement!
- Go to your homepage;
- Long press the ”Home” button. The running apps will be displayed ;
- It is for you to click on the small crosses to close the still-running apps you are no longer using! If there are not small crosses, finger-slide to the left or to the right.
Tip #5: Is your homepage too full of apps icons?
These icons, also named widgets, may not all be essential. Widgets need indeed a constant update and so consume a lot of energy. Delete some widgets you don’t need: sort it out!
- Long press on a widget you do not need ;
- Hold the button while moving it to the garbage.
Tip #6: Farewell vibrations, hello full battery-autonomy!
As for gaining more autonomy, you can also deactivate the vibrate during a call as well as all unnecessary sounds (dial-pad touch tones, touch sounds, screen lock sound, vibrate on touch and so on).
To deactivate your vibration functionalities:
- Go to the “Settings”;
- Select “Sound & notification”
- Chose “General” and click on the settings icons on the right ;
- Deactivate, according to your preference, the vibration for incoming calls, the dial pad touch tones, the screen lock sound and the vibration on touch.
These 6 tips are quick and easy to implement as to make your smartphone autonomy last longer.
