Friday, November 11, 2011

How to Save Battery on Your Android

We all love having a super-phone capable of almost anything, but the first battery is always injured. This guide will try to give advice to try to maximize the life of your batteries without losing functionality in your Android. First of all read the other article I wrote about how to increase battery life .

The first thing is to recommend the application Extended Controls, already discussed here , as well as help you see below.
The first thing you should know is that it spends more battery of a device is the screen. No matter the type of screen that is, although the Super-AMOLED AMOLED and consume less, continue to consume a lot. A little trick is to disable the automatic brightness that comes by default and adjust to a low value, sufficient to be seen easily. The days that make a lot of sun, turn up the brightness for better viewing. If you have Android 2.1 or 2.2 will have the animated backgrounds, very nice and groovy but a drain on the battery, I recommend having a static wallpaper. Another thing that comes right off are the animations of the system is done from Settings -> Screen and you will save a little battery.

Take control widgets on your desktop for me is essential, as well accesories system functions into a single "click". A good use of these widgets can be disable GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi when not needed, thus saving.

Another thing you have to consider is how often applications are synchronized, the less time to update sometimes connects to the server asking for information. I for example I have instant GMail and Twitter and on time every time.

Topic 2G-3G-WiFi

Indeed the 3G consumes much more battery than 2G because you need more power to signal and look for access points. That way if connection (ie browsing) the 2G uses more power than the 3G and therefore lower your battery. Similarly, if you do nothing more than consume WiFi 3G but intense connection mode, the GSM consumes more than WiFi. 

Many people will recommend Task Killers to kill processes that you are not using, but this is already a more personal issue. I will not really recommend them because the design of Android itself is responsible for managing system resources and processes end when they really are not used, so if you walk all the time with Task Killer closing applications and processes , all I get is spending more battery that the system will reopen for use when needed. But I tell you this is something very personal.

Good advice I can give is to not use the phone when the battery is very hot and download before, and to turn to wait a little to load everything before use. It is also advisable to occasionally spend the whole battery and do a full charge.

A good method to calibrate the battery (if for example by disconnecting the charger will put 95% or so instead of 100%) is this taken from XDA-developers , in principle is for the HTC Desire / Nexus One, but as discussed work on any Android.

"Connect the phone on the charger, wait for the notification LED turns green. Disconnect the charger and turn it off, reconnect the phone to the charger until the LED turns green. Disconnect and turn on the phone, when you turn completely turn it off and reconnect the charger until the LED turns green. After that use it normal. "

This is only to be done once and only if the battery is calibrated wrong. 

Well, these are my tips for a bit trying to maximize the battery in everyday use, more than anything is to have a little careful with the things we have active and try to use them only when necessary.

Do you guys you do so that the battery will last longer?

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