How to make your device battery last longer

Make your android phone battery healthy and long lasting!

Troubled with drained up battery? Here are some useful and effective methods to save your battery life when you're away or even for daily usage. Although it depends on your battery type and its capacity, there are some ways you can save power.

Usage of your phone is also one of the important aspects of your battery performance. If your are an average user who uses phone for general purposes like dialing and receiving calls and messages, mailing, making notes etc then you would be okay with phones having 1000mAh to 1500mAh supply of power. If you are above an average user who is an internet lover, a gaming fan, WhatsApp and Facebook addict and one who likes to listen music and watch videos, you will need a phone which supports at least 2000mAh supply of power.

So, let's discuss the factors affecting your battery performance and the solutions you can apply to your device for long lasting usage without rooting your phone or installing any 3rd party Apps.

• Brightness : Brightness of your phone makes appreciable effect on your battery. Display of your screen takes up to 5% to 20% of your whole power. Maintain the brightness of your phone at minimum suitable level. You don't need to have so much illuminated screen, you can always reduce the level on your own. Also, do not set brightness on auto as it might be higher than you actually need. You can adjust brightness level directly from notification panel OR going through Settings> Display> Brightness.

• Wifi, Data connection and Bluetooth : Internet connection through wifi and mobile data connection may take up to 20% to 50% of your battery. As you might not need to be connected 24hrs a day, turn OFF wifi or data connection when you don't need it.
  
  These services require lots of power supply. You can find this log of your battery usage at Settings> Battery. Data connection through high speed mobile data like 3G and 4G consumes lots of power. Also turn off GPS or Location Services when you don't require it. Turning off Auto Rotation and Bluetooth when not needed will also help increasing battery performance. 

• Unwanted Widgets and Apps : Widgets on your phone screen require services and processes to run in background. These processes do not usually get your attention but they are effectively responsible for your battery usage. These widgets may include Temperature Services, Weather Forecasting, Searching Shortcuts, Live Wallpapers, Screensavers etc. If you are not so interested in weather forecasting and similar services, you can remove them from your screen. This will reduce number of services running in background and eating your battery. Remove unwanted Apps from your device as they also use space on your phone and some of them may need to run processes in background.

• Silent Mode and Vibrate : Putting your phone in silent mode will turn off volume for all type of notifications. If you always keep your phone handy, you can keep it on ring. Vibrating takes more power than ringing so unless it is strongly needed, do not use vibrate for receiving calls, messages, notifications, touch vibration etc.

• Auto-Update and Auto-Backup : Choose when to update your Apps and turn off Auto update for Apps like Google Play Store and other Google Apps or any other 3rd party Apps. Updating might not be always much needed for all Apps. Apps excluding the ones which you use very oftenly do not require to be updated all the time. You can manually update the Apps whenever you need so auto update is also an effective factor for battery usage. Though keeping your Apps will help you saving battery as updated Apps may have good battery optimization.
  
  
  
  
  Auto backup is one of the handy features of an android device but it also takes good enough power to backup your all data to External storage or to Cloud storage. Turning off auto backup will remarkably help saving your battery power. Click here to see how to use Auto backup feature to automatically backup your device media to Google.

• Gestures and Animations : Smart Gestures run background processes all the time to detect screen gestures even when you don't use it. So if you don't actually use this feature, you should turn it off. Animations feature is one of effective battery drainers. Get rid of the unwanted Animations from Developer Options . Developer Options give capability to handle the animation properties. Turn off all animations you do not require. You can find Developer Options in Settings if not then you may need to enable it. To enable Developer Options , Go to Settings> About Phone> Build number OR find something similar to About in your device settings. Tapping continuously on Build Number (usually 7 times) will unhide Developer Options and you will find it in your settings.

• Lock Screen Timeout : Set timeout length at minimum possible duration and at most practical to you. Having long timeout duration keeps your phone awake longer than you need. And longer it is awake more power is consumed. Adjust your Sleep duration from Settings> Display> Sleep. 

• Make it Dark! : It may sound strange but if your phone has AMOLED display, making your screen wallpapers and themes darker will help you increase your battery life. AMOLED technology do not require backlit display, so for producing black dot it does not actually require to illuminate the spot. This means darker your image is, less power you require for generating the same.

I hope this tutorial may help you increase your battery performance with some self care methods. Suggestions and Comments are welcome! 

Thank You!