Watch: How to Enhance Your Smartphone’s Battery

Modern day smartphones are battery guzzlers, here are a few tips to save battery on your smartphone.

The talk-time on your mobile phone and battery are never enough, right? While the talk-time issue depends entirely on your pocket size, your battery is something you can save with a few simple taps on your smartphone.

Put a Dark Background on Your Display

A dark wallpaper can save you battery.  

Displays these days illuminate colored pixels. It’s like turning on a light to see colors in your bathroom. But shadows don’t need light. Similarly black pixels are not lit on your smartphone. So the darker you go on your display, less battery you need to light those pixels up. And that could save you some juice on your smartphone.

Don’t Use Auto Brightness

Auto-brightness might not be a good idea.

Auto-brightness is usually set for more brightness than you need on your smartphone. Go manual, set your smartphone’s brightness to super low when in-doors. It will be comfortable, and you can always crank it up when you feel you need it. Screen brightness is one of the biggest drains on your battery.

Switch Off Vibrate

Listen to your notifications, don’t make your smartphone vibrate.

Turn off vibration on your smartphone, it takes more power for the phone to vibrate than to ring. Unnecessary vibration settings on your smartphone is a battery drainer. Use vibrate mode only when absolutely necessary.

Set a Timeout

Set a display timeout of 15 - 30 seconds.

Set your display’s screen timeout to 15/30 seconds. I’m guessing it takes you about 15 secs to check a notification, right? So, why should your display stay lit for a full minute after that? That’s wasting four times the battery on your smartphone, just to keep the display lit.

Turn Off Unnecessary Radio Signals

No need to keep all the radio signals turned on all the time. 

Turn off Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, GPS, location services and mobile data whenever you don’t require them. Only turn on Bluetooth and NFC for the time that you need them. There is also no need to have both mobile data and Wi-Fi turned on simultaneously.

These checks can kick up the battery life of your smartphone by over 20 percent, which in modern times can give you about 4 more hours before your smartphone is juiced out.