Have you ever wondered why your phone battery life cut so short? or after several hours charging, it later runs low in less than an hour or two, there are several programs that can cause this and might need immediate attention.
In most cases, battery life is part of the criteria we used to choose our speck when purchasing a new phone, we take battery life as part of the most essential property of a cell phone even without battery a cell phone is useless.
Each cell phone comes with their battery specification according to the cell phone battery consumption such as 1400 mAP, 2500 mAP, etc if a particular cell phone battery specifications are exceeded the battery life tend to be shortened which make it not to last longer as usual.
10+ Effective Ways to Extend Battery Life on Android
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| Increase Battery Life on Android |
Here are some effective way to make your android phone battery last longer
1. Animated Wallpapers Or Screensavers
Most of us love to have a fancy wallpaper or screensavers displaying animated pictures or texts on our phone either while on the lock screen or home screen, yes it always makes the phone environments look beautiful ☺but the rate of power consumption is a bit high which makes the battery not to last long enough.
It is better to use a static wallpaper, this won't consume a lot of power or may not even have any effect on battery life.
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| Change to static Wallpaper |
Go to Settings ⇉ Home Screen ⇉ select Themes or Wallpaper then change it to any static wallpaper that suits you.
2. Turn Off Background Data
There are some apps which are designed to work in the background even when you are not using them, this is apps which need to give users notifications since your data connection is turned on or WiFi is connected with internet access. Disabling background data will help not only to reduce battery consumption but also make your data subscription last longer.
You can do this by going to
Settings ⇉
Mobile Network now select any app you want to stop from consuming data in background OR Read this
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3. Use Lite Apps
These days most social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter now has lite apps apert from their standard apps. This lite apps consist of lass features which make a bit different for the standard apps, lite apps are made to prevent power consumption and also data consumptions.
I will recommend you to download lite apps instead of the normal ones. Go to Playstore ⇉ Search for Facebook lite, Twitter lite, etc and install it.
4. Switch to 2G Or 3G Network
Data consumption rate can also make your android phone battery drain faster, though the
2G or 3G network is not as fast as using the 4G network I must say this 4G network consumes more power then when you are using other network speed, this because of the downloading rate and
speed of the network.
When a 3G network is 400Kb/s 4G might be 1Mb/s making it consume much more power to suit these standards.
Go to
Settings ⇉
Mobile networks select
2G - 3G or
GSM/WCDMA
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| Switch to 2G or 3G Network |
5. Reduce Contrast and Display
The contrast ratio is a property of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest color (white) to that of the darkest color (black) that the system is capable of producing. A high contrast ratio is a desired aspect of any display.
The amount of contrast ratio in a phone display has a high impact on battery consumption, the more the brightness the higher the display the lower the battery life.
It is advisable to reduce your phone brightness to the minimal. Go to Settings ⇉ Display ⇉ Brightness and reduce it to the minimal.
6. Turn Off Auto-WiFi
Auto-WiFi is a setting on an android phone which makes your mobile data connection to automatically switch to WiFi whenever there is any available WiFi connection.
This setting does not have a high impact on battery consumption but also take part in it in the sense that it is an automatic action and also make the WiFi to keep searching for any available hotspots in the background so it will be
advisable to turn off this setting.
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| Reduce brightness |
Other Preventive Measures
- Do not use your phone while charging, this might cause a lot of havoc on the phone as well as the owner.
- Charge a new battery for at least 8hrs before using, this will expand the battery life to the maximum.
- Avoid removal of your android phone battery too often to prevent battery connector damage or slack.
- Don't overcharge the battery. When a phone battery is fully charged it is advisable to unplug the charger and wait on till it has discharged to 60% before charging the phone again, this will prevent the battery from overcharging and other damage.
