10 Tips to keep your smartphone's battery life - Kenya

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Contrary to what most people thought, it is harder to go more than a day without having to charge your phone in 2016. Smartphone companies are yet to find better smartphone battery technology even with the latest devices. You are never going to get a week out of your smartphone battery, at least not in the near future but with a few tricks, you can extend your phone’s battery life by a few hours at most. Large bright screens on our smartphones alongside features such Bluetooth and Wi-Fi drain batteries fast, here are ten tips to squeeze maximum battery life out of your smartphone.

Reduce the screen brightness

The screen display expends battery charge at an overwhelming rate compared to other components of your device. Consider dimming the brightness of your smartphone's screen and save some power. Turn down the brightness to the lowest tolerable level and significantly extend the amount of time your battery lasts. Alternatively, you can enable the auto brightness feature available on many smartphones. The auto brightness feature automatically adjusts the brightness level to suit your environment.

Use a power saving mode

Some smartphone come with a power saving mode that can be enabled or disabled in the settings. The power saving mode turns off unnecessary wireless features such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, etc. and turns down screen brightness.

Turn off some wireless features

Unless you are using them, consider turning them off. Features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or GPS need to be turned off when not in use because they are always looking for signals thus draining the battery in the process.

Prevent Apps from using Your Location

Most Android and iPhone applications use location services to find good deals within your area or to tag GPS data to your status updates. Allowing apps to use your location consumes a lot of battery charge. Keep track of it and make sure it is only turned on when you need it.

Stop Apps running in the background

Many smartphones have the ability multitask. This means that they can run several apps at the same time. It is a very useful smartphone feature that can also sap the life out of your smartphone’s battery at a devastating rate. Make sure you kill an app when you are not using it to make sure that you don’t leave it running in the background.

Do not Clutter Your Phone’s Home Screen with Unnecessary Widgets and Live Wallpapers

Filling your home screen with widgets and using live wallpaper consumes a lot of battery power. Live wallpapers use a lot of power and RAM because they are continuously playing. Consider leaving the number of apps on the home screen to a bare minimum and save battery power.

Update Your Apps Regularly

Ensure that you download the latest versions of application and software over Wi-Fi connection. This is because developers and software engineers are always trying to improve power management on devices. 

Use a Good Battery Saver App

Install one of those power saving apps from Play Store on your smartphone. Some of them actually optimise performance and maximise phone’s battery life. A power saving app can let you prevent apps from running in the background by putting them in hibernation mode when you are not using them.

Keep your screen time-out short

You will find this setting on your display settings menu. The setting determines the amount of time your phone screen will remain lit after you touch a button, or you receive a notification. Consider setting your screen time-out to a minimum.

Turn off haptic feedback and vibration

A phone uses more battery power to vibrate than it does to actually to ring. Consider turning off vibration if you are not in noisy places most of the time. Turn off the haptic feedback too to save a significant amount of battery power.  

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