Improving Battery Life of Android Phones

Improving Battery Life of Android Phones !!

If you have a modern Android phone, you know the pain of turning on your phone at 5 PM only to realize it’s deep in a low-battery coma. Here are the simple manual changes, and clever automatic tweaks, that will keep your phone awake and useful for far longer.

There are a lot of different things that can kill your phone’s battery, and oftentimes they’re things you don’t even need.If you’re having serious battery life issues on your phone, make sure you check each of these settings, features, and customizations to make sure you’re getting the best battery life possible out of your phone.

Effective Tips To Improve Battery Life of Android Phones :

• Set display brightness to adjust automatically. Turning down the brightness is obvious. But the automatic adjustment setting is less well known. Activating it means the OS will automatically dim its display in darker environments, including seemingly well-lit indoor rooms.

• Disable Adobe Flash. Being able to run Adobe Flash in web pages is a great, but it consumes battery life. If you have Adobe Flash installed on your smartphone, by default it’s set to load every piece of Flash content on every web page. It’s possible to change this so the browser only loads Flash when instructed to; open the browser, hit the menu key, go to Settings > Enable Plug-ins and set it to On Demand.

• Tweak Microsoft Exchange. If you’re connected to a Microsoft Exchange server for corporate email, calendar and contact sync, you may experience an abnormal amount of battery drain on your Android smartphone. When connected to PC Mag’s Exchange server, battery life was great on Android 2.1, but when upgraded to 2.2, phones experienced a significant drop in battery life. Reducing the size of the email folder to below 150 MB solved this issue. View your folder size in Outlook by right-clicking on your Inbox, then choosing Properties > General > Folder Size. Either archive or delete emails until the folder size is below 150 MB.

• Update Your Apps. Applications often get updated to use less battery power; you should make sure your apps are up to date. Even if you selected “update automatically,” some apps require that you manually install updates. Check for app updates in the Market app by hitting the menu key and going to My Apps.

• Reduce e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook polling. This is a big one. Even handset manufacturers like Motorola don’t necessary get this. Set your various messaging apps to “manual” and you’ll instantly extend your device’s battery life by a significant amount.

• Turn hardware features off. It’s great that today’s phones have GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, but do you really need all three activated 24 hours per day? Android keeps location-based apps resident in the background. The constant drain on the battery will become noticeable, fast. If you have a Sprint 4G smartphone, you can turn off 4G mode separately—a good thing, since WiMAX consumes extra power but has yet to blanket the country. On AT&T and T-Mobile phones, you can even turn 3G off when you don’t need speedy Internet access. If your phone has a Power Control widget, you can use it to quickly turn on/off GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

• Dump unnecessary home screen widgets. Just because they’re sitting on the home screen, seemingly inactive, doesn’t mean they’re not consuming power. That goes for widgets that poll status updates in the background, as well as ones that just sit there but look pretty and animated.

• Reduce RSS feed update frequency. Staying current with the news is fine, but why update feeds constantly in the background? Plenty of third-party apps set their defaults to poll at a set period of time. Others may offer a choice, but give no indication to the user that battery life will suffer as a result.

• See what’s hogging your battery. Navigate to Settings -> About Phone -> Battery Use to see an organized breakdown of what’s using your phone’s battery. Applications and features will display in a descending list of battery hogs. If you see an application you barely use or a feature you never use (Bluetooth), uninstall the app or turn off the feature.

How to Automate These Settings:

Of course, toggling these settings on and off all the time isn’t an ideal phone scenario that leaves you feeling like you live in the future. If you only use Wi-Fi at home and at your local coffee shop, for example, wouldn’t it be nice if your phone just knew when you were there and turned Wi-Fi on for you? Or wouldn’t it be nice if you could just have Bluetooth on during work hours, when you’re more likely to use that headset?

• Automate Any Setting with Tasker. Luckily, you can do all this (and way, way more) with one of our favorite tools, Tasker(or other similar apps like Locale andSettings Profiles). You can automate pretty much anything you want—like turning GPS on only when you open Google Maps, turning on Bluetooth only when you dock your phone, and scaling back on data usage at night.