10 Effective Ways To Extend Your Android Smartphone's Battery Life

By Vijaykumar

| Published: Wednesday, September 23, 2015, 12:33 [IST]

While using mobile phones for our day to day activities we rarely think about its battery consumption. This often leads to a situation where there will be no charge left on the phone when we need it the most.

It is quite difficult to carry a charger every where we go and charge the phone frequently. To solve this problem, we have jotted down a some useful tips and tricks to increase your battery life. Take a look at the slider below to know more.

Shut Down Functions

Turn off all the services Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and NFC if you are not actually using them. This will help you to give comparatively better battery back life.

Airplane Mode

Smartphone use much battery for searching network. It is recommended to switch on Airplane mode if you are somewhere with a poor signal, so that your phone doesn't keep trying to connect.

Switch Off

Power off your smartphone until you need it again or waiting for an important call or text. For instance, if you are reading, then its better to switch off the smartphone and save the battery life.

Reduce Display Brightness

Your smartphone screen consumes maximum battery life. If you want extended battery life, then turn down the brightness of the display.

Check Battery Usage

Find out which apps are using most battery life. Navigate to device Settings >> Application Manager and check at the apps that are currently running on your smartphone. You can also see how much battery consumption each apps are using. To know more which apps uses most battery life click here.

Uninstall Battery Consumption Apps

Avoid using battery consumption apps like games, videos, and any other apps that are powered by ads. These apps will consume maximum battery life.

Upgrade To Lollipop

Android Lollipop comes with power saving mode, which turns off haptic feedback on your keyboard, reduce brightness of the screen, and helps to improve battery life.

Download Battery Saver Apps

The Android market is flooded wit hundreds of battery saver apps like Clean Master, Juice Defender and much more. These apps helps to manage power consuming apps and adjust battery draining settings and helps to run your smartphone efficiently.

Root Your Smartphone

Rooting smartphone will offers more customization features that benefits battery life. You can also access apps designed for rooted phones, which will help to save battery life.

Get Charging Cases

All the recent smartphones comes with non-removable battery, which doesn't allow the user the ability to change the battery themselves. But, you can buy a charging case that comes with extended battery and will juice up when you smartphone battery drains.