A decent battery life is one factor that can make a gadget owner’s life, a pleasant one. The battery life of a gadget depends on lots of factors including the make and model of the gadget.
However, there are few things you can do to increase the battery life of your gadget. In this article, let us identify some tips for increasing thebattery life of devices running on Android Ice Cream Sandwich.
1.Inverted Rendering can save your eyes and battery life as well
‘Inverted rendering’ is a condition where the background page is black and the text is white in color. This saves you more battery than colorful backgrounds or texts. It can be easy on your eyes as well.
2.Disabling Stock apps
The idea might sound queer. When stock apps like Go SMS and SMS Manager run on the background all the time, it drains your battery life. It also slows down the speed of your device. Multiple sign-ins and sign-outs can be another cause of battery draining. Hence it is better to disable your stock apps when you are idle.
3.Disable your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS
Turn off your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS when not in use. All these functions are mostly available in the settings option. The lesser you use these options, the greater will be your battery life.
General tips to save your Android battery life
1) Reducing the brightness
Most Android devices show you which application eats up your battery. The brightness of your display is the hungriest of all the battery-eating features. You can save battery by turning down the brightness of your device. This is mostly indicated in a slider form. Advanced devices have the automatic-brightness-control option. The feature will adjust the brightness of your device in accordance with the brightness outside.
Screen timeouts can be shortened to save battery. The shorter the timeout period, the greater will be the battery life.
Turn off the screen savers and live wall papers. This can eat up your battery in no time. Static wallpaper is always the best option for longer battery life.
2) Other probable Options
In areas where 3G services are unavailable, it is better to switch over to 2G modes as it can save more battery for you. Keeping the mobile in silent mode or airplane mode can pile up extra minutes for your mobile phone’s battery life.
3) Widgets on Android phones are no-battery savers
Widgets are the best features of Android phones. They can be added to home screens and setups for automatic updates like Twitter, weather, Facebook etc. They can be adjusted to one’s desired intervals but these short-interval adjustments can drain up the phone’s battery life.
4) Genuine battery booster apps can help
A genuine battery booster app like Juice Defender can do anything from watching ‘what’s eating up your battery’ to controlling the battery consumption of specific apps.
5) Get rid of the Zap Haptic feedback
Haptic feedback gives a vibrating feeling in touch screen keyboards. While this is an awesome feature that will give a real sense of typing, it can make a big impact on battery life.
6) Get rid of instant messaging
Applications like Google Talk that will help you in instant messaging can give a big stress to your battery. Sometimes the default settings of Google Talk automatically sign you in when the phone is turned on. Hence it is better to disable the automatic-sign-in option.
7) Number of applications running and the types of application running have a part to play.
As a common rule in most mobile phones, when there are applications running directly or on the background, more of your battery is being eaten. For example, the music application, camera, torch light and games consume more battery. The more and more these applications are being used, the lesser will be the phone’s battery life.
Again, if there is more than one application running at a time, it may consume more battery.
The recent ICS (ice cream sandwich) update on Android phones saw many users complaining about their device’s poor battery life. Usually most smartphones have shorter battery lives when compared to that of ordinary feature phones. What is more baffling about this? It is the fact that the poor battery life seems to have occurred after the ICS update. This was not heard when the Gingerbread version was in existence.
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