Top 8 Android Battery Hacks

Much has been said, talked and written about the battery life of the android phones, not to mention that android phones are integral part of our lives and we cannot part from them even for a moment. That being said, their batteries often give away when we need them the most. Here are few hacks which will help you in increasing the battery life of android mobiles.

1.      Use a dark colored background for Apps, Wallpapers and for Home page, if you have an AMOLED screen. AMOLED screens only illuminate the colored pixels. Black pixels are unlit, so the blacker pixels you have, or the darker pixels, the less battery you need to light them up.

2.      Switch off vibrate; it eats more battery than simple rings.  Also remove the haptic feedback, if you really want to improve the battery performance.  Turn off the smart features like Air gestures, Smart Scrolling if you are not really using them, they consume many CPU cycles and hence the battery. You can set your phone to airplane mode when you're asleep or use sleep or blocking modes to set up limits for what your phone does during certain times of the day, whether that's while you're asleep, at work or in a meeting. Do this when you do not require the data or voice calls.

3.      Turn off GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi and mobile data whenever you don't need them. Turning off location data, or setting it to use Wi-Fi or 3G data rather than GPS will help in the cause of increasing your battery life, do not run Mobile data and WI FI at the same time, they drink out the battery faster than you would imagine also do not forget to Keep screen time out value to minimum. Disable Google Now cards, and the location history.

4.      Keep your apps updated. There's a reason developers constantly update apps, and many of these reasons are memory and battery optimizations. Keeping your apps updated also means you have the best optimizations available.

5.      Reduce your dependency on cloud access, yes backing up all your media and photographs to Google photos is really cool, but as it may seem it can finish your battery reserve in few hours (personal advice, really switch it off, if you do take backup of your cell once in a while), same goes with Dropbox, use these cloud based Apps in manual mode and refrain from putting them to automatic mode.

6.      Remove the Apps you do not use, remove the widgets which you really do not use and are always fetching requests from internet, widgets like weather updates, news updates, reduce the syncing of accounts to manual if needed, reduce Facebook apps polling times, it will boost your battery.

7.      Get an App to put things in right place, there are many battery optimizing apps in the market we have chosen the three I have used and can talk about.

·         JUICE DEFENDER manages your device using options to disable your connectivity at certain times (or in certain conditions such as when there are no networks available), turn off functions that aren't being used, prioritize apps over connections (for instance turn off Wifi/mobile data if you're reading on the device) and so forth. Get  JUICE DEFENDER here

  ·         GREENIFY APP Puts the not so much used apps in the hibernation mode, hence stopping them from sapping the much needed CPU cycles, it launches these apps when you launch them or some other related app tries to do it so, I used it and worked perfectly well for me, also this stops your tablet or phone to work a bit faster and there is less lag. Download Greenify from here.

·         CLEAN MASTER APP also has a widget for the battery usage optimization. Download this app from here.

8.      Buy a battery case or larger extended battery. Battery cases combine a hardware enclosure, which protects your phone, with an extended battery that can double your phone's endurance. You can find models compatible with popular Android phones from a variety of manufacturers, such as the Mophie Juice Pack and Incipio Offgrid Battery Backup Case (both for the Samsung Galaxy S4).