Improving power consumption on Android - Bitelia

It is no secret that energy management in many Android devices is inefficient. This is true especially in large screen devices, and even with each version of Android this section is improving, still seems distant the day when we can start spending more than 24 hours without charging our gadgets .

So we

improve battery consumption in our devices, the first thing to know is how the battery is used in Android, what are the functions that expend energy and how we can reduce the minimize this expense.

Analyze the battery usage

Android

all versions including system settings, monitor a battery consumption . To look just have to open the application menu, select settings and find the battery section.

This section shows the percentage of remaining battery usage time of the phone since the last time you connected the charger, and a list of all applications and services that have consumed the load, in percentages.

If Android battery monitor not it detailed enough and you need more information, you can download a third party application to monitor your energy consumption. Some of the best are: GSAM bettery Monitor, Battery Monitor Widget, or Battery Monitor.

reduce battery consumption

Screen

we will almost always find that the first item on the list is the screen. The display always consumes a lot of battery, and as I mentioned before, the larger the screen, the battery has to consume. How obviously we can not use the screen of your smartphone , we look for ways that you are not consumed so much energy. For this we can do a few things: reduce the brightness of the screen to a minimum and reduce the time stays on the screen while the phone is not in use.

Although automatic brightness can be very convenient and useful, Android happens more than once is not calibrated well, and we may end up with overly high brightness in low light, and vice versa . What ends up making us to adjust the brightness manually, reset forget, and to remain very high, the battery drains much faster.

settings section within the options screen, find an option to adjust the time spent for the smartphone off display when idle. If this time is too high, your device may be wasting battery excessively. Setting this time to a minimum is an effective way to prevent totally unnecessary expenditure of energy.

Networking and wireless connections

Another paragraph that consumes more energy in our smartphone are network connections. You may have noticed that the battery drains much slower when we’re connected to a WiFi network, that when we use data connections from our operator. If we want to save battery and stay connected to the Internet, it is best to always use WiFi connections , if we can not access a, we note that 2G networks consume slightly less power than connecting to a 3G or 4G network.

On the other hand the less stable the connection offered by your service provider, the more battery power your device trying to connect. The same happens when we are in an area where telephone coverage is poor, the smartphone trying to get a signal and increase their consumption, sometimes so much that we feel like it overheats.

very effective advice is always phone data off when not in need , as when we are in meetings, or driving. If for example we travel, and we know that will be very limited telephone coverage, we can put the device in airplane mode reducing their consumption down completely. The GPS is also a function that consumes a lot of battery, it is extremely important to remember to keep it off at all times, unless we need it.

Applications

Applications that use

battery consumed differently. Those who need to connect to the Internet constantly for synchronized data and are the most energy-intensive. Many applications remain active in the background even when we think we are closed. Instant messaging services such as Line, for example, consume enough battery unless we stop the process manually.

practice that can reduce the use of these applications is to set them to not sync automatically , or do so only when you are connected to a WiFi network, allowing you to not only save battery but data. Unfortunately, not all applications have this option, so that in extreme cases if we want to completely disable our data, we can logout of several services or stopping processes each application manually.

Other battery applications are consuming enough games as they keep the screen on and process complex graphics, so always increase the maximum energy consumption. If we want to play and get the maximum possible battery life at the same time, we can put the phone in airplane mode during the game.

Widgets

Some widgets we put on our desk, depending on the functions they fulfill, can consume excessive amounts of data and battery. The widgets function as independent processes, and therefore behave almost like another application. If you followed all the tips above and you still see excessive consumption of battery, try removing your widgets .

Final Tips

One detail that many do not take into account is the use of aircraft as smartphones , when we put the device in this state, the battery consumption is minimized, therefore, that we could leave on for many days. Of course, no point if we can not use for anything. But it is good practice to keep in mind when we do not use the device, we are in places with bad signal, or when we want the battery charge as quickly as possible. No need to shut the phone in each case, the airplane mode is always a better option.

Also there are a few applications that work as managers Android battery , and even from the huge selection, very few actually manage to improve energy consumption, are an option for the most desperate. You control applications that system functions may or may not be active at any given time to save battery, so that sometimes can be annoying to disable sections if needed, such as notifications of an application, but that the program interprets as unnecessary .

The best way to save battery is efficiently using our devices, not just theirs to be smart.