10 easy ways to increase the autonomy of your Android smartphone

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

These simple tips will help you optimize your smartphone and reduce power consumption.

1. Disable vibration

Avoiding vibration will save battery power. This concerns not only notifications, but also vibration feedback when typing and simple clicks. Usually all this is turned off in the "Sound and vibration" section in the system settings.

2. Optimize your screen

Adaptive screen brightness requires constant monitoring of ambient light and changing backlight intensity. Avoiding this auto-tuning will also reduce battery consumption. If necessary, in the bright sun or in pitch darkness, you can manually change the brightness. A special slider for this on many smartphones is located right in the notification shade.

It is also very important to reduce the time the screen goes to sleep. This is the amount of time the display has been active since the last press. For comfortable use of the device, 15 seconds will be enough.

If the smartphone is equipped with an OLED screen, then even a dark interface theme and wallpapers with a predominance of black will help reduce energy consumption. This is possible thanks to a special matrix device, where the black color does not require backlighting.

3. Disable animation

Enabling developer mode gives you access to some useful options that are hidden from regular users. Among them - animation of windows and transitions. Failure to use it will not only reduce the load on the battery, but also increase the performance of the device.

Developer mode on most smartphones is easy to turn on and does not require any special skills.

4. Disable wireless modules when not using them

When Wi-Fi is turned on, it continues to consume energy even if you leave your home and connect to the mobile operator's network. The smartphone automatically searches for available networks nearby, which affects the autonomy. Likewise with Bluetooth, which can “probe” the devices available for pairing.

It is also important not to forget about the GPS-module, the background activity of which does not allow the device to completely go into sleep mode to save battery power.

5. Limit background activity and sync

Many applications on your smartphone can run in the background by default, consuming traffic and battery power even when you are not using them. You can disable unnecessary ones in the background activity settings. Often these options are hidden in the Battery or Performance sections.

Also, a lot of energy is consumed by the constant synchronization of contacts, mail, photos and other data. A complete rejection of it is hardly possible, but a partial one will have a positive effect on the operating time of the device. You just need to choose what you are willing to sacrifice.

6. Close unused applications and discard widgets

Open the list of running applications often and completely close those that you are no longer using. The number of widgets on desktops should also be kept to a minimum - the constant updating of the information they display prevents the application from going to sleep.

7. Optimize Google Voice Search

The function of recognizing the request after the phrase "OK, Google" makes the smartphone keep the microphone on at all times. Failure to use it will have a positive effect on the autonomy of the device. The function is disabled in the Google settings in the "Voice search" section. If necessary, it can be made active only in the search engine application.

8. Manage your applications

In the battery settings, you can always find out which application is using the most energy. If this program has analogues or simplified versions, try switching to them and evaluate the changes after a few days. Perhaps the alternatives are much better optimized.

It is also important that the smartphone does not turn into a library of games and programs, so do not clutter up the device's memory. All installed applications require constant updating. In the Google Play settings, automatic updates can be turned off, as well as store notifications.

9. Disable unnecessary app notifications

Even if you have dozens of apps installed, notifications may not be important for everyone. In the settings for the selected program, you can completely block notifications. In this case, they will be displayed only at startup. Less unnecessary operations for a smartphone - less energy waste.

10. Use Greenify

Greenify is a useful application to automatically hibernate your selected programs immediately after the screen turns off. Previously, it could only be used on smartphones with root access, but now superuser rights are optional. It will be enough to give the service the necessary rights.

Do not forget about the power saving modes that may initially be on your smartphone. As a rule, they selectively disable synchronization and unload heavy applications from the background. Look for such options in the "Battery" section.