Battery Care : We will keep your Battery safe & Make sure your devices is Fast, Faster,, faster!!!
Playstore link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blcpk.toolkit.app
Ad-free version uploaded in OP for XDA members....
We have add most important 15 Key features of Android ; We are very sure after using this application your going to Uninstall around 10+ apps..
Advanced stats
Battery History
Wake lack
Battery stats
Battery Alarm
Power saver
Drain test
Wipe
App Permission
CPU Tweak
Game Tweak
Storage Tweak
System Tweak
Sensor Tweak
Sound tweak
[*]Coming Soon [*]App locker, Screen Dimmer, Screen Off
1 Advanced Battery Stats:
This application will help you understand the flow of battery charging and the detailed usage of the battery. You will have a fair idea on how your device is being charged and the reason it is being drained so quickly. This app will be able to help you take the appropriate action in order to take care of your device`s battery.
1 Charge Levels:
Most of us are curious to know how we are charging our battery of our android devices; this application will help us to understand the complete and detailed information, along with a charging level graph to show you trends of your charging and battery usage.
2 Graphical Stats:
This is one of the premiere advanced battery statistics apps, this will help you to understand what is happening on your device and it`s battery, i.e. Awake, Screen On, Charging, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth etc. So, you can save your battery.
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App Permission:
It gives you a useful and detailed view of all of your installed apps, you can easily identify unwanted apps that might threaten your privacy, and bloatware as well. You can uninstall those unwanted apps.
1. You will have the option to short it out based on the name of the application
2. You will have the option to short it out based on the score (harmful application)
3. Also, you can short by Permissions
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Battery Alarms:
One of the most important features which is needed for any device, battery alarms can save energy, health and much more.
Battery Alarms Types:
1 Fully Charged
2 Charge Drop below (Set as required)
3 Charge rise above (Set as required)
4 Temperature rise above (Set as required)
5 Health Fails
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Battery History Data
You can find out yourself what is happening on your battery, i.e. Charging Level, App usage, Data Usage, Consumption.
1 History Data: This helps you to find out detailed battery history 100 to 0% level of battery what happened on 99%, 25% or 32% or anything as you required.
2 Battery Usage Indicator: This lets you understand the specific app and features that consumes more battery, i.e. Screen, android system, Wi-Fi, Apps, FB etc...
3 Charging History: The battery history data has complete and detailed information about the battery including Power, Volt, Screen, Hardware etc...
Smartphone users would love this app, it will allow you to understand how many times you connected the charger and disconnected it, what the charging level is, current battery level, battery volt, weather you used USB or AC in order to charge your device. You can download the data and share it.
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Battery Stats:
This will give you battery stats and help you understand what is consuming more battery, Audio, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G etc... Battery Stats include:
1 Chart View
2 Pie View
3 Stat Views
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CPU Tweaks:
This will increase the CPU speed of your device and help you control what you are utilizing and how much. So you can speed up your devices as you need... Increasing CPU speed will make your device work more quickly. However not enough speed could damage your device. This app allows you to:
1 Tweak
2 CPU
3 Volt
4 Settings
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Battery Benchmark Testing
We all love to know how many hours of video, audio or browsing we can do with our beloved android device. This app is really meant for the device optimizers.
The test runs until the battery reaches 15% and at that point the test is complete and test results will get displayed.
This utility tool is used to measure the battery statistics on your Android device with respect to Video & Audio playback and Browsing the internet.
This App will allow you to calculate the battery usage of an audio file with a specific bit-rate or a video file with a particular resolution and see the battery consumption rate/minute ratio. You can also check the battery consumption rate for 10 standard URL's with the browser test:
1 Audio
2 Video
3 Browser
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Game Tweaks:
All Android gamers love to play without frequent hang ups or crashing. We have made a simple Android tweak which can improve your device with complete performance and great gaming experience. Game Teaks include...
1 Stock Rom – Tweak
2 Custom Rom – Tweak
3 Tweak – Uninstaller
How to install the Tweak:
1. If you are still in Stock OS, you need to download the Stock ROM Tweak; we also have Custom ROM Tweak.
2. Once you completed, turn off your device and reboot into Recovery mode (google on more information on recovery mode)
3. Once your device is rebooted into recovery mode, you will find an option called install ZIP from SD card, you need to select that option, this will install the tweak on your device.
4. Once it’s complete, you need to reboot your device. You will feel the improved device performance.
Please note (Tweaks can damage your device, we are not responsible for any damage)
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Power Saver:
This is a must have for any Android Device out there, you must define it`s worth for yourself. You can save your battery 2+ times with this power saver. It includes...
1 Night Mode
2 Short Intervals
3 Traffic Limit
4 WiFiWhite list
5 Timeout
Mobile Data Controller: It turns off or Turns on as you needed.
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Sensors Tweaks:
This will help you to understand weather the sensors are working as expected, you can test all the sensors yourself.
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Sound Tweak:
Music lovers will love this too, you can increase the pre-sets for the type of music you are interested in listening to.
1 Normal, Classical, Dance
2 Flat, Folk, Heavy Metal
3 Hip Hop, Jazz, Pop & Rock
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Storage Tweak:
This will help you to understand about your device, CPU, RAM, All the hardware information, you can setup the Nand , SD card memory performance as you need, This will make your device perform better.
You can easily find out yourself, how much your system used, Data, Cache, SD card.
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System Tweak:
Everyone wants their Android phone to be fast without hanging up or crashing, we have made some simple Android Tweaks which can improve your device`s performance and Save the most amount of battery. They are:
1 Stock Rom – Tweak
2 Custom Rom – Tweak
3 Tweak – Uninstaller
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How to install the Tweak:
1. If you are still in Stock OS, you need to download the Stock ROM Tweak; we also have Custom ROM Tweak.
2. Once you completed, turn off your device and reboot into Recovery mode (google on more information on recovery mode)
3. Once you’re rebooted into Recovery mode, you will find an option called “install ZIP from SD card” you need to select that option, this will install the tweak on your device.
4. Once it’s complete, you need to reboot your device. You will feel the improved device performance.
Please note (Tweaks can damage your device; we are not responsible for any damage).
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Wake lock Activities:
You can easily find out yourself, which app or hardware is consuming a lot of memory and power.
1 Kernel Wake locks,
2 Partial Wake lock,
3 CPU States
Kernel wake locks: These are low level/hardware wake locks from the kernel. We can only reduce these by modifying the kernel or reducing the usage of a certain feature of the kernel. By researching these we can improve the battery consumption and performance of the Kernel.
Partial wake locks: These are wake locks from apps. These can be reduced by uninstalling or disabling features in software. We can talk about those here too, though it shouldn't be the focus as the answer will be "Uninstall/Disable feature X and talk to the app author". Preferably we should talk about partial wake locks from Google services like maps and latitude.
CPU: The numbers reflect the percentage of the time since the last screen update that the CPU spent in each state. The output for this line requires past history, and it is not shown on the first display that is produced.
Other Weak locks: It is important you find out where your major battery consumption is, Deep Sleep, Awake, Screen On, and Wi-Fi on, Wi-Fi running, Data Connection, or Screen Dark.
Process: You can find out which application consumes the most Battery juice. This is a collection of interrelated work tasks and an initiated response to an event that achieves a specific result for the user of the process.
Networks: This will help you to figure out what is happening on your network connection, what the battery power consumption is, the interval etc...
Others depend on the usage of the application and etc...
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Battery Wipe
This will wipe battery stats data and allow android OS; it will also regenerate the new battery data file
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Calibrators: You should use this when you think that your battery is acting weird and performing poorly. Here is how to use Battery Calibration:
1) Charge your device until the battery reaches 100%.
2) Click 'Calibrate!' button.
3) Your battery will be calibrated; you can check the battery performance.
We request you drain the battery for next 3 days after you decide to calibrate your device, 100% - 0% battery. When the third day is up charge your device 0% to 100%. Once you complete the process your battery will be calibrated 100% you will feel the improved battery.
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Advance Battery Cleaner:
This will kill all the running applications and unwanted processes required. This is how your battery will be saved 2+ times in general.
The battery cleaner will start in Boot-up and start working in the background to save the power.
You can also setup an auto cleaning leave: Safe, aggressive and crazy
You can also setup a security leave to: High, Medium & Low.
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woooow, what are you doing with the system tweak dude? in order to save more juice, i tweak my CPU Max Freq UV to 960 MHZ and doin some tweaks on the CPU Gov. Of course by doing this i sacrifice the performance. But then i installed your system tweaks and then boom! all of the scrolling home screen performance become very fast? this including the three navigation bar delay-in-pressing and application opening also now become fast.
I corious, then i open my cpu governor ...maybe you enter an init.d script on it to change the value, but i see there the value is still the same with my "battery saving mode". then i open the animation and scrolling speed, also still the same setting.
is this tweak really increase performance without sacrifice more battery?
Thanks
I will compare with DU battery. ^^
All the CPU/kernel/system tweaks are available only in the pro version. Can't you make them available in the free version even for a while to test?
Nice music but app crashes. Do you need root?
Galaxy Tab S stock 4.4.2
I am trying it now on my SGS 4, rooted, Wanam Lite, Android 4.4.2
Do you need a tester and Russian translator? PM me if you are
The app started up with music, even though I have my phone set to vibrate only. Please make sure that the app is respecting the audio settings of the phone.
Force close on note 10.1
On the 3rd introduction splash screen can see if i can grab log
Running 4.4.2 stock sammy
Related
Since we have better battery life on Android r169 version thanks to our devs i'm going to post tips n tricks for a even better battery life
1. Use "GSM auto (PRL) to save more juice while still connecting through 3G
- in the phone setting>wireless and network>MobileNetwork>NetworkMode
we are only allow to choose GSM only/ WCDMA / Auto between two
- but if you use type "*#*#4636#*#*" to phone Information, you can choose more type of networkmode. It is claimed that choose "GSM auto (PRL)" allow you to save more battery (cell standby) while allow you to connect to 3G network.
-there is one more setting which you can change:click settings(windows logo)>select radio band and change it according to your needs
- Please provide feedback on this. Thanks
2. Use AutoKiller Memory Optimizer
- This tool is different from other app killer
- It fine tunes android systems inner memory manager to keep your device fast over time.
- As a side effect it also lowers battery consumption.
- At certain free memory level (e.g. 250mb), the android os will automatically close those apps not in use (according to original android os logic)
3.Use Autostart
- Instead of closing them, it would be better if we don't let the app start from the begining
- You can choose to disable those app that u feel unnessary, so that they will not run during your phone startup
4. Check your Battery Consumption
- Download "Current Widget" or "battery monitoring widget" from market
- these apps will monitor your battery usage and recoded in a log file
- This is the normal consumption rate (varied across ROM, kernel and CPUI frequency and other factors)
credits:XDA
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Tips
General Lithium-Ion Battery (LIB) Usage:
• Discharging your LIB fully (or less than 2.4 Volt per cell) is bad for the battery. Every time you do that, it can be said that small part of your battery (some cells) dies (they forever lose their charge). Do not store your batteries depleted, there's a high chance they will die completely or will become very "weak".
• You cannot restore bad LIBs by overloading/heating/praying. You gotta go buy a new one. They DO degrade overtime, some cells naturally lose the ability to gain/give electricity.
• Although it is said that LIBs do not have memory, it's not entirely true. LIBs have gauges that monitor performance of cells, and if you do a lot of small charges, it won't let those gauges to monitor a full battery potential, causing an invalid indication of charge level. A complete charge/discharge should be made when battery capacity seems reduced, that will calibrate gauges and they will provide your phone with correct charge level status. A full charge/discharge cycle should be done every 30 (or so) partial charges.
• LIBs have a shelf-life. Do not buy them to store them. Use them early, use them often, they will die whether you use them or not. Do not buy LIBs to use them in 6 months/year/etc, buy them right before actually using them.
• LIBs have short lives (in comparison to NiCa batteries, etc). You should expect to buy a new battery in 2-3 years after being manufactured. It is caused by internal oxidation and there's nothing you can do to stop or prevent that.
• Worst LIB treatment is to keep it at 100% charge level at high temperature (think laptop/phone under direct sunlight, like car dashboard).
• Best LIB treatment, or LIBs "favorite" charge level - 40%. That's also the usual charge level you buy them with.
• LIBs don't like heat. For example, while always at 100%, typical LIB in a laptop, at temperatures of 25C (77F) will lose 20% (twenty percent!) of full capacity per year. That capacity loss is reduced to 6% (six percent) at 0C (32F), and increased to 35% loss at 40C (104F). So, keep them cool (LIBs like fridges), don't let your devices sit in the sun or overheat at charge. Also, keep in mind that while in use, battery will be significantly hotter than phone/outside environment.
• LIBs like frequent partial charges/discharges more than they like full charges/discharges.
General Android power usage advice from google:
• Although this part is somewhat controversial, they do recommend having a complete, full FIRST charge to be made. If time allows, a preferred time for the first charge is 12 hours. This may have more to do with the OS than the battery.
• Battery on a Android device, in average, will last about a full day with normal use (some videos, mail, calls). That's what you should kind-of expect.
• Speaking in averages, "idling" 3G/EDGE connection (when phone is sleeping and no data is transferred through 3G), drains almost no energy. Just a little more than having 3G/EDGE radio off completely. So when no apps are using 3G, you don't need to keep it off.
• Same goes to WiFi connection - although it's on, if there is no data flowing through it, it uses almost no energy.
• At full throughput (100% data flow), EDGE is using more energy than 3G. In average, 3G is more energy-efficient than EDGE.
• WiFi is using more energy than 3G (when both are at 100% use), but since it transfers files much faster and then goes to "sleep", it's actually recommended to use WiFi whenever possible. Since it'll "sleep" more often than 3G, overall it will use much less battery than using 3G.
• Some bad apps or widgets can use android's "WakeLock", keeping CPU at 100%, screen always-on, or both. I myself have encountered such widget (I won't mention the name, it's in the market) that used a WakeLock to keep CPU spun-up at 100% all the time. That makes a huge impact on battery life. My advice - use a CPU profiling app to monitor the CPU - make sure that CPU slows down by itself when it's not used. So, beware of such widgets/apps. To check for CPU cycles, many recommend OSMonitor (free from market, install it, go to options, sort by "Load" in descending order. It'll give you "busiest" processes at the top). At rest you should be getting about 10-20% for OSMonitor itself, and 1-10% Android System. At rest, everything else should be 0-1%.
• Android slows down CPU when not in use by itself, as a built-in feature. Apps that throttle/change CPU frequency, are not necessarily needed.
Sources:
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
BatteryUniversity - http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
Google IO Conference 2009 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUemfrKe65c
Electropaedia - http://www.mpoweruk.com/life.htm
this one too
this is very useful information, thx a lot!
Sorry Tzacapaca, but I do not understand where I have to type the code in order to have access to other network modes
Could you clarify?
THX
doublej4473 said:
Sorry Tzacapaca, but I do not understand where I have to type the code in order to have access to other network modes
Could you clarify?
THX
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Very good summary, thanks
I will definitely come back to read again and try in this way extend battery life.
Thnx, great tips to read !
Standard battery Capacity: 1200 mAh
HTC HD Mini have a standard battery Capacity: 1200 mAh.
When the battery loses capacity and you want to replace it, consider that there are batteries in the market for the HTC HD Mini with 1700 mAh Capacity, which would be logical to give a day or two extra pleasure
15MA1L said:
HTC HD Mini have a standard battery Capacity: 1200 mAh.
When the battery loses capacity and you want to replace it, consider that there are batteries in the market for the HTC HD Mini with 1700 mAh Capacity, which would be logical to give a day or two extra pleasure
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I still like and need my phone so I wouldn't trust those batteries
I would better get an emergency recharge which can charge my phone on the go
Edit: here is one http://www.phonesuit.com/primo-cube-battery-pack-for-android-phones/
hi how do i send a log to show my battery level? its draining way to fast,temperature is 38.8 is that normal?
with the battery moniter widget temperature is fluctuating from 35.5 to 38,stabilising to just over 35.0,also says 190mA in top left for battery indicater
BATFINK74 said:
hi how do i send a log to show my battery level? its draining way to fast,temperature is 38.8 is that normal?
with the battery moniter widget temperature is fluctuating from 35.5 to 38,stabilising to just over 35.0,also says 190mA in top left for battery indicater
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download current widget and enable log file,right now i have 32.5 C on 100% battery level
tzacapaca said:
download current widget and enable log file,right now i have 32.5 C on 100% battery level
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thanks dude,can i post log file results here?
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thanks dude,can i post log file results here?
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battery history
hi heres my battery history,is there any clue in here as to why its draining so fast?
also upload current widget log
BATFINK74 said:
hi heres my battery history,is there any clue in here as to why its draining so fast?
also upload current widget log
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hi,tell me around when phone was in standby so i can figure out
anyway so far it looks bad :O
also i have some Q's :
do you have set brightness on auto in Android or on WM?
is it a fresh install of Android?
did you install apps after that?if yes,which?
do you have GPS on on droid or on wm?
With "CurrentWidget" you can also log applications which are running on background. Then it should be easier to find out cause of battery drain. Also don't forget to write about your current settings ...
tzacapaca said:
hi,tell me around when phone was in standby so i can figure out
anyway so far it looks bad :O
also i have some Q's :
do you have set brightness on auto in Android or on WM?
is it a fresh install of Android?
did you install apps after that?if yes,which?
do you have GPS on on droid or on wm?
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hi thanks for replying
i have brightness turned down in android,havent touched in winmo
yes its a fresh install
iv installed angry birds rio,a 3d game,zedge,ebay and sky sports apps from market place
gprs is always on in both
my device is currently in sleep mode,will upload a fresh log to show results for sleep mode
For the nexus s 4G , just put brightness on low and turn of background data
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App
How to Maximize Battery Life
UPDATED! Improve MiniCM9(nAa) Battery >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25959229#post25959229
Stay tune, there may be additional tips and important notes!
General
Put ur phone to sleep via notification power widget(CM Settings) to prevent wakelocks(awake while screen off).
Conectivity
Turn Wi-fi and Bluetooth off when not in use.
(Power Control Widget ...OR... Settings > Wireless and Networks)
Location
Disable Wireless Network Positioning.
(Settings > Location)
Disable GPS Satellites.
(Power Control Widget ...OR... Settings > Location)
Display
Manual Brightness: Lowest (0)
Auto-rotate screen: Off
Animation: No animation
Screen Time-out: 30secs or less.
(Power Control Widget ...OR... Settings > Screen & display)
For even lower brightness, set dim level to 10 or below
(CM Settings > Display > Automatic Backlight > Screen Dim Level)
Wallpaper and Widgets
Use static background instead of live wallpapers.
Darker wallpapers are recommended for AMOLED screen.
Use less active widgets (high refresh rate)
(Long press Home Screen)
Network
Turn Airplane mode on while you are sleeping.
Turn off Data Transfer (network internet connection) when not in use.
Turn on Airplane Mode when you(user) sleep.
(Power Control Widget ...OR... Settings > Wireless & networks)
Use 2G/GSM Only, not 2G+3G/HSDPA.
(Power Control Widget ...OR... Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks)
Accounts & Sync
Disable background data transfer. (Turn on when using Android Market)
Disable Auto-sync accounts.
(Settings > Accounts and Sync)
Applications
Disallow Mock Location.
(Settings > Applications)
Sound & Vibrations
Set vibration only on silent mode.
Disable haptic feedback. (Vibration on UI interaction)
(Power Control Widget ...OR... Settings > Sound)
Language & Keyboard
Disable Keyboard Vibration / Set vibration to 0ms
(Settings > Language & Keyboard)
Rom Modules - Tweaks to your rom. Works for both stock and modded roms.
If there's undervolt module for your rom, use it.
Custom CPU governor such as smartass, smartassV2
(!) For some CM7 Roms, smartass makes your phone very lag, try smartassV2 or ondemand.
CPU & Processor
Reduce processor speed (Underclock).
Choose [powersave/conservative/smartass] governors. (!) Quite laggy.
[APP] SetCPU for Root Users
-Set processor speed and governors.
Extras
Use less UI-replace apps like CallerID, WidgetLocker, GO Locker etc.
Background and Running Apps
Use task killer ONLY for apps/games u wont use for the next few hours.
Dont leave task killer in the notification bar, kill it together.
(!) If u kill every system apps, your phone have to re-run them all over again. Thus battery drains.
(!) Watch what you kill
[APP] Titanium Backup's Freezing function (PAID VERSION)
-Prevent the apps from running without uninstalling them.
-Frozen apps wont be shown in App Drawer and cannot be launched. (You can defrost if you want)
-Safe common system apps to be frozen: (actually most of them are safe, what u freeze is what wont work)
Market (Market wont work)
Gmail (Market wont work)
Google Apps (affects Market)
Google Search (affects Market)
Google Talk
FOTAkill
Pico TTS (Speech to text wont work)
TTS Service (Speech to text wont work)
Voice Search (Voice Search wont work)
Voice Dialer (Voice Dialer wont work)
(!) Don't freeze apps like Sync, Settings, Package Installer, Messaging and some obviously important apps.
[APP] Autostarts
-Managing apps running automatically in most situations.
-e.g: during startup, after startup, widgets updating...
CyanogenMod Settings (Only available in Cyanogenmod Settings)
-Render Effect - N1 Calibrated
-Overscroll Effect - Disable
(CM Settings > Interface)
-Automatic Backlight Settings - Set Dim Level + Uncheck Allow light decrese
-Screen on/off animation - Disable
(CM Settings > Display)
-Haptic Feedback Tweaks - Disable all
(CM Settings > Input)
-CPU Settings - Adjust accordingly.
(CM Settings > Performance > CPU Settings)
-VM Heap Lower it, increase it if u play HD games.
(CM Settings > Performance)
Battery Saver App
Search on Google Play, there's tonnes.
[APP]
Titanium Backup
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
Autostarts
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts
SetCPU for Root Users
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mhuang.overclocking
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I think automatic brightness is the best. If you go out during the day you won't be able to see anything on 0 brightness.
It's probably more convenient to just buy a second battery.
Good guide for those desperate for more battery life though.
Green Power is a much simpler alternative to Juice Defender and seems to work a lot better too!
Also there is no need for a task killer if you are running GB. Complete waste of time.
Task killer is much easier than GB internal app control. Save time, not waste time.
But remember FC task killer together thats all.
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Automatic brightness is good but not battery saving. The screen sensors have to work all the time and keep adjusting brightness. :/
Yes, we cant see anything under the sun. Thats the con.
1 more tip, uninstall useless aps
I have a Samsung Galaxy S running the FASTY ROM, and when I switched over to this ROM, I noticed I went from 6-hour battery life to 2-3 days battery life!
Go to every Apps that has Notification Interval in their setting, it updates in background although not display in the Accounts & Sync
Leave you phone off. Usually gets me unlimited power and run times.
armoredkin said:
Go to every Apps that has Notification Interval in their setting, it updates in background although not display in the Accounts & Sync
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Dont get what u mean. Any example?
spinrite said:
Leave you phone off. Usually gets me unlimited power and run times.
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Thats a basic knowledge and everyone should know this.
Nice tips. But the battery depands on rom, some of them uses a lot of battery
kelvinloo said:
Nice tips. But the battery depands on rom, some of them uses a lot of battery
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yes. CM7 uses more than CM6.
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Updated 20.2.2012
- Use less certain apps.
Thanks for the tips.. most of them are pretty obvious though
chinadude said:
Thanks for the tips.. most of them are pretty obvious though
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That means you are good in saving battery.
There have been good tips mentioned but I would like to add that all those battery saver apps just do nothing. These kinds of apps are just ads while some of them like juice defender offer androidees a paid version (Ultimate, Pro etc) which is just another trick where it may be useful for lazy guys who can't turn wifi, bluetooth or other connections or apps off themselves!
I haven't actually tried any of ROMs which are told to be effective (like "undervolt") and on this position I must admit that manufacturers' ads for their mobile products are just lies as I have a SGS2 and whenever I start to play a HD game or connect via wifi it just starts to drain the battery times times more than the advertised battery life!
The only and reliable way of saving battery could be just using carefully: HD games for maximum 30-45 min and wifi connection for 2-3 hours. Playing movies or music could be run in a more span of time like 4-5 hours. Otherwise you will have no remaining for calling or necessary usages!
Jetroid said:
There have been good tips mentioned but I would like to add that all those battery saver apps just do nothing. These kinds of apps are just ads while some of them like juice defender offer androidees a paid version (Ultimate, Pro etc) which is just another trick where it may be useful for lazy guys who can't turn wifi, bluetooth or other connections or apps off themselves!
I haven't actually tried any of ROMs which are told to be effective (like "undervolt") and on this position I must admit that manufacturers' ads for their mobile products are just lies as I have a SGS2 and whenever I start to play a HD game or connect via wifi it just starts to drain the battery times times more than the advertised battery life!
The only and reliable way of saving battery could be just using carefully: HD games for maximum 30-45 min and wifi connection for 2-3 hours. Playing movies or music could be run in a more span of time like 4-5 hours. Otherwise you will have no remaining for calling or necessary usages!
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Yes, thats why i dont recommend saving apps. Just for lazy people.
kelvinloo said:
Nice tips. But the battery depands on rom, some of them uses a lot of battery
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It's true, but other things also affect battery life (many of which the OP mentioned).
However, I just wanna add one thing which I'm sure many of you already know. But the reason I am mentioning it is because I witnessed this work on two Samsung Phones belonging to my friend and his wife: Galaxy Pro & Galaxy Mini (name of the phones, not my friends ).
At first, and on stock rom(not rooted) their battery life was horrible; and by horrible I mean less than 6 hours of usage (<24 hours idle).
I googled it and read somewhere, that fully recharging the phone then draining it completely (until it switches off itself) every day for a few days, the battery life will improve noticeably.
I told them about it; they tried it; and after only 3 days they started to notice the difference. They told me that it really made a difference. Now their battery life is 6-7 hours usage. 48 hours idle.
I know those numbers sound unrealistic but somehow it worked.
I have read this before, and it seems to be a common thing for battery life.
I haven't tried it on my DesireHD because I'm always hopping between different ROMs..
I hope this would be helpful for someone...
... my two cents Cheers!
Nice tips, thanks
Ways to maximize your battery life.
Generally when it comes to battery life I try to use those two tricks which work very well with ICS Roms.
I use ondemandx governor 122-1612MHz with suspend_freq=122MHz.
In order to achieve lowest power consumption in standby. You can tune manually Vdd at 122MHz =suspend_freq to the lowest value.
I also change in /system/buid.prop the value of ro.ril.disable.power.collapse to 0 instead of one by default in order to allow deeper sleep of the air interface.
Over all the type of ROM you are using, the age and capacity of your battery in your device also play a roll in the average time you get out of your device
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Generally when it comes to battery life I try to use those two tricks which work very well with ICS Roms.
I use ondemandx governor 122-1612MHz with suspend_freq=122MHz.
In order to achieve lowest power consumption in standby. You can tune manually Vdd at 122MHz =suspend_freq to the lowest value.
I also change in /system/buid.prop the value of ro.ril.disable.power.collapse to 0 instead of one by default in order to allow deeper sleep of the air interface.
Over all the type of ROM you are using, the age and capacity of your battery in your device also play a roll in the average time you get out of your device
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1612MHz, what rom is that??
updated 29/4/12
Other than battery life, I believe the ChaCha is one of the best QWERTY candybar Android devices out there (not much else to choose from...). So, I am on a mission to get as much battery life out of it as possible, without sacrificing much functionality. I've been experimenting over the past few months and here is what I've found:
1) SuperOSR ROM gives me the best battery life (compared to CM9, CM7.2, CM7, HTC Stock, ATT Stock and Telus Stock)
2) Backlight drains a lot of energy, so I set my custom Backlight settings as the attached jpg
3) 600Mhz Max CPU speed is a sweet-spot for battery life vs. performance
I tried to see max life I could get with various items enabled/disabled, here is a summary:
1) Airplane Mode @ 26hrs still 100% remaining
2) Voice Network On (Auto GSM/CDMA) @ 25hrs still 68% remaining
3) Voice & Data Network On (Auto GSM/CDMA), Background Data/Auto Sync Disabled @ 23hrs, still 68% remaining
4) Voice & Data Network On (Auto GSM/CDMA), Background Data/Auto Sync Disabled, Roadsync Exchange every 15mins @ 23hrs, still 66% remaining **
** This is a big one for me. I originally was using the built in Exchange/Email sync (15 min sync time), but this required Background Data and Auto Sync to be enabled. I would usually only make it 15 hrs or so with regular usage. Once I disabled Background Data/Auto Sync and switched to Roadsync (which still works with these disabled), I drastically increased battery life. The only drawback for me is needing to enable background data to use the Play Store (which I rarely use).
I searched for a decent explanation of what these two functions do, and here is my best concise summary:
Background Data: when enabled, applications can send/receive data even when you are not actively using them (i.e. play store app updates, etc.)
AutoSync: strictly controls whether the accounts (under accounts & sync) are allowed to sync on their own or not (i.e. built in exchange, facebook, twitter, weather, news, etc.)
Other items I set that may or may not save small amounts of power:
• Sound
o Vibrate – Off
o Haptic Feedback – Off
o Low Battery Sound – Off
o Pulse Notification Light - Off
• Display
o Auto-Rotate – Off
o Screen Timeout – 30s
o Animation – None
o Window Animation – Off
o Transition Animation – Off
• Performance
o Disable Boot Animation - On
o Surface Dithering – Off
• Sound
o Silent State – Enabled
o Vibrate During Calls – Off
o Mute Camera Shutter
• System Preferences
o Scrolling Cache – Disabled
o Wallpaper Hack – Off
Also implemented the Adreno GPU mod to is uses the GPU instead of CPU.
Hope this info might help someone increase their battery life!
CM7.2 works best for me. 5-7 days without charging.
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CM7.2 works best for me. 5-7 days without charging.
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Wow, that's a really long time! What are the details? I'm assuming data is off, looks like voice network is on, but I'll also assume you didn't use it during this time period (no voice calls, etc.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32368934&postcount=124
My measurements:
- HTC Stock ROM: 3-4 days
- CM9 ROM: 4-5 days
- CM7 ROM: 5-7 days
I use phone mostly for calling and calendar/mail. I have only a few apps/widgets installed.
No GPS, no mobile network data connections, no background data, no automatic sync.
Wifi are only enabled when I need it for sync or internet access.
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Here is my phone setup:
CM7.2 build for HTC ChaCha with librpc.so from SuperOSR (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1912771)
ADW Launcher EX version instead of stock launcher.
Governor: Conservative, CPU: 245Mhz - 800Mhz
No animations, no haptic feedback, no live wallpapers.
There are 3 major battery consumers:
CPU: The CPU consumes most of your battery, therefore you should measure your applications/services how much CPU resources they need. There should be no unused services in your running services list and no (unnecesary) widgets which wakes up CPU to update information while the phone is in standby. The Temp+CPU monitor will show how much CPU your system ir using when idle or running some applications. If your device is using more than 4% of CPU when idle, open terminal and type top -m 6 to find which process is waking up CPU.
Display: display should switch off 30 - 60 secs when phone is idle.
Radio: You should enable mobile data connection, bluetooth, GPS, Wifi only when you need it.
Erm, question:
Why 30-60 sec when phone is idle?? Why not 15-30 sec? I mean, if it's in idle, that means that you don't use it. That means that you're not actually looking at the screen for anything. For sure, you might be reading something (like an email, or an SMS) but given the screen size, you won't spend more than 15 seconds reading without scrolling. My two cents. And a penny.
I agree that 15-30 secs would be better. I use 30 secs on my HTC.
Great info peleeks! Thanks! Couple questions:
1) Do you think there is much difference in battery life between CM7.2 (with swapped libprc.so) and SuperOSR? I figure they are both AOSP based.
2) Did you notice a big difference between Ondemand and Conservative CPU governors?
3) You mention about switching off BT, WiFi, GPS, etc. but from what I've read, the GPS is only active when an application (like Maps) requests it, so there is no need to manually turn it on/off. Similarly for BT, it uses very little power in standby mode and only consumes when in an active call.
4) For that screenshot where you get 7 days on battery - how many mins of voice calls are recorded?
Thanks.
1. I think there should be no significant differences between CM7.2 and SuperOSR in terms of battery consumption. SuperOSR by default have some google apps and services installed, however many users reported that SuperOSR has longer battery life.
2. I didn't test ONDEMAND governor.
3. Radio devices still consumes energy even if they are not used. With bluetooth in standby mode my laptop consumes noticeably more power than if I disable device in BIOS. Also for every device there is a service/driver which is running in background, locking system, polling device status, etc. There is a beautiful power widget in CM7.2 and SuperOSR - it is very easy to turn device on or off.
4. About 60 minutes of voice calls.
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3) You mention about switching off BT, WiFi, GPS, etc. but from what I've read, the GPS is only active when an application (like Maps) requests it, so there is no need to manually turn it on/off. Similarly for BT, it uses very little power in standby mode and only consumes when in an active call.
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For this one I can chip in with some info:
Regarding GPS, it might be that the chip stays powered on and acquires your position the moment you turn it on; if you see the GPS icon in the status bar then this is true. It's also related to the Location settings, if you allow your device to use location based info to improve services and whatnot. The effect this has is that every Google product will search for location info, even if that application is not running. Keep this in mind; you might want to disable these options as well.
Bluetooth - It is indeed true that in standby mode it uses less power than active mode (active mode means having a device connected, not necessarily an active call). The problem lies in how the software is implemented by the people who released the drivers for the ROM. Nonetheless, it should be turned off if you're not using it. You can find a thorough analysis of Bluetooth power consumption here: http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu/fw/documents/reports/2007/PowerAnalysis.pdf . At the same time, keep in mind that different Bluetooth versions have different power consumptions. For example a device with BT 2.1 will loose more power when having BT turned on than a device with BT 4.0. Our ChaCha has 3.0 according to gsmarena which has a somewhat improvement in power consumption in different stages.
*background info: I work for a company that develops embedded and off-the-market BT car-kits, therefore I'm sick and tired of BT devices (phones, BT players, tablets, etc.). One quick example that we usually laugh at: iPod Touch 3rd/4th Gen in idle with BT off lasts about 48 hours, give or take. With BT on, not connected to anything, it lasts about 24 hours.
Well, been trying different methods in the last couple of months... CM9 gives the best life while using it the normal way... I can survive almost 46 hours with using data, calling, checking mail and everything. It's nice if you can run that long, but why bother about extra days when you can make it over 24 hours with normal use...
Sent from my HTC ChaCha with CM9 using XDA app.
Thanks Alex for the info and link! Got me doing some more searching on power consumption and came up with this great article:
http://translate.google.com/transla...kulaufzeit-unter-Android-1145579.html&act=url
Combining this info with the one from the article you linked, it seems that Bluetooth and GPS don't really use much in standby mode - a few mW at most. So we shouldn't concentrate on them much when trying to conserve power, but rather to look at the larger consumers like unnecessary Data and Display usage.
Tried a stock ROM this weekend since the stock ROM has much better GPS fix time and faster Bluetooth connect for me. Unfortunately, it also has the dialer bug. I can't seem to find a version of the ROM that doesn't. Also, turning off the "quiet ring on pickup", etc. options has no effect on preventing the bug.
However, I did find a fix that worked great for me: Setting "gsm.proximity.enable=false" in the build.prop file
This disabled the proximity sensor so you have to manually turn off the screen on a call - no big deal for me as I use a BT headset all the time. I can confirm that this does the trick in terms of preventing the dialer bug/drainage issue for me.
Let's see what sort of battery life I get now from the stock rom...
In this post I'll give you tips to save your Android's battery and a How to get A FULL DAY lasting battery?
Common tips:-
#1 Uncheck the Auto-Brightness and keep brightness to as low as 10%, also lower the screen timeout to 15 or 30 seconds. Add Power Control widget to your homescreen (comes preloaded with most phones). So you can increase brightness whenever necessary.
#2 don’t use Live wallpapers, If possible keep your background completely black, Black color is battery-friendly as well as eyeball friendly.
#3 Don't keep Mobile data (2G/3G)/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth always on, simply turn off whenever not required.
#4 GPS is another biggest battery eater. Don't turn on GPS unless you need accurate data (for navigation).
#5 Turn off (or keep at least 1HR time between auto-refresh) BACKGROUND SYNC from social apps/web app, If you really don’t need them. e.g. Facebook, Twitter, TapaTalk, G+.
#6 Turn OFF vibrate/Haptic feedback feature as it consumes a lot of juice.
#7 Use WI-Fi whenever available (at home), it impacts less on battery then mobile data connection.
#8 Disable bloatwares on your phone e.g. Samsung's S apps WARNING: Don't disable important system app.
How to do this...
Go to Settings->Apps->All apps->Select app(e.g. Samsung apps store)->disable.
#9 Weak cell signals may cause battery drain to increase dramatically, because radio will try a lot to establish connection. So if you know there is very few possibility of getting connection then better turn on the Flight mode temporarily.
#10 Don't use WEB based widgets unless you really need them. They increase load on CPU and indirectly on battery.
#11 Some apps wakes your device partially to collect data aka a "WAKE LOCK". This happens many times in day. Run the app Wake lock detector and find out which app is causing too much wake locks. Wake locks increase battery drain. IMs are generally biggest source of wakelocks, Google apps are second.
#12 Don’t use task killer/RAM Boosters. Why?
Android generally stores data from apps which you started recently as Cache. This helps to improve loading apps quickly. If you kill any apps manually, some apps will restart automatically and finally impacts a lot on battery and CPU soon you will find your phone laggy.
#13 Reboot your phone at least once in week. (Press and hold power button —> select shutdown -> wait untill it shuts down -> to start again press and hold power button)
#14 Remove additional accounts (setting->accounts) from phone if you don’t use them.
#15 Don't let your phone getting too much hot. This improves battery lifespan.
#16 If you have 3G connection then Switch to GSM (2G) while browsing and switch to WCDMA (3G) when you want to download files or want to surf faster. Use Opera mini browser for just browsing its way faster than others and light on resources (battery, CPU)
#17 Turn off Auto-Rotation when not required.
Still you can’t get a day long battery then carry portable power banks
Advance tips:-
WARNING: I am not responsible for any thermonuclear wars, bricked phones. Rooting voids warranty, do it at your own risk. Do your own research before doing anything.
#1 *ROOT* Use Greenify (or Titanium backup) app and freeze useless apps e.g. Social apps. WARNING: If you freeze IM apps you won’t get any message until you de-freeze it again.
#2 Clear you cache at least once in month... Do this by Going to recovery —>Clear cache partition.
#3 *ROOT* Undervolt/Underclock your device by using SetCPU when you don’t need much processor power.
#4 *ROOT* Uninstall bloatwares which are useless in most cases. if you are not sure about certain app then better do a GOOGLE search about it.
#5 Use app Tasker it is multipurpose tool to automate android by creating different profiles (e.g. turn off connectivity when display is turned off for more than 5 minute and so on)
#6 *highlyAdvance* Install any battery friendly Kernel (such as Franco).
#7 *highlyAdvance* Set to powersaver Kernel governors when you don't need performence.
More about kernel governers
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Nice thread:good:
i have literally read 20 battery saving threads the same content , that was 5 mins of my life m not getting back :!
Nice tips and thread too
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Thanks, that helped me a lot
Get Full Battery For A Day With No Comprimis on data networks!
Hey! This is my first post of hopefully many more!
1) The most important one is set your brightness to AUTO. This is really important and easily adds up to 5 hrs of extra juice!
2) Don't run many background apps and kill apps that use network in the background!
3) Download a good battery saver app (Battery Doctor is my Favorite ) and let it optimize your settings for you!
4) Kill unused app repeatedly . Apps that run in the Background drain a lot of battery and RAM! You can see the app hogging your battery under Settings->Battery.
5) Charge your battery until 30% to 100% everytime.
6) Regularly Calibrate your battery . See this tutorial
Following these steps will easily get you a day+ juice with no compromise to your network or connectivity!
Please hit the thanks button if this was helpful!
faizandroidtech said:
Hey! This is my first post of hopefully many more!
1) The most important one is set your brightness to AUTO. This is really important and easily adds up to 5 hrs of extra juice!
3) Download a good battery saver app (Battery Doctor is my Favorite ) and let it optimize your settings for you!
4) Kill unused app repeatedly . Apps that run in the Background drain a lot of battery and RAM! You can see the app hogging your battery under Settings->Battery.
5) Charge your battery until 30% to 100% everytime.
6) Regularly Calibrate your battery . See this tutorial
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At least post 1st post with facts.
All above written by you are wrong except point no (2)
1) AUTO brightness is battery guzzler as it runs on light sensor. Read OP.
3) No need of battery saver app. They only do things which you can do from status bar. Switching off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth,data, brightness etc.
4) Read OP. ( that is original 11st post on this thread)
5)Charge battery when it reaches very low like 5-15%, don't unplug till 100%.
6)Calibration is only deleting batterystats.bin It does not increase battery . It only deletes battery use history.
No offence but please write facts instead of useless things.
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Revolutionary batteries
Nice tips you got there. Wish it was more common for batteries to charge while walking or in the sun.
After I switched to CyanogenMod I noticed an improved battery-life.
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Nice tips you got there. Wish it was more common for batteries to charge while walking or in the sun.
After I switched to CyanogenMod I noticed an improved battery-life.
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Of course Cyanogenmod and AOSP give lot of battery life because they don't have bloat ware from manufacturer. When I use AOSP 2.3.7 I get 6-8 days backup(moderate use). With stock I get Max 3-4 days.
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Let us not imagine a smartphone without battery. Battery is most important part of a smartphone. There is a few cause to drain battery quickly. Like as big LCD display and luscious AMOLED display, and background apps obviously drain your battery quickly. You can do something to make battery for last longer. Let’s see that how to increase battery on your android smartphone.
how save battery life
How android batteries work:
Have you heard that most smartphones have a lithium-polymer either or lithium-ion battery. Both of actually lithium-ion though, and as like, do not have a 'memory', which means that you can charge them from any level – you don't have to fully discharge it before charging it up – and you don't have to charge them all the way to 100 percent.
In fact, lithium-polymer either or lithium-ion types of batteries affected by low voltage problems, so it's actually better to partially charge it (say, from 20 percent to 90 percent) than to fully charge and fully drain tit. Just explore that is it work for you and you can easily increase battery on your Android smartphone.
how save battery life
Using du battery saver apps:
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Black wallpaper can increase battery:
If your phone has an AMOLED display (like as Samsung devices), use a dark-colored wallpaper for background . AMOLED screens only illuminate the colored pixels that’s why Black wallpaper can increase battery life. Black pixels are unlit, so that less power is needed to light them up.
Doze:
With the entrance of Marshmallow came a new feature called Doze, which is helps you get to reduce drain of your battery. , Doze is the most noticeable addition for android Marshmallow. It is allow default and typically permit your device to enter hibernation mode when it has been lock or unused for a long period of time.
Update your apps into latest version:
Keep update your apps with the latest version. The developers constantly update apps for battery and memory optimization. Keeping your apps updated also means you have the best optimizations available
Using Greenify apps:
There are many Android apps that claim that they optimize performance and increase battery life, Greenify is one of them and it’s actually works by preventing them from operating in the background. , which reduces their impact on the system Greenify stops this by sending those apps into hibernation and saving battery life while improving performance.
Reduce auto-brightness:
The screen is a biggest battery drainer. This is one of the best ways to increase your battery life to use auto-brightness manually to a level that is low but comfortable your eyes. And do not use display as auto-brightness mode.
Turn off vibrate and haptic feedback : For save battery turn-off your vibration alerts for incoming call, and turn-of your keyboard vibration and touchpad sound.
Use 'Do Not Disturb' or 'sleep' schedule :
when you are In a meeting , set your device to not ring, vibrate or connect to the internet when you are sleeping you can enable blocking mode to switch off Wi-Fi and mobile data when you don't need them.
For this purpose many phones have a Do Not Disturb setting.
For example you can use airplane mode.
Trun-off unnecessary service:
Whenever you don't need them turn off, Wi-Fi , GPS, Bluetooth, NFC and mobile data,Turning off location. It’s will increase battery on your Android smartphone.
Explore the battery saving features on your phone:
At first Find out the battery saving option in your smartphone and Trun on your bettery saving mode in your android smartphone when you are out of home and not use the phone.
Turn off auto-sync trap:
If you do not need google account update in every 30 minutes, tap into setting to turn-off google account turnoff auto sync and for these app you do not need update. For example email, Facebook, twitter, reddit Instagram etc. just sync when you actually use the app.
I miss something’s? What you have any idea about battery saving tips? Tell me about them in the comments.
I don't, and will never use gapps or any google's apps.
I am experiencing a high and crazy performance using ntfs as androed installation.
I will never burn my money in ext2/3/4 or any ext device.
I will never pay absurds for unrooted phones to rooting only to purge gapps and gogle apps or any other kind of damned apps that stays cooking battery.
My next device, needs be like this screenshot, with ntfs, rooteable, rom choices, or DEATH!
I hate androids.
This is why i preffer write Androed
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