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How to make battery last longer

A common complaint among Android users is short battery life. As we all now, Google’s platform has numerous benefits, but state-of-the-art features and constantly being connected seem to come with one drawback: comparatively large battery consumption.
I don’t suggest that you should stop taking advantage of the things that make Android great, such as streaming music players that allow you to walk around with millions of songs in your pocket, location-aware apps, background updates or all the wireless options. Still, if you’re frustrated by how often you need to connect your charger, it’s good to know what types of apps and activities that eat the most battery, so you can make an active decision whether or not it’s worth the extra juice. Use the GPS Wisely
The GPS uses the battery like there’s no tomorrow. Location-aware software is one of Android’s many fortes, but they can be real battery drainers. The Power control widget is useful for switching the GPS on and off, and you should keep an eye on your notification bar: an icon will appear whenever the GPS is activated.
Turn off Bluetooth When You’re Not Using It
Perhaps an obvious tip, but it’s best to disable Bluetooth whenever you’re not actually using it. The quickest way to switch Bluetooth off and on is via a widget on your homescreen.
Disable Wireless Network Positioning
When your device learns your location via wireless network triangulation, it requires less battery than if it had used the GPS. But using both methods simultaneously will of course use the most power. The GPS can handle location tasks by itself, albeit a bit slower. Also, wireless network positioning is used to gather anonymous Google location data in the background, which will drain the battery further. You can turn it off from Settings > Location > Use wireless networks.
Switch off Wi-Fi, or Keep it Always On
If you’re close to a reliable WLAN during the better part of the day, having Wi-Fi always turned on may be favorable from a battery point of view, since the Wi-Fi radio uses less battery than the 3G radio. And when Wi-Fi is on, 3G is off. You can confirm Wi-Fi always stays on by going to Settings > Wireless networks > Wi-Fi Settings. Press the Menu button, tap on Advanced, Wi-Fi sleep policy and select the Never option.
On the other hand, if you’re not close to a strong Wi-Fi signal for extended periods of time, disable Wi-Fi from a homescreen widget or from Settings > Wireless networks > Wi-Fi. Disable Always-On Mobile Data
The Always-On Mobile Data option is on by default, and can be disabled from Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Enable always-on mobile data. It allows your phone to be connected non-stop, but does it need to be? I have disabled the setting, and I still get push Gmail and even Google Talk seems to perform as usual, as well as the few apps I have that use automatic updates. However, if you have a lot of apps that regularly connect to the Internet, disabling this option may actually be a bad idea, since turning the data connection on and off will require more energy than simply having it on all the time.
Kill 3G if Your Phone Often Struggles to Find It
When your Android attempts to decide which signal to lock on to, it strains your battery. If your phone often switches between GSM and 3G in your area, it can be preferable to simply disable 3G altogether, and hence abolishing the need for your phone to try and find a suitable network. Go to Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Network mode > GSM only. Use a Quick Screen Timeout
After a certain time of inactivity, your screen is automatically turned off, and that’s the Screen Timeout. To use such a low value as 15 seconds can be annoying, but one minute is on the other hand likely too long. I use 30 seconds. You can alter this option from Settings > Screen & display > Screen timeout. Turn Down the Screen Brightness
Android’s Automatic brightness (Settings > Screen & display > Brightness) setting is recommended. If your phone doesn’t have this option, set a reasonable value at roughly 30 % and see if that suits you.
Live Wallpapers Will Use More Power than a Static Background
Oh yes, live wallpapers can be awesome. But they will obviously use precious battery juice, albeit evidently not as much as one could think, talking the eye-candy into consideration and what they can do. Have an AMOLED Display? A Dark Wallpaper Will Spare the Battery
When having dark backgrounds, phones with AMOLED display will use less power, because each pixel on OLED screens is photoemissive and will actually generate its own light. Since there’s no need for a backlight, the pixel can essentially turn off its light source and go total black. As a result, you can save a teeny-weeny bit of energy by having a dark or black background on AMOLED screens. Use Widgets Wisely
A few days ago, we mentioned 10 cool homescreen widgets, and it’s great that Android supports them. Most widgets will only have a negligible effect on your battery life, but those that automatically pull info from the interwebs can be power hogs. Use Reasonable Intervals for Automatic Updates
I personally don’t need to have automatic updates on my phone, except for emails that I want to be notified of the moment they arrive. I prefer launching the apps at my convenience and see what’s new. Most applications that connect to the Internet have an option to update upon launch, and that’s all I need. By lowering the update intervals, or by even turning them off completely, you can definitely make your battery last longer. I recommend that you reduce them to your own minimum values.
If you have an Android phone with HTC Sense, you can make sure the HTC Mail Client, the HTC Weather App, Facebook, Flickr, Stocks and Twitter update themselves as often as you want them to. This is mainly done from Settings > Accounts & sync. It’s also a good idea to look over third-party apps that grab data from the Internet, particularly the official Facebook app and the various Twitter apps, since they usually have background updates on by default.
Streaming Apps Will Use a Lot of Battery
In a recent Droid vs Droid special, Andrew did a rundown of music streaming apps, and I certainly don’t think you should avoid this type of application on your phone. But bear in mind that software that stream audio and similar apps will use plenty of power. Learn What’s Been Drinking the Juice
Unless you have the doubtful pleasure of still running Cupcake, you can check out a built-in Android feature that tells you precisely how much your apps use the battery. You can then start using battery drainers less often, or simply uninstall them. Go to Settings > About phone > Battery > Battery use and press the items in the list for further info. You can also use JuicePlotter to analyze usage patterns.
I have gotten good results by making the tweaks and changes above, and I hope you will too. Do you know of any more tricks that can make our dear Android stay on his feet a bit longer before it needs to be charged? In case you don’t want to keep all this in mind, an app such as JuiceDefender is a good option
Use setcpu app or any other one that involves controlling CPU and set a profile to make your CPU very low(this one helps a lot but your gonna notice a little lag when your unlocking your screen)
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And do not use task killer. I think it's one of the reason that drain your battery quickly

all pretty good tips.
I have a problem on my phone where the cpu will not enter deep sleep mode but im sure its my fault. It says the android system is taking alot of battery in battery usage.

I would highly suggest staying away from any task killing related software, they generally aren't good for Android and can lead to problems down the road. There's an application called Juice Defender on the Google Play store and it's been working for me. I can easily turn off battery hogs like GPS and 3G while your device is inactive.

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How to conserve batt life

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10 Tips To Conserve Your Smartphone Battery
By Michael Poh. Filed in How-To Guides
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Apple, BlackBerry, Samsung and other global brands have come up with smartphones equipped with powerful mobile operating systems such as Google’s Android, Nokia’s Symbian, Apple’s iOS, etc, that allows users to play games, listen to mp3s, snap pictures, have access to the Net and even stream videos.
Given their diverse range of capabilities and multi-functionality running on a mobile (as in on-the-go) platform, it’s no wonder that battery life has always been a concern for developers, manufacturers and the users themselves. On average, most smartphone batteries last between one and two days before being completely depleted, and in need of a recharge.
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While we wait for the hardware development to catch up, the alternative will be to conserve battery life. As it is with our energy levels, battery life can be effectively utilized and managed, leaving nothing to go to waste. Without a battery charger or a spare battery with you everywhere you go, you’ll have to make due with minimizing the consumption of battery juice.
Here are 10 essential tips how you can conserve your smartphone’s battery.
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1. Turn Off Vibrations
Vibrations are great for notifying you about incoming calls or messages when you’re in the theatre, meetings or other places where it’s necessary to keep the phone silent. In places where it doesn’t matter, it will be better for you to use your ringtone as notification if you want to keep your smartphones on longer.
Vibrations actually use up more power than ringtones. The sounds produced by ringtones are just very tiny vibrations in your smartphone’s speaker. Compare that to the shaking of the entire phone via vibrating a smart weight, playing a ringtone definitely zaps less of your battery. The same applies for using vibration for tactile feedback. If you don’t think it’s necessary, then disable vibrations or at the very least, lessen the magnitude of the vibrations.
2. Dim Your Screen
This one tip affects battery life drastically. It’s obvious that dimming your screen will reduce your smartphone’s power consumption since we all have to activate the screen whenever we use our phones. If our screen is brightly lit up every couple of minutes when we check our emails and such, it eventually will zap battery juice. Auto-brightness setting enable the smartphone to adjust the brightness to its optimal level for reading while conserving battery life.
On the other hand though, you may consider tuning the level permanently to the dimmest level that you can still read under without straining your eyes. Doing so may do wonders to your battery life in the long run.
3. Shorten Screen Timeout
In the same manner, if you wish to minimize the power consumption of your smartphone of the screen display, you ought to consider shortening the screen timeout. This decides how long the screen will remain lit after you finish interacting with it.
Some of us do not have the habit of ‘locking’ the phone after we we are done with it; we just let it go lights out by itself. Keeping the timeout duration short will ensure that the phone doesn’t waste power when you’re not using it.
4. Switching Off When Inactive
Although it is true that turning on your phone consumes more power than unlocking your phone, switching it off for a couple of hours can save more battery than leaving it on sleep or inactive mode. If you know you’re not going to touch your phone for an extended period of time, such as when you’re attending a meeting or sleeping, you can actually cut down a significant amount of energy consumption if you simply switch it off.
You might be wondering why you should even bother about battery level when you’ve a charger with you at home while you sleep. Well, the thing is that repeated charging for certain kind of batteries eats up the battery volume. For such batteries, the best way is to conserve as much as you can so that your battery retains its original capacity as much as possible.
5. Charge Your Battery Correctly
Speaking of phone charging, there are generally two kinds of rechargeable batteries commonly used for smartphones: Lithium-ion (Li-Ion), and Nickel-based batteries: namely Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) and Nickel-Cadmium (NiCd).
The battery capacity in NiCd batteries are reduced every time you recharge them. Nonetheless, NiCd batteries have longer life cycles i.e. they can be recharged more often than NiMH batteries before stop working. Nickel-based batteries should be charged (to the full amount) when they’re more or less out of power, and not when there’s still a good amount of energy left.
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Li-Ion batteries have the longest life cycle among the three types of batteries but they also need to be charged more frequently (even when the battery is not fully used up) to maintain its original capacity. To keep your battery lasting longer, find out more about the type of battery that your smartphone uses and maintain the appropriate charging strategy for optimum usage.
6. Close Unnecessary Apps
Some of us open app after app and don’t bother to close them even after we no longer need to use them. This multi-tasking capability is a common feature of smartphones, but it is also a main reason why battery life gets drained away easily. The worst thing is that you’re losing battery juice when you are not even using them. Leaving them open will leave your battery at half-bar in no time.
As often as possible, kill your apps if you are not using them. There are some valuable apps out there that manage the multitasking ability of your smartphone to ensure it performs at its best to conserve battery life without jeopardizing usage. One such Android app is the Advanced Task Killer.
7. Disable GPS
Certain apps eat up more battery juice than others, particularly apps which utilize the GPS system to track your location. Your smartphone has a GPS unit that allows the sending and receiving of signals to and from satellites to determine your exact location, which is integral for some apps to work, for example, map-based apps like Google Maps or to check-in on Facebook.
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When left running in the background, some of these apps may continue to send and receive signals. It takes a lot out of your battery to continuously do that, even if you aren’t aware of it. Hence, you should ensure that those particular apps are closed when you really don’t need them. A more extreme way is to disable location services when prompted by these apps. It may slow down the efficiency of these apps but you won’t be tracked on your location and some users deliberately do that for privacy reasons.
8. No Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G/4G When Not In Use
Energy is consumed whenever your smartphone searches for signals, Wi-Fi, 3G or Bluetooth etc. When the reception is poor, the phone will continue scanning to attain a good connection. Repeated searches for these signals can easily make your battery level drop a notch.
What I’m saying is that you should turn off your Wi-Fi or Bluetooth when you don’t need to be connected. One convenient way to do it is to switch to ‘Airplane Mode’ or just switch your phone off when you know you can’t get any signal.
On the other hand, when you need good reception for your smartphone, place or position your phone in high connectivity zones. This will prevent your smartphones from constantly seeking for a connection and wasting your precious battery power switching from one signal to the other.
9. Minimize Notifications
With constant connectivity to the Internet, we tend to get notifications on our smartphones all the time, be it updates on the latest news, emails, high scores from games, add-ons for apps etc. But I’m sure that you would only want to be notified on the more essential stuffs like new text messages, or messages from Whatsapp.
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Not only is it annoying to constantly receive irrelevant notifications that can actually wait, it is also a powersucker for each of these notifications. Every incoming notification will light up your screen, make a sound alert or vibrate.
Manage your settings well and disable unnecessary notifications to save a little battery power (and avoid being frustrated with these constant notifications).
10. Maintain Cool Temperature
Some of us might have observed that our battery runs out faster when our smartphones are warm. Put simply, don’t leave your smartphones under direct sunlight or in any place that is hot.
One of the more common occurrences would be leaving the smartphone in a car parked under the sun. The battery will function optimally in cooler environments, so do look out for, and try to avoid, scenarios where your phone is exposed to unnecessary and excessive heat.
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Increase Battery Life

Hello Sir! Can Anyone Give Me Any Solution To Increase Moto G 2015 Battery Life?
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Bro Battery Life totally depends on user's usage ... But still u r looking for methods to improve ur battery life here is your answer suggested by Motorola:-
Tips to extend the battery life - Moto G 3rd Generation
The battery life for a device may vary day to day depending on usage. Navigating, playing games, browsing the Web, making calls, and sending text messages all drain the battery of the device.
Try some of the following tips to maximize the battery life:
Charge the device properly
Charge each night so you start the day fully charged and ready to go.
Ensure you are charging the device correctly.
Restart the phone at least once a week this will reset the Battery cycle.
Adjust connection settings:-
Turn off Wi-Fi. Bluetooth, and GPS when you are not using them.
Close apps that use GPS when you no longer need them. Swipe down from the Notification Bar to see if you have active navigation applications that offer an option to quit or exit.
Change Location Settings to use Battery Saving mode:
Settings>Touch Location > Battery saving.
Be aware of network availability
If you are in an area with low or no signal, the phone uses more power attempting connect to the weak signal. If possible, switch the phone into Airplane Mode to prevent excess battery drain.
Use Wi-Fi when possible. Data over Wi-Fi uses less battery life than data over cellular networks.
Adjust display settings:-
When setting the phone down after use, quickly press the Power key to turn the display off.
Lower the screen brightness when possible:
Change the screen timeout to less than 1 minute.
Settings>Touch Display>Touch Sleep.
Manage applications
Close applications you are no longer using. Select Recent (the square icon) in the lower right, then touch the X in the upper right hand corner.
Be aware of how much battery is consumed by running certain applications. Apps that use a lot of wireless data, such as streaming video or music, navigation, and maps, will drain the battery more quickly because of the data being transferred.
Find out what application or feature uses the most battery life: Swipe down from the top of the screen, touch the Quick Settings Image icon, touch the Battery icon.
Apps that update frequently, like social media or email, also consume battery power more frequently. Some live wallpapers and widgets may also consume battery life. Limit use of these apps when battery life is a concern......

How to improve iPhone battery life in iOS 11

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In a recent tech*poll, 70% of readers reported that*battery life was worse with iOS 11. In the same article, we noted that security research firm Wandera shared data that it took iOS 11 an average of 96 minutes to drain iPhones and iPads completely, while iOS 10 took 240 minutes.*While more that a 50% drop in battery life sounds terrible, there are a few things to keep in mind.
if you want to get right to tweaking your iPhone for better battery life, head below.
How to improve battery life
1. Understand your battery usage
Head to*Settings*→*Battery*to check out the details of your battery usage.*Last 24 Hours*will be the default for showing what apps are using the most energy.*Tapping the clock icon on the right hand side gives you a detailed breakdown of how much time was spent on screen and in the background for each app.
Also take a look at*battery life suggestions just above battery usage. This will give you quick, actionable ways to reduce battery drain. Now you’re*in a better position to be more efficient with usage, along with having an idea of more settings to adjust as we keep going here.
2.*Adjust Auto-lock and Screen Brightness
If you notice Home & Lock Screen usage on your battery usage higher than you’d expect, double-check that setting. If you can tolerate it, 30 seconds will help you preserve the most battery life. Especially with most of Apple’s iPhones supporting raise to wake, 30 seconds is usually worth it.*Lowering your screen brightness will also help with battery life, but this will likely come down to personal preference.
Navigate to*Settings*→*Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock.
3. Background App Refresh
Low Power Mode turns off background app refresh across the board, but you can customize which apps use this feature for a more convenient experience as well as improved battery life.*You can also opt to only use background app refresh on Wi-Fi in addition to Wi-Fi and Cellular or turning the feature off. However, most users will find leaving Wi-Fi and Cellular on while customizing which apps are used for background app refresh to be the best fit.
Head to*Settings*→*General →*Background App Refresh.
4. Low Power Mode
Low Power Mode isn’t new in iOS 11, but it’s a really useful feature to stretch your battery life when needed. The feature works by suspending mail fetch, background app refresh, auto downloads, and more. This isn’t a ‘use every day’ type of feature (hopefully), but is handy in a pinch.*You can turn on Low Power mode under*Settings*→*Battery.*However, it’s really useful to have quick access to Low Power Mode by adding it to iOS 11’s redesigned Control Center.
Navigate to*Settings→*Control Center → Customize Controls,*then tap green button with a plus sign*next to*Low Power Mode.
5. Push and Fetch
Taking a look at your push and fetch settings is also worthwhile. Navigate to*Settings*→*Accounts & Passwords*→*Fetch New Data. One possible approach is to leave your primary account(s) as push to receive new mail asap, and turn secondary/non-crticial accounts to fetch every 30 minutes or hour.
6. Location Services
Taking a look at your location services settings is another way to be more efficient with battery life (and cellular data usage). Head to*Settings*→*Privacy →*Location Services*to update the privileges for your apps.
Watch out for any apps that ask to*Always*use your location and switch to*While Using*or*Never.
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Question Abysmal Battery Life

I have an S22 Ultra 128Gb on Verizon and the battery life id absolutely horrible. The pictures below will.show my average and my battery for today, could really use some help to fix this (ive had the phone for about 2 months now)

Pretty obvious to me that Life360 and USAA SafePilot are using a lot of battery. It's probably because of the continuous GPS tracking. Unfortunately if you have tracking apps running in the background 24/7 you can't expect a decent battery life. Here's some suggestions to improve your situation:
1. Get rid of the tracking and SafePilot apps altoghether, this would make the biggest difference;
2. Try to find alternatives to these apps that consume less juice;
3. Within the apps, navigate the menu and check if there are options to reduce accuracy or extend the period between tracking pings;
4. Reduce GPS accuracy, if allowed by the apps to keep working, by going to Settings-Location-Location Services and disable Wi-Fi Scanning and/or Bluetooth Scanning, then in the same menu tap google location accuracy and turn it off. All of these, of course, will decrease the accuracy and responsiveness of tracking;
6. In Device Manager, go to Battery-More battery settings ad toggle ON Adaptive battery. This for sure will save power but you have to let it learn your usage for a few days, give it a try if it's disabled and wait for about a week in order for it to be effective;
7. Check your nework (4G-5G) availability. Sometimes a bad battery life comes from bad signal. If you have bad signal in the areas you normally are, then consider changing your network provider;
8. Turn the Processing Power to Optimized or High;
9. Keep the phone away from warm environments like the car dashboard;
10. Try to not use the phone while charging;
11. Get rid of all the apps you don't use. Some apps, even if not shown in the battery resume, can drain small amounts of juice but combined can make a noticeable difference. A good (BAD) example of this are in your case the Facebook and TikTok apps;
12. Last resort would be a full device reset, starting from scratch and not importing your backed up settings. It can be a long and frustrating process but, given that you can always restore all your data if you make a backup, it can solve some underlying issue that is not easy to identify;
13. Keep your phone always updated, specially for a new device as the S22 Ultra the first updates make a huge impact on power management;
14. Try to harge your phone before going to bed, unplug it while sleeping and eventualy top up in the morning if you need that few extra percentages for the day; furthermore, is in general a good idea to keep the battery percentage between 20% and 80%, don't get to 100% if not strictly needed and start charging as soon as you are approaching 20%, of course if it's possible at all; in the medium-long term, this makes a huge difference on battery health;
Even if you do a lot of these things, don't expect your battery life to double or something like that. You are having a pretty bad battery life but it's not tragic as I can see you get a full day of usage. It's for sure possible to improve it!

Sprov said:
Pretty obvious to me that Life360 and USAA SafePilot are using a lot of battery. It's probably because of the continuous GPS tracking. Unfortunately if you have tracking apps running in the background 24/7 you can't expect a decent battery life. Here's some suggestions to improve your situation:
1. Get rid of the tracking and SafePilot apps altoghether, this would make the biggest difference;
2. Try to find alternatives to these apps that consume less juice;
3. Within the apps, navigate the menu and check if there are options to reduce accuracy or extend the period between tracking pings;
4. Reduce GPS accuracy, if allowed by the apps to keep working, by going to Settings-Location-Location Services and disable Wi-Fi Scanning and/or Bluetooth Scanning, then in the same menu tap google location accuracy and turn it off. All of these, of course, will decrease the accuracy and responsiveness of tracking;
6. In Device Manager, go to Battery-More battery settings ad toggle ON Adaptive battery. This for sure will save power but you have to let it learn your usage for a few days, give it a try if it's disabled and wait for about a week in order for it to be effective;
7. Check your nework (4G-5G) availability. Sometimes a bad battery life comes from bad signal. If you have bad signal in the areas you normally are, then consider changing your network provider;
8. Turn the Processing Power to Optimized or High;
9. Keep the phone away from warm environments like the car dashboard;
10. Try to not use the phone while charging;
11. Get rid of all the apps you don't use. Some apps, even if not shown in the battery resume, can drain small amounts of juice but combined can make a noticeable difference. A good (BAD) example of this are in your case the Facebook and TikTok apps;
12. Last resort would be a full device reset, starting from scratch and not importing your backed up settings. It can be a long and frustrating process but, given that you can always restore all your data if you make a backup, it can solve some underlying issue that is not easy to identify;
13. Keep your phone always updated, specially for a new device as the S22 Ultra the first updates make a huge impact on power management;
14. Try to harge your phone before going to bed, unplug it while sleeping and eventualy top up in the morning if you need that few extra percentages for the day; furthermore, is in general a good idea to keep the battery percentage between 20% and 80%, don't get to 100% if not strictly needed and start charging as soon as you are approaching 20%, of course if it's possible at all; in the medium-long term, this makes a huge difference on battery health;
Even if you do a lot of these things, don't expect your battery life to double or something like that. You are having a pretty bad battery life but it's not tragic as I can see you get a full day of usage. It's for sure possible to improve it!
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I did get rid of the safepilot for a little to see if it would have an effect but it didn't do much from the looks of it