It can be tough to make it through the day on one battery charge, with an Android. It's no wonder, really, considering that an Android essentially does everything a laptop does, but runs on about 1/4 the battery capacity. Battery capacity is measure in milliamp-hours (mAh), with the average Android battery boasting about 1500 to 2000 mAh.
Top battery drainers are the Android operating system (nothing to be done about that one), GPS (that can be off most of the time without any inconvenience), and WIFI or mobile network (your choice, based on how you use your Android, whether these two should be on or off [one can be on and the other off]). Conserve energy by limiting the amount these items are in use, or limiting your phone use in general.
What a lame suggestion.
Instead of that, I've got a couple of options (I recommend following both of these pieces of advice) that have eliminated the Android battery problem for me.
Option 1: You should have a back-up battery for your phone, that you keep with you (easily slips into a wallet), charged about 90 or 95 percent. When your phone gets dangerously low on power, just turn it off, and swap the phone and wallet batteries (don't forget to charge the one you drained, for next time).
Option 2: Buy a portable battery charger. These are my favorite. This one, called the Juice Bar (buy it just for that spectacular name) is a nice high capacity of 2200 mAh. I bought mine on eBay, and consider it a top 5 best purchase. I was out of town for the last week, and really put my "source of power" to the test -- it delivered, and may just have convinced some other smartphone owners to invest in their own portable charger.
If you do both of these things, you might often find yourself, as I have, the only one around who isn't stressing about finding a socket to charge a phone on a long day.
2 comments:
You answered a high android OS question for me on yahoo answers. I never had location and gps on and always had wifi off. The newest app ive gotten is Borderlands 2 skill tree. Ive been hearing about wakelock issue with apps also with network checks or something with the network. The strange and somewhat frustrating thing for me is that it was working amazingly and all of the sudden i cant go anytime without a charge. Im not sure if you know about wakelock or network things but i would like to possibly discuss this with you more. When you get the chance email me goldsnake1996@ yahoo . com
What you're dealing with is not just a smartphones-need-higher-capacity-batteries issue, but a malfunction. When a phone makes a drastic change like that, you always want to think about the possibility that you've acquired a virus or some such beasty. But whether that's true or not, here's the option I recommend: If your phone is a Samsung, use Kies to create a backup, very easily and quickly (if it's not Samsung, there are other options... respond with your phone model if you'd like specifics). Then do a restore on your phone, to return it to factory settings. Afterwards, load your backup back on, so the phone is back the way it was pre-restore. I think this is very likely to fix whatever it is that caused this sudden change in battery life.
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