The batteries of our mobiles do not advance at the same speed as the rest of the components, so we have to go through the charger every day. If we are not very lucky, we may have to plug in the mobile several times during the day.
The following commandments will help you get more battery juice from your android mobile, as well as to extend its useful life. Follow them all or just a few, depending on your dedication to the cause.
You will use adaptive charging
An option that we are going to find in practically all Android phones today is the adaptive battery or a variant of it (Samsung, for example, calls it “adaptive battery”). It’s a simple -and automated- way to optimize the charge so that it reaches 100% just before waking up instead of staying like that most of the night.
There is nothing wrong with letting the mobile charge overnight and you don’t need to know if the charge percentage is 80% or less than 20%: this parameter will take care of estimating when you are going to use the mobile and charge to the maximum a little before. You are 100% mobile when you need it and the battery is charged by reducing the time it is full, which is one of the factors that reduce, in the long term, its capacity and therefore its lifespan. everyone wins.
You won’t abuse fast charging
In the absence of new technology that allows us to have more capacity in the same space, what we have are faster charges, to be able to do in 10 minutes what took several hours before. The technology has improved over the years but it continues to “push the machine”, which is at best a battery overheating.
The fact that the battery overheats affects its useful life, so in the long run it will affect its maximum capacity. That doesn’t mean you have to give up fast charging, just that. use it selectively when you really need it: to recharge the mobile at night or without haste, you can easily opt for a “slow” charger and save the fast one for when you need the percentage to increase quickly.
You will sanctify the self to shine
The screen is one of the main consumers of the mobile battery. The brighter the screen, the more battery is consumed. In addition, the mobile can overheat, which affects the useful life of the battery.
The good news is that you don’t have to artificially adjust the brightness until you can’t see anything or change it all the time: Android phones these days are quite efficient automatic screen brightness adjustmentas long as auto-brightness is active.
You will honor dark mode
Dark mode is not for everyone, although if you want to extend battery life it is one of the best allies you will find, especially if you have an OLED screen and your mobile has a dark mode that is really dark. turn off pixels.
Dark mode can mean autonomy between 14% and 60% higher according to Google’s testing, and the good news is that Android has greatly improved its implementation and now it’s common for dark mode to be available in mobile settings and there are few apps that don’t support it.
You will not keep the mobile in the sun
Put the mobile in the sun It’s not a good idea for many reasons. Para empezar, el plástico puede terminar deformándose en casos extremos, pero más allá de eso hay varios motivos por el que hacer esto como habito (por ejemplo, llevándolo al sol en el salpicadero del coche) es una mala idea desde el punto de vista de battery.
The mobile will have to fight against clarity bearing screen brightness at maximum, which overheats the mobile and drains the battery. Also, the phone itself overheats, eventually it slows down and takes longer to do anything, creating more overheating. In scientific terms, “it’s roasted”.
You won’t bulk install apps
Sometimes we install apps “just in case” and we certainly won’t need them except once or twice a year or the next time we travel to a country we may never return to. App hoarding not only consumes mobile storage, but also consume our battery.
It’s only recently that Android started hibernating the apps we don’t use, so until it’s natively in all mobiles, the apps we no longer have will go scrape the battery percentage a bit if they reactivate themselves. There’s a simple solution: install the apps you use regularly and the ones you don’t use often, you can always reinstall them later.
You will not vibrate your mobile more than necessary
In mobiles we have very few moving parts except the haptic engine which is responsible for vibrating the mobile. Having the mobile vibrate once in a while isn’t going to destroy your battery, but it all adds up and maybe you can do without a few vibrations.
For some types of notifications it may be worth it with sound and in some mobiles -and in native Android 13- you can also control vibration intensity. If the phone vibrates gracefully rather than like a chainsaw, it will use less battery in the process.
You won’t be afraid of power saving mode
Virtually all Android phones today have them power saving mode typewhich you can use when you really need to extend the use of the battery and you are sure that you will not have the possibility to recharge it.
Of course, we do not recommend that you activate the energy saving mode permanently, because you will only use a fraction of the power of the mobile, but if you need that extra battery life and you are sure that you are not going to need extra power (for example, if you are not actively using the mobile), the energy saving mode is there to take advantage of it.
You won’t consent to apps that waste your battery
Some apps consume more battery than others and often there is not much you can do except see what they are from your Android settings. However, many Android phones allow you to “optimize the battery” of certain applicationsmeaning the system will “kill” them more frequently to gain battery life in exchange for potentially lost notifications.
Another thing you can do is opt for lightweight alternatives to those apps that eat your battery or skip them altogether and use the web version instead service or application.
You won’t covet the Always On mode
The Always On mode present in many Android phones with OLED screens allows us to make the phone less annoying and when its screen is “off” by showing us data such as the time. This optimized to reduce battery usage when active, but still using more battery than when not active, of course.
It’s tempting to keep Always On mode always on, but there’s a middle way you can take that’s available in different layers of Android: activate it at certain times or intelligentlywhen you pick up the phone.
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