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Simple Tips to Get Longer Battery Life out of Your Android Phone or Tablet

Simple Tips to Get Longer Battery Life out of Your Android Phone or Tablet

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Frustrated by how quickly your favorite mobile gadgets die? Follow these simple tips to get longer battery life out of your Android phone or tablet. 

Almost everything about Android phones is getting bigger and better. The screens, processors, and antennas are larger and faster but one thing just can’t keep up with the rest – the battery. Batteries are being taxed further and further with all of these new technologies, and they haven’t quite caught up.

Here’s a quick guide to make sure that you get the most out of your Android’s battery so your phone spends less time plugged into a wall.

Multitasking

One of the great features on Android phones is being able to run multiple apps at the same time.

The drawback is that running multiple apps in the background eats up tons of precious battery life. The Android Market features several app manager applications, but the most effective way to keep tabs on applications is already built into the operating system.

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By going into the settings menu you can see what apps are currently running, and how much processing power they consume. To do this go into the settings menu and tap “applications.” Then hit “manage applications.” Shut down applications you aren’t using, or ones that are eating up battery life, by clicking on the name of the app and then tapping the “stop” button.

If you own an Android device built by HTC, Motorola, or Samsung you most likely have a useful customized version of the built-in application manager. For example, Samsung’s TouchWiz features a widget that shows how many apps you currently have running, and will allow you to close apps one by one, or all apps at once with a single click.

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It sounds overly simple, but ensuring that you don’t have apps running in the background when you don’t need them will save your battery. Each application might be taking up a very small amount of power, but it adds up over time.

Take Control

One surefire way to waste battery life is leaving hardware that isn’t being used turned on. Examples include leaving GPS and Bluetooth on all day, instead of only when needed.

1674116979 Simple Tips to Get Longer Battery Life out of Your Android Phone or TabletNearly all recent Android phones – Android version 2.1 and newer – have a widget called “power control.” Its sole function is to save battery life.

This handy widget enables you to turn on or off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Sync with the touch of a single button. It also enables to you reduce the brightness of your screen. Unless you are directly using the Wi-Fi, et al, there is no reason to leave it on.

However, Sync and auto-brightness for your screen are handy features. It’s up to you if you want to turn those off or down.

Unfortunately, if your phone came with a custom skin it is possible the “power control” widget is not included on your phone. Most likely, though, the device should have a very similar widget or feature.

Some of the new 4G phones offer a 4G toggle switch to turn off the power-hungry 4G antenna. It’s better to have it off until you start consuming tons of data. Keeping on top of all these features throughout the day should prolong battery life.

Fade to black

This tip will only help those of you who have an AMOLED screen, essentially this refers to any recent devices from Samsung. We’ll skip the lesson about how screen technology works, and just say that AMOLED screens don’t use power to display black pixels.

If you keep the screen’s background as black as possible you will save a massive amount of power. Screens are one of the most power hungry aspects of phones, by reducing the power that the screen needs to operate you will drastically improve battery life.

Wrap it up!

Android gets a bad rap for being a power hungry operating system, and it can be if left unchecked. However, by shutting off applications that aren’t in use and only turning on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or GPS functions when needed you’ll be amazed at how much longer the battery lasts.

Under average usage your device should easily last all day, and maybe then some. Of course, if you stream Netflix all day then bets are off.

CES 2012 the Best Wins: LG’s 55-inch 55EM9600 OLED TV

CES 2012 the Best Wins: LG’s 55-inch 55EM9600 OLED TV  

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OLED: Potentially better picture than LCD and plasma, definitely thinner and more expensive.

Our team of crack technology editors argued long into the Vegas afternoon yesterday, painstakingly honing hundreds of cumulative man- and woman-hours of CES 2012 coverage into 10 category winners and, finally, one product sharp enough to earn Best in Show: the LG 55EM9600.

It’s a TV. And its organic light-emitting diode display technology is the future of flat-panel tech. OLED promises better picture quality than either plasma or LCD/LED–thanks to effectively infinite contrast (for realzies this time!), wide viewing angles and lightning-fast response times–combined with an unbelievable form factor. The winning LG measures just 4mm in depth, “three credit cards thick” as LG’s Tim Alessi cooed accepting the award, and boasts a bezel around the screen just 1mm wide. It’s basically all gorgeous picture.

Plenty of other non-TVs vied for our editors’ votes. The cool Simple.TV over-the-air DVR and price-busting Asus Memo 370T tablet each garnered votes, while the amazing Makerbot Replicator 3D printer grabbed the second-most number of supporters after the LG OLED. Meanwhile the people’s voice winner was Razer’s crazy Project Fiona concept gaming tablet. 

LG wasn’t the only TV maker to release a 55-inch OLED TV at the show. Samsung followed suit, touting the superiority of its version of OLED in a closed-door session with myself and Ty Pendlebury. Both companies will release their OLED sets this year, for undisclosed but, I’m sure, astronomical prices.

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So why did you guys pick the LG over the Samsung?%

Latest Flagship Android Phone Samsung Galaxy Nexus: Battery Life

Latest Flagship Android Phone Samsung Galaxy Nexus: Battery Life

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We test the battery life of the latest flagship Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

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Galaxy Nexus: Unlikely to get heavy users through a full day

I have been lucky enough to have had my hands-on the Galaxy Nexus for nearly five days now and I’m pleased to report that I’m very impressed. As I mentioned in my first look of the flagship Android phone, I think the Galaxy Nexus is without a doubt the best Android phone on the market right now and the best Android phone that’s ever been released. It’s the only Android phone that I would ever ditch my iPhone 4S for.

However, this doesn’t mean the Galaxy Nexus is perfect. I’ve already mentioned that the speaker volume on the Galaxy Nexus is low, so it’s easy to miss calls and notification alerts. I also dislike the fiddly and difficult to put back battery cover, along with the plastic fit and finish of the phone. In my opinion it doesn’t look or feel as sturdy as some other premium phones.

One important issue I haven’t yet talked about is battery life. I didn’t mention battery life in my first look at the phone for a reason. Lithium-ion batteries traditionally get better after a few charge cycles, so I decided to hold off talking about batteries life until I had used the Galaxy Nexus for a few days.

It’s only been five days of full use so I still expect a slight improvement in the coming week or so, but the verdict so far is that battery life is fairly poor. As I write this article it’s 11am and my battery is currently on 46 per cent. I took the Galaxy Nexus off the charger this morning at 6am.

It is important to note I am a fairly heavy mobile user: on the hour long commute into the office from around 7.15am, my phone is constantly in use. I listen to music for the duration of my journey. This morning I also used Twitter for almost the entire trip, along with short use of the Web browser (around 10 minutes in total). Before my commute, I also used the Galaxy Nexus to check Twitter while I was eating breakfast, sending about two or three Tweets. I also used the LiveScore app to check the morning football scores.

Once I arrived at work at 8.30am, I switched off sync. I use Gmail in the office, so I don’t need mobile notifications during office hours. I keep Bluetooth off unless I’m in the car, and I’ll only switch on Wi-Fi if I need it. Generally I will do most Internet-based tasks on my office PC and not the phone. With an afternoon commute home still to come it’s clear that the Galaxy Nexus is unlikely to last me a full day. This may not be the case for most other people: with less intensive use, the Galaxy Nexus may get you through a full day.

It’s difficult to accurately measure battery life as it’s largely dependent on how you use the phone. For me, battery life isn’t a huge issue as I can charge the phone at the office. I do the same with my iPhone 4S: it’s usually down to around 25 per cent by late afternoon, so I’ve gotten into a habit of charging it before I leave the office. The Galaxy Nexus is the same.

The best I have managed to squeeze out of the Galaxy Nexus’ battery is 11 and a half hours during a non-work day. The biggest battery killer on the Galaxy Nexus is the screen: it accounted for 52 per cent of the battery life on the best recorded day, and as I write this article it has accounted for 58 per cent of juice in just five hours.

Unlike many other Android phones, using the Internet and synchronising applications in the background (like Twitter and Facebook) doesn’t seem to be a huge battery drain. The Browser accounted for just 8 per cent of the battery today, and only 10 per cent during the best recorded result of 11.5 hours over the weekend.

I’ll be publishing a full, comprehensive review of the Galaxy Nexus in the coming week, but in the meantime if you have any questions or thoughts, battery related or not, please let me know in the comments below!