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Extend battery on your Android device

Av R Nilsson ⋅ ⋅ Kommentera

If you have an android device it is most likely you have a neat smartphone. Congratulations! But this neat smartphone uses up so much battery that feel like youre in a leach connected to the powerplug. This is a simple way to REALLY extend the power.

First I assume you have done all the basics, such as turning the screen down to the lowest possible value. The screen is allways the number-one-juice-killer. On Samsung Galaxy S if you turn of automatic brightness you can change the value by just sliding your finger on the notification bar. Very neat.

When the screen is on, (if you have an amoled-screen like the Desire, Galaxy S etc) you want to keep the screen as black as possible. Therefore use a black or at least very low-key toned background. And goes without saying, dont use those fancy animated backgrounds.

But this is something that has really extended the lifetime: APNDroid

If the screen is the number-one killer, then the 3G-radio is the second. And when you keep your screen of, the radio is running in the background all day long.

You can turn of all automatic updates but still battery is killed. With APNDroid you mess up the APN-settings so the phone just cant connect to the Internet. When enabled that is of cource. This causes the phone to just give up on such tasks.

APNDroid comes with a toggle-widget that lets you tund network on/off just like with the wifi. If you keep it off all day long except for those short periods of time when you actually need connection, you will notice a tremendous increase of battery life. At least according to my experence.

Even better would be to turn of 3G completely and rely on 2G only. I have not found a way to do this with just a toggle-widget, but this is a good start.

You can also (experimenting with it now) set this automaticly with the amazing application called Tasker (£3.99).

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