Its 2019 already, and we still don't have a battery that lasts an eternity with a single charge. Just kidding. But seriously even in 2019 we have phones that don't last a full day. No matter how careful you are with your phones battery throughout your day, at the end you go home and the first thing you do is plug in your charger.
So with the following tips you can somewhat extend your battery life and keep your phone alive
1. Modify your location services
The location service when active on high accuracy sucks the life out of your battery like a vacuum cleaner. There are settings which reduce the impact of location service in your device's settings, Head over to settings>Location and set the mode to GPS only. What happens in this mode is that the location is determined only with the GPS and no Wi-Fi or mobile network is used. Use this mode if you don't use the location based apps like maps more often. This trick alone can hugely boost your battery's life.
2. Disable the Auto Brightness
You can't deny that you love your screen to be more colorful and more bright. But brightness is nemesis of your phone's battery. When the adaptive or auto brightness is on your battery literally hanging by the thread. Turing off the adaptive brightness might cause you some trouble while trying to use the phone outdoors and manually adjust the brightness but that sacrifice will help to stay your phone alive for a longer period and I think that's what counts more.
Another setting to use to your benefit is the screen timeout. The longer time you have set the more it affects so try to set it to the minimum time limit which is seconds in most android phones.
3. Turn Battery saver on
Okay I know this sounds ridiculous but hear me out. There are more than one battery saving modes on android phones. These modes have different settings that can help to optimize your battery life. Using battery saver will surely impact your background processes and apps but considering the amount of battery you can save the trade-offs are minor.
4. Use wrappers or 'lite' version of apps
Everyone knows how much of a battery sucking vampire the official Facebook app, Messenger and Chrome are. Consider using the lite versions of Facebook and Messenger app or browser like Chromer and Cake Browser. Or you can use wrappers for these apps which take less storage and consume less power and energy. And even the usability isn't that much different but the real difference is how much strain on your battery is reduced.
5. Embrace the darkness
Though this trick works more in favor of those with OLED screen, that doesn't mean LCDs can't take the advantage. Even Google is implementing dark modes in most of its applications. Implementing dark themes on supported apps like Twitter, Pocket, Telegram and more. Using a dark theme and a dark wallpaper can significantly reduce the strain on your battery and you have to admit that everything dark looks really cool!
6. Limit background processes and apps
If you are like me and don't need more apps that need to be run in the background this can be a great way to extend your battery life. In android the background process optimization by default is not that good and you have to take the matters into your own hand. Apps and processes use your data and energy constantly even if you are not running those apps. These run in the background to provide various services like push notifications, for sync purposes and such. Limiting the background process will limit the functionality of the apps and processes but as I said before if you are like me, totally worth it.
For limiting background process head over to device Settings>Developers Options>Background Process Limit and choose according to your preference. You can also restrict background data and process for individual apps. For that head to Settings>Apps>Data Usage>Restrict Background Data
7. Use Greenify
Let me tell you, Greenify works wonders. This app is a life saver. Greenify allows you to hibernate apps when they aren't running in foreground thus restricting the apps to run in background. Unlike the native android setting to limit background process you can choose which app you want to hibernate and which you want to let run. But be careful about what you choose as many of the apps are required to run in the background by the system itself.
Follow these tips and you will be able to keep your phone alive for a lot more than you usually do. And if there are any other tips that I haven't talked about let me know in the comments.
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