How to Enhance the Battery Life of your smartphone?

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Have you gotten to the stage, like so many others, that more often you check your battery on your smartphone and you are on low battery already? Don’t worry, it happens to most of us, and you don’t need to go out and buy a new battery! I’m going to give you 5 tips on the best ways to enhance the battery life of your smartphone! In case you are going to buy Samsung Galaxy S5 soon, these tips will boost your experience with the phone. So take heed if you are in this not so exclusive clique and read on!

1. Always charge to one hundred per cent!

I positioned this to number one because not doing so can actually harm your battery physically. By not charging up 100 % you could reduce the battery life of your smartphone significantly. So you should make a habit of charging your phone overnight! Don’t worry. Your battery is most likely lithium-ion meaning it usually does a job of knowing when it is charged so won’t waste electricity. By doing this, you won’t realize your battery is critical 20 minutes before you have to go somewhere and have to charge for only 20 mins. In an emergency you can do this, just remember it is better to charge overnight! Though Samsung Galaxy S5 too has a big battery, these tips will further enhance its efficiency.

 

2. Adjust Screen Brightness.

Usually, people don’t fiddle with these settings on a phone, and just leave the smartphone to “automatically” adjust the brightness levels. This actually wastes a lot of power. To combat this, all you need to do is manually set the brightness to 40 – 50 percent. This will be fine in all cases and help make your Galaxy S5 (and others) smartphone battery last a lot longer!

3. Extra gadgets waste power!

All modern smartphones like new Samsung S5 recently have bluetooth, wifi, gps, 3g connectivity and much more. These will drain your smartphone’s battery quite quickly, and most of the time you aren’t even using them. If you rarely use any of the mentioned functions, you can turn them off and only enable them when you need to. Most of the time you can even have the option of turning it on for 10 minutes so you don’t have to worry about turning it off again afterwards either! This is known by minority, but should be used by the majority of smartphone users!

 

4. Don’t be an App addict

I know a lot of people like installing hundreds of apps that they only use once on their smartphone! Well have you ever pressed ctrl alt delete on your pc and checked how many processes are running? Well its exactly like that on your smartphone. These apps will run in background processes on your Galaxy S5 phone constantly, draining your battery level at a scary rate! Remember, its like having 100 programmes open on your computer. You would not do it there so why do it to your smartphone? Not only does it reduce the battery life of the phone, but can slow it down. Check through your Apps, and if you haven’t used one in over 2 weeks, uninstall it, you will see a great improvement.

 

5.Turn off Vibrate!

Vibrate can be very useful, especially in cinemas or libraries. However, when not in quiet places, you should not use vibrate. Vibrating takes a lot more power of your Apple, HTC or new Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphones than making a noise! Sometimes you have to use vibrate, but if you are the kind of person who likes to have the phone vibrate every time you tap it, then you are going to have a bad time! That is going to put strain on your battery and drain power like mad.

 

5. Screen Activity Time!

The amount of times before your screen turns off after use on a smartphone can have a big factor on how long a battery will last. Most people have it set to 5 seconds. However, and longer  than that will have a bad effect for your phone. If something touches your phone in your pocket and the smartphone picks it up, the screen will turn on, and go off after the amount of time you set it up to.

 

If you set the timer to 30 seconds, that will waste too much battery. If your phone accidentally turns on in your pocket 10 times in an hour, you are wasting an extra 5 minutes every hour that your phone is not in use! If you were ever in an emergency you might need that extra power, and it won’t make any difference to how you use your phone, as the screen only goes to sleep if you are not using it. It remains on automatically for viewing videos and reading things online! 

 

That concludes this article. I am sure if you use only a couple of these methods on your next generation Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone, you will be able to achieve much better battery life! If you found this useful, help someone else by sharing this on facebook!