**Saving Battery Power: Tips and Tricks**

One thing that can be quite draining on your Android device's battery is the vibration feature. A lot of battery so 30 seconds is probably what most people would find okay if you can bear it, but for some of us, 15 seconds just isn't enough. I personally need at least 30 seconds, and turning off the vibrate feature in settings sound or messages can help conserve battery power. The vibration motor requires energy to operate, and by disabling this feature, you can save a bit of juice. Additionally, going into Settings > Sound > Vibrate when a call comes in and changing it from "Always" to "Never" can also help.

Another area where vibrations can impact your battery life is in the Messages app. Similarly, turning off vibrate on key press in Settings > Language & Keyboard (Android keyboard) can save even more power. Some people may prefer haptic feedback or vibrating notifications, but for those trying to conserve battery power, disabling it is a good idea.

**Task Manager and Background Apps**

Managing running tasks and background apps is another way to optimize your device's performance and extend its battery life. To access the Task Manager, go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Running. This will show you all the apps currently in use, including those that may be consuming unnecessary resources. Disabling or closing unused apps can help free up battery power.

However, some features built into newer versions of Android can also aid in battery management. Go to Settings > About Phone > Battery Use, and this feature will display information on how much each app is using your device's battery, along with suggestions for optimization. Some devices may suggest reducing screen brightness or screen timeout; these are often good starting points for improving battery life.

**Charging Your Device**

Finally, there are a few habits you can form to get the most out of your device's battery. One key tip is to charge your phone when it's fully empty rather than in short bursts throughout the day. This ensures that your device gets a full charge and doesn't leave it with a partially charged battery, which can cause a rapid drop in power later on.

Another good habit to get into is using a car charger when possible. While this won't extend your device's overall battery life, it will give you more use out of the device by allowing you to drive for longer periods without running out of charge. Finally, try letting your phone sit and charge overnight; plugging it in before bed can help keep its battery level stable throughout the night.

By implementing these tips and tricks, you should be able to squeeze a bit more life out of your Android device's battery.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys it's david from theunlocker.com and today we're doing an android 101 post on how to extend your android device's battery life okay so there are some basic things that you can do to your android device to extend the battery life without getting too crazy so first off one thing that is great to do is to turn off these things when you're not using them those are wi-fi bluetooth gps um and that kind of stuff so you'll see this widget i have here um most android devices have it built in if you just hold down on the background tap widgets and it's called power control so that's that widget there it's a quick and easy way to turn off the different antennas without having to go into the settings so first thing i'm going to turn off is bluetooth if you're not using it turn it off completely again you can go into settings and do this as well wi-fi is another big hog if you're not using it turn it off now this one there is some question this is the gps signal um truthfully the phone doesn't use the gps unless you open a gps enabled program for example google maps um and the gps is not on right now even though this is highlighted this is just saying that i'm allowed to use the gps so i'll show you what i mean if you tap on the maps program you're going to see up here at the top that symbol means the gps is on the fast the fact that it is flashing uh means that it's still looking for a signal but it's on now it's draining battery when i leave this program it should turn that off it is no longer using the gps even though this is still highlighted so you don't necessarily need to turn that off there are certain situations like when you go to google's homepage it will automatically turn on the gps and that can waste a little bit of battery so if you want to you can turn that off and this will make sure that nothing uses gps until you turn that back on and then go into the program that needs gps so that's one little thing you can do if you want but it might not make too much of a difference the other thing that you might want to do is of course you'll see i have here a live wallpaper now these are pretty and they're cool but they do suck up battery so if you don't necessarily need to have it and you're worried about battery life one thing to do is hold down the back hit wallpapers and choose a static wallpaper whichever one that may be something that's not a live wallpaper this way it's not using cpu power in order to keep things moving around on the back end and this will essentially increase a little bit of battery life okay another thing you're going to want to do is changing the brightness now you can do that from here um it's got certain settings so right now you'll see the a inside the sun symbol that means it's automatically dimming the brightness depending on how i need it now that's a good setting to use and it will conserve some battery compared to say just leaving the brightness all the way up but if you can um the best way to probably do this is to actually turn it either the off mode means that it's 25 battery i do believe um and just leaving it at that if you tap it again it does 50 and then again is 100 and then back to auto now all of these settings that i mentioned the wi-fi the bluetooth and the brightness if you don't have that widget you just go into settings wireless and networks this will do where you can turn off wi-fi turn off bluetooth display will be where you can adjust the brightness so if you click on brightness you'll see it's set to automatically adjust you could also turn that off and just pull this down until where you can still see the screen and it doesn't bother you the lower obviously the better and the screen is probably one of the biggest power drainers of the entire android operating system so keep that in mind okay so along with the screen brightness there's one more setting in there that you should probably adjust and that is the screen timeout now by default when you get your phone it's probably set to one minute you definitely don't want it to be any higher than that i have it set to 30 minutes because i'm doing this demonstration i didn't want it to turn off but what you really should be setting this to is anything under one minute and the lowest that you can deal with without getting frustrated i personally always turn off my device as soon as i'm done using it so it's not a big deal to me but to you if you set this down and you don't do that it's going to use these settings to determine how long to keep the screen on which could mean you're draining a lot of battery so 30 seconds is probably what most people would would be okay with if you can bear it 15 seconds i personally can't do that i have to do at least 30. so that'll help a little bit as well okay another thing that might help um is if you go into settings sound and you're going to turn off vibrate this is vibrate when a call comes in i always have it set to always which is why my battery dies a little bit faster because i can't hear the call but if you can and you're you're okay with that change it to never and it'll save some battery power vibrating the phone in general uh there's a little motor in there that it has to turn on so that can save some battery power now this is just uh for the phone in this settings menu so you might want to also go into messages settings and you also will notice you have a vibrate setting in here so you can change that to never as well and the same thing goes for your email applications email and gmail turn the vibrate off one more thing you're going to want to turn off here if you go to language and keyboard android keyboard there's a vibrate on key press which is basically haptic feedback depending on what keyboard you're using whether it's htc's or samsung's or whatever keyboard is on there i'm using the basic android one but it'll be called something different either haptic feedback or vibrate on key press turn that off some people do like it i actually prefer it in certain situations with certain keyboards but if you're trying to save battery power it's best to just have that off because again those little vibrations still require a little motor which requires energy okay another thing you're going to do to save some battery power is going into the menu settings applications manage applications uh and then click on running now this is android's built-in kind of task manager uh we covered in another video on how to manage your running tasks in android 101 but in here you can see all of the apps that are currently running in processes that are currently running in the background all of these use some bit of power for the most part so if there are some in here um that you're not using for example i'm not using this hit stop that should kill the program now you're obviously not going to do this all the time but if you do you know get a chance and you're just sitting down uh or say your phone is slowing down because it'll also resolve some of those issues you can go in get rid of some of the apps that you're not using and that'll save a little bit of power as well okay and then android itself actually also has an a feature built into the newer versions of android um that helps with battery management if you go to menu settings about phone battery use and there you have it it's going to show you everything that is using the battery and how much and like i said before the display is the main culprit now you can click on any of these and it will give you more information on how to save battery power sometimes if you click on display it tells me that i should probably reduce the screen brightness and or screen timeout which i already told you same thing goes for any of these doesn't have much information about cell standby because what can you really do about that but that's also a neat little feature so you can see what is having the greatest negative impact on your battery okay some other little tips um you should probably buy a car charger if you have an android device uh you should really do that if you have any device i've never seen a device that lasts me an entire day so a car charger is a great idea i know that doesn't really extend the battery life but it does you know help you get more use out of the device for obvious reasons the other thing you should always do is when you do charge your phone try to charge it entirely don't charge it in little spurts because what will happen is if you charge it for say two hours um it may show full battery but it didn't actually get full battery and that you'll just notice the battery drop really quickly all of a sudden for no reason you need to let it sit and charge i think it's about four hours five hours depending on the device um but let it charge basically what i do is when i go to sleep at night i plug my phone in i let it charge overnight while i'm sleeping when i wake up i take it off that's probably a good practice um and then using the car charger whenever i can for longer periods of time like if i'm driving for a while so that's it those are some tips if you guys have any more please feel free to comment underneath this video on our site and and share them with the rest of the readers thankshey guys it's david from theunlocker.com and today we're doing an android 101 post on how to extend your android device's battery life okay so there are some basic things that you can do to your android device to extend the battery life without getting too crazy so first off one thing that is great to do is to turn off these things when you're not using them those are wi-fi bluetooth gps um and that kind of stuff so you'll see this widget i have here um most android devices have it built in if you just hold down on the background tap widgets and it's called power control so that's that widget there it's a quick and easy way to turn off the different antennas without having to go into the settings so first thing i'm going to turn off is bluetooth if you're not using it turn it off completely again you can go into settings and do this as well wi-fi is another big hog if you're not using it turn it off now this one there is some question this is the gps signal um truthfully the phone doesn't use the gps unless you open a gps enabled program for example google maps um and the gps is not on right now even though this is highlighted this is just saying that i'm allowed to use the gps so i'll show you what i mean if you tap on the maps program you're going to see up here at the top that symbol means the gps is on the fast the fact that it is flashing uh means that it's still looking for a signal but it's on now it's draining battery when i leave this program it should turn that off it is no longer using the gps even though this is still highlighted so you don't necessarily need to turn that off there are certain situations like when you go to google's homepage it will automatically turn on the gps and that can waste a little bit of battery so if you want to you can turn that off and this will make sure that nothing uses gps until you turn that back on and then go into the program that needs gps so that's one little thing you can do if you want but it might not make too much of a difference the other thing that you might want to do is of course you'll see i have here a live wallpaper now these are pretty and they're cool but they do suck up battery so if you don't necessarily need to have it and you're worried about battery life one thing to do is hold down the back hit wallpapers and choose a static wallpaper whichever one that may be something that's not a live wallpaper this way it's not using cpu power in order to keep things moving around on the back end and this will essentially increase a little bit of battery life okay another thing you're going to want to do is changing the brightness now you can do that from here um it's got certain settings so right now you'll see the a inside the sun symbol that means it's automatically dimming the brightness depending on how i need it now that's a good setting to use and it will conserve some battery compared to say just leaving the brightness all the way up but if you can um the best way to probably do this is to actually turn it either the off mode means that it's 25 battery i do believe um and just leaving it at that if you tap it again it does 50 and then again is 100 and then back to auto now all of these settings that i mentioned the wi-fi the bluetooth and the brightness if you don't have that widget you just go into settings wireless and networks this will do where you can turn off wi-fi turn off bluetooth display will be where you can adjust the brightness so if you click on brightness you'll see it's set to automatically adjust you could also turn that off and just pull this down until where you can still see the screen and it doesn't bother you the lower obviously the better and the screen is probably one of the biggest power drainers of the entire android operating system so keep that in mind okay so along with the screen brightness there's one more setting in there that you should probably adjust and that is the screen timeout now by default when you get your phone it's probably set to one minute you definitely don't want it to be any higher than that i have it set to 30 minutes because i'm doing this demonstration i didn't want it to turn off but what you really should be setting this to is anything under one minute and the lowest that you can deal with without getting frustrated i personally always turn off my device as soon as i'm done using it so it's not a big deal to me but to you if you set this down and you don't do that it's going to use these settings to determine how long to keep the screen on which could mean you're draining a lot of battery so 30 seconds is probably what most people would would be okay with if you can bear it 15 seconds i personally can't do that i have to do at least 30. so that'll help a little bit as well okay another thing that might help um is if you go into settings sound and you're going to turn off vibrate this is vibrate when a call comes in i always have it set to always which is why my battery dies a little bit faster because i can't hear the call but if you can and you're you're okay with that change it to never and it'll save some battery power vibrating the phone in general uh there's a little motor in there that it has to turn on so that can save some battery power now this is just uh for the phone in this settings menu so you might want to also go into messages settings and you also will notice you have a vibrate setting in here so you can change that to never as well and the same thing goes for your email applications email and gmail turn the vibrate off one more thing you're going to want to turn off here if you go to language and keyboard android keyboard there's a vibrate on key press which is basically haptic feedback depending on what keyboard you're using whether it's htc's or samsung's or whatever keyboard is on there i'm using the basic android one but it'll be called something different either haptic feedback or vibrate on key press turn that off some people do like it i actually prefer it in certain situations with certain keyboards but if you're trying to save battery power it's best to just have that off because again those little vibrations still require a little motor which requires energy okay another thing you're going to do to save some battery power is going into the menu settings applications manage applications uh and then click on running now this is android's built-in kind of task manager uh we covered in another video on how to manage your running tasks in android 101 but in here you can see all of the apps that are currently running in processes that are currently running in the background all of these use some bit of power for the most part so if there are some in here um that you're not using for example i'm not using this hit stop that should kill the program now you're obviously not going to do this all the time but if you do you know get a chance and you're just sitting down uh or say your phone is slowing down because it'll also resolve some of those issues you can go in get rid of some of the apps that you're not using and that'll save a little bit of power as well okay and then android itself actually also has an a feature built into the newer versions of android um that helps with battery management if you go to menu settings about phone battery use and there you have it it's going to show you everything that is using the battery and how much and like i said before the display is the main culprit now you can click on any of these and it will give you more information on how to save battery power sometimes if you click on display it tells me that i should probably reduce the screen brightness and or screen timeout which i already told you same thing goes for any of these doesn't have much information about cell standby because what can you really do about that but that's also a neat little feature so you can see what is having the greatest negative impact on your battery okay some other little tips um you should probably buy a car charger if you have an android device uh you should really do that if you have any device i've never seen a device that lasts me an entire day so a car charger is a great idea i know that doesn't really extend the battery life but it does you know help you get more use out of the device for obvious reasons the other thing you should always do is when you do charge your phone try to charge it entirely don't charge it in little spurts because what will happen is if you charge it for say two hours um it may show full battery but it didn't actually get full battery and that you'll just notice the battery drop really quickly all of a sudden for no reason you need to let it sit and charge i think it's about four hours five hours depending on the device um but let it charge basically what i do is when i go to sleep at night i plug my phone in i let it charge overnight while i'm sleeping when i wake up i take it off that's probably a good practice um and then using the car charger whenever i can for longer periods of time like if i'm driving for a while so that's it those are some tips if you guys have any more please feel free to comment underneath this video on our site and and share them with the rest of the readers thanks\n"