How to save battery life on android wear
Here’s a handful of small tweaks that can add hours’ more use between charges.
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Smartwatches can do so many neat, amazing, and thoroughly modern things, but they all lag behind traditional timepieces in one key regard: battery life. Even if you’re using your Android Wear watch for little more than telling the time and catching notifications, you’ll probably need to pop it on the charger every night.
But if you’re pushing it hard every day with apps and search queries, maybe you’re cutting it close on that “all-day” battery life. Or maybe you just want more than a waking day per charge, and want to try and stretch it well into a second day. Whatever the case, here are some quick tweaks you can make to extend your Android Wear watch’s uptime between charges.
A bright idea
Turn down the brightness to shave off a bit of battery usage each day, and then use the brightness boost only as needed.
Just like on your phone, a very bright watch screen can eat away at your battery life. Finding an ideal middle ground is key—one that keeps the screen bright enough to view as needed, but not so overly illuminated that you’re wasting precious charge. Dropping a brightness level or two probably won’t bring a hugely noticeable change to your battery life.
However, if you go from the top-end 5 or 6 setting (depending on watch) to, say, a 2, then you might pull a couple hours more each day. Every bit counts. And if you keep it on a lower setting, you can always tap the Brightness boost for a temporary enhancement, which is especially handy outside.
Some watches have an Auto-brightness setting, which you should generally leave enabled.
Always-on? Off!
It’s nice to have the screen on at all times, but you’ll sacrifice a lot of battery life in the process.
Having the Always-on or Ambient screen enabled is ideal, since it means the time is always visible without twisting your wrist or tapping the display. Sadly, it’s a dramatic battery drain: in my day-to-day testing, I found that my LG G Watch lasted about a half-day longer simply by turning off that feature. Watches with bigger batteries could see even more of a benefit.
So if battery life is your chief concern, turn it off: it’s one of the first options listed in the settings menu on your watch. It means you’ll wear a blank face on your watch most of the time, unfortunately, but the battery benefits are significant.
Overly notified
You probably don’t need every app alert on your wrist, so add less-essential notifiers to the block list.
Getting notifications on your wrist is one of the biggest perks of wearing a smartwatch, but if you don’t limit and filter out unnecessary or minor ones, it can also be a real nuisance. Even worse, all those pings to your watch will waste battery life as you keep glancing at the small screen.
It’s an easy fix: from the Android Wear app on your phone, you can block all notifications from certain apps. Games and other occasional-use apps are ideal ones to block on your wrist, although social media alerts can feel overly abundant as well. If blocking an app’s watch notifications makes you more focused and productive, then it’ll probably help boost battery life too.
Your results will vary based on how many notifications you’re starting with, but you might add minutes or potentially an hour or two between charges.
Tilting time-out
You’ll save a little battery life by disabling the tilt functionality from the phone app.
Tilting to wake your watch screen is a handy feature, since it means the display doesn’t always have to be on full blast—or on at all—when you’re not looking at it. The downside is that your watch is sure to accidentally wake over and over again throughout the day as you move your arms and body.
All that wasted illumination will chip away at your battery life, so consider turning off the Tilt to wake screen option in the Android Wear app. If you keep the Always-on or Ambient screen engaged, then you can probably live without tilt: just tap the screen whenever you need it to fully illuminate.
Smart settings
Swap between notification modes to trim or block all alerts, or use Theater mode disable the watch screen.
If you don’t mind “going quiet” on your wrist for a bit, you can minimize alerts or turn off communications entirely, which can save a lot of juice depending on mode and time used. Priority Mode is your first line of defense: only whitelisted notifications come through, so you won’t get every email, text, or Twitter ping. Or you can turn off all notifications, alarms included.
Theater mode is the next step up: it’s meant to be used at a movie or performance, and the watch won’t engage your screen at all until you turn it back on. If you don’t plan to glance at your screen for a good while, kick on this mode and save some power. It’s not only good etiquette in a social gathering, but will also cut down on energy consumption.
Lastly, if you want to turn your smartwatch “dumb” for a while, engage Airplane Mode from the settings. That will cut all communications, which means no alerts or web usage from apps, but your watch will still tell time. Better yet, it’ll do so while using less battery life than normal. It’s a drastic move, but if you don’t need the extra capabilities on your wrist for a spell, you might as well save the battery life for when you might need it before your next charge.
Andrew Hayward is a Chicago-based games, apps, and gadgets writer whose work has been featured in more than 70 publications. He’s also a work-at-home dad to an unruly four-year-old.
There is a number of factors that contribute to poor battery life on your Android phone.
The tasks today’s smartphones perform are more demanding than ever. And to accommodate growing needs, processors have become more powerful and screens have gotten larger.
Smartphone charging via cable in a car
We’re starting to expect more and more out of our devices every year, but developments in battery longevity haven’t kept the pace.
Each manufacturer uses a different version of the operating system, so certain settings and features are going to look different.
Here are some practical tips for improving the battery life on an Android phone.
Turn Off Automatic Wi-Fi
Since the Oreo update, Android comes with a feature that continues to look for open Wi-Fi networks even when you’ve disabled Wi-Fi. To turn it off, open Settings > Network & internet > Wi-Fi. Under Wi-Fi preferences, uncheck the Turn on Wi-Fi automatically option.
Switch to the Dark Side
Since OLED displays can disable individual pixels, backgrounds with deep blacks allow them to consume less power.
You can take advantage of this in many ways. You can begin by applying a dark wallpaper, enabling a system-wide dark theme and more.
Take Control of Your Apps
Developers put a lot of work into making sure their apps run as efficiently as possible, but many will continue to run in the background even when you aren’t using them. This will, of course, eat up data and battery life over time. You can put unused apps to sleep under the App Power Management option in the device care section of your phone.
Monitor Misbehaving Apps
Your battery life can take a big hit if an app doesn’t work as it’s supposed to. This could be caused by anything from a bug to a deliberate aggressive background feature. You can check this by heading into Settings > Battery > Menu > Battery Usage to see which apps have drained the most of it.
Check your location services settings
Some apps like Google Maps require you to turn on location services to display your surroundings and give you directions. But location services chip away at your battery life very quickly, and you should turn it on only for as long as you need to.
Disable Google Assistant
Google is always on. It’s listening for the wake command, is connected to your location for instantly fetching contextual results, and more. If you don’t heavily depend on Google Assistant, it’s best to shutter it.
Configure the sleep schedule
You can configure your phone to enjoy a peaceful sleep by switching off the optional features automatically. These include mobile data and location and sync services. Since they drain your phone’s battery, it helps to save some juice as well.
Some phones have options like Auto-Sleep, Battery-saver, and Do Not Disturb, which you can enable to turn off those settings at night.
Posted by: Ashish Mohta in SmartWatches August 20, 2014
Android wear is all about notifications from your phone to on your watch and interacting with them. Every time a notification pops in, a small vibration draws your attention. As you raise your arm and look at your watch, it lightens up and display that notification. There are three things that consumer battery a lot.
- Vibration
- Screen
- Bluetooth connection.
Right now, the wear powered devices comes with battery power between 300 to 400 mAh, which makes it last for a day max or even less, making you charge your phone and your watch both on daily basis.
Case #1 Wearing it all the time;Use all notifications
This is the worst case scenario where your watch is connected all the time and you have on your wrist for at least 18 hours.
Results are pretty dicey here. Depending on how many notifications you get and how much you interact with your watch will last 12 hours tops.
Case #2 Wearing it only when you go out/travel; Use all notifications
Using watch as a watch. Most of us don’t have the watch on when we reach home though we may have the phone all the time with us.
So when I get home, , un -pair from the phone and don’t even look back till the next morning. The battery is around 30% left and it gets on charging by this time.
Case #3 Wearing it all the time;Use important notifications
Notifications are one of the major cause of battery drain. The lesser you have, less vibrations you get and less you interact with watch and save more battery.
Battery lasts a little better here for around 15 to 18 hours if you cut down your notifications at least by 50%.
Case #4 Wearing it only when you go out/travel; Use important notifications
Welcome to the best case scenario. Your watch can survive for more than 24 hours and you can skip charging at night. However, you will need to charge it again in the morning because it wont last for next 24 hours.
This brings us to same situation as in Case #2. So how will this help? In case you need to stay longer back at work or attend a party, your watch doesn’t give up on your and that extra savings come in handy.
My Tips to Save Battery on your Android Wear:
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Control Notifications:
This can be a personal choice but if you want save battery and be less distracted, control which apps can send you notification and which can stay back on the short. This will help you both in saving battery and let you concentrate more on your work or whatever you are already on. Remember, its not wise to use a phone all the time and the same goes for this.
Don’t Turn of Display, Turn off that Bluetooth or best use Airplane mode.
First, No matter what, don’t turn off the watch display. It just kills the purpose of having the watch on your wrist. It would be wise to turn off your Bluetooth connection instead of turning off or better get into Airplane Mode and it takes care of everything.
Change Brightness:
Android Wear gives you option to lower the brightness which helps you save battery. However, it performs horribly when you are outside in full blown daylight. So if your brightness level is on the lower side, it will be difficult to read notifications and see whats on your screen. So either you can trade of for a medium brightness or make a habit to change it as you go in and out.
Control Battery Consumption By Changing Powermode:
We recently talked about an app, Wear Control, which lets unlocks CPU Governer Mode Android Wear. This has options of Default, Powwersave, Balanced and Performance. The powersave mode can help you extend your battery mode by at least 6 hours. I have tried it personally and with all conditions above and it works like a charm. Now the app says you need root mode but it worked just fine with Gionee S 5.5 without unlocking.
Using Watch as a Watch :
Most of the people who are using a android wear smartwatch end up wearing all the time. This is kind of wrong, unless you are a kind 24 X 7 working type geek. Nobody wears watch all day and nobody expects you to look at your watch all the time. You need to treat this watch exactly the same way. Its an extension of your phone and not your phone and if its not vibrating, you have little reason to look at it.
Conclusion:
Everything depends on how you use the watch and how many times you take on it for notifications but watches are different from phones. They are there as an extension and not to replace your phone. Any wearable that can do its job and distracts you for least, is what one should look as of now.
Android Wear is pretty smooth from that perspective. Gives you a complete control on what is going to appear and what not. You can switch to WATCH only mode and even control how bright your wrist would be.
That said, do you have a tip to share with us ? Hows your experience and what are you looking forward to from Android Wear and its battery love story!!
Suunto surprised us all at CES 2020 with the launch of the Suunto 7, its very first Wear OS smartwatch. It has plenty of features for advanced athletes like offline maps, Suunto Heatmaps, a built-in GPS, and a heart rate sensor. But as soon as Suunto told me it was launching a watch on Google’s platform, my first thought was “How bad will battery life be?”
Wear OS is traditionally very hard on smartwatch battery life, causing most Wear OS watches to last only a day or so on one charge. Thus, manufacturers have had to come up with their own ways of making Wear OS battery life not totally suck. Fossil, for instance, has received a lot of praise for developing its own custom battery modes.
Suunto is going a different route, though. It’s using the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100’s built-in power-saving sports modes to eke out as much battery life as it can. In fact, it’s the only Wear OS watch to do so.
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When Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 3100 SoC, it boasted the chip’s power-saving capabilities claiming the headline feature is the new ultra-low-power, always-on co-processor. This co-processor is able to switch off the main processor at certain times, allowing the watch to consume far less battery.
That’s great! Unfortunately, the first smartwatches with the 3100 never made any mention of these power-saving features. We later found that OEMs would need to do the legwork to make sure their watches utilize these features, but none of them did. Today, some OEMs use these power-saving modes for simple things like watch faces, but nothing more.
In an interview with Android Authority at CES, Mikko Ahlstrom, Digital Design Lead at Suunto, explained that Suunto is the only watchmaker to utilize the 3100’s power-saving features to their full extent.
“It hasn’t been possible to make this kind of watch before,” said Ahlstrom. “The special thing here is that the Qualcomm 3100 platform that we’re using has all of these low-power capabilities. Currently other brands are using those capabilities only to show watch faces for long periods of time. But we’re using those capabilities for sports.”
When you start an exercise with the Suunto 7, it will essentially shut down the main processor and switch to the low-power co-processor. You don’t really need to utilize the whole SoC when you’re working out, after all.
“[We’re] taking all the real-time sports algorithms from Suunto and transferred those to the low-power co-processor on this platform. We’ve actually created code in the places no partner has ever touched before.”
Suunto claims the 7 will be able to last two days on a charge in “normal” smartwatch mode and 12 hours while using the GPS. Many other Wear OS watches can’t last that long with the GPS running. Of course, we’ll need to test out the Suunto 7 for ourselves in the coming weeks to verify the company’s claims. However, things are looking promising.
Sure, we call our Android devices “phones,” but the modern smartphone is so wildly different from that curly-corded contraption mounted to your grandmother’s kitchen wall that it would probably be more accurate to call them personal computers if the name wasn’t already taken. All the processing power and computing ability that our handsets deliver are increasingly impressive, but these come at a cost.
We’re starting to expect more and more out of our devices every year, but developments in battery longevity haven’t kept pace with other technological advances. Maybe that’s why one of the most common questions we hear is, “How can I extend my Android phone’s battery life?”
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Turn off things you aren’t really using
When you leave your home, do you leave all the lights on, crank the AC to the max, and leave the TV blaring? Of course not! Electricity costs money, and basic economics means that most people have the common sense to turn off household appliances and lights when they aren’t in use.
If you really want to save your phone’s battery life, the same principle applies — but instead of paying for your irresponsibility with an energy bill at the end of the month, you’re paying with a dead battery by 5pm. Let’s take a look at some of the lights you may have been leaving on.
Connectivity features
These guys are big culprits. If you want to conserve power, then you should always turn off your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Location (GPS) when you aren’t actively using them. If you want to be really aggressive with control over your battery, you might even want to experiment with turning on Airplane Mode when you know you won’t be needing the phone at all.
Wi-Fi drains far less battery than cellular service.
Many users leave these features running all day without really thinking about it. Turning on Airplane Mode will knock out all of them in one fell swoop. Airplane Mode isn’t just for when you’re airborne, however. If you’re in an area where cell service is patchy, your phone can expend a lot of battery power trying to get the best connection it can.
Turning on Airplane Mode or turning off your mobile data in favor of an available Wi-Fi network can make all the difference in the world. If you have the choice between using Wi-Fi or cell signal, always choose Wi-Fi, all else being equal. Wi-Fi drains far less battery than cellular service.
Shut down vibration
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However, smartphone vibrations aren’t conjured from magical resonating crystals. To produce the effect, your device has to spin up a small vibration motor every time, which can be really draining on your battery. This goes for haptic feedback as well, that light buzzing your phone may produce when you tap keys on your on-screen keyboard. If you really want to maximize your phone battery life, you should minimize your phone’s jiggliness.
Kill apps when you leave them?
For a long time, app-killing apps were all the rage. Frustrated with laggy user experience, Android users of the days of yore began using all kinds of task managers to eliminate the apps they thought were hogging resources.
The problem is, these task killers became unnecessary even before they really got popular. Android has gotten really good at managing its own memory, and most of the apps that you murder this way will just spring right back to life. If anything, app killers suck battery life rather than conserve it .
In the modern age of Android’s maturity, there’s no reason that killing apps should be a part of your everyday use of the device. Sometimes it’s possible for apps to go rogue and start hogging resources, but those are the kind of devils you want to put down for good. If part of your regular use of your phone involves app killing, you’re probably depleting battery life rather than saving it.
Automate it!
If the process of managing your connectivity services day in and day out makes you groan, then start working smart instead of hard. That’s a smartphone you’re holding, after all.
We’ll tackle these in order of increasing difficulty and involvement. First in the school of automation, we have…
IFTTT
IFTTT is a beautiful service that’s great for non-programmers and first-time automators. Hell, it’s powerful enough that even more hardcore users might prefer its elegance to rolling up their sleeves for more nuanced work.
The goal of IFTTT is to put the internet to work for you. The letters stand for “ If This, Then That .” Once you subscribe to their service on the website and download the Android app “IF,” you can get your phone to do a variety of things without your active intervention.
There is a number of factors that contribute to poor battery life on your Android phone.
The tasks today’s smartphones perform are more demanding than ever. And to accommodate growing needs, processors have become more powerful and screens have gotten larger.
Smartphone charging via cable in a car
We’re starting to expect more and more out of our devices every year, but developments in battery longevity haven’t kept the pace.
Each manufacturer uses a different version of the operating system, so certain settings and features are going to look different.
Here are some practical tips for improving the battery life on an Android phone.
Turn Off Automatic Wi-Fi
Since the Oreo update, Android comes with a feature that continues to look for open Wi-Fi networks even when you’ve disabled Wi-Fi. To turn it off, open Settings > Network & internet > Wi-Fi. Under Wi-Fi preferences, uncheck the Turn on Wi-Fi automatically option.
Switch to the Dark Side
Since OLED displays can disable individual pixels, backgrounds with deep blacks allow them to consume less power.
You can take advantage of this in many ways. You can begin by applying a dark wallpaper, enabling a system-wide dark theme and more.
Take Control of Your Apps
Developers put a lot of work into making sure their apps run as efficiently as possible, but many will continue to run in the background even when you aren’t using them. This will, of course, eat up data and battery life over time. You can put unused apps to sleep under the App Power Management option in the device care section of your phone.
Monitor Misbehaving Apps
Your battery life can take a big hit if an app doesn’t work as it’s supposed to. This could be caused by anything from a bug to a deliberate aggressive background feature. You can check this by heading into Settings > Battery > Menu > Battery Usage to see which apps have drained the most of it.
Check your location services settings
Some apps like Google Maps require you to turn on location services to display your surroundings and give you directions. But location services chip away at your battery life very quickly, and you should turn it on only for as long as you need to.
Disable Google Assistant
Google is always on. It’s listening for the wake command, is connected to your location for instantly fetching contextual results, and more. If you don’t heavily depend on Google Assistant, it’s best to shutter it.
Configure the sleep schedule
You can configure your phone to enjoy a peaceful sleep by switching off the optional features automatically. These include mobile data and location and sync services. Since they drain your phone’s battery, it helps to save some juice as well.
Some phones have options like Auto-Sleep, Battery-saver, and Do Not Disturb, which you can enable to turn off those settings at night.
Does your Android device run out of battery too quickly? Do you feel that your device isn’t giving you enough battery time on one charge? Do you want to save battery on your Android device? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you’re not alone, since thousands of Android users find themselves dealing with the same issue.
You might have noticed that a lot of smartphone manufacturers focus on device specifications in their marketing campaigns, without laying much focus on the battery life and performance. It’s a fact that the better the specifications, the more it will consume power and drain your battery.
Using this guide, you can learn how to save battery life on Android smartphone, regardless of your device’s features. We focus on a third party application as well as things that you can do in general in order to get the maximum juice out of your battery because in the end, if you can’t get good battery life on your Android device, then the premium features don’t really matter that much.
Method 1: General Battery Saving
This method shows you the general things you can do on your device in order to get maximum performance from your battery. You don’t need to install any third party app and this is the default way of improving battery life on Android. Some users might not thing that these steps are sufficient to make a big difference, however, once you use them, you’ll be surprised on how much of an impact these steps can make on your battery life. That being said, this method focuses mostly on lowering power usage, meaning that you can improve your battery life but you’ll have to cut down on some of the functionality.
Step 1
Go to your Battery Usage information on your Android device. If you are using an older Android model, go to your Settings app, tap on About Device and hit Battery Usage. In newer Android phones, you’ll find this under the Power Management or Battery section inside your Settings app. Check for apps running in the background that are taking up most of your battery juice (percentage) and uninstall/close these apps if you don’t use them often.
Step 2
If you don’t use 3G/4G LTE connections or if you don’t have these enabled on your carrier, then go to your Settings app and switch to GSM or 2G only under Mobile Networks. Even if you’re not using 4G LTE but it is enabled on your device, it can still drain your battery.
Step 3
Go to Display in your Settings app and tap on Brightness. Lower your screen brightness level by moving the slider and make sure that Automatic Brightness is not enabled. Automatic brightness also drains a significant amount of battery as your phone’s brightness keeps on changing based on the environment lighting. While in the Display section, also reduce your Screen Timeout or Sleep time.
Step 4
Disable your Live Wallpaper and choose any image from your Gallery as your homescreen wallpaper. Live wallpapers not only consume a lot of RAM, but they’re also heavy on the battery.
Step 5
Turn off your wireless connections if you’re not using them constantly throughout the day. In your Settings app, make sure that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are disabled under the Wireless and Networks tab. Go to More under Wireless and Networks and make sure that NFC is also turned off.
Step 6
Go to Location in your Settings app and make sure Use GPS satellites is turned off.
Step 7
Go to Accounts and Sync in the Settings app and disable the Auto Sync option. This will save you a lot of battery, specially if you’re using several different services, including Email, Google and Facebook. You can still set an automatic sync frequency, such as 2 hours, by configuring your individuals apps, such as Twitter and Facebook.
That’s it! You will get the best results if you do all or most of these steps together and you’ll be surprised with the amount of battery juice that you can save by following these simple guidelines.
Method 2: JuiceDefender
This method focuses on a third party app from the Google Play store. You can follow this method in addition to Method 1 for getting the maximum battery performance. JuiceDefender is one of the oldest and possibly the most effective battery saving apps currently available for Android. Downloaded by over 10 million Android users, this is a battery manager that does various tasks on its own, depending on your configuration.
Step 1
Download and install JuiceDefender on your Android smartphone. You can download the app through the Google Play button below.
Step 2
Open the app, go to the Status tab and select either the balanced, aggressive or extreme profile. For most users, the balanced profile will work perfectly if you want to save some battery and if you don’t want to compromise too much on your regular phone functionality. If you want to save a lot of battery then you can use the aggressive and extreme profiles, but you’ll need to compromise on some functions such as a lower brightness level or no connectivity while the screen is off.
Step 3
If you want to use a customized profile, then tap on the Customize button. You can customize how JuiceDefender saves your battery by configuring things like wireless and location settings. For complete control and advanced configuration, tap on the Advanced button. In the Advanced profile, you will get a complete control over schedules, apps and triggers.
Step 4
Tap on the Enabled button under the Status tab. Once enabled, you can also enable a text or graphical notification of your battery performance by going to the Notification option in the Settings tab.
Conclusion
Insufficient battery life is one of the biggest problems that most users face on their Android smartphones and tablets. A lot of users think before buying a premium Android device, worrying about battery performance while others suffer from charging their devices more than once during the day. While premium Android smartphones do have a lot of power hungry components, you don’t need to worry as you can easily save and improve battery performance on your Android device. You can also try the many battery saver apps or try to increase you battery’s lifespan.
The methods above will help you learn how to save battery life on Android as much as possible. Whichever method you choose, make sure that you follow all the instructions correctly and feel free to shoot any questions below.
The Galaxy S21 series actually sports some pretty good battery life. In our reviews of the Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra, we found that it was really impressive. Particularly on the S21 Ultra since it was running at QHD+ resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. But there are always ways to improve the battery life on your smartphone.
In this article, we are going to give you a few different tips that you can use to improve the battery life of your Galaxy S21 smartphone. And make it last just a bit longer, when needed.
Adjust screen resolution & refresh rate
The display is always going to be the most demanding part of your phone, when it comes to battery life. Especially if you have the Galaxy S21 Ultra, with that 6.8-inch display. So one of the easiest ways to improve battery life, is to adjust the screen resolution and refresh rate.
Now, Samsung does Adaptive refresh rate, so it’s not running at 120Hz all the time. But if you are using the Galaxy S21 or S21+, the only choice you have is to bring it down to 60Hz. As neither of these allow for a lower resolution. It’s stuck at FHD+ all the time.
Over on the Galaxy S21 Ultra, you can opt to drop the screen resolution to FHD+ from QHD+. However, if you did not adjust that setting out of the box, then you likely are still using FHD+. And in that case, you may want to drop it down to 60Hz. These changes can actually make a really big difference.
Switch to dark mode
For many, this is common sense, but for others, this needs to be said. Switch over to dark mode. It’s easier on the eyes, and it will also conserve your battery life. This is because all of Samsung’s smartphones use OLED displays. These displays light up pixels individually. So the more pixels that are black, the more pixels that are turned off and not running.
Google actually did some testing on this, and found that black backgrounds would use significantly less power than a white background. It uses around 63% less power, which can make a big difference on your smartphone’s battery life.
Another tip here, would be to use a darker wallpaper too. Even though you likely rarely see the wallpaper on your home screen. This can make a big difference too.
Check on your battery stats
A good way to improve your battery life, is simply by checking your battery stats. The reason for this is, you can see what apps are power hungry. And which ones have gone rogue.
For instance, Google Play Services likes to go rogue every once in a while. And you can force stop the app to help your battery out. Sometimes other apps like Facebook and Twitter use a lot more power than they should.
Additionally, you can adjust whether some apps run in the background. Which can also use up quite a bit of battery.
Use Wifi instead of 5G
This is a long time battery life tip, and it still hasn’t changed. But use WiFi instead of 5G. Unfortunately, Samsung doesn’t allow you to turn off 5G, like on some other smartphones. But when you’re at home – which most of us are still – make sure to keep WiFi on.
This is great for your battery, but also great for your own experience. As your WiFi is likely faster than 4G LTE or even 5G in your area. So Twitter, and other apps will load faster on WiFi.
Turn on power saver mode
Finally, if worse comes to worse, a good idea is to turn on the power saver mode. Which can really extend the battery life on your Galaxy S21.
You can get to power saver mode in the quick settings panel, which is quite easy, and also through the battery settings.
Power Saver mode typically slows down the processor, as well as dimming the display. And will even stop some notifications. So this isn’t something you can leave on all day. But if you are down below 20%, it might be a good idea to turn it on and get some extra juice out of your phone. At least until you can charge your phone.
Android watches are great. I never have to worry about missing a text, email, comment or notification when I’ve got my watch on… or do it? If the battery goes dead on it that it won’t do you any good. Just as my Dad used to say “If it doesn’t work it’s useless and I don’t love my son because he is lazy and very ugly.” So it’s very important to make sure your Android powered smartwatch is going o last you through the day. So follow these tips to extend the battery life of your android smartwatch.
Screen Brightness
So obviously screen brightness is going to play a big factor in the lifetime of your battery. Fortunately just like your smartphone, you can adjust the brightness of the screen on your watch. You can access the brightness through the settings menu. Turn it down a notch and you should notice a boost in battery life.
Mute Alerts and Notifications
There are times that you don’t need all your alerts and notifications. If you’ve got your smartphone sitting on the desk right by you then you can just set your android wear device to snooze. Get into the habit of doing this and you’ll save quite a bit of battery life.
Notifications
Notifications are definitely the biggest contributing factor to the battery life on any android wear device. If your watch is constantly syncing every email, text, facebook message and reminder, you’re going to be killing the battery on your watch. Disable any notifications that you don’t need to show up on your watch in the setting of the Android Wear app on your phone.
Use these tips to increase the time between needing to charge your watch and you’ll lead a happier and more fulfilling life.
