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Improve battery life/ longer lasting battery?

britchick88

britchick88

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Hello,

I need to make my battery last longer :( is there an extended battery out there that I should know about? :D
 
Yes. You can get one by aker that has a bit bigger capacity and is same size as stock battery or they make extended batteries that are double the capacity but are thicker so they come with a new back cover.

Check ebay as you can find a lot of batteries on there.
 
If you know you aren't going to use any data/alerts and just want to be available to accept texts and calls, turning off both 3G and Wireless at the same time will save you a ton of battery life. The first time I did it I used only 5% battery over 8 hours.

Turning off one will save you some battery, but I think turning off both allows your phone to go into deep sleep of some sort with apps no longer polling continuously for alerts and updates.
 
Also turn off Sync and GPS when you're not using them. Running no wallpaper and turning off any/all animations you can from the settings menu will help. Vibrate will eat a good deal of your battery as well.
 
Even when not used, many apps that have been closed, run in the background. Check your phone for a supplied 'Task Manager'. Also lots of task managers available in the Play Store. Killing some (or all) of the apps running in the background can save some juice!
 
Never use a task killer. Ever. Killing them off is a waste of time since they come right back on.
 
If you want to kill apps, I suggest looking looking into an auto start manager such as AutoStarts or Gemini App Manager, both available on the play store. These will control the auto start permissions of all your apps. This way when you kill an app, it will stay stopped and not start back up until you open it.
 
Yeah, there's lots of debate about app killers. I recommend having one and keeping it around for quick access just in case (Advanced Task Killer will even sit in the notification menu). Sometimes an errant app that is suddenly eating away at your CPU might need to be stopped quickly. Relying on it to shut everything down every half hour or so is pretty pointless, though, so don't rely on it to cure all your battery woes. You can even leave autokill off or keep it on a safe setting.

I do recommend an app like Juice Defender or the one I use, Battery Defender (which I like for its simple interface and light weight). They shut down data services when you don't need it. And in case you have an app that you need to run all the time (i.e. ones that push notifications that you need), you can whitelist those in Battery Defender. And yes, these apps do save battery.
 
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