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10 Tips to Improve Your Android Phone
See what's sucking the most juice. Navigate to Settings > About Phone > Battery Use to see an organized breakdown of what's consuming your phone's battery. Applications and features will display in a descending list of battery hogs. If you see an application you barely use or a feature you never use, uninstall the app or turn off the feature.
Turn unnecessary hardware features off. It's great that today's phones have LTE, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, but do you really need all four activated 24 hours per day? Android keeps location-based apps resident in the background, and the constant drain on your battery will become noticeable, fast. Some 4G and 4G LTE smartphones let you turn off 4G mode separately, which is a good thing, since LTE consumes extra power but has yet to blanket the country. If your phone has a power control widget, you can use it to quickly turn on/off GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, and sometimes 4G as well (depending on the phone).
Set display brightness to adjust automatically. Turning down the brightness is obvious—you'll be surprised at how much this one helps alone. But the automatic adjustment setting is less well known. Activating it means the OS will automatically dim its display in darker environments, including seemingly well-lit indoor rooms.
Dump unnecessary home screen widgets and live wallpaper. Just because they're sitting on the home screen, seemingly inactive, doesn't mean they're not consuming power. That goes for widgets that poll status updates in the background, as well as ones that just sit there but look pretty and animated—not to mention animated live wallpaper. (But don't dump everything, as part of what makes Android great are the home screen customizations; just remove the ones that you don't use.)
Reduce email, Twitter, and Facebook polling. This is a big one. Even handset manufacturers like Motorola don't necessarily get this, and leave everything enabled by default. Set your various messaging apps to "manual" for the polling or refresh fequency, just as a test, and you'll instantly extend your device's battery life by a significant amount. Once you see what a difference that makes, try re-enabling just the most important ones, and possibly reducing their polling (or "checking," as opposed to push, which happens only when there are new messages) frequency in the process. This is enough of a problem that HTC just added something called SmartSync to its new One S, which targets enhancing battery life specifically when syncing accounts over the air in the background.
Disable Adobe Flash. Being able to run Adobe Flash in Web pages is great, but it consumes battery life—which is a major part of the reason Adobe has decided to discontinue Flash development for all mobile devices. If you have Adobe Flash installed on your smartphone, by default it's set to load every piece of Flash content on every Web page. It's possible to change this so the browser only loads Flash when instructed to: Open the browser, hit the Menu key, go to Settings > Enable Plug-ins and set it to 'On Demand'.
Update your apps. Applications often get updated to use less battery power, so you should make sure your apps are up to date. Even if you configured the phone for automatic updates, some apps still require that you manually install updates. Check for app updates in Google Play by hitting the menu key and going to My Apps.
Reduce RSS feed update frequency. Staying current with the news is great, but why update feeds constantly in the background? Plenty of third-party apps set their defaults to check for updates at a set period of time. Others may offer a choice, but give no indication to the user that battery life will suffer as a result.
Keep an eye on signal strength. If you're in an area with low signal strength, the phone will work harder to latch onto a strong-enough cellular signal. This has an adverse effect on battery life. There's not much you can do about this one, but keep in mind that this could be the culprit behind a seemingly weak battery.
Check the reviews. We conduct battery life tests of every single phone we review. Unsurprisingly, the results vary widely between handsets, even on the same network. When choosing a phone, make sure that real world talk time is sufficient. You can't go by what the manufacturer says; we've seen variances on the order of several hours of usage in both directions. One standout in particular, the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, nearly tripled that of most other handsets we've tested.
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