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While plenty of options are available for rooted Android phones to optimize it for enhanced performance and longer battery life, few tools and utilities are available for non-rooted Android phones to optimize it. The recently released free AVG TuneUp utility is one of them that helps any user fine tune their android device for longer [...]
Android smartphone has a power management mechanism called Wakelock. While this mechanism saves battery, several applications uses Wakelock to keep the device stay awake to prevent the screen from turning off, for example media players, browsers, etc. However, sometimes, even if you close all the running apps and turn off the screen, the battery continues [...]
Of course, smartphones are battery hogs, so we have to take energy-sapping elements of our phone such as mobile data, phone backlight, background syncing, etc. in control to get a long-lasting battery life (read here to know how it is). Another, not a widely known method to save battery life on Android smartphone is “inverted [...]
It is true that smartphones are battery hogs. Even if the device has advanced batteries built-in, it runs out of juice after one or two days of heavy use. However, by intelligently managing the energy consumption of your device and fine-tuning its settings, you can greatly extend its battery life. If yours is an Android [...]
Though WiFi consumes less battery power than 3G and 4G networks, some apps on Android phone behaves differently when WiFi is on. For example, Google Maps location caching, Dropbox or Google+ uploads, etc works on WiFi (by default) and eats up the battery power. By controlling WiFi on/off state wisely, users can longer their phone’s [...]
If your Android phone seems to be in constant need of recharging, you have to take energy-sapping elements of your phone in control. One of the most common energy-sapping elements of a phone is mobile data (Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS, etc) and if you can turn it off, you will get a prolonged battery life, but [...]
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