16 Jan 2011

How to increase battery life on the Galaxy S

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  • Turn off the automatic brightness: disable auto display and put display to 25%. Its enough for games and reading and your phone still looks HD. Don’t worry about videos, if you view videos your display will go to 100% brightness automatically. The display is the biggest power user.
  • Use this background:
  • use power control widget. Looks hq and you can switch off things like bluetooth, Wifi, Sync, GPS,… with just one click. activate them when you need ’em.
  • Use task managers. This tools also consume about 2-5% battery, but if you have already installed many apps this will save your life. Advanced Task Manager uses the most battery like about 5%, but it also has the possibility to kill tasks if you go idle. So you turn your screen off and ATM will kill unused apps => saves battery a lot.
  • install android assistant from market. It has many useful options like ram cleaner and co. But it also shows you very concrete which app uses how much battery and is able to say if your battery life is ok. For example I noticed that my battery got destroyed already a bit (when I bought the phone the battery life status was on very good, now only on good).
  • Big problem are live wallpaper in idle mode. For example I used until yesterday Flurry Live Wallpaper and it used about 5%, that was ok but the wallpaper looked very fancy. But yesterday for example I had everything turned off, excepts wifi and over night my battery went from 83% to 2%. Big shock as I found out that Flurry was on 22-25% and Pro Launcher on 11% (normally uses only 2%)…. Now Flurry is gone and replaced by darkys fibre wallpaper (almost completely dark).
  • Turn off 3G if not used, I use for that APN widget, uses only 0,5%. 3G is a hammer for battery! Even Wifi uses less power, so use that if you’re at home. Select only 2G if your not using 3G or 3.5G (network settings)
  • googlemail will also rape your battery on froyo. There’s a big bug, so use a custom rom or deactivate the auto update and turn off Sync if not used
  • If you have problems with connectivity use AutoPilot. If you loose your signal your phone kills your battery because its searching for signal. With autopilot your phone goes onto airplane mode if you loose completely your signal
  • Turn off bluetooth and wifi when not in use
  • Turn off automatic background syncing
  • Avoid widgets that use live updates
  • Make sure you close apps properly by going through the menu, hitting home doesnt close apps
  • You can try apps like startup auditor and autokiller to kill of running background applications.
  • If you really wanna go crazy use a solid black wallpaper, it wont use any LEDs at all
  • Some Task Managers seem to work against battery saving and consume more battery doing so ending tasks at regular intervals. Monitor these applications to see if they improve or decrease battery life.
  • Poor signal strength decreases battery life –
    Try not to leave you phone in a bag or place that might inhibit the signal strength. With low signal strenght the Galaxy S will consume a larger amount of power to maintain connection with the nearest cell tower or searching for another.