How To Improve Battery Life On A Smartphone [Part 3: Ways To Solve This Problem]

In part 2 we talked about the problems causing the battery to drain and some responses we got from normal users about the battery life of their smartphone. In the last and final part we will be discussing ways to improve your battery life and help you get more out of your smartphone. So here are a few simple tips on improving your battery life

1. If your phone has a power saving mode make sure to turn it on when you are halfway through the battery
2. Keep your screen brightness to 20% as it is proven to be a balance of screen brightness and battery saving. Also change your on screen time to about 1 minute or lesser.
3. Switch off wireless services like wifi, mobile data, bluetooth and GPS when not in use.
4. don't have too much live widgets on your homescreen as that might suck up some of your battery life. 

In my personal experience, i tried numerous apps and online guides on how to save battery and only some of them work. One of the apps which work perfectly for me is carat, this app is available on both android and iOS for free. Basically this app analyses your device and check for the apps which are using a lot of battery and advises you to either terminate it or disable it. This app really works and you should give it a try (links will be listed below). Other than that i also use advanced task killer to help in closing applications which are inactive. You may already use this app but you must play around with the settings to make it work more efficiently. One of the things which i tend to do is to on flight mode when i am sleeping, i know that this might not work out for some people. But if this can be applied you can save a lot of battery, because sometime i don't know why for some reason my battery is being used when there are no running applications and sometimes the phone does not go in to deep sleep. One final thing is to install a custom ROM (Not Advised) because some custom ROMs tend to handle the phone's processes better.

Carat: iOS & Android 
Advanced Task Killer: Free & Paid 

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How To Improve Battery Life On A Smartphone [Part 2: What Are The Problems Causing This Issue]

In part 1 we did a brief explanation about the evolution of smartphones and we stated that most smartphone users are facing issues related to the battery life. As i mentioned in part one our smartphones are only going to be more powerful as time goes so those hardware will need to either be power efficient or the battery must be more bigger, either way the battery life on future devices must get better as the time goes by. So without further ado lets jump right into part 2 where we are going to talk about the problems causing the battery drainage. 

As you can see above, these are a few of my battery charts which i took off my android phone. If you look at the middle one the graph is up and down and the down has the same angle of steepness as the up. That translates into my battery drains as fast as charging of the device. To put things to perspective, i charge my phone using an Apple iPad 10w adapter opposed to the samsung travel adapter because the Samsung charger takes about 3-4 hours to charge from 15% to 100%. With the iPad charger it only takes about 2-3 hours. Ok, enough about my personal experience, now here are some responses i got from a few people i asked.

lasts for a few hours only, need a new battery ASAP.
Avinaash, Galaxy W

good battery life.

Aderen Lim, Galaxy Ace

i need to charge my phone at least 7 times a week. if i charge it the other night then tonight i must charge it again because the battery can use maximum of up to 24 hours and its depends on my usage. But overall the battery life is good.
Habil, Galaxy 5

It has the best battery life of any Galaxy phone, possibly any Android phone out of the box. People will be less concerned about having to manage their battery life, such as turning off their GPS, Wifi, and Bluetooth radios when they are not being used. People may also find habits such as carrying second batteries, plugging yourself in at your friend's house, and charging at a coffee shop a thing of that past. With all that said, don't expect miracles. You can kill the battery in about 5-6 hours if you left on all the radios, turned up the brightness, and played a graphics intensive game from fulll charge to empty. That is still 2-3 times than what an average phone can handle. 

Michael, Galaxy Note II

when i first got my phone, i thought that the massive 2500mAh battery would make it last at least a day but i soon found out that the battery life is pretty poor. This is my first android phone so i started to look for some apps which help optimize the battery life of the phone. But not all of them work out, i also found out that some apps i installed drain a lot of battery. But after a few weeks using it i started optimizing the whole phone and change the way i use the phone until now where i can almost reach one day of heavy usage. So the problem is still on but i am hoping the jellybean update will solve the battery problem. 

DickWyn, Galaxy Note

If I don't turn on the power saving mode I can use that phone for whole day with wifi. If I switch it on, the cpu will clocked slower for battery saving and its really saves a lot battery, I think I can use it about 1 and a half or 2 days. 

Gary, Galaxy S III

So, yes as you can see in the above there are mixed responses on their battery life. Let's get back to the main topic, what causes the phone to drain the battery. One of the main causes are bugs which are basically some small software glitches which either from an app or from the system software itself. Usually there bugs won't affect the overall system they just affect the way the app or the system software work. But in many cases apps tend to drain a fair amount of battery because it is either not coded properly of it is not full optimized for the hardware present. A study showed that quite a number of apps present in the Google Play Store tend to drain more than normal apps because they are not full optimized and the developers are sometimes rushing to publish the app so there are some errors in the coding which result in inefficient use of the battery in the foreground and background. The next big thing which causes the battery of the phone to drain dramatically is when you on any type of wireless extension like wifi, 4g, 3g, bluetooth and many more. The reason why is because there wireless extensions have a radio or a chip controlling the wireless signal going in and going out and they use a lot of power. The most power hungry wireless extension is when you on your 3g/4g mobile data. Another thing which might be the problem why your phones battery is draining is because the software you are using is not optimized for the hardware present. Like most android devices software updates tend to come months after a new version is announced by Google. One feature which potentially drains battery in some android devices are live widgets and live wallpapers. If you listen to some people which they say live wallpapers drain your battery, you could agree or disagree because in the end it all comes up to wheter your device drains battery or not. So this is about it, stay tuned for part 3 which is coming tomorrow as we will be talking about how to solve the battery drainage issue.

"A Bigger Battery Doesn't Always Translate Into A Better Battery Life"

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How To Improve Battery Life On A Smartphone [Part 1: Introduction]

The mobile industry has evolved a lot in this past decade, we started off with the introduction of pocket PC's by Microsoft which gave way for the smartphones we see and use today. The most recent analytics show that currently there are over 1 billion smartphone users in the world so that translates into 1 out of 7 people own a smartphone. The smartphone industry is going to grow even rapidly and analysts predict that there will be 2 billion smartphone users by the year 2015. But when you turn to the whole mobile phone industry (including feature phones, normal phones, and smartphones) it is also continuing to grow and now over 80% of the whole human race has a mobile phone. There are over 5 billion mobile phones in the world and about 1 billion of those device are smartphones. So 1 out of 5 mobile phone users are smartphone users. As the smartphone industry grows the devices are getting much more advanced and easier to use. The whole smartphone industry was rocked by the iPhone in 2007 and ever since then the growth rate has been higher than ever before. Study shows that the thing that people do the most on their smartphone is not texting or calling but surfing the we and playing games. Now this complies with the topic we are talking about today which is battery life on a smartphone. Although our phones are getting more and more advanced with higher data speeds achieved by 4G LTE connectivity to helps us do thing much faster. But we still can't hide the fact that the single most common problem which a smartphone user faces is the battery of the device is always draining. So in this three part article i will be talking about the problems affecting the battery life of smartphones and a few ways of solving the battery problem. Stay tuned for the article. 

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