HOW TO INCREASE YOUR PHONE BATTERY LIFE

If there is one thing that can be annoying about a smartphone, it’s a battery that runs down too soon. Here are some tips on how to keep that battery power flowing. The details of configuring settings vary somewhat among the different platforms but these items are worth looking at.

• Charge your battery fully when its new before using it. 
• Dim the screen brightness
• Turn of the vibrator and use ringtones only
• Turn off Bluetooth when not in use
• Turn off the wifi when not in range.
• Limit use of GPS location services
• Turn off application running in the background   e.g. Facebook, whatsapp etc.
• While charging your phone, keep it on any non-heat absorbent material such as wooden table, plastic shelf, book, metallic table most effective ( as it is conductor of heat, it takes away minor heat generated by battery).
• When you are about to restart the phone for any network malfunction, first try to switch the flight mode ON and OFF, instead of restarting the phone, as restarting the phone takes more battery.
• If your phone is connected to your email, make sure it's not set to check your email every 15 minutes or half an hour. This means that every time it checks, you lose a little battery. Set it to where it doesn't check automatically, and you'll save a lot of battery this way.
• mAh is an abbreviation for milli-ampere hours which are units of electrical charge. Larger values, for batteries of the same battery voltage, indicate that the battery has a larger capacity and will power your phone for a longer period of time before charging.
• Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries naturally get quite warm while charging, unless you use a specialized "slow charger". If your phone uses a NiMH battery, do not worry about the heat generated during charging unless it becomes so hot that it is uncomfortable to touch.
• Turn power saver on and charge the phone while it is on. Also be sure to not charge the phone too much; it may reduce the life of the battery, requiring you to buy a whole new battery.
• When using a car charger, do not charge the battery when the inside temperature of your car is hot. Wait until the car has cooled before you plug in the phone.
• You do not have to turn off your phone to charge it. Most battery chargers deliver more than enough current to power your phone and charge it at the same time. Doing so will not lengthen the charge time, and leaving a phone on allows the user to be aware of its fuel gauge, so that you can remove it when the battery is full.

• Check to see if your phone has a "Battery Save" option. If so, you can turn this on to increase the life of your battery.

I hope this helps.  Comments please!! 

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