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with a bigger battery and more efficient processor the us normally usually lasts you throughout the day but I'm always on a mission to get the most juice out of my phone especially for those times I'm stuck without a charger so here are some savvy tips to help you get the most battery life out of your s4 first disable disabled disabled and I'm not just talking about things like Bluetooth and NFC but also any features you're not using the s4 is packed with extras like air gesture and sbeam that are always drawing energy even when you're not using them so do this expand the quick settings in the notification shade and tap to disable any of these features you're not using quick access to disabling these features really does help cut down on battery use in those settings you'll notice an option called power saving you'll want to use this when you're already low on battery or you need it to last longer than usual when it's enabled it throttles the CPU speed lowers the brightness and even changes background colors throughout the system to save as much power as possible to more settings to adjust our screen timeout and wallpaper head to Settings my device and hit display here change a screen timeout to something like a minute or whatever low number you're comfortable with and here's a secret about wallpaper the darker the wallpaper the less energy your AMOLED display will use download one from the web set it as your wallpaper and over time I bet you'll see a difference finally if your battery is draining quickly and you can't find an explanation use the built-in battery tool you can find it in settings more and hit battery it's a simple tool that can reveal a lot about what's draining your phone's battery the screen will always be the biggest hog and is affected by the brightness but below that you might find that an app is the culprit check back here every so often to see if there's a battery sucking app running in the background these tips should give your battery and nice boost but if all else fails there's always the option to buy a backup battery gotta love Android if you have any tips of your own share them with me on Twitter and check out how to cnet.com for more tips like this first unit I'm Sharon Vaknin