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the classic battery problem we want our phones to run longer but every year they get more powerful capable of doing more stuff it's easy to overlook the fact that battery technology and capacity has been steadily improving for every little battery bump we get though we also get more powerful processors brighter higher resolution screens and once you get used to a larger battery your app to just use your phone more aggressively throughout the day we're in a constant battle balancing convenience against runtime so with that in mind here are eight tips to help prolong your phone's battery but some of them you might not want to do number eight set a shorter screen timeout now this can be annoying when reading through a longer section of text but the longer your screen stays fully lit the faster your battery drains it's shocking the number of people you'll meet who look at a notification and then just set their phone down without turning off the screen five minutes later the phone takes care that for them but that was four minutes and 53 seconds of unnecessary power drain those savages hit your display settings and whittle down that time until it's just mildly infuriating number seven keep the screen brightness low auto brightness is convenient but often you can push the brightness a bit lower and still actually see stuff on your display on some phones you can toggle auto brightness from the notification shade but others require a trip to the settings menu again we want to find that razor's edge balance between frustratingly unusable and barely tolerable but every NIT of display output hits your battery harder number six swap a fancy wallpaper for basic black sure you've got this big beautiful screen but what benefit does an animated wallpaper really provide you that's right shorter battery life switching to a static wallpaper should take a little power pressure off of your phone and if your handset uses an AMOLED display switching to a dark theme or at least using a black wallpaper should help reduce the amount of power draw from lighting up unnecessary pixels don't think of it as boring and plain think of it as simple clean and efficient number five curb background data it's pretty nifty how our phones pull all this information from the internet for us even when we're not looking at zaps but if we want to maximize runtime we gotta put a stop to that you can be really draconian and kill all background usage or you can root out and curb the most offending apps regardless I pretty much always shut down Facebook because it's Facebook number for disable Wi-Fi NFC GPS and Bluetooth while you're managing your cell data usage you can also cut out all of your other wireless radios and receivers again these are on is a convenience get in your car and GPS is already on in range of a hotspot Wi-Fi will auto connect but these still draw power when you aren't using them so brush them off of course there are ways to smart toggle some of this behavior some phones will switch items on based on location or Wi-Fi network and though they never became super popular you can always try out some of those nifty NFC tags program the tags switch things on and off as you tap and go about your day but really most folks will probably just grumble about having to do this stuff manually until they give up and just take the battery hit for having these radios on all the time we know you're lazy number three disable app auto updates this one actually burned me at a baseball game where my phone found some carrier branded Wi-Fi and then went to town updating a bunch of apps I noticed the phone was running warm and yo I lost a small chunk of my battery to a convenience setting hit up Google Play and shut that down number two do you really need haptic feedback no no you don't it is fun getting little pulses and vibrations from your phone but that haptic feedback comes from a tiny little motor that steals from your battery okay turning it off probably won't extend your battery life that much but every little bit helps right and number one use those battery saving features we've got doze we've got power savers we've got resources folks use them maybe you aren't disciplined enough to manually handle all of these battery saving tips and you just need a broad sort of a setting to hack at your phone's options for you chances are pretty good that your phone has some kind of mode which will auto magically kill performance and screen brightness when your battery gets low well why wait just turn that on now and reap the benefits of a lower power resulting in longer battery life and there you have it folks eight handy tips to rein in performance and extend your Android's battery of course in this day and age our phones are increasingly adept at proactively serving us information which some of these tips will aggressively disrupt so we really aren't ever surprised when people opt instead for better charging solutions over trying to minimize their phone usage and of course we want to hear from you what's your power management solution how do you balance features against extending runtime drop us a comment below maybe your strategy can help others use their phones more - as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more fun tips and tricks and hit that thumbs up button for a little extra positive reinforcement for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos back now some gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next video