A fairly common problem nowadays is that the battery of our smartphone does not last all day, which forces us to go through the charger before finishing the day. Gone is the time when we had to charge the mobile once a week, or even every two weeks. In this article we explain the main reasons that make your mobile battery drain very quickly , and how you can try to improve its duration.
The problem of poor battery life
All current smartphones are energy guzzlers , which makes the battery drain much faster than we would like. Large screens, very powerful processors, 3D games with advanced graphics, applications that notify us of everything that interests us and much more. All this is not free and has a very high cost in the energy consumption of the device.
The duration of the battery charge of our phone depends a lot on what we do with it . It is not the same to spend an hour playing than spending an hour writing messages on WhatsApp. Video games are usually the most demanding applications with the hardware, and therefore the ones that consume the most energy. This means that if you spend the day playing with your mobile, you will have many ballots so that you do not reach the end of the day.
The battery capacity of a smartphone is expressed in milliamp hours (mAh), with the most normal being between 2000 and 5000 mAh. A larger capacity battery should offer a higher autonomy, although this is not always the case, as it depends on many other factors. Among these factors we have the efficiency of the processor used, the efficiency of the screen, and of course we cannot forget the use that the user gives it.
Knowing the battery capacity of our smartphone is quite simple, we can do it by looking directly at the battery, or using an application if we cannot remove the battery, something that is increasingly common. CPU-Z is one of those applications that we can use.
Monitor the applications that consume the most energy
A few years ago Android informed us of the applications that are consuming the most amount of energy . We can know this in a very simple way from the battery section, which we will find within the settings of our Android smartphone.
The tool shows us all the main applications, and the main services that have been running on our phone. Those that appear in the first position are the ones that have consumed the most amount of energy, we can even see the percentage of the load that each of these applications or services has devoured .
This can be very useful to detect applications that are consuming too much power. The simplest solution would be to uninstall these applications , although it is possible that it is an application that we need to use, so we cannot always uninstall it.
Does your mobile get hot?
A very high energy consumption usually causes our smartphone to get quite hot, therefore, it is data that we can also use to identify the applications that are consuming the most energy.
This is something that can be verified very simply, simply run a game for about 20 minutes, and you will see how your terminal heats up much more than using other applications, such as WhatsApp or the Internet browser.
If you see that your smartphone becomes very hot when you are using an application, it means that said application is consuming a lot of energy , so you should consider stopping using it to improve the autonomy of your device.
Beware of notifications from social networks
Notifications from social networks is something that can also cause a large energy consumption in our smartphone, especially if we use a large number of these services.
The notifications from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin and the rest of the social networks, mean that our smartphone is continuously synchronizing the data with these services, to notify us of all the news. This demands a lot of work from the processor, and is something that is done dozens of times throughout the day, causing a large amount of battery consumption.
A fairly simple way to fix this is to increase the check interval for new notifications . For example, if you are checking for new notifications every 10 minutes, you can change the settings to check every one to two hours. In this way the number of requests for information will be drastically reduced, greatly reducing energy consumption.
Synchronizing Accounts
The timings of the accounts is another aspect that consumes a lot of energy. In this case, something quite similar to the notifications of social networks happens. If you have many active accounts on your smartphone with data synchronization activated in all of them, a large number of requests will occur throughout the day, causing the processor to be working and consuming battery for a long time.
WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Dropbox, Gmail, Outlook ... there are many services that you can have active, and that are synchronizing data with the accounts continuously. Do you really need to have them all working?
The use of the network also influences
Being connected to the Internet also consumes a lot of energy on a constant basis. In addition, the energy consumption increases even more if you are connected to a network with a low signal. The latter is due to the fact that the device will have to make a greater effort to obtain and send the data it needs to function.
Therefore, something quite simple that you can do to improve the autonomy of your smartphone is to stop using the Internet connection if you are in an area where you do not have good coverage .
These are our best tips so you can improve the battery life of your mobile, we hope they are useful for you.