Android Battery Saver Tips

Battery usage on all so called “smart phones” is almost universally woeful. Big high-res colour screens, fast processors, sound, wifi and 3g networking all consume gobs of battery power.

Here are some battery saving tips for Android phones. I’m going on a long flight in a few days time so I’ll be trying these tips out before I go!

• Go into Settings->About phone->”Battery use” to see what’s chewing up your battery. You can use our Battery Stats Plus app to detect battery draining apps as well as see detail battery statistics
• Turn off haptic feedback. That’s vibration alerts when you press your screen. Turn off vibration as a notification too.
• Apparently 3G uses more power than wifi so make sure wifi is always on. (Settings->Wireless and network->Wifi Settings->Advanced->Wifi sleep policy and select “Never”). 
• Always press “BACK” when you want to exit an app.
• Turn off GPS. If your phone uses the cell network to find your location turn that off too.
• Turn on power saving, and reduce the screen timeout so it goes black faster.
• Turn off wifi when you leave your house or work. That stops your phone trying to connect to a network.
• Turn off bluetooth when you don’t need it.
• Turn off 3G and use 2G. (Ugh, slow!)
• Turn off background data and syncing.
• Turn down the brightness on your display.
• Don’t use your camera.
• Don’t use a live wallpaper, what’s wrong with a static picture?
• Don’t use a homescreen widget that pulls data and updates all the time.
• Task manager are generally frowned upon but some apps misbehave and don’t close properly. Use “Smart RAM Booster” with auto-boost when screen off ON. It is basically to close all running apps after screen off 15seconds

So, what other tips can you suggest for power hungry smartphones?