Extend battery life: How the smartphone lasts longer

A problem with many smartphone owners have to fight, is the battery life. Whether games, e-mail, chat or app updates: All strains the built-in battery of the smartphone. With a few simple tricks, the battery life can extend but.

First reduce display brightness

This tip is very obvious, but nevertheless should not go unmentioned: Current smartphones usually have a screen with a size of 5 inches or even more. The display is battery eater number 1, but leaves by reducing the brightness to counteract this.
Opens to the Android setup and returns to the "Display". Typing on "Brightness" and disabled the auto-brightness. Now Moves the control to the left that you can still see everything well.

Down with the brightness!

2 Disable WLAN

Abandon your house, your smartphone for data transmission to the wireless network connects. But wireless is still active and scans for networks. This consumes power and is unnecessary in most cases. Turns therefore WLAN off if your does not need it. To do that, there are several options:
Pull down the notification bar from Android with two fingers and tapping long on the WLAN icon. Alternatively you can also open the Android Settings and set the switch for WLAN "On" to "Off".

Off 3 GPS

Does your not the positioning of your smartphone, it turns out. Many apps for example, determine your location in the background, which consumes the battery.
Thus, the position estimate is off: Pulls with two fingers the notification bar down and type long on the "location", or goes in the Android settings, changes to "Location" and set the switch to "Off". In the Locations menu you can also keep track of which app has accessed lately on your site.

4 identify battery eater

It is not always immediately apparent why the battery will drain faster on some days than others. But Android offers a good battery index, which shows in detail which app or process how much power is required. Go into the Android settings and returns to the "battery" menu. Where all apps are listed, which eat away at your battery. Typing on one of the entries to get more info. You see then, among other things, how much processor time used an app or how much data it has received.
Has an app an unusually high battery consumption, that should give pause for thought. In this case, it may help to clear the cache of an app already. Go to back to the Android Settings, calls "Apps" on, change to "All" from the list and look for the right app from. Typing on the app name, and then click the button "Clear cache". If this does not help, now would be the time to think about an alternative app and delete the battery eater.

5 To renounce Live Wallpaper

Animated live wallpaper are nice to look at but also are at the expense of your battery. Uses - if possible - a static background image. 

Restrict 6 background synchronization

Many apps and widgets to load in the background for data. Weather Apps Search for example periodically for changes in weather data. Is a low interval set is searched frequently for new data. This should be avoided as the battery becomes unnecessarily strained. Most apps offer this at an appropriate option, with the frequency of background updating can be adapted.

7 disable automatic app updates

By default, the Google Play is set to automatically download updates for apps. This goes not only on mobile data volume, but also on the battery. To disable automatic updates, open the settings of Google Play stores, taps on "automatic app updates" and enable the "No automatic app updates" option.

Disable 8 LTE

You have an LTE-enabled smartphone, but a mobile phone contract without LTE? Then disable the fast network in the settings, so no more searching for LTE networks and connects the smartphone may with them. Your internet speed would not be anyway affected if the phone is in the LTE network.
To disable LTE, opens the Android settings and selected under "Wireless & networks" to select "More ..." from. Typing On the next setting page "Mobile networks" and choose in network mode "3G" from. Done.

Note: All screenshots and tips were made ​​with the Nexus with Android 4.4 5 KitKat. The menus / commands are available with manufacturer essays such as HTC Sense or TouchWiz but also in older versions of Android available for smartphones as well. But can vary under certain circumstances The designations.