10 tips to extend battery life on Windows Phone 8
We love our smartphones, but one issue that always come up with us is battery life. If you’re a heavy user, you want to find ways to be able to use the phone as long as you can before needed to recharge. There are 10 tips to extend your Windows Phone 8 battery life, but many of these tips involve turning off services and features. You don’t need to follow all of them, but following some will help extend the battery life on your Windows Phone 8 device.
1. Use battery saver
You can set your phone to automatically save power when the battery level is low. Head to settings > battery saver, and turn it on. It turns off some services while in standby to help preserve battery life, but you will still receive calls and texts.
2. Set glance to peek (Lumia only)
3. Turn off double tap to wake up phone (Lumia only)
Double tap to wake up phone is another cool feature to have on Nokia Lumia devices, but you can turn this off to save battery life. If you’re happy with pressing the power button to wake up the phone, then there shouldn’t be any problem turning off this option.
4. Lower the auto screen brightness
By default, your screen brightness is set automatically on medium. You can change this. Go to settings > brightness. Switch off the automatically adjust option and switch the level to low. Turn back on the automatically adjust option for a lower auto screen brightness that can help conserve battery.
5. Prevent some apps running in the background
6. Set to check for new mail less frequently
If you have added email accounts that don’t need to be checked frequently, you can change how often your phone downloads new content from those accounts. Instead of 30 minutes, change it to manual request only. Go to settings > email+accounts, then if u want to check mail , click on a mailbox app. click “Download new content.”
7. Decrease screen time-out
You can set the screen to automatically switch off after a short time. Go to settings > lock screen, then scroll all the way down to where it says “Screen times out after.” The shortest time you can choose is 30 seconds.
8. Disconnect Xbox Live
If you don’t care about uploading games scores and achievements to Xbox Live, you can prevent your phone from connecting to the service. Go to settings > swipe to applications > games, then turn off “Connect with Xbox.” This is really helpful if you actually have more games listed under “other” compared to Xbox Live compatible games.
9. Close apps you are not using
If you know you’re done using an app, press the back button to exit instead of pressing the Windows Phone key. If you have the latest Windows Phone 8 update 3, you can also exit apps by pressing and holding the back button then clicking the X’s on the upper right corner of the apps you want to close.
10. Use power cases or portable USB chargers
So those are some tips to help you extend the battery life of your Windows Phone 8 device. You don’t have to follow all our tips, but following some of them may help.
If you feel like your battery is draining unusually fast, restart your device by pressing and holding the power and volume down keys simultaneously until the phone vibrates. Release and the phone will restart. If you feel it’s still draining fast, the battery may be wearing out and requires replacing. You may need to contact the manufacturer for support.
We love our smartphones, but one issue that always come up with us is battery life. If you’re a heavy user, you want to find ways to be able to use the phone as long as you can before needed to recharge. There are 10 tips to extend your Windows Phone 8 battery life, but many of these tips involve turning off services and features. You don’t need to follow all of them, but following some will help extend the battery life on your Windows Phone 8 device.
1. Use battery saver
You can set your phone to automatically save power when the battery level is low. Head to settings > battery saver, and turn it on. It turns off some services while in standby to help preserve battery life, but you will still receive calls and texts.
2. Set glance to peek (Lumia only)
Glance
on Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 lets you to take a look at clock and
notifications when your phone switches to standby. You can choose to turn this
off, but it’s a cool feature to have. Head to settings > glance, then select peek. This option lets you see the
glance screen when you hand over the phone. Don’t forget to set the start and
end times.
3. Turn off double tap to wake up phone (Lumia only)
Double tap to wake up phone is another cool feature to have on Nokia Lumia devices, but you can turn this off to save battery life. If you’re happy with pressing the power button to wake up the phone, then there shouldn’t be any problem turning off this option.
4. Lower the auto screen brightness
By default, your screen brightness is set automatically on medium. You can change this. Go to settings > brightness. Switch off the automatically adjust option and switch the level to low. Turn back on the automatically adjust option for a lower auto screen brightness that can help conserve battery.
5. Prevent some apps running in the background
Some
apps may run in the background unnecessarily. If you don’t want them running in
the background, go to settings >
swipe to applications, then select the background tasks. Tap the app you
want to block, and click block.
6. Set to check for new mail less frequently
If you have added email accounts that don’t need to be checked frequently, you can change how often your phone downloads new content from those accounts. Instead of 30 minutes, change it to manual request only. Go to settings > email+accounts, then if u want to check mail , click on a mailbox app. click “Download new content.”
7. Decrease screen time-out
You can set the screen to automatically switch off after a short time. Go to settings > lock screen, then scroll all the way down to where it says “Screen times out after.” The shortest time you can choose is 30 seconds.
8. Disconnect Xbox Live
If you don’t care about uploading games scores and achievements to Xbox Live, you can prevent your phone from connecting to the service. Go to settings > swipe to applications > games, then turn off “Connect with Xbox.” This is really helpful if you actually have more games listed under “other” compared to Xbox Live compatible games.
9. Close apps you are not using
If you know you’re done using an app, press the back button to exit instead of pressing the Windows Phone key. If you have the latest Windows Phone 8 update 3, you can also exit apps by pressing and holding the back button then clicking the X’s on the upper right corner of the apps you want to close.
10. Use power cases or portable USB chargers
Another
way to extend the battery life of your Windows Phone 8 device is to use
accessories. There are portable USB chargers like the Nokia DC-18 and cases
with built-in extra battery like the camera grip for the Nokia Lumia 1020.
So those are some tips to help you extend the battery life of your Windows Phone 8 device. You don’t have to follow all our tips, but following some of them may help.
If you feel like your battery is draining unusually fast, restart your device by pressing and holding the power and volume down keys simultaneously until the phone vibrates. Release and the phone will restart. If you feel it’s still draining fast, the battery may be wearing out and requires replacing. You may need to contact the manufacturer for support.
.png)
.jpg)
Post a Comment