How to avoid battery drainage

[ahmedgoldberg]

Is the only way to tell what's running to go to settings--battery . I avoid putting loading apps on my phone because I don't want background stuff draining it but I'm still losing power. Is wifi always on in the background for apps?

 

[Crono]

You can also use a/the wakelock detector app to see what apps are "waking up" your phone (which doesn't necessarily entail turning on the display, but utilizing the processor, memory, and possibly radios) periodically or not allowing it to sleep, reducing battery life.

Other battery hogs are usually messaging apps, social media apps, and other apps that sync (like email, depending on whether it is set to sync or push, and what frequency). Almost any app that is going to provide notifications of internet activity is going to eat up battery if it's checking things on the internet and running aggressively.

Wifi is always on unless you disable the radio entirely, though if you have root it's possible to selectively deny WiFi and/or cellular data to apps using a firewall. I'm not sure if that would improve battery life, though.

 

[corkyg]

When I want to conserve battery and not be bothered, I just turn on Airplane Mode. That turns of Wi-Fi and any other links.

 

[danu4u]

Stop the apps that are running in the background, turn of WiFi, internet, Bluetooth. These apps let the battery drain so fast! I've been experiencing that too..

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The thing is you need to watch what apps you're running. However a properly behaving phone shouldn't drain more than 1-2% per hour on LTE in most cases.

I just picked up my iPhone after 6 hours 24 minutes of basically no screen on time, and the battery was at 96%. While that's better than most Android phones, it's not impossible to get close to those figures, and certainly very possible if you factor in Doze.

 

[JeffMD]

or have a phone that does not suck. -_- The only thing draining my battery is when I get a weak verizon signal at work, gotta put it in airplane mode because in half my store the signal is gone.

 

[Ettitt]

There are some common ways to reduce your battery to drain.

Turn unnecessary hardware radios off
Use the extra power saving mode if you have it
Turn down the brightness and turn off Automatic Brightness.
Dump unnecessary home screen widgets and live wallpaper

 

[amenx]

Greenify app. Hibernate all unnecessary apps that run in background and when screen is off.