best android battery saving app.

there are loads to choose from!

and any tips on what i’m meant to do with the app once downloaded.

i don’t really know what i’m doing, but have dimmed the screen right down.

cheers

Easy battery saver – intelligent saving mode really is pretty impressive; doubles life on my xperia.

It goes a bit screwy now and again and you have to manually switch network back on, but it’s only 1% of the time and easy to do once you know.

Also, recently on a last minute 400 mile trip after work (to pick up a new bike!) I was able to switch it into some kind of ultra power saving mode, and what was 10% of battery lasted another 7 hours in case of emergency, saving all but vital functions – which I was most impressed with.

Atk advanced task killer, thats allways bin a treat for me

dont use any task killers, they use more battery!!

android sorts its tasks out quite well, and when they say theyre running, theyre not actually using your battery until needed again.

if you fancy rooting your phone, theres a fair few tweaks you can do to improve battery, and also lighter ‘roms’ that arent so heavy on the juice.

for what its worth, i rooted my desire HD, installed ice cold sandwich, and changed governor to ‘smartass v2’. i sometimes still have 70% battery left at teatime these days!!

for what its worth, i rooted my desire HD, installed ice cold sandwich, and changed governor to ‘smartass v2’.

I have absolutely no idea what any of that means.

I feel old.

iPhone.

I have absolutely no idea what any of that means.

+1

iPhone.

no.

Ice Cold Sandwich? ROFL

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dont use any task killers, they use more battery!!

android sorts its tasks out quite well, and when they say theyre running, theyre not actually using your battery until needed again.

This.

sorry, i didnt know the extent of your knowledge, i wasnt trying to bamboozle you. plenty of people ‘root’ their android phones these days which means you wipe it, and instal a different ‘operating system’, created by developers.

can be pretty techy to get your head round, but we all start somewhere. if you want a read up, to see if its of any interest, heres the link to rooting a desire HD. your phone will have its own page on that site, and theres loads of help on there.

once you got your new ‘rom’ (operating system), you can play around with it, from battery percentage icons, to setting your ‘governor’ which dictates how your battery will be used when its awake / asleep etc. mines been totally transformed and ive got better battery life than ever on a relatively ‘old’ phone.
if you find its not for you, as long as youve done a back up, you revert back to exactly how it was. and try the next one!! 😀

heres a pic of how ive got my homescreen, on yes, the ice COLD sandwich rom 🙂

Date and time is wrong 😀

“what was 10% of battery lasted another 7 hours in case of emergency”

that impressive…… i find that if for emergencies i just dont touch the phone it lasts longer and turn 3g off ….

for example my iphone 4 used 4% in 8 hours overnight last night …..

Date and time is wrong 🙂

😀

youll notice tho that at 5pm i still had 83% left, after charging my battery overnight. thats almost entirely down to the ‘smartass’ governor. used to have it ‘ondemand’ and sometimes for unknown reasons it changes back every now and then without me knowing. its only when i realise im not getting exceptional battery life that i go back and check it and change it again.
id definitely recommend rooting if youre after better battery, it just strips all the cr*p from your phone if thats what you wish.

Cougar et al…how does juice defender make my battery last longer then?

Are you still going to insist my app killer doesn’t speed my phone up too, even tho it does?

why you dont need a task killer

EDIT: some useful advice on saving battery life too….

Overnight, about 10 hrs, my S2 lost 3% of battery life, with 3G and Wifi off. My old Wildfire will do about a month of standby in airplane mode. If you want battery life turn off stuff not needed.

yeah theres no doubt that airplane mode will greatly increase battery life, so thats obviously a good choice. but…… do you want the latest all singing all dancing phone where you have to keep switching everything off just to save battery?
or do you want to just leave it to do what its sposed to do and what its capable of?

horses for courses i spose :-/

Sadexpunk, I’ve read stuff like that before, I’m not going to bother again.

When my browser is slow, I get my appkiller to kill some apps, memory is free’d up and my browser speeds up. This is fact.

no worries mate, means nowt to me if people use em or not.

just started off giving OP advice on saving battery 🙂

The airplane mode comment wasn’t suggesting that’s how to use the phone, more demonstarting the point of just how much power the various transceivers use, and how much battery can be saved by efficient managment of their use, whether done manually of automatically. Although if you need BT/Wifi/3G/GPS/etc 24/7 then it’s a moot point.

im starting to think im mebbes p*ssing people off here offering advice, however well-meaning 😀

ill now retire gracefully 🙂

Not pee’d off, just offering (and clarifying|) a pov. That’s the problem with words on a screen, a the tone/intonation is lost 🙂

When my browser is slow, I get my appkiller to kill some apps, memory is free’d up and my browser speeds up. This is fact.

Measurably? Or Placebo Effect?

If so, maybe you’ve got a broken app somewhere.

*couldnt resist another sneaky visit :-)*

no worries mate, i was just getting the feeling people were thinking i was coming across as a bit pushy about app killers, airplane mode etc, and certainly not gonna get into an argument about whether they do/dont work. i just dont care enough 🙂

at least the OP has a fair bit of information so can make his own mind up now 🙂

EDIT: COUGAR!! LEAVE IT!! OK??? 😀

I go for timerific

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alfray.timeriffic&hl=en

to set times when I am likely to need wifi, phone on silent etc so I normally get a couple of days out of mine

Cougar-it’s obviously quicker.

The phone starts apps up of its own accord in the background.

The phone starts apps up of its own accord in the background.

And what do you think happens when you kill them off? The phone goes “oh, that’s stopped” and starts them again.

Generally speaking, apps don’t run in the background unless they’re supposed to (eg, music players, GPS trackers). If the OS needs more memory, it’ll unload suspended background apps. You can see this in action sometimes, when you’ve used something memory-intensive and then switched back to the homescreen, there’s a pause whilst it reloads the desktop.

If something is running when it shouldn’t be, the solution isn’t a task killer, it’s getting better behaved apps.

@ sadexpunk, my himble apologies, I’d never heard of Ice Cold Sandwich before and assumed you’d got the OS name wrong! Sorry. 😳

The most battery efficient way to use a smartphone does conflict with the whole idea of a smart phone…

I don’t need my phone to check for e-mails every 15 minutes over 24 hours, so I turn that feature off, and check manually when I want to know. Similarly, I know where I am most of the time, so I don’t have GPS or any other location based service running all the time. I don’t need my mobile internet running when I’m not sitting looking at the phone, so it’s off until then. Same with wifi.

Cougar – may be. The apps are all ones that came with the phone tho.

when you’ve used something memory-intensive and then switched back to the homescreen, there’s a pause whilst it reloads the desktop.

Measurably? Or Placebo Effect?

One of two things needs to happen, either there has to be a quantum leap forward in battery technology or manufactures stop designing stupidly thin phones and stick decent batteries in them instead.

The Motorola Razr Maxx has a 3,000 mAh battery when most devices still use less than 2,000 mAh….in fact I think my HTC is a 1,800 mAh battery….I’d happily forfeit the slimness of the device for a battery double the size.

There are some things that prolong battery life far more than task killers….turning Bluetooth and GPS off if you’re not using them, only have emails sync hourly instead of constantly etc….I manage 24 hrs without too many problems, when it went on charge last night it had done around 36 hrs but I hadn’t been at work which is when I tend to use it the most.