While many factors contribute to an Android device’s battery draining quickly, there are small adjustments you can make that can extend its life considerably and ensure a better user experience. With these strategies at your disposal, extending usage between charges should become seamless and effortless for an uninterrupted and hassle-free experience.

Many power-hungry apps consume significant battery power. To limit this consumption, navigate to your device’s settings and access its battery or power usage section.

1. Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

Wi-Fi continually searches for signals, draining battery power and using up more energy than needed. Turning it off will save energy.

Bluetooth wireless technology also consumes power as it looks for and connects with compatible devices, which in turn requires power for each paired device. As more devices are paired together, more energy will be consumed by Bluetooth.

On most Android phones, swiping down from the top of your screen displays quick settings such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location and airplane mode. Tapping on each one to turn them on or off as necessary is usually sufficient to do this quickly and conveniently.

On recent versions of Android, Battery Saver or Doze Mode can also help extend battery life when your phone isn’t being used frequently. It restricts network usage and app updates while saving power – you can either manually activate it yourself or when battery levels become low depending on device model.

2. Turn off location services

Location tracking features like GPS and Bluetooth can consume significant battery power when not used regularly, so be sure to switch them off when not required.

As with the wireless scanning feature, Wi-fi scanning can also be turned off through your quick settings panel or the Settings > Network and Connections > Wi-fi option.

Your app’s location usage can be further optimized by restricting background location gathering, and making sure updates only compute and deliver at maximum intervals of two minutes. These strategies are supported by Android 8.0 limits, making them applicable across devices regardless of OS version.

Alternately, you could also enable battery saving modes on your device to help reduce location services drain. Such modes include battery saver, deep sleep and extreme battery saver – though these will not eliminate location services drain altogether, they may significantly lessen it.

3. Switch to 4G

Many consumers have lamented their smartphones quickly running out of battery power, often attributing this issue to 5G which consumes more energy. Experts suggest switching back to 4G may extend its battery life.

Your phone offers you the capability of managing this by opening the settings and going to More networks or Mobile networks (it may even be directly visible in settings). Once there, there should be an option called Network Mode where you can switch your preferred connection type: choose 4G when faster data transfer speeds are desired and switch back to 5G when you aren’t.

Be mindful that choosing any network mode doesn’t prevent you from accessing any of your operator plan’s data; 3G or 2G access will still use up some of it – be sure to monitor this regularly!

4. Turn off notifications

Constant notifications can drain your battery quickly. One simple solution is to simply switch off notifications for apps you no longer require notifications from. Android devices allow users to manage notification settings through built-in settings; most have an “App notifications” section where apps that send push notifications can be found with toggle switches that can be turned on or off.

Reduce screen usage on your device by adjusting brightness and disabling vibration. Set haptic feedback only for calls, messages or text alerts so as to avoid being distracted by one that still rings.

If your smartphone is always running in the background and consuming power even when not being used, low-power mode or doze on Android (depending on device settings) may help reduce energy use by restricting mail fetches, app refreshes, automatic downloads and visual effects – and by keeping your battery from sleeping too often which could shorten its life.

5. Turn off advanced graphics

Graphics processors and display chips can be an enormous drain on battery life. To save power, using the Settings menu to disable features like parallax backgrounds, app-switching transitions and extra screen pixel density can save power usage. Other apps take this concept a step further by blacking out pixels that cannot be seen to further decrease energy usage – these advanced settings may only work for root users as it requires going deep into hidden settings on your device to implement. Some devices also feature built-in low power mode that will disable background apps while restrict updates and dimmed brightness to conserve battery usage and save power usage while some models come equipped with built-in low power modes that will disable background apps while limit updates as well as lower screen brightness to conserve battery usage and reduce energy useage.

Android OS does an impressive job of conserving power, yet some users require extra assistance with settings and apps.