Optimising your mobile's battery life ?

ianonline

My mobile phone battery is on the slide and I want to try and get the most out of it during it's dying days.

I always tend to turn my phone off overnight to save the battery and also avoid being awoken in the middle of the night by a wrong number, or text from the service provider etc! However, I'm now thinking that powering up your mobile probably uses more battery power than just leaving it on standby during the night. Obviously, I could just put it onto silent alert to prevent any unwanted "beeps" during the night.

Does anyone have any views or tips as to how best to preserve / optimise your phone's battery life :question: :think:

Browntoa

a few

1)leave Bluetooth OFF unless you need it...
2) always let the battery go almost flat before recharging
3)turn off animated screensavers as they eat power
4)if you want to play games get a PSP....java games eat power as well
5) turn off vibrate and wind down the ring volume

ianonline

Thanks Browntoa,

1)leave Bluetooth OFF unless you need it... - N/A
2) always let the battery go almost flat before recharging - CHECK
3)turn off animated screensavers as they eat power - CHECK
4)if you want to play games get a PSP....java games eat power as well - CHECK

I was just curious as to how much charge it takes to power up a phone and whether it's significant, or not worth worrying about (I suspect the latter) !

itsarichmansworld

might be late for this but when you first get your lovely new phone read the manual about the first charge this will optimise the standby time and also how long you will get out of it in terms of lifespan.

Even if it shows on your phone as fully charged leave it for the right amount of time.

buy an in car charger to charge while your driving depending on your phone these range from 1.99 up to 29.99

ianonline

itsarichmansworld wrote:

buy an in car charger to charge while your driving depending on your phone these range from 1.99 up to 29.99

and where, per chance, might one be able to acquire said in car charger from - hmmmmmmmmm...........

(don't worry, that's a rhetorical question - I've got a tendancy to be sarcastic from time to time) :rolleyes: :rotfl:

itsarichmansworld

ebay! of course cheap as chips!

thefirs

What's

..almost flat..

- and will allowing it to go to the beep of death before inserting the charger be good or bad?

ianonline

itsarichmansworld wrote:

ebay! of course cheap as chips!

.......... and a sense of humour as well :rotfl:

(thanks for the tip - I'd never thought of that ! - It'll save me a trip to CPW):p

itsarichmansworld

yes its always good to let your phone got completely dead give it a really good boost with the charge!

although I work for cpw as I said I really want to help and not be a corporate w***e so I will always be impartial in the quest to save money!!!!!!

Ian your a funny guy x

ianonline

itsarichmansworld wrote:

Ian your a funny guy x

aww, shucks