8
Extending Your Battery Life
Active applications, light levels, Bluetooth usage, and GPS
functionality all act to drain your battery. The following is a list of
helpful tips that can help conserve your battery power:
•
Reduce your backlight on time.
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Turn Bluetooth off when not in use.
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Turn Wi-Fi off when not in use.
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Deactivate the GPS when not needed. Most applications using this
function will periodically query the GPS satellites for your current
location; each query drains your battery.
•
Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before charging your
device. Repeating this process of a complete discharge and recharge
can over time reduce the storage capacity of any battery.
•
Turn off Automatic application sync.
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Use the Power Savings Widget to deactivate hardware functions such as
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Synchronization, or LCD brightness setting.
•
Check the Battery use screen to review what features or functions have
been consuming your battery resources.
•
Check the Running Services and close any unnecessary applications.
•
Use the Task Manager feature to end/shutdown background applications
that are still running. These minimized applications can, over time,
cause your device to “slow down”.
•
Turn off any streaming services after use (see Running Services).
•
Animated wallpapers use processing power, memory, and more power.
Change your Live Wallpaper to a non-animated Wallpaper gallery or
Gallery image.
Power Savings
The Power Savings application was designed to quickly activate
(turn on), or deactivate (turn off) those functions or applications
that use the most battery power.
1.
From the Home screen,
touch and hold an empty
area until the
Add to Home
screen
menu displays.
2.
Tap
Widgets
Power
savings
. The Power Control
shortcut is added to the
current screen.
3.
Tap any of the icons on the
Power Savings shortcut bar
to activate/deactivate the
feature.
