The main reasons why a phone's battery drains quickly in its normal use, if there are no damaged parts or busted configurations caused by poorly designed apps, are basically two: the screen that remains on for too long, some particular applications are not efficient that remain in the background. To mitigate the power consumption of the screen turned on on each Android smartphone, you can only decrease the brightness of the display by putting it to the minimum and decrease the amount of time, in seconds, after which the mobile phone turns off the screen and goes into " Sleep " automatically.
These configurations are usually found under the Settings> Display menu.
Keep in mind, if present, that adaptive brightness can work to save battery, but it will never be as effective as minimum brightness.
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As for the apps that drain the phone battery, there are many more things to talk about and discover.
First of all, on Android smartphones there is a fully automatic battery optimization function, which in fact hibernates and freezes applications when the phone is not in use.
In this way, background apps decrease their energy consumption, although the effectiveness varies greatly depending on the apps used.
As you can easily see in the Settings> Battery menu, the apps that drain the battery first and cannot optimize for lower consumption are those that must always remain on alert to receive notifications and messages.
In almost every phone, the apps that consume the most battery are therefore Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tinder and all those that send live notifications, such as chats and social networks.
While some of these applications, such as Whatsapp, cannot be paused or frozen if you do not want incoming messages to be lost or arrive late, for other apps such as Facebook we have already explained how much better it is to remove the original app and use Facebook from website or Facebook Lite.
Another app that drains the battery very quickly is Google Play Services, the app integrated into the Android system that Google uses for all its services (the Store, Gmail, Maps, Search, etc.) and its apps and that you can't absolutely remove.
When Google Play Services is at the top of the list of apps that drain the most battery (always from Battery Settings), there are several ways to solve the problem which will be more or less painless depending on how you use the phone.
The first solution to solve the battery problems caused by Google Play Services is to disable automatic synchronization.
This can be done differently depending on the Android version of the phone.
In the old Android up to KitKat (Android 4.4) automatic synchronization is disabled in the Settings menu Wireless Networks Data usage while in Android from version 5 you have to go to the Google Account Settings menu and disable all services.
This solution, however, can lead to the problem of delay in notifications for Google apps, which if you use Calendar, Google Photos and Gmail could be a problem.
In addition, address book and app data backups are also interrupted, which are important when changing smartphones.
To manage automatic synchronization dynamically, by activating and deactivating it according to the battery status, you can use the Autosync app.
A more effective solution to avoid Play Services from draining the battery, however, is to disable Ok Google and Google Now.
Ok Google is the call for the voice assistant on each screen.
In general, it is not necessary to keep Ok Google always active unless you use Google Maps or Android Auto.
Google Now, on the other hand, is the function to stay up to date on the latest news, weather and other personalized information, including traffic.
By deactivating these two services, the Google Play Services problem is solved if this is among the main ones responsible for discharging the battery.
To configure these features, open the Google app, tap the button on the top left with the three lines and open the settings.
From here, go to Voice Detection Ok Google to disable it on each screen leaving it only while driving, for use in the car, with Google Maps and Android Auto .
To disable Google Now, from the Google app settings, go to Your Feed and disable the Feed option.
Finally, to avoid unnecessary battery consumption, it is important that the location of the phone via GPS is turned off at full power.
In the phone settings, in the Geolocation section, it is important to always use the Low consumption and not High precision mode .
High-precision location with GPS activation is only required when using Google Maps or another road navigator app.
If you want to have an additional battery benefit, it would also be useful to disable the location options of other apps.
To find apps that use phone location, go to Settings> Geolocation .
Now, barring unforeseen problems, the phone's battery should drain regularly, without running out in a short time.
If you want to make an analysis of all the charging and discharging cycles, measure the energy consumption of the individual apps and, above all, check the health of the battery to see how much it is aging and if it could possibly be replaced, then you can install the Accubattery app, which works really well and is free.
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