How To Maximize Your Mobile Battery Life

Nothing is quite as annoying as having your mobile battery get drained while you’re trying to make an important phone call. While most mobile phones boast of extended battery life and improved power efficiency, it’s simply inevitable that the battery would run out at one point in time. The best way to make sure that this won’t happen at the most inopportune of times is to maximize your battery life.

Here are some steps to maximize your mobile battery life.

• Read your mobile phone’s user manual. This booklet would usually contain information on how to take care of your battery. Aside from knowing the obvious things that should not be done with the battery, you should also take note of how the make and chemistry of your battery is best taken care of.  Some mobile batteries need to be drained first before being charged anew, while some don’t. Make sure that you know how your battery works, because if you don’t drain certain battery types, you may end up lessening the effective battery life of the phone.
• Turn off unnecessary features. Mobile phones usually consume more energy the more features are turned on. Most modern smartphones have several applications running in the background, which might be consuming processing cycles, or pulling information from the network. Turn these off, and you might see a dramatic increase in battery life. Also, if your service provider runs both 2G and 3G networks, it makes sense to turn off 3G if you want your battery to last longer.
• Go for genuine parts. A lot of third-party manufacturers sell batteries that are compatible with today’s popular brands like Nokia, Sony Ericsson and the like. But be sure about the life of any battery by getting original parts.
• Try desktop charging. If your phone comes with a data cable for syncing and data transfer to and from your phone and computer, you may be able to use this cable to charge your phone from the computer. Keeping your phone plugged in while you work would ensure that the mobile battery is fully-charged and would never fizzle out should you need to make an emergency call or send an urgent SMS.
• Extra batteries. It may also be good if you had an extra battery that you carry around. Label your batteries so that you’ll know which one is the latest battery. Having a spare battery allows you the chance to instantly have a backup plan just in case your primary battery dies.  Replace the batteries if you feel like the battery is already too short for your purposes.
• Clip battery chargers can be a good option, especially if you have multiple batteries. Instead of plugging in your entire phone, clip battery chargers allow users to just clip batteries into socket mounted chargers. This reduces the risk of losing the phone when charging, so this is the preferred method of charging in public places like airports. The clip also allows you to charge spare batteries easily without having to rummage through other phones.

Maximizing mobile phone battery life is about minimizing those instances in which the energy is wasted, such as with very loud volumes, very bright lights, and background applications running.