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By admin, July 14, 2010 1:05 am

3. Turning off wireless services: Turning off wireless services that you don’t need will save a lot of battery power, as each service has its own radio which consumes power even when you’re not using the wireless service. If you’re not in a 4G area, turn off 4G so that the phone doesn’t waste battery power searching for a 4G network that doesn’t exist where you’re at. Same goes for WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS – if you’re not using them, turn them off!

While turning off WiFi is a great idea if you’re not using it, if you ARE frequently connected to WiFi you may want to change the WiFi sleep policy to “never”. This may sound like a bad idea, but by default your WiFi connection will enter sleep mode after 15 minutes of inactivity and your phone will then switch to 3G/4G connectivity, which uses more power than WiFi to sync, check email, and retrieve other data. You can change the WiFi sleep policy by going to Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi Settings. Press the Menu button and tap Advanced, then select “Wi-Fi sleep policy” and choose “Never”.

4. Manually Turn Off Your Screen: Even if you have your screen timeout set to 15 seconds, you can squeeze more battery life out of your phone by turning off the display manually as soon as you are done using your phone for the moment.

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By admin, March 8, 2010 9:09 pm

6. Network Connections

Turn off unused connections when not in use, i.e. GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
Use Auto On/Off
Use single mode only (1XEV, 2G only, 3G only)

7. Shortcuts

Use shortcuts instead of activating Java menus (Browser – Options – Browser Configuration)

8. Camera

Turn off flash (Camera – Options)
Set picture size to Small (Camera – Options)
Set Color Effect to Normal (Camera – Options)
Set Picture Quality to Normal (Camera – Options)

9. Applications

When exiting, be sure to close the app, not leave it running in the background (close with ESC key, not red End key)
Log out of third-party applications when they are not needed (Instant Messaging, etc.)

10. Indicators

Set Audible notification to Off (Profiles)
Turn off coverage LED (Profiles)

11. GPS

Use the zoom out function to get the largest viewable area that you can still use usefully