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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Check the Battery use screen to review what features or functions
have been consuming your battery resources.
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Check the Running Services and close any unnecessary
applications.
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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”.
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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.
To conserve power by using the device’s power saving
features, see
“Power Saving Mode”
on page 270.
Note:
The Power save feature can also be activated/
deactivated via the Notifications panel. For more
information, refer to
“Accessing Additional Panel
Functions”
on page 41.
