These days smartphones are our best friends! Our lives revolve around them and we can't stop using them. While smartphones come equipped with a plethora of new features (both hardware & software), they do have some issues, the battery drain is one of them. Even though battery sizes and charging capabilities have improved, at some point or the other, we face the situation when our smartphone battery draining so fast?
1. Signal dead spots
Network coverage is much better than it used to be, but you still get the odd dead spot. Your smartphone is always scanning for a signal and scanning is quite a battery- intensive task. But if there's no signal to be had, it's pointless letting your smartphone do all that hard work for no reward. It's not necessary to turn it off every time you go through a tunnel, but make sure you don't leave your smartphone in a dead spot at night, as this will drain the battery.
2. You take a lot of photos or videos
If you’re traveling, have a newborn or a pet, or feel the need to capture each and every moment of your day, you might notice that it’s not just your phone storage that gets overworked. Your battery can also be affected. “Taking pictures and especially video require extra power to process the camera’s focus functions and record the images and sounds,” McRitchie says. “Be very careful with video because that can shrink the available battery very rapidly when compared with even the camera.” Put your phone on airplane mode so it’s not hunting for service but instead, working on getting the angle of the sunset focused or capturing your sweet babe’s first steps.
3. You're not charging properly
Batteries are more complicated than you might realize and there's much confusion about how to treat them. Metal hydride batteries benefit from being allowed to run down fully. This means all battery cells are used equally, preferable because it means no cells are overworked to compensate. However, the vast majority of smartphone batteries are the lithium-ion type. These don't benefit from being allowed to charge down fully, as the lower the charge, the harder the battery has to work, increasing wear on all cells. Keep the battery charge above 20 percent to avoid this and use the mains when convenient, as batteries only have a finite amount of charging cycles before they die.
4. You have too many applications that send you alerts
If you have an iPhone 6 or higher, scroll up from the bottom on your lock screen and it’ll show your most recent notifications. Most apps—unless you are specifically opt-out—will send you to push notifications that often aren’t necessary. “Each time you install a new application and enable push notifications, you are allowing that application to periodically check to see if there is a new notification to show to you on your home screen,” Logue says. “This service, when multiplied by more than 100 applications, can quickly drain someone’s phone battery because of the constant requests being made.” Try going to Settings > Notifications, then tweaking the apps that can send you alerts. We bet you don’t need Yelp reminding you to rate your latest restaurant reservation, right?
5. Your phone is too hot
The surface of your smartphone acts as a heat sink, allowing the device to remain at a safe operating temperature. If external factors, or an internal fault, prevent the phone from cooling itself effectively, it will go into protect mode. If this happens iPhone users may see the message "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it".Overheating damages the battery and leaves it is less capable of holding charge in the future. Never leave your smartphone in a hot car, or on the hob, obviously.
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