The goal of manufacturers and users is to achieve the highest possible battery performance. Being away from the charger for a long time is possible. It is because the batteries have increased their capacity while the charging technology is getting faster and faster. Therefore, that of spending hours connected to the charger is coming to an end. However, there are certain elements in our mobile that will always be the ones that consume the most battery, whatever we do.
Before becoming “smartphones”, mobiles could be turned on and working at full capacity for days and days. Today, a high-end smartphone can last two days with moderate use. There are energy saving modes, and good habits also include to extend its duration. However, it all depends on a careful combination of hardware and software, in which we can do little. There are certain elements that consume more energy than others, and it is worth knowing in order to improve battery performance, avoiding unnecessary use of them.
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It does not matter what you do, because the screen is what consumes the most energy and therefore, the one that will take the most milliamps from our mobile . The explanation is simple, whatever we do we will always need the screen. However there are some exceptions, such as listening to music with the screen off, however, its consumption will not reach the levels of the screen.
Tips : use the brightness in manual mode and to the minimum whenever you can. Use features like Always On Display and play with saving modes. Try to see content in lower resolution on platforms like YouTube.
Mobile networks
Being connected 24 hours is what you have: mobile networks and their different antennas work hard so that we have Wi-Fi, data, coverage … This means that together with the screen, they are one of the elements that requires the most energy, because it is also constant. Unlike the screen, which stops consuming power when turned off, the networks are operational.
Tips : turn off all networks, connections and wireless functions when you don’t need them (NFC, Bluetooth) … If you are going to watch content offline and you don’t want interruptions, put Airplane Mode to disable networks and save energy.
The games
Games are an excellent combination so that all elements work at the same time. The screen, the processor and the GPU, the speakers, as well as the network connection, in case of playing online, will start to consume energy as if there were no tomorrow.
Tips : try to play at lower resolutions and lower the screen brightness without compromising the experience. If it is an online game, it is preferable to play under a Wi-Fi network, or in 4G if it is not necessary to connect to 5G.
Video playback
Something very similar to games happens. If we are watching video on a streaming platform, we will make the networks consume a lot of energy, in addition to the considerable use of the screen. The optimization here also depends on the video apps, since their consumption can vary greatly from one to another.
Tips: download the contents whenever possible to consume them offline and try to use lower resolutions and brightness.
Idle phone
Oddly enough, the concept of “inactive phone” appears as one of the most battery consuming elements in many devices. This means that many processes continue to consume energy even though we believe that with the screen off, consumption is minimal.
Tips : kill all background processes before turning off the screen. We can also deactivate the connections that we do not need and activate the Do Not Disturb mode at night, which is when the terminal is idle the longest. It is also convenient to check the application permissions to start it at startup or run in the background, as well as check the installed apps for possible malicious software.