Complete guide to improve your laptop and gadgets battery life
One of the most common issues that handheld devices suffer from is poor battery life. Using a few simple tips, apps and accessteories in your daily routine can help maximise the battery life. Today BattAussie battery experts shows you how to make your laptop and gadgets battery life.
Ways to improve Laptop Battery Life
Display
Similar to phones, laptop screen is also a battery power guzzler. Keep the brightness as low as possible. Also, If you also have keyboard backlighting, turn it off
External devices
Any external device plugged in the USB port constantly draws power from your laptop. Removing them after use conserves battery
Temperature
Overheating leads to the internal fans to run faster – which in turn consume more battery. Use a laptop cooler to keep the temperature at bay
Hibernate
Instead of putting your computer on standby, choose to hibernate – it saves the state of your computer and shuts down the laptop computer and saves HP pavilion dv6 battery life
Windows Power Plans
Laptops running windows have built-in power plan settings. You can choose various items such as display brightness, when to turn off the display/hard-drives and USB power. Use these to improve your laptop battery life.
BatteryCare
This software records the battery discharge cycle and also shows a detailed battery status including consumption, manufacturer, wear level etc. It also shows CPU and hard drive temperature to indicate any overheating.
External Laptop Battery Pack
With a 20,000mAh battery, this external battery pack from Anker is capable of providing one full charge to your laptop and charge your other handheld devices side by side too. It even has 3 adjustable voltage levels to suit different laptop models.
How to make Smartphones and Tablets battery life last longer
Brightness Level
Display is one of the biggest battery drainer on a phone. Instead of opting for automatic brightness in settings, manually set it to 40-50%
Connectivity
Keep the phone’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC and 3G connectivity switched off when not required to improve battery backup
Uninstall Apps
Various apps run background processes that constantly consume battery. If you are not using a particular app, it’s better to uninstall it
Haptic Feedback
The vibrating feedback from the phone everytime the touchscreen is used might feel nice, but switching it off saves battery life
Battery Doctor
This free app is available for iOS and Android. It shows which apps are consuming more battery and the remaining battery time of the device. The android app also lets you do one touch optimisation of the battery
Carat
Carat is available for both Android as well as iOS and shows how much power each running app is consuming. After a week’s usage, it starts giving recommendations on phone usage to improve HP Elitebook 8530p Laptop Battery life
Portable Charger
Available from a number of manufacturer’s, a portable charger is the best way to charge your device on the go. We recommend picking up one with at least 6,000mAh battery so that it is good enough to charge your phone as well as tablet. Rs 999 onwards
Ways to improve Digital Camera and Camcorder battery life
LCD Display
If your camera has an optical viewfinder, use that to frame your shots instead of the LCD display. The display consumes more power than the viewfinder. If you do not have an optical viewfinder and have to use the LCD display as a viewfinder, then we recommended turning the brightness levels of the screen as low as possible
Use of Flash
Be it a point and shoot or a DSLR, the built-in flash on the camera draws power from the internal battery. Extended use of flash would result in faster draining of the camera’s battery. Try using flash as less as possible by either increasing the ISO or using an external flash to extend the battery backup from your camera battery
Memory Cards
Opt for a memory card with a fast read/write speed. With most cameras shooting at 12MP resolution and above, file size of the image has also increased – especially is you save in RAW. The longer camera takes to save the image on the memory card, the more battery it uses. Using a fast memory card takes care of this issue
Stop Reviewing
Most of us like to instantly review the clicked photo and then delete it if there is something wrong. Doing this occasionally is fine, but if you review each image and then choose whether to delete or keep it, you are eating through the battery. Instead, use a large memory card to save all the image and review them later
Spare Battery
Whatever camera you use, investing in a spare battery is always a good idea. Not only does this make switching between batteries easy, it also extends both the battery’s lifespan as discharge cycle is comparatively less compared to single battery use.
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