How to get better Battery Performance out of your Android phone

Nowadays Smartphone perform many of the functions what atypical computer does. With Development in Mobile Technology the smartphones have been evolved into fine craft. The adaptation on new technologies like Faster Processors, multiple background running processes, thin sizes less room for batteries, brighter Displays having high resolution touch screens interface, Internet access, and are great at multitasking, GPS Tracking, switch of next generations networks 4G to 5G.

This things led to the poor performance of the Batteries. Every now and then you run to get your charger. But there are many options by which your phone won't drain much battery. There are many ways try this steps to to reduce the power drain by your phone.

To Get better battery Performance out of your android phone here are some tips.

Check what is Draining your phones battery

First go to your settings >Battery where a graph will show what apps are consuming power from your phone. It will show a list of apps battery usage in descending order.

Disable or Uninstall apps

Removing apps which are not used. These Apps may consumes more space,  reduces the performance and drain battery.

Use Dark colored Background

If your Phone has a AMOLED display then use dark colored wallpapers and Themes for bettery life. As AMOLED displays use less power compared to LED or LCD or TFT displays. 

Disable Auto-brightness Feature

The accuracy of auto brightness is less which may be much brighter then we need. You may set the brightness level as required. As auto brightness uses a proximity sensor to detect the intensity of light around you and provide different brightness levels which are not very accurate. Somestimes it may be less bright which would be painful to our eyes.

Turn off Vibrate

Turn off the vibrate feature and use as per requirements. As phone both ringing and vibrating when not needed may consume battery.

Screen Timeout

Reduce your Display screen timeout as short as is practicle for use. keep your screen timeout from 1 minute to 30 seconds which will turn off the screen after 30 seconds when at steady state.

Turn off Smart Features

Turn of all the smart features like smart stay, air gestures, different motion gestures which are not used. These Features may drain lot of your battery power. 

Disconect the internet

Turn off Wifi, Mobile Data when not needed. Change Wifi settings as "Keep wifi on during sleep". When the display is turned off it waits for Few minutes and then turns of Wifi connectivity and reconnects when you turn on your screen.

Dump unnecessary Widgets

Remove unwanted widgets from lockscreen. These widgets run in the background process which would drain your battery. Especially, those widgets which are connected to internet.

Frequently update your apps

New updates are better versions of the previous ones which are more optimized for smooth performance and may lower your battery drain.

Location Based Services

In your GPS settings there are 3 modes. From that use Power saving mode which uses your wifi and mobile network to estimate your location without any extra battery consumption.

Turn off Auto-SYNC

Turn off auto-sync feature for an email account if you don't want your emainl to be synced or you may increase your sync interval time from 15 minutes to 30 minutes and more.

Battery Saving Features

Find battery Saving Features on your phone. Use power saving mode which may contain CPU Power Saving, Screen Power saving ,etc depending upon your phone.

Live Wallpapers

Use of live Wallpapers may increase the CPU precessing, increase RAM usage, increase Frame Rate which may drain your phones battery.

Reboot your Device

After a couple days of use many unused apps start running in background which can cause battery drain problems and poor performance. So after every 24-36hrs you should reboot your phone to get a fresh start with less backgroung apps running and would provide great performance.

Comparison Between Galaxy s5's Android Lollipop and Android Kitkat

    

Lollipop is almost a complete overhaul over KitKat, Samsung has only borrowed a few bits of Google's newest OS. Apart from the enhanced notification drawer, the Settings menu, and the overhauled Recent Apps switcher, we generally failed to notice any other stark differences. The bigger changes are the under-the-hood ones (mostly the default ART runtime, Project Volta, etc.), as Samsung has generally retained the same design language with just a few touches here or there.

Lollipop running on our S5 felt a tad more snappier and less prone to lag. While KitKat showed a few hiccups here or there, its software successor surprised with its smooth performance. Yes, we were expecting the new firmware to fare better, and, boy, it didn't disappoint!

So let's start with some of Difference between the Two OS.

Notification Drawer

Samsung has borrowed a lot from Lollipop as far the notification drawer is concerned. Your notifications are now listed as cards. The brightness slider has been merged with the toggles at the top, which further consolidates the looks of the drawer. Speaking of the toggles section, it now comes painted in a brighter and more vivid shade of blue. This might appeal to some, but we feel that it's less "contrasty" than the darker hue that is omnipresent across the KitKat variation of Galaxy S5's firmware. Also note that the drawer itself no longer sports a handle at its bottom, which further simplifies the looks. As a whole, the drawer now looks a little bit cleaner than before, and while it's still a bit overwhelming with information and buttons, it's a definite improvement over its KitKat counterpart.

Dialer

The white color that is widely used as a background in many apps in Android 5.0 Lollipop is an AMOLED display's, but Samsung has decided that it should be used in its Lollipop build. That's why many of the system apps now come with a white background instead of darker one. A slew of default apps, namely the Dialer, Contacts, and Messaging, have been adorned with a Lollipop white background.

Settings

The Settings app has also scored a white background.Apart from this entirely visual change, the philosophy behind Samsung's tabbed interface has remained mostly the same. A pretty nice , yet somewhat hidden addition is the improved Running Apps tab in the Application Manager, which now provides you with a more advanced breakdown of your RAM, giving you a generally better understanding of what apps take up the most operational memory.

Recent Apps and active applications

Recent Apps menu that made a debut alongside Android Lollipop has been fully adopted by Samsung inside the brand new firmware for its flagship. The card based tabs does not only show you all of your recent apps, but also all of your browser tabs, broken down to different swipable cards.  Yes, it gets populated faster than its KitKat counterpart, which shows you separate apps only. Samsung has, luckily, not forgotten to throw in a "Close all" button in the recent apps menu of its Lollipop build for the S5, something that is not present in vanilla Android 5.0. You can still access your active apps from there, too.

Calculator

The calculator app has also been changed with a white background and a material finish.The material Design looks pretty decent.While in kitkat app it has a darker look to it.

Conclusion:

So the dark battery friendly Dark background is gone in this update which does not have darker colors. It's true that visually it's quite similar to the older TouchWiz, but the hidden improvements make it feel snappier.

6 reasons why Android Wear has not been a success

Truth about Android Wear 

When Google announced Android Wear, it was highly expected that Google will be able to replicate Android's mobile success and take it forward with the wearables. But it seems like the plans have not gone according to their expectations. 

Recent report on wearable market via Canalys has deemed Motorola Moto 360 as the best-selling Android Wear (AW) in the market. Which hardly comes as surprise, considering Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony and Asus are the only brands to announce their respective wearable watch last year? 

Overall, wearable business has done well with 4.6 million units sold but the fact that only 720,000 of those were running on AW is a sight of concern for Google and its wearable team. So, when AW has the most competent product in the form of Moto 360, why hasn't the supporting wearable platform been accepted by consumers across the globe? The fact that 4.6 million wearables sold is an exciting reading to gauge but how many of those actually constitute under the smartwatch segment? And that is exactly the reason behind AW holding less than one-fifth of total wearables sold last year. 

Here are some cases to consider for Android Wear's poor showing: 

Too early into the space
Recently we started with a smartphone era, and we are in our next stage of our development.
Last year was seen as the birth of a new form factor and how technology was getting closer to us, day-by-day. Android Wear was supposed to enable wearables to become unified under one platform (like how mobile has become) but that hasn't proven to be the case. Taking Google's heed, Apple smartly decided to weather the initial storm and bring out Apple Watch for the public, after reading the market's traction. 

Wearables need to evolve
As you can see with the numbers, fitness band seems to have been the primary benefactors of this segment. The likes of FitBit, Jawbone etc. have rallied as they are more affordable than smartwatch . Well they also lack in accuracy regarding fitness stastistics. Watches right now are, not functionally worthy of its value, or too similar to fitness bands in lot of aspects. 

It's not the hardware but software
While Android isn't the reason behind many manufacturer's hardware fall but same cannot be said for its wearable cousin. Lot of issues crept up with the first version of AW and similar pattern has been observed with the newer version as well. Google has to find the right formula between software and hardware to get the platform up and running, otherwise Apple might have a bigger say in 2015 with its much delayed Apple Watch (running on iOS). Brands have gotten tired with AW and they've started (or already made) software for wearables on their own. 

Too much happening
Wearables were introduced purely to ease the use of your phone and offer you convenience of communicating without having to hold your device in your hand. But by adding apps, virtual keyboard, fitness and music among others, Google has somewhat lost the true essence of having a unified wearable platform. If a wearable can do all the things a smartphone does then why to buy  a high ended smartwatch. AW needs clarity, simplicity and effective functionality, all principles that the search giant preaches wholeheartedly. 

And yes, the battery
Talking about AW doesn't end without referring to its maligned battery life support. Yes, with Lollipop version, things have marginally improved but wearables are meant to last (at least) for couple of days if not more but with AW (as seen on Moto 360), its case of charging once (or twice) in a day. And for its worth, you won't really bother paying anywhere close to Rs 10,000 for such a product, let along Rs 18,000 (price of Moto 360 in India). 

Too Expensive
Due to the new technology arrived into the tech world these products have made a buzz in the market.
but due the high cost of the wearables people might first think before buying such product. As per the cost of a Moto 360 smartwatch it is around Rs 18,000 in India. Where else the iwatch cost about Rs 25,000.

In the end all we'd like to say is, 'dear Google we need the AW to become with wearable, just like how Android teams up with mobile seamlessly'. 
At last we feel in the near future we would be seeing more smart werables with a high Battery capacity, more accuracy, durable, and less expensive.