Help increase battery life

[kofman13]

hi im new to android. ive been on iphone for 4 years and got very used to iOS and i knew how to tweak the OS pretty well to get the most out of my battery.
i got an LG optimus V yesterday and the battery is okay but not as good as the iphone 3gs... i kinda expected that though.
anyone give me some tips to max my battery life? i wanna be your android student!
so far i have brightness down to minimum, and gps off..
what else?

 

[pastafarian]

You could give Juice Defender a try. There are tons of general battery saving threads on this site too. The biggest differences I've seen in battery life on the Android phones I've owned came with installing hacked kernel/OS, but I don't know what the Optimus dev scene is up to.

 

[ArenaCreative]

Juice it up with Juice Defender... worked for me

 

[lizm]

For me turning off Facebook sync made a big difference. I do sync my gmail account because that's my calendar, main contacts and mail. I have auto-sync for my apps off too, though you may want that on, see if it makes any difference for you.

I had a Droid Incredible before this and I am much happier with the battery life on my Optimus. I haven't bothered to install a task killer on this phone, and I am not sure if they don't actually make the situation worse...task killers shut down tasks that just restart themselves, using perhaps more power to do so.

 

[sammmy]

Turn 3G, Sync, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth off, unless you use them.

The biggest battery drain comes from leaving 3G data on when you don't use it.

Application killers are not necessary in Android, my battery stays the same on standby (with the above mentioned suspects turned off) no matter what applications I had used before that.

Read the end of this thread http://androidforums.com/lg-optimus-v/270848-excessive-battery-drain-even-standby-2.html

 

[ArenaCreative]

Turn 3G, Sync, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth off, unless you use them.

The biggest battery drain comes from leaving 3G data on when you don't use it.

Application killers are not necessary in Android, my battery stays the same on standby (with the above mentioned suspects turned off) no matter what applications I had used before that.

Read the end of this thread http://androidforums.com/lg-optimus-v/270848-excessive-battery-drain-even-standby-2.html

That pretty much about sums it up. I usually leave 3g off unless I need it, with the app called quick settings (combined with quick battery, which I use as a homepage shortcut to quick settings)

 

[CharlieStahl]

If using a tether (like now with pda.net) on my laptop are any of those going to affect performance? Like the 3G?

 

[greg4android]

Turn 3G, Sync, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth off, unless you use them.

The biggest battery drain comes from leaving 3G data on when you don't use it.

Application killers are not necessary in Android, my battery stays the same on standby (with the above mentioned suspects turned off) no matter what applications I had used before that.

Read the end of this thread http://androidforums.com/lg-optimus-v/270848-excessive-battery-drain-even-standby-2.html

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What he said. Turn 3G, Sync, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth off, unless you use them. Application killers are not necessary in Android, my battery stays the same on standby. and Brightness turned down to ~ 25%.
Mine's been on all day, and i've used only 10% of my battery.

 

[musick]

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What he said. Turn 3G, Sync, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth off, unless you use them. Application killers are not necessary in Android, my battery stays the same on standby. and Brightness turned down to ~ 25%.
Mine's been on all day, and i've used only 10% of my battery.

Thirded.

I do like to keep my 3G on all day (everything else mentioned off) and it does make a huge difference in battery life. I opted to buy add'l batteries and carry an extra w/ me. Two batteries easily gets me through the day despite hours of Pandroa streaming, 15-30 min. of surfing and some text, voice and MP3 playback as well.

 

[jnetherland1]

How do you turn 3g off?

 

[MacFett]

I use the Power Control widget, it is stock. [edit sorry, 3g is not on the stock bar]
I use Widgetsoid, you can customize a Power Control bar and put 3g on there.

 

[jp3515]

How do you turn 3g off?

3g can be turned off easily using the quick settings app.

 

[jp3515]

3g can be turned off easily using the quick settings app.

Quick settings will also allow you to easily turn on/off GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth and adjust your screen brightness along with phone volume. You can also tap on the battery logo at the top of the screen and it will tell you what is using how much of your battery.

 

[AmishFury]

turning 3G off with quick settings turns mobile data off completely... if you want to toggle between 3g and 1x you can use anycut to make a shortcut to the testing menu and switch between CDMA only for 1x and CDMA auto (PRL) for 3g

 

[ack3300]

Juice it up with Juice Defender... worked for me

That took care of all my battery problems too.