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Power saving tips for Gingerbread
Pt. 2 of 5 | 5:14 |
Tuesday February 8, 2011
How Do I? Using Android 2.3 Gingerbread on the Nexus S
Tuesday February 8, 2011
Gingerbread lets you see detailed data on what processes and apps are chewing through your battery. With the Super AMOLED screen on the Nexus S, Gingerbread is the most-power friendly version of the OS yet. The color scheme, look and feel have been overhauled and not just for looks; the darker color scheme is perfect for power savings on AMOLED screens.
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Check application's power use
Go to Settings > Application settings > Battery use to see what's been eating your battery and if need be, adjust accordingly.
Display
Super AMOLED is a very power-friendly display technology; rather than use a passive back-lighting system, each pixel is its own light source. With AMOLED, displaying dark colors means less light emitted by the OLED pixels, which means power savings.
Power saving widget
Place the stock Power Control widget on one of your homescreens; ideally, the first. This way you can easily toggle different items on or off and save power that way.
Turn off any wireless services you're not using by tapping them in the Power Control widget or alternately, by going into Settings > Wireless & networks
Display
Set the display to automatic brightness as it's the best balance of battery cost to performance; the display with automatically dim when you're indoors or in low-light and will turn itself up to compete when in bright sunlight.
Likewise, set the display timeout in Settings > Display > Screen timeout.
Other power saving tips
You can even turn off 3G to save more battery at cost to data speeds and call quality. This is a last resort though if your phone isn't lasting the whole day, as you'll have poorer call quality and much lower data speeds.
Go to Settings > Application settings > Battery use to see what's been eating your battery and if need be, adjust accordingly.
Display
Super AMOLED is a very power-friendly display technology; rather than use a passive back-lighting system, each pixel is its own light source. With AMOLED, displaying dark colors means less light emitted by the OLED pixels, which means power savings.
Power saving widget
Place the stock Power Control widget on one of your homescreens; ideally, the first. This way you can easily toggle different items on or off and save power that way.
Turn off any wireless services you're not using by tapping them in the Power Control widget or alternately, by going into Settings > Wireless & networks
Display
Set the display to automatic brightness as it's the best balance of battery cost to performance; the display with automatically dim when you're indoors or in low-light and will turn itself up to compete when in bright sunlight.
Likewise, set the display timeout in Settings > Display > Screen timeout.
Other power saving tips
You can even turn off 3G to save more battery at cost to data speeds and call quality. This is a last resort though if your phone isn't lasting the whole day, as you'll have poorer call quality and much lower data speeds.
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