How to improve battery life without sacrificing features?

[cicero goncalves]

Hello everyone, I'm in need of a little help. I am a recent transplant from the WP world and I am having a hard time with the battery life on my V10.
I am used to having up to 12hrs of battery life on my Lumia 1520 with heavy use but with my V10 I am barely getting 8hrs with bellow average use. What are the tips and tricks of android that are a must know for a new user that want to prove his battery life.?

 

[fwaits]

Probably one of the biggest battery hogs is the screen. I wouldn't recommend running it at full brightness all the time. Set it to Auto or manually adjust it to a lower, but acceptable brightness, and that should help get you some additional runtime.

 

[ansa82]

I agree. I have my screen set to 30% auto. Its plenty bright

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[anon(661246)]

My sweet spot was at 40% and I place it on auto if the lighting is going to be too dark or too sunny or constantly change in a short amount of time.

 

[djh2011]

I've said this in other threads. If you don't have an absolute need for all of your accounts to auto sync, then turn that off. I've found that doing a manual sync is far better for battery life.

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[stan23]

biggest difference for me.. Toggle off 'location'

Turn it on when you need it - like for Google maps.

 

[ansa82]

Hello everyone, I'm in need of a little help. I am a recent transplant from the WP world and I am having a hard time with the battery life on my V10.
I am used to having up to 12hrs of battery life on my Lumia 1520 with heavy use but with my V10 I am barely getting 8hrs with bellow average use. What are the tips and tricks of android that are a must know for a new user that want to prove his battery life.?

Also turn bluetooth off if your not using it. I also have the # battery % off. You will still see the battery visual just not the actual # and it stops that omg panic that I am at 40%!!! It's amazing how I don't pay as much attention to battery % anymore without that # up there.

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[Wobblin30]

I've said this in other threads. If you don't have an absolute need for all of your accounts to auto sync, then turn that off. I've found that doing a manual sync is far better for battery life.

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Agreed, auto sync on for Gmail, Calendar, Photos & Photos Backup, Dropbox only for me. Battery saving is on under Location, auto update for Play Store is off and I've disabled a bunch of VZW bloatware. I've checked up couple of apps like 1Weather and changed updating to every 3 hours, others sync when opened.

I have had my phone for nearly a week and the battery is getting better by the day. My G2 had great standby time, I'm hoping the V10 will do the same in time.

 

[MittenSportsFan]

I run everything at full blast.
I'm in my car most of the time with access to a rapid charger.
Why have a nice phone and have everything crippled?