What are some of your tips and tricks to get the best battery life in your mobile phone.

@pitstop (13065)
India
January 10, 2018 10:28am CST
My phone is an old Nexus 5 and the battery is weak. It lasts half a day and I am constantly connecting it to charge. What are your tips to improve battery life. I turn off bluetooth, dim the screen and lock the phone when it's not in use. What are your tricks to maximise battery life.
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@Dyvette16 (4301)
• United States
10 Jan 18
Delete any apps you do not use , or go to settings and under apps choose the apps you don’t want to run on your phone while not using it
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@pitstop (13065)
• India
11 Jan 18
I've disabled most apps from running in the background
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@pitstop (13065)
• India
12 Jan 18
@Dyvette16 probably yes. Facebook is a notorious data and battery consumer.
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@Dyvette16 (4301)
• United States
11 Jan 18
@pitstop have you seen improvement of your battery life ?
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@aureliah (24321)
• Kenya
10 Jan 18
Thats tricky. Avoid using it unnecessarily such as with playing games.
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@pitstop (13065)
• India
10 Jan 18
Thanks i don't play games. I should try to cut on checking for email often. That'll help
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@aureliah (24321)
• Kenya
10 Jan 18
@pitstop Yeah it could or you get a power bank to charge it on the go
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@pitstop (13065)
• India
10 Jan 18
@aureliah I carry a power bank when I travel.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
10 Jan 18
Disable wifi when the phone sleeps, auto-brightness and apps that you use rarely to forbid them to run in background.
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@pitstop (13065)
• India
10 Jan 18
Sounds good. Most of the time I have WiFi disabled. Will check app permissions too
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
10 Jan 18
My phone does not lobat easily yet but I have a Max Optimizer app installed, it has a battery saver and many features like memory booster, cleaner, cpu cooler, file scanner, so many, think more than 10 uses in one app.
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@pitstop (13065)
• India
10 Jan 18
I'm always worried that such apps snoop on the phone and collect data.
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@pitstop (13065)
• India
11 Jan 18
@louievill I'll try using it on my backup phone and see how it looks.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
11 Jan 18
@pitstop get it directly from playstore. I had tested Max optimizer, so far so good, my teenage daughter chose it for me, these young people seem to know more than us when it comes to choosing a bad and a good app cause all they do is tinker with their devices
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@yasmoo22 (193)
12 Jan 18
you can also do : use black color picture as background of your home screen as more bright background take lot of battery
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@pitstop (13065)
• India
12 Jan 18
Sounds like a logical idea. Will try that.