Apple, BlackBerry, Samsung, Nokia and other global brands have come up with smartphones equipped with powerful mobile operating systems such as Google’s Android, Nokia’s Symbian, Microsoft's Windows Phone, Apple’s iOS, etc, These smartphones are
more commonly known for their poor battery life. Because these smartphones allow us to do MULTIPLE activities like checking mails, Browsing Internet, location Services, Playing games, and due to this the battery will be ticking down to zero. To avoid this happening and to make your smart phone battery last longer follow the tips posted below.

Just try these 10 tips on your phone tomorrow and observe the improved battery life of your smartphone.

1. Turn Off Vibrations

Vibrations actually consume more power than ringtones. The sounds produced by ringtones are just very tiny vibrations in your smartphone’s speaker while vibration involves shaking of the entire phone.In places where "Turning ON Vibration" doesn’t matter, it would be better for you to use your ringtone as notification to keep your smartphones last longer.

2. Reduce Brightness of Screen :

The large screen of your smartphone is one of the main reason for the rapid drain of battery.So, it better to dim  when indoors where even 35% brightness is sufficient. Or else you can set your Brightness to Auto mode which is available in almost all smart phones.

3. Minimize Screen Timeout :

To minimize the power consumption of your smartphone of the screen display, you ought to consider shortening the screen timeout.This decides how long the screen will remain "ON" after you finish interacting with it.To minimize it, Go to your phone's display settings menu, you will find an option  'Screen Timeout' or something similar. (On an iPhone, look for Auto-Lock in the General settings menu.)

4.Use a dark Wall Paper / Lockscreen : 

Using very light wallpaper consumes more battery as it requires more contrast. So it is good to use a dark coloured wallpaper and Lock screen.

Note : Avoid using any live Wall Papers / Lock screens.

 5. Manage your apps smartly:

Multitasking - the ability to run more than one app at a time - is a powerful smartphone feature. And obviously it burns a lot of energy, because every app you run uses a share of your phone's processor cycles. So it's better to keep an eye on background running application and clean them time to time.You can also uninstall unnecessary applications that run background and constantly gives "push notifications".

6. Charge Your Battery Correctly

Speaking of phone charging, there are generally two kinds of rechargeable batteries commonly used for smartphones: Lithium-ion (Li-Ion), and Nickel-based batteries: namely Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) and Nickel-Cadmium (NiCd).

NiCd Battery shows reduction in battery capacity after every charge. NiCd batteries have longer life cycles i.e. they can be recharged more often than NiMH batteries before their life ends. So it is advisory to charge  Nickel-based batteries up to 100% when they’re more or less out of power, and not when there’s still a good amount of energy left.

Most smartphone uses Li-Ion batteries which have longest life cycle among the three types of batteries mentioned above. But they are required to be charged more frequently (even when the battery is not fully used up) to maintain its original capacity. You may need to Google appropriate charging strategy for maintaining longer battery life. 

7. Switch Off Location Services ( GPS ) :

8. Leave some works for apps

9. Lock Your Phone :

10. Disable 3/4G when not browsing :

 ...and be cool, keep it cool