How to extend laptop or smartphone work on a single charge?

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Manufacturers continue to improve batteries for smartphones, laptops and tablets. And each time, they still hold a charge longer, but still there are times when you go on the road and for some reason, for a long time can not charge your gadget. readers of the blog "How-To Geek"To share tips on how they extend the life of the device on a single charge.

1. The most common advice - to reduce the screen brightness to a minimum. There are special applications in which you can set the backlight level is even lower than the standard allows the device settings. Also set the minimum time interval for automatic turn off the backlight.

2. You can disable 3G connections, WiFi and GPS. Include them only when needed and switch off again after use.

3. Save energy if you do not use screensavers, and simply turn off the screen at a time, until it is used.

4. An excellent piece of advice: you can not bother with the settings and do not lose functionality, but just take an extra set of batteries and a charger for the battery.

5. For laptops, you can use special programs, such as BatteryCare (free). This program reminds you when it's time to make a battery calibration. And when the laptop is running on battery, the program will minimize some of the parameters.

6. Notebook: Do not use the drive. All the files you need better advance copy to the hard drive.

7. Budget tablets sometimes consider themselves phones and are constantly looking for a cellular network. Of course, do not find, but spend a lot of energy. To avoid this, place the tablet in airplane mode. Install additional specialized application, you can use the WiFi network while remaining in airplane mode. If you have root-rights, you can completely eradicate the network search function.

8. iPod to save energy can also be converted into the airplane, so it does not scan for available WiFi networks.

9. Replace the device task manager and remove applications running in the background that you do not currently need. It also saves battery.

There are many more interesting tips on the use of devices you can read in our article "How to charge the batteries of smartphones and laptops, so they last longer?»