Back in 2012, the Galaxy Note 2 set the benchmark in the battery
life department for all Android phones to follow. The Note 3 this year is no
different, with a beefy 3200mAH removable battery. While the jump in battery
capacity compared to the Note 2 is only 100mAh, the Note 3 has a much more
power efficient display and chipset which helps in offering it class leading
battery life.
However, you can always tweak a few settings to improve the
battery life of a device and the Galaxy Note 3 is no different, especially with
all that TouchWiz bloat.
Below, we offer a few quick tips that should help in improving the
battery life of the Note 3.
Turn Off Auto Brightness – Auto brightness on
Android phones is generally broken and the Galaxy Note 3 is no different. The
display brightness will either be too low or too high depending on the lighting
conditions, but never be perfect.
So, it is always better to set the brightness level manually, or
use an application like Lux from the Play Store. Lux
provides a plethora of option to tweak your display’s brightness, and also
allows you to link a certain brightness level with the light outside.
Use Snapdragon Battery Guru – If you are using
the N9005 variant of the Note 3, use Qualcomm’s own Snapdragon
Battery Guru app to boost the battery life of your phablet. The app
automatically manages your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth radios, CPU governor and clock
speed etc. to improve battery life.
Disable all the S-Apps – With every new Galaxy
device, Samsung adds a plethora of new apps and services that are bordering on
being called bloatware. The Galaxy Note 3 is no exception to this rule, and
comes with a plethora of bloatware on the context of being dubbed as features.
Apps and features like S-Planner, S-Memo, Action widget, S-Cloud
etc. all run in the background that not only take precious resources, but also
reduce battery life.
If you are not using most of the pre-loaded Samsung bloatware,
head over to Settings -> Apps Manager and disable them to free up unneeded
resources.
Turn off unneeded gestures – The Note
3 comes with a plethora of gesture based features that keeps the sensors on the
device unnecessarily active, thereby draining battery.
If you are not using most of these gestures, head over to Settings
-> Control to disable them.
Turn off Voice wake up – Like the Moto X, the Galaxy
Note 3 also has an always-on listening feature for voice commands. The problem
is this useful feature is integrated with Samsung’s S-Voice and not Google Now,
totally killing its usability.
Anyways, if you are not a fan of S-Voice, make sure to disable the
‘Wake up command’ and ‘Voice wake-up’ feature from the app settings to save
some battery life.
Turn off Push notifications from Samsung apps –
Every Galaxy device comes with Samsung’s own app store adding to the total
number of bloatware shipped with the device and features that a user is never
going to use.
Either ways, the Samsung Apps store constantly runs in the
background and receives push notifications from Samsung’s server for certain
new apps. Chances are you have never even used Samsung Apps, so turn off the
push notification to save battery life.
You can disable push notifications from the Settings menu of
Samsung Apps.
The above tips will help you in boosting the battery life of your
Galaxy Note 3 by 15-20%. If you were expecting anything more, its time to buy
yourself one of those aftermarket extended batteries that provide a huge jump
in battery capacity.
Also, if your Note 3 is giving abnormally poor battery life, do a
hard reset. Sometimes, applications can go haywire in the background and
constantly drain your phone’s battery.
Do you have any other tip that helps you in boosting the battery
life of your Note 3? If yes, do drop in a comment and let us know!
Credit:androidbeat.com
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