Showing posts with label Improve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Improve. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

How To Improve Your Laptop Battery Life

Availability of laptops at affordable prices have made it popular among the folks. Earlier it was used only by the business magnets for their business activities. The main advantage of laptops is it's Portability. To make use of this advantage it should have long battery life. Most of the laptop batteries are made up of lithium ion batteries which run for a specific times even without the power supply. A battery life most last for two to three years depending on the intensity of the usage.

Occasionally, some factors add to the thinning lifespan of batteries. The followings are some common examples.

1. Over-wearing and recharging. There is a practice among the folks to put your laptops in power for the whole time you work or draining your battery charge without supplying it power when showing the alarm and make it automatically shut down.these practices can make your laptop battery life fade away as they are dangerous to the battery.

2. Power gush. It's not advisable to plug in battery directly to AC. There are chances of sudden voltage fluctuations which cannot be absorbed by the laptop batteries and this may reduce the life span of the battery.

3. Raspberry ants. There are insects that love to hide behind the lights or any other warm areas in and around the electronic devices. These cans carry dust and other particles inside to your laptop. This can cause harm to your laptop battery.

4. Over-plugging devices to your laptop. We may attach additional external devices say a mouse, printer or coolers to the laptops. These are power consuming and the laptop have the capacity for only supply certain level of power to these devices. So manage your devices to prevent battery failure.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Droid Battery Tips: How to Improve Droid Battery Life

Droid is quite popular now. Most users are satisfied with its features, but I also see quite some users complain about its battery life. Droid is not only a powerful phone, but also a power hungry phone. Here are some easy tips on how to extend your Droid battery life.

Tips 1: Change settings and turn off things you are not using.

This tip applies to almost all android phones.

One thing that you can do is, on one of the three home screens click and hold down to add a new widget. There is a built in widget that is called Power Control, add this widget to the screen. This allows quick control over some of the less power friendly items on the phone.

The display brightness can be switched between three settings: 0%, 50%, 100%. You can just turn on the automatic control that changes with the ambient light around the phone. Or you can change it to 0% for battery saving.

WiFi/GPS/Sync/Bluetooth can all be turned off manually.

Tips 2: Make sure to put the phone in Sleep Mode

Although Droid is smart enough to put itself in Sleep mode when you are not using it, but it is also very easy to manually put it in Sleep mode by simply pressing the power button once.

Tips 3: Kill non-active apps

Fewer running apps will surely save your battery. You can try apps like Advanced Task Manager. It will automatically kill non-active apps for you.