A Samsung Galaxy Note 3 comes with a detachable standard battery of 3200 mAh which offers a good battery life. When in constant crazy use without stop, it could last for about 6 hours or more. However, you will get much more hours when it is not very much in use. Now, the truth is that a 3200 mAh capacity of a battery is not the best that you will get most especially when you consider that there are phones that you will get that give you as much as 5000 mAh capacity. The good news, however, is that there are some simple methods that you can follow to extend Galaxy Note 3 Battery Life.
For anyone using the Galaxy Note 3, one of the most obvious problems, although every other thing is very much on point, is that the battery life is not the best that you can get. Apart from the low capacity of the battery, the way you use it is very important in deciding how long it gets to last for you.
Tips To Extend Galaxy Note 3 Battery Life
1. Manage wireless features such as GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth
Deactivating and completely turning off GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth features when not in use helps the battery to save more life. This is because even when they are not in use, so long as they are ON, they constantly search for locations and places to connect with other devices which means that they always keep your phone very busy, hence, they consume your battery.
2. Change the display settings
One of the things that consume battery life more than anything else is a very bright screen. When you first get your phone, the screen will be very bright, and you will have the option to either increase it or decrease it, and based on how it goes, the battery may last or run out in no time. It can be readjusted by going to the auto-checkbox and dragging down the status bar to open from the top the notification panel. Now change the settings either by lowering the screen brightness or turning off the auto-brightness feature completely and manually set the brightness level.
Another thing that you may want to consider is the screen time-out. The longer the screen time-out, the more battery life you will lose. Because of this, you will need to decrease the time-out so that it can sleep immediately after it is no longer in use. More so, you may also want to switch from live wallpapers to regular wallpapers as these wallpapers consume battery life faster.
3. Adjust Email Settings
Surprisingly, another way to Extend Galaxy Note 3 battery is to change your email settings. Synchronization of emails has a negative effect on Galaxy note lll battery life hours. The battery life improves significantly if the frequency or level of synchronization is reduced to the barest minimum.
4. Disable gesture features when not in use
The device is designed with a set of gesture-based features. These features keep the device’s sensors active needlessly which in turn swallows up more battery power unusually. If these gestures are not being used, it should be disabled completely.
5. Turn of push notifications
Every Samsung Galaxy device has its own app store. The store runs on the background and often receives push notifications from the server. When not in use, it is better to it off completely to save battery life.
6. Turn off vibrate mode
The device’s vibrator should be turned off when not in use. This is because as the device vibrates, it shakes and exerts so much energy from the battery.
7. Use Snapdragon battery guru
The battery guru is an app designed to help extend the battery life of smartphones by making changes that optimize device functionality with its processors. The app delivers longer battery life with fewer changes; learns how to use the phone without disabling the phone’s functionality and it requires no configuration because it automatically adjusts the phone’s settings. It improves battery life by managing the Bluetooth radios, Wi-Fi, clock speed and CPU governor.
8. Turn off voice wake up
Galaxy note lll comes with listening feature for voice commands which is always ON. The challenge is that this feature is integrated with S-Voice, not Google Now. When the S-Voice feature is not in use, make sure the “wake up command” and “voice wake up” feature is disabled from the app settings to save the battery life.
9. Turn off S-pen detector
From the home screen on the device, go to settings, the S-pen option will display, then touch the option “turn off pen detection”. This will disable pen detection even when the pen is kept inside the device.
10. All S-apps should be deactivated
Samsung normally adds extra apps and services when released. It is applicable to note lll also. These services come with bloatware such as S-memo, S-planner, S-cloud and widget and they continually run on the background draining a substantial amount of battery life. If not in use, this bloatware should be disabled by going to the Apps Manager in settings.
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However, the device should be unplugged when charging is completed. This is because when the device is allowed to remain plugged, it could damage the device’s battery completely if you’re lucky enough if not, you risk blowing up the entire device.
Finally, turn off data mode if not in use. Whenever the data mode is ON some apps begin to run automatically even if not in use. Turn off data when it’s not need to help extend battery life.
