Battery technologies are improving, but battery life continue to be one of the biggest issues for smartphone users, with a number of phones failing to reach 24 hours of use with a single charge.
There are a number of apps on the market that let you clear the apps which appear to be consuming the most battery, but DU Battery Saver from Baidu Mobile Apps goes even further by actively cooling your phone as well. Here, I’ll give a short tutorial on how to use it.
Upon opening the app, you are quickly presented with a screen showing you how much battery life you could be saving, in my case 70 minutes, and with a single click the app begins optimising how your apps run in the background to let you eke out those precious few minutes to save you from boredom on the night bus home.
The app allows you to tweak some settings if you decide that you do want some apps running in the background all of the time, and offers a number of programmable modes, where you can choose which apps are running in the background at certain times or during specific activities.
By continually monitoring the temperature of your phone’s battery, DU Battery Saver can determine when your battery is working less than optimally because of high CPU consumption, and act accordingly – disabling apps to bring the temperature down to a safer level. Most phones will have protections built in to stop a battery’s temperature from rising to dangerous levels, but just by getting a little too warm batteries start to work less efficiently and this impacts their life-span over the long term.
Another useful feature is that DU Battery Saver will inform you when an app on your lockscreen has started to eat up your battery, giving you the opportunity to instantly close it and add a few minutes between each charge.
There are a number of ways all smartphone users can improve their battery life, such as switching off WiFi when you are travelling so that Google does not try and triangulate your position by WiFi networks in the area, dimming the screen a little, and switching the phone to flight mode when you know you are out of signal. Most smartphone manufacturers also include a Power Saving mode, which is designed for that phone’s specific hardware, but apps like DU Battery Saver improve upon the situation by working behind the scenes to stop some rogue apps that are using up your battery when they shouldn’t be, and keeping the battery’s temperature in check.
More advanced features are also available in the Pro version of the app and can improve battery life even further, such as by reducing the CPU frequency when the lockscreen is on, autoclearing apps, or setting the programmable modes to run at certain times of day.
The free DU Battery Saver app has had over 100 million downloads from the Google Play Store and remains one of the most popular battery monitoring and improvement apps available on the platform, with Baidu Mobile Apps claiming that it can squeeze an additional 50% more battery life from your smartphone. You can give it a try now by downloading it from the Google Play.
This article was sponsored by Baidu Mobile Apps