Looking for a way to increase your BlackBerry’s battery life? PC World has a nice informational post that can help you save battery life in a few different ways.
Here is what I do:
- Set my BlackBerry to automatically turn off at night for a short amount of time.
- Turn off the radio (antenna) when I’m in a dead zone (no reception).
- Don’t let my battery get into the red (almost dead).
- Delete old messages and phone call logs (more memory more battery usage…I think).
- Set screen brightness to lowest setting.
- Turn off TrackBall clicking.
Pretty basic, but it works.
It’s difficult enough to keep plain-vanilla cell phones charged for a busy day of just talking.
But these days, we also use our smartphones for e-mail, surfing the Web, editing documents, accessing corporate networks, text messaging, enjoying music and video, playing games, managing our personal information and much more — making it all the more catastrophic when our devices run out of juice.
The problem is that while smartphone capabilities have increased dramatically in recent years, batteries have not kept pace. “Phones do so much more now, but battery technology hasn’t advanced that much,” says Scott Riddle, digital sales supervisor at BearCom, a retailer of mobile equipment. Riddle regularly hears from customers about their struggles to keep smartphones charged. “Everybody has this problem,” he says.
Fortunately, there are many things you can do to significantly increase the time between charges, although no one solution is a silver bullet. “It’s a lot of little things that help,” according to Riddle.
We asked Riddle and other experts for their best tricks to extend your smartphone’s battery life. Here’s what they told us.
Remember the Basics
First, some basics. You may already know these tips, but if you apply them diligently, they can help increase battery life.
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