Anyone know of any free or paid battery saver apps that are really good? DO you think it's worth paying for a 'Battery Saver Apps for Android phone? or are they just a waste of time!? THey may even end up messing about with the phones' battery system??
Battery Saver Apps for Android phones?
LYRICALRAVER on 10/09/2013 - 19:02
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I find JuiceDefender to really work for me, almost doubles my battery life. its free as well which is good
It turns off data when your phones screen is off, and it turns data on every 15(?)minutes or so (paid versions let you change this to different times), so you can get your push notifications. The only thing i find annoying is that it does take a few seconds to turn data back on when i unlock my phone.
source: work at a phone store
Checkout Greenify, it lets you 'hibernate' apps that you don't need running in the background so that they only run when you explicitly tell them to. It's great for saving battery and stopping annoying background notifications you don't care about. Best of all once you tell it what apps you want hibernated it's completely transparent, just run your apps like normal and you won't notice a difference.
Just so everyone understands
Every single app that increases battery life has a downside/side effect.
Only use these apps if you are willing to accept the side effect, what that is depends on how you are saving battery life.
ok, thanks for the info guys
From experience, these apps do nothing other than change the settings for you.
They do it by
1. Having an aggressive policy on turning wifi, 3g / 4G, BT and GPS off
2. Dimming the screen (often to the point where your phone is too dark to read in sunlight, manually setting brightness is much less annoying)
3. Setting the screen timeout to 5 seconds.
4. Setting Vibration / Haptic feedback off
Of course you can do all of the above settings yourself, in order to conserve phone battery. Battery saver apps aren't made of magic and unicorns — you can't tell the phone to use less power without sacrificing some of it's features.
JuiceDefender is the most popular one on Google Play at the moment. I used this for about a year and noticed no real change in my battery life, but I found it counter productive to have the app running in the background and eating precious RAM and CPU cycles (and actually requiring battery power!) when I can just set the settings myself.
If you're always running short on battery life, consider buying a spare battery via eBay.. or get one of those USB power banks to charge on the go. Don't spend any money on any of the battery saver apps (Tasker is a much better alternative!)