20 Tips To Extend Battery Life on Windows Phone 8

You can improve the battery life of your windows phone by adjusting some of the inbuilt settings.

We have mentioned 20 Useful Tips to save your battery. This involves turning off some services and features but if you actually use one keep them enabled.

Step 1:- Turn On Battery Saver

The very easy way is to turn on the Battery saver. You will find this option under Settings.

"Your phone can turn off some services while in standby to help preserve battery life"

"When battery saver is turned on, you will receive calls and texts, but apps only run when you open them and email must be synced manually."

Step 2 :-Reduce the Time before the screen turns off

You can configure your screen to be timed out after 30 seconds of inactivity . This helps save battery and also prevents your phone from turning on by accident when you put it away.You can fetch this from Settings - Lock Screen

3) Lower the Brightness Settings

Decrease the Screen brightness to low after disabling the auto brightness option under the brightness settings

4 ) Use a dark Background theme

An amoled screen turns pixels off to show black -- it will consume increasingly less power the darker the displayed content is.Use dark background for all the apps if possible

Tap settings - Theme - background - then tap Dark

5) Disable Backup option in the backup settings

If you backup your phone manually it would be less of a drain  on your battery.Disable every backup option when you are ready to backup your data , re-enable those option.

6) Disable Background apps & Tasks

All the apps you find here, have the permission to run in the background.Some apps may run in the background unnecessarily. it would be good to turn them off.

Go to the settings  -  Swipe to Applications - tap background tasks, Tap the application you want to block and tap block

7) Turn Off Wifi, Bluetooth , NFC, Internet Sharing, location, and Data connection if they are not in use

8) Stop Scanning for new Wifi Networks 

If you have already added your Wifi Network at your home or office then it would be more battery efficient to stop the phone from searching the new networks in the background

Go to Settings - wifi - advanced then uncheck the below two options

1.Notify me when new networks are available

2.Send information about Wifi connections to help discover nearby wifi

9) Close apps when you are not using

If you have the latest update you can close app by pressing and holding the back button and then clicking the X's on the upper right corner of the apps you want to close.

10 ) Turn on Airplane Mode

If you are not actively using your phone to make or receive calls or texts then it would be more battery efficient to turn on the Airplane mode.

When you are in the place where the network is very low it is recommended to turn the airplane mode on as searching for new network consumes more battery.

11) Double tap to wake up

Double tap to wake up is another cool feature to have on Lumia devices, but you can turn this off to save battery life

12) Switch off the Vibration

You can also switch off the vibration of windows Phone Keys ( Back, Home and Search ) to save your battery life !
Go to Settings > Touch > Windows Phone Keys Vibrate > Slide to Turn Off

13) Turn off unnecessary sounds

Switch off those sounds you don't always need .

Turn off the sounds for Key press, lock and unlock and Camera Shutter

Go to Settings > ringtones + sounds > You can Turn off the sounds for Key press, Lock And Unlock, Camera Shutter and All other Notifications 

14) Disconnect Xbox Live

You can increase your battery life by disconnecting Xbox Live Service

15) Disconnect Xbox Music

If you don't use Xbox Music, you can disconnect from the service. Go to settings - swipe to applications - Music+Videos , then turn off the below two  option

1.Connect with Xbox Music

2.Xbox Music Cloud Collection

16) Glance Screen

Glance Screen allows you to see the clock and latest notification when your phone switches to Standby.   You can choose this to turn off, but if you are adamant you need this feature switched on then we'd suggest setting it to Peek mode.
Go to setting > Glance

 

This Option lets you see the glance screen when you hover your hand over the phone

17) Disable automatic Download Updates

Go to settings > Phone update > Uncheck - Automatic download if my data settings allow it

18) Turn Off Photo Upload if you don't use that feature

Go To Photos > Settings > Turn off Auto Upload Feature

19) Sign off from the Messaging Hub

Sign off from chat if you don't use Messenger and Facebook chat from the messaging Hub

20) Switch off Email

If you have added email accounts that don't need to be checked frequently then you can reduce the frequency your phone checks for new email to 30 minutes, hourly or even Manually

Go to Email Box > Settings > Tap Sync Settings > there you can change the frequency of Downloading new Content

Share your thoughts in the comments and let us know if you have more tips to add !