Is your Samsung Galaxy phone using a lot of battery? Do you have to charge it too often? A user interface offers a plethora of ways to save mAh, there are also mechanisms with which minimize energy consumption. We show you five ways to save the maximum battery life of your Samsung Galaxy.
A user interface offers a lot of options, often more than anyone would want. And that usually has a downside: the cost of the battery. Samsung’s custom cape has a reputation for being a bit power hungry, an indisputable fact. Now there are different ways to contain consumption, like all of the ones we offer below. From the most basic to the most expert.
Disconnect all that is superfluous
One UI offers a plethora of gestures, assists, and options that consume battery in the background. So as a first step, it is better to turn off anything you don’t use on the phone. As the Samsung Galaxy grows in category, so does the number of default active functions.
Let’s go through the steps: here is an example of what you can turn off to limit power consumption on your Samsung Galaxy:
- Reduce the resolution to Full HD and the fluidity to standard (60 Hz).
- Disconnect the Always On Display (the settings of the “Lock screen” option).
- Disconnect everything related to Bixby. Go to your app and turn off voice activation; Access the advanced functions of your phone’s settings and turn off “Bixby Routines”.
- Disable “Movements and gestures”. It is an option which is in the “Advanced functions”, in the parameters.
- In addition, you can turn off Google’s activity history as well as Samsung’s “ Find my mobile ” option, which can be found in “ Biometric and security data ”, in settings. We do not recommend it because you will lose the ability to recover your phone if it is lost or stolen.
The above options being designed as an added value, disconnecting them will make you lose part of the experience that the phone can offer you. Therefore, only turn off the ones that you really don’t care about.
Adjust the performance optimizer
Samsung allows for modifying the phone’s performance to contain overall consumption, both actively using the screen and in the background. It is a good way to save mAh, also only use the full potential of your smartphone when you need it.
To manage the performance of your Samsung Galaxy, you need to perform the following steps:
- Enter your mobile settings, go to “Device maintenance” and click on “Battery”.
- Go to “Performance Mode” and choose “Optimized”. If you want to reduce consumption, you can restrict the functions of your phone with “Average power saving”. Maximum power saving is not recommended unless you have very little battery power and cannot afford to charge your mobile.
- If you have the “Adaptive Energy Saving” option, it is recommended to enable it. An UI will adapt to your use to consume as little as possible.
Put your most expensive apps to sleep
A user interface allows you to enable automatic deactivation when you actively stop using an application. In this way It should not consume battery in the background, which will result in an extension of the battery. These steps should be performed with all applications for which you do not need notifications: in the case of WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger or similar it is better to always leave them active. Otherwise, you will miss important messages.
To manually turn off the apps that consume the most in the background, you need to perform the following steps:
- Go to the battery options (enter phone settings / Device maintenance) and go to ‘Battery usage’.
- Check which apps consumed the most power and go to the most consuming.
- Activate the ‘connectorPut in standby mode“. A user interface should stop this application when you stop actively using it on the screen. Remember: don’t automatically turn off apps that display important notifications (email, messaging, and social media).
- Repeat the steps with all the apps and that’s it.
After disabling the apps you want in the background, it is better to restart the Samsung Galaxy.
Disable preinstalled apps that you don’t use
One user interface is full of Samsung apps. And a lot of them work in the background even if they are not in use, like the browser does, Microsoft apps or Facebook apps
- Open your phone settings and go to “Applications”.
- Make sure “All” is selected (at the top of the screen) and browse the list of apps you want to disable.
- Go to each of the applications and click on ‘Force stop’, in the menus below. Then click on “Deactivate” to deactivate its use.
Disabling applications is not the same as uninstalling them because they are not deleted from the mobile, but at least they stop wasting energy since they stop running. The vast majority of preinstalled apps cannot be disabled, you should take this into account. However, we recommend that you try it.
Uninstall system apps you don’t use
This is the most extreme way to save battery and you should be more careful with: If you delete an app that the system needs, your Samsung Galaxy may become unstable. By themselves, they are not eliminated forever since only the installation goes away, but, despite this, it is a very delicate process. Act only if you accept the risks: from Xataka Android we are not responsible for what may happen.
Protected system apps can be deleted using ADB commands, but you need to be careful: if you delete an app that the phone needs, it may stop working
To proceed with removing system apps, you don’t need root access on your Samsung Galaxy, yes a computer with ADB installed. If you’ve never run commands from the terminal window, the first thing to do is install ADB on your PC, Mac, or Linux.
Once ADB is active, follow the process of uninstalling applications using ADB commands. Remember: depending on what you delete, you may make your Samsung Galaxy unstable. It may even stop working.
- Enable USB debugging from developer options. If you don’t have these options, follow this tutorial.
- Connect the mobile to the computer via USB, open a terminal window and type in ‘adb devices’ to make sure that the Samsung Galaxy has been correctly detected. If you have a Mac or Linux, you must write a ‘./’ (without the quotes) in front of each ADB instruction.
- Accept the RSA key that will appear on your Samsung Galaxy screen if this is your first time sending ADB commands to it.
- Type the terminal ‘adb shell’.
- Install the Package Name Viewer application on your mobile.
- Open the app, go to the “System Apps” tab and find the preinstalled apps you want to remove. Click on each of them and copy the name of the package.
- Type the terminal ‘pm uninstall -k –user 0’ and the name of the package you want to remove. For example, if you want to remove Facebook services, type “pm uninstall -k –user 0 com.facebook.services”.
- When you press Enter in the terminal, the installation of the application will be wiped, stop working and drain the battery.
- If you want to reinstall the application, you need to write the instruction ‘cmd package install-existing’ and the name of the package you want to recover. It reinstalls itself automatically.
Finding each package name is somewhat tedious. Do you want to automate the process slightly? On this page, you will find ADB instructions, as well as packages, of the most common Samsung system applications. Remember: While you can easily recover any app, your Samsung Galaxy might stop working if you delete something that you shouldn’t.. And maybe you have no other solution than to erase the phone, with the loss of data that entails.
Every time you update the mobile, you will have to delete again the system apps that you no longer want: these are reinstalled after the update. Also when the Samsung Galaxy is restored.
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