Learn more about battery performance

Standby time, a common term when it comes to battery performance, refers to the time during which the phone is connected to the network and is not being used.

The following tips can help you improve battery performance:

• Charge your phone often. This will not affect the lifetime of the battery.
• Downloading data from the Internet is power consuming. When you’re not using the Internet, you can save power by disabling all data connections over mobile networks. You can do this from the Wireless & network settings. This setting does not prevent your phone from transmitting data over other wireless networks.
• Turn off GPS, Bluetooth™ and Wi-Fi^® when you don’t need these features. You can turn them on and off more easily by adding the Status switch widget to your Home screen. You do not need to turn off 3G.
• Set your synchronisation applications (used to synchronise your email, calendar and contacts), to synchronise manually.
• Check the battery usage menu in the phone to see which applications use the most power. You can do this from the About phone settings. Your battery consumes more power when you use video and music streaming applications, such as YouTube™. Some Google Play™ applications also consume more power.
• Close and exit applications that you are not using since multitasking affects the battery performance.
• Lower the screen display brightness level. You can do this from the Display settings.
• Turn off your phone, or use Airplane mode if you are in an area with no network coverage. Otherwise, your phone repeatedly scans for available networks, and this consumes power.
• Use a handsfree device to listen to music. This consumes less battery power than when you listen to music through the phone’s loudspeakers.