Samsung’s latest smartphones: Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge’s batteries are smaller than last year’s Galaxy series smartphones, delivering a somewhat disappointing battery life, but offer a couple new tech features that make sure your smartphone’s battery power lasts all-day. If you find yourself running out of juice mid-day, the new smartphones include a feature that automate the process of conserving battery power.
Tricks to extend Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphons battery life
Head to Settings > Battery. You’ll see two options: Power Saving Mode and Ultra Power Saving Mode. The former disables a few key features that won’t impede your Galaxy smartphone’s performance. The latter, Ultra Power Saving, goes to the extreme by making your phone go grayscale and disabling all features, save for a few key apps.
To enable the tech features, do so in the Settings screen. Alternatively, you can quickly enable either mode through Quick Settings (accessible by swiping down from the status bar).
Power-saving mode
Samsung’s power-saving mode is nothing new; the feature has been around since the Galaxy S2. When enabled, this mode can be used to block background app data, limit the phone’s performance, reduce the screen frame rate, lower the brightness, and even change the display to grayscale. This mode will greatly enhance your battery life without reducing your phone’s capabilities by that much. Since it does limit your phone’s processing power, however, I recommend disabling it before playing any games or using any CPU-intensive apps.
Ultra power-saving mode
Enable the Galaxy S6’s ultra power saving mode to get the most out of your battery. Samsung claims that when the device is fully charged, this mode will give your phone up to 12.5 days of battery life. In fact, with only 10% of Samsung SGH-F488 Battery life remaining, enabling ultra power-saving mode can make your phone last for another 24 hours.
There are some downsides, though. Ultra power-saving mode will greatly reduce your phone’s capabilities. In addition to changing your display to grayscale, the mode will limit you to using only select apps like the Phone, Messages, Internet, Emergency Alerts, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and a few others. Only six of these apps, however, can be placed on your home screen.
Smartphone Screen’s Brightness
Most people keep their phone’s brightness on auto mode, but you may not know that this can actually be worse for your battery. Auto mode will automatically adjust S6 screen’s brightness based on the conditions around you. The mode utilizes the smartphone’s sensors, which, because they’re in use all the time, actually drains your battery more rapidly than adjusting your brightness manually. Auto mode will also sometimes leave your display at a level that is too bright for your environment. In most cases — being outside on a sunny day not being one of them — you don’t need to have the brightness maxed out. To save your battery, I recommend turning the brightness level down to somewhere below halfway, or to a level that is acceptable for your eyes.
