How To Increase Battery Life Of Android Phones

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Nowadays smartphones come with insane amounts of computing power. Just within a decade, the smartphones have transformed into really powerful machines. All that AI and intelligent software need a lot of computing power. And that computing power consumes a lot of battery. Therefore, while people enjoy all these apps and amazing hardware of their smartphone, they also keep on searching for the ways to increase battery life of their Android phones. Unlike, Apple, Google has always been very generous to the third-party app developers. Google opened the gates for the developers of Android and gave them the freedom to develop amazing apps. However, with the passage of time, all these apps running in backgrounds started to create battery problems for Android users. In this Android Tutorial, we are going to tell you how to increase battery life of Android Phones.

There are a lot of ways through which you can extend a few minutes of your phone’s battery life. However, there is one thing which is heavily responsible for your phone’s pathetic battery life. And that thing is, apps running in the background. Have you ever wondered, how come you instantly receive a notification as soon as there is some activity in a specific app? For e.g. Someone commented on your photo on Facebook and boom – notification received. Well, it’s because Facebook is constantly running in the background resulting in battery drain. Majority of the apps keeps on running in the background and eats up a lot of battery power during the day.

Increase Battery Life

Disable or Freeze Background Apps in Android Nougat

Facebook is a quality app, there are tons of apps which are poorly coded and run in the background continuously to make your battery problems worst. Therefore, Google started a crack-down against such apps with the launch of Android Oreo, and the guidelines are only getting stricter day by day. However, the problem is that there are tons of devices which are never going to get updated to Android Oreo, let alone to Android Pie. For such devices, which are running on Android Nougat, there’s a simple solution. Disable or Freeze Background Apps on your Android Phone. This process doesn’t need root access, however, you would still need to run a couple of ADB commands in order to disable or freeze background apps on your Android phone. Try this and you will definitely be able to increase battery life of your Android Phones.

Without any further ado, let’s jump straight to the guide on how to increase battery life of Android phones.

Requirements

  • ADB and Fastboot Drivers must be installed on your PC.
  • Make sure you have the right USB Drivers installed on your device.
  • Your device should be running Android 7.0+ Nougat.
  • USB Debugging should be enabled.
  • To disable or freeze background app, first, you need to get hold of the package name of the app which you want gone. Download and install App Inspector to find out of the package names of the apps.

How to Increase Battery Life of Android Phones

  • Launch a Command Prompt or Terminal in your ADB directory. For Windows users, this can be done by holding Shift and Right-clicking then selecting the “open command prompt here”
  • Now, connect your phone to the PC with a USB Cable and change the connection mode to
  • To check if your mobile has connected successfully to the PC, type adb devices in the command prompt and press Enter. This command should print the serial number of your device in the command prompt. If it doesn’t, try to change the USB cable or USB port.
  • Now, Just type in the ADB command given below replacing the text in green with the package name of the app and hit Enter.
    • cmd appops set <package_name> RUN_IN_BACKGROUND ignore
  • That’s it! The above command would disable or freeze the app in the background. Means, you won’t receive any notifications from it. Unless you open the app.
  • However, if you ever want to allow the app to run in background again. Just type in the ADB command given below replacing the text in green with the package name of the app and hit Enter.
    • cmd appops set <package_name> RUN_IN_BACKGROUND allow

No root required, just a couple of ADB commands and you have already increased battery life of your Android Phone.

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