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Top 5 Best Battery Saver Apps for Android Smartphones
Everyone wants a better battery life for their smartphone. But the bulky applications running on your smartphone are just eating away your battery, but do not worry we have a collection of best battery saving apps.

These apps will not only extend the life of your handset, but could also improve its overall performance.

1. Juice Defender (Free/Paid)

With almost endless options, Juice Defender is the all favorite app on this list. Juice Defender is free app but it also comes in Plus and Ultimate versions. Depending on what level of control you are looking for. It can turn mobile data off automatically, and most of all, it can extend your battery life for long periods of time.

Main Features of JuiceDefender
- Multiple Preset Profiles
- Easy UI
- Home screen Battery Widgets
- Smart Brightness control
- 2G/3G auto toggle and Wi-Fi auto control
- Battery Consumption Optimization
- Comprehensive Connectivity Scheduling
- CPU scaling when phone is idle
2. DU Battery Saver (Free/Paid)

DU Battery Saver has many intelligent options that provide more advantage over other battery saving apps.

There are various intelligent mode and pre-set options that you can set up to minimize your phone’s battery usage as possible. DU Battery Saver also comes with many inbuilt home screen widgets.

Main Features of DU Battery Saver
- Home screen widgets
- Multiple preset profiles
- One-Click Optimization
- CPU Frequency management
- Healthy charge manager
–> Also Read: 7 tips for improving your smartphone’s battery life <–

3. Easy Battery Saver

Easy Battery Saver is a powerful manager app specifically designed to extend battery life and optimize using habit. It saves your battery by intelligently dealing with phone’s network connectivity, screen time out and screen brightness. Also, the considerable sleep schedule setting will save your battery when you are sleeping.

Main Features of Easy Battery Saver
- Multiple Modes
- Visual Battery status
- Battery consumption list of real-time running items
- Simple, interactive and helpful tutorial
- Notice of how to use battery better
4. Battery Doctor

Battery Doctor also features a built-in task killer to get rid of the apps taking extra space and power in the background.

This battery saver Android app actually shows information very accurately. One of the best parts of this app is it accurately gauges battery levels, you actually have an idea of when your device is going to run out of battery, based on previous your consumption patterns. Pretty much like a deadline.

Main Features of Battery Doctor
- Battery Level Gauges
- Task Killer
- Unique three-charge cycle that boosts battery life
- Widgets that improve battery performance
- Device software and hardware information
5. Battery Widget Reborn

Battery Widget Reborn comes with better design, Dashclock Extension that lets you activate you camera flash to use as a flashlight. It also has features like power saver mode etc. There are a few power saving options that automatically kick in during the night while you’re sleeping, such as turning Airplane Mode on. Overall, it’s one of the more useful battery saving Android apps, so check it out. If you want a Battery Widget Reborn for free you can try its beta version.

Main Features of Battery Widget Reborn
- Circle battery level indicator
- Shortcuts to Power-Summary/Background Sync/Wifi/BT Settings
- Status bar notification of battery status
- Prediction (estimation) how long battery lasts
- Automatic airplane mode during the night charging and discharging chart
- Optional charging and discharging chart
- Power related toggles: Wifi/Bluetooth/Background Sync/Airplane mode
- Customizable notification priority
So these is our top 5 picks for Battery saving apps, you are using any other app do let us know in comments and we will add it also
Mar 6, 2014
CES 2014:Huawei Ascend Mate 2’s big battery can charge your iPhone
The Huawei Ascent Mate 2 does everything big. It’s a 6.1 Android mega-phone with a whopping 4050mAh battery in the relative back, making it potentially the longest lasting smartphone to date. For perspective, the T-Mobile Galaxy Note 2 includes a 3200mAh battery — nearly 1000 mAh significantly less than the Mate 2 — also it lasted 11 hours during our testing. The Mate 2 doesn’t skimp on optics either: the front-facing camera’s 5MP sensor took excellent selfies. Throw in 4G LTE support and a March arrival to the U.S. smartphone market, and you’ve got a large device with big features that’ll be a large problem for your competition.

Huawei has made a decision to opt from the home-grown K3V2 chipset because of this latest iteration, taking a Snapdragon 400 SoC instead. Imaging has been upgraded aswell, with the Mate 2 sporting a 13MP Sony-made primary cam and a 5MP front-facer.

The Mate 2 features 2GB of RAM also, 16GB of internal storage, microSD expansion of to 32GB up, plus a couple of cameras — 5 megapixels f/2.4 on leading and 13 megapixels, f/2.0 on the relative back. That is all tucked in the familiar 202g, 9.5mm-thick body, which feels nice given the solid frame and slightly slimmer screen bezel rather, though we’re not too keen on the glossiness on the white Mate 2’s removable back cover (for usage of the SIM slot and microSD slot). On the program side, there’s Huawei’s Emotion UI 2.0 running together with Android 4.3, so users will reap the benefits of features optimized for single-hand usage — especially calling keypad that squashes itself to 1 side, based on your tilt. You obtain handy floating widgets like calculator also, calendar, messages and notes to be on top of other apps.

Specifications:
- Dimensions: 161 x 84.7 x 9.5mm, 202 g
- Display: 6.1″ eHD (1280 x 720) IPS display, 241ppi
- Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 400; quad-core Cortex-A7 at 1.6GHz, Adreno 306 GPU, 2GB RAM
- OS: Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
- Camera: 13 MP, HDR, autofocus, LED flash, 5 MP front-facing
- Video camera: 1080p video capture @ 30fps
- Storage: 16GB built-in, microSD card slot with support of up to 64GB
- Connectivity: A-GPS+GLONASS, WLAN (2.4/5Ghz) a/b/g/n, USB Host, Bluetooth 4.0 LE
- Battery: 4,050 mAh
- Misc: FM Radio, built-in accelerometer, multi-touch input, proximity sensor
- Colors: Crystal Black, Pure White
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Jan 9, 2014
7 tips for improving your smartphone’s battery life

There are a few tricks which can help extend a smartphone’s battery – even tiny details, such as choosing a dark screensaver, not a bright one, can help. Here’s how to improve smartphone’s battery life. These are applicable for android, iPhone or any phone.

Don’t charge it to full
“Battery memory” means that you should never run your battery empty – and avoid charging it to full. “You should try to go from around 40 per cent to around 80 per cent in one go, and then back down whenever possible,” says experts. “A bunch of tiny charges isn’t as bad as going from 100 down to zero all the time, but it’s not optimal either.”

Force your phone to sleep
Your phone will last far longer if it goes into “deep sleep” whenever possible. If you have a lot of apps, some of them may be keeping your phone ‘awake’, just to communicate with home base. An Android app called Better Battery Stats will run down exactly what is waking up your phone, and enable you to turn it off. If you can keep your phone in ‘deep sleep’, it’ll last.

Go dark
Turn the brightness settings down on your phone. Most of your phone’s battery drain is from running the screen. On any phone, set the screen to turn off after 30 seconds.

Switch screensaver off
Don’t use animated screensavers. It even makes a difference to switch to a black, or dark, screen background so it doesn’t burn as much electricity when you’re in the menus.

Shut down apps you don’t need

Make sure your phone isn’t running apps in the background. On iPhone, you can check by double-tapping the Home button, then pressing ‘X’ to shut ones you don’t need. If you’re unsure, restart your phone to banish apps that might be running without you knowing.

Turn off Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi unless you’re using htem

Switch off wi-fi, Bluetooth, and GPS unless you need them. This will immediately add about a third to your battery life. Lots of people leave them on all the time. On both iPhone and Android, controls to do this are easily accessed via phone menu.

Check your battery

If your phone gets hot while you use it, it could be that your battery is on its last legs. New ones are cheap on eBay, and if your phone’s old, you can also get ones with much higher storage than the ones it shipped with. Sorry, iPhone owners, this won’t work for you – you can’t take the back off.

Jun 28, 2013