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on when you receive a notification. Some devices have power-saving modes

and may even be able to save power by displaying grayscale instead of full

color. OLED displays use less power to display darker colors; if your device

uses an OLED panel, you can also reduce power consumption by using black

wallpapers and configuring apps to use a dark theme if the option is

available.

Wireless Communication To paint with a very broad brush, another big

battery drain is the process of communicating without wires. It’s good to

keep in mind that every form of wireless communication your mobile device

is capable of (such as cellular voice, cellular data, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC,

etc.) corresponds to a radio inside the device. In order to use that type of

communication, the radio needs to be on and drawing power. If you aren’t

actively using that mode of communication but the radio is on, you’re

wasting power. Each communication technology draws varying amounts of

energy under different circumstances, but here are two helpful guidelines:

searching for signals is power intensive, and your device’s apps will do more

work in the background when connections are available.

Especially when traveling outside of populated areas, a mobile device can

use lots of power talking with distant towers and base stations; this constant

search can significantly drain battery power. You may be able to control this

power drain through configuration changes that limit device roaming or

searching for new wireless networks, but another approach is disabling these

communications technologies until you need them or are back in an area with

good coverage. You don’t want to get stuck in the snow on a rural highway

only to discover that your phone has almost completely drained its battery

searching for cellular signals.

Even when the device maintains a strong connection, it constantly uses

power to transmit and receive data. Having the connection available is often

worth this slow drain, but beware that some of your apps will lightly sip

power while disconnected and burn through much more doing background

work when a connection is present. The easy way to rein this in is to disable

communication, but the operating system (and sometimes the app itself) will

have settings for controlling when an app can send and receive data in the

background, and what connections it can use.

Location While you can apply the same guidelines for managing GPS or

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