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14/08/2011 09:09
5 Tips Help You Extract Every Second From
Your Tablet's Battery

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5 Tips Help You Extract Every Second From Your
Tablet's Battery
Tablets are becoming a popular mobile device, and
their impressive endurance is one of the greatest
draws. Most tablets can last eight to ten hours even
when displaying mobile video or surfing the web.
This is plenty for most users, but there may come
a time when you need even more life. These five
tips can help you extract every second from your
Most tablets are simply hardware strapped to a dis-
tablet's battery.
play, resulting in the characteristic tablet appea-
rance. This provides a large display with minimal
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weight, but it also means there is a large viewing
area to power. As with large smartphones, the dis-
play often draws more power than any other com-
ponent.
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5 Tips Help You Extract Every Second From Your Tablet's Battery
As such, simply dimming the display will have a po-
Obviously, disabling 3G/4G will cut of mobile data
sitive impact on battery life. While there's often an
access unless Wi-Fi is available, but this is a trade-off
automatic brightness feature available, it's usually
that will sometimes be worthwhile. Turning of Wi-Fi
less aggressive than needed to provide maximum
as well as Bluetooth can further improve life, but the
battery life. Taking control of brightness yourself
impact won't be as drastic as turning of 3G/4G. Wi-Fi
is often a better option.
and Bluetooth radios are built to communicate over
shorter ranges and consume less power as a result.
Turn Off Wireless Radios
Turn Off Background Data
If you'd like to have access to mobile data on de-
mand, but also want to cut power draw slightly,
you don't have to turn off the radios. Instead, you
can simply turn off background data.
Doing this will disable your tablet's ability to update
apps with new information from the Internet auto-
matically. For example, emails will not appear until
you specifically open the email app and check for
them, and feeds from sites like Facebook won't be
Tablets do not rely on mobile data quite as much
updated until you request it.
as smartphones, but they still make heavy use of
it. Wi-Fi is standard on virtually all tablets, and many
Turning off background data may greatly improve
also include access to 3G and/or 4G from a major
battery life, or may not impact it noticeably. The
mobile data carrier.
improvement will depend on how many apps you
have active that use background data as well as the
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type of mobile data connection you rely on.
can have a negative impact on endurance if used
often or if used in areas with a poor signal. The
solution is to just turn the radio off.
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5 Tips Help You Extract Every Second From Your Tablet's Battery
Turn Off GPS
an app that your tablet is running in the background.
Apps are supposed to nicely terminate or suspend
Like a Ninja, GPS can kill your battery before you
themselves when not in active use, but this doesn't
even know it's a problem. GPS location data re-
always occur as it should.
quires communication with satellites orbiting the
earth, which are used to determine your exact lo-
Fortunately, it's not difficult to keep tabs on what
cation. As you can imagine, this isn't a boon to your
is making use of your tablet's battery life. Android
battery.
tablets will provide you with this information un-
der Settings->Applications->Battery Use. Apple fans
Normally, GPS is kept under control and used only
can monitor their iPad's battery with apps such
in short bursts. However, it can on occasion go a bit
as Activity Monitor. Once you've found the app that
out of control, and it's easy to accidently cause this
is consuming your battery it can be terminated or
by opening a navigation or map app that's using GPS
uninstalled.
data. Turning off GPS in settings will make location
data less accurate, but won't eliminate it completely,
Conclusion - Beyond Conservation
since your tablet will still be able to obtain location
data from Wi-Fi and mobile data networks.
All of the tips above will help your tablet's battery,
in some cases providing several additional hours
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of time away from a power socket. If you're still
not finding that the endurance of your tablet meets
your needs, however, consider an extended battery.
These are not common, but some do exist, such as
New Trent's 8900mAh external batterywhich is com-
patible with most mobile devices. Some docks also
provide additional battery life, such as the ASUS
Eee Pad Transformer's keyboard, which extends
estimated battery life from 9 to 16 hours.
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