This page is going to show you a simple, fast trick to instantly dramatically preserve and extend your cell phones battery life.
There will be additional tips to further help save and extend the life of your mobile phones battery making it so you can go longer before you have to charge your mobile phones battery.
🧾 Details About Preserving Mobile 🖁 Phone Battery 🔋 Life
One of the most ignored and overlooked ways that your cell phone blows its battery juice is to display the background image or wallpaper. While you might like the way a nice, brilliant colorful, high definition wallpaper or background looks on your cell phone, every single one the of the thousands of pixels that displays the color at each pixel of the cell phones background consumes the cell phones battery.
Use a Jet Black Image for your Cell Phones Background & Wallpaper
The color black is the complete absense of color. By simply using a jet black or pure black image for your cell phones wallpaper or desktop, the amount of battery juice required to display that image is almost zero. To further utilize and enhance this trick to preserve the life of the battery on your cell phone, you want to enable dark mode as well. The instructions for this are found below as well.
If you are use to a bright and colorful cell phone wallpaper/background, converting to black may take a little getting use to, but you will greatly extend the life of your cell phones battery consumption in a huge and noticable way.
In addition, the amount of bytes consumed rendering a black background is so tiny it is ridiculous. For example the jet black image on this articles images page uses less than 1 kilobyte of data! By the way, feel free to use this image as your cell phones wallpaper and background image.
How to Change your Androids Backgound & Wallpaper to Black
The EXACT steps to change your cell phones background/wallpaper image may vary slightly depending upon the exact model of your cell phone.
- On your cell phone, to to the images page.
- Download the black cell phone background image, which is usually accomplished on Android by pressing and holding on to the image until a menu appears with the option to download the image.
- On the Android
Home
screen press theSettings
icon.
- Scroll down until you find
Home screen & lock screen
. Press that.
- Press
Wallpapers
.
- Press
Photos
.
- Select the black rectangle image to be your Androids new wallpaper/background. There will be a noticable improvement in battery life.
Turn on Dark Mode on Android
It is also recommend you set your phone to dark mode, for the same reason to use a black image for your Androids wallpaper/background. Activating dark mode on Android further reduces battery usage by not having to waste the batteries juice to display colors when not needed.
- On the Android
Home
screen press the settings icon. - Scroll down until you find
Display
. Press that. - Press the
Dark mode
menu item. - Press to move the slider to the right where it reads
Turn on now
to turn on the Androids dark mode.
These 2 simple battery saving tricks, using a black image for you Androids wallpaper/background image and enabling dark mode on your Android will probably be the 2 most influential and simple changes you can make to noticably improve the length of your cell phones battery charge.
How to Change your Iphone Backgound & Wallpaper to Black
- On your Iphone, to to the images page.
- Download the black cell phone background image, which is usually accomplished on Iphone by pressing and holding on to the image until a menu appears with the option to download the image.
- Go to the
Home
screen on your Iphone. - Press the
Settings
icon. - Press the Iphones menu item that reads
Wallpaper
. - When prompted, navigate, on your Iphone, to the location of the black rectangle image you downloaded and apply that as you Iphones new background wallpaper.
Enable Dark Mode in Iphone
- Go to the
Home
screen on your Iphone. - Press the
Display & brightness
menu item. - Press to select
Dark
to turn on/enable Dark mode on your Iphone.
Other Tricks to Preserve Cell Phone Battery Life
- Go in to your cell phones brightness & display settings and move the slider down to turn down the overal brightness of the phone. This battery saving tip becomes less influential on battery endurance if you have applied a black backgound/desktop image and have enabled dark mode on your cell phone.
- Also in the phones display settings, reduce the number of minutes before your cell phone goes into sleep mode.
- Go into your phones sound settings and turn off any sounds and/or vibrations you don't need like screen locking sounds, touch sounds, and vibrate on touch as well as sounds or vibrations produced when press a keyboard key on your cell phone.
- In your cell phone settings, locate battery usage and information. Press the appropriate button or slider to enable battery saving mode. If you phone has a super saver mode, this will probably not be necessary now that we have already applied dark themes via the black background image and dark mode, and usually using a super saver mode for the battery will seriously restrict things you probaby don't want restricted or disabled.
- Turn on your cell phones power saving mode.