Many
apps in your device increase the demand on battery power and minimize the
battery lifetime. To save battery energy, take the following steps:
- Charge the battery fully.
- Activate power saving mode. Press the power key, and select Activate power saving.
- Change the synchronization frequency for your mailbox. Select Menu > Applications > Mail (or Menu > Mail), your mailbox, and Options > Settings, and the relevant sync frequency settings.
- Mute unnecessary tones, like key tones.
- Use headphones, rather than the loudspeaker.
- Deactivate the background animation effects
- Deactivate the Big clock screen saver. Select Menu > Settings and Themes > Screen saver > none.
- Activate a dark theme.
- Change the length of the time-out period after which the device display switches off. To adjust the light sensor that observes lighting conditions and adjusts the display brightness, in the display settings, select Light sensor.
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If
the network mode is set to use both GSM and 3G (dual mode) networks, the device
searches for the 3G network. To set your device to use only the GSM network.
- Deactivate Bluetooth when not needed.
- Stop your device from scanning for available WLANs in the background (Symbian Anna and earlier). Select Menu > Settings and Connectivity > WLAN > Options > Settings > Show WLAN availability > Never.
- When connecting to the internet, use a WLAN connection, rather than a packet data (GPRS or 3G) connection.
- Set the packet data connection to be established only when needed.
- Close the applications you are not using.
We are sure if you take these steps you will easily increase
the life time of your battery.
