David and David here! We want to talk to you about some awesome Android battery tips that
are going to save you battery life. They really work. And the first one has to do with 5G, yep:
Preferred Network Type. Yep, so this is a feature that's not available on every Android. It depends
on your carrier. So if you don't see this on your Android, nothing's broken. Go to the next
step. Just go to the next step, it's a carrier thing. Timestamps are in the description of this
video. So I'll open the Settings app, swipe down, and then swipe down again. Gear, tap that gear.
Tap Network & Internet. Tap Mobile Network, and then come down here, Preferred Network Type. Right
now it says "5G (recommended)". I'll tap on that. Now, this kind of depends on coverage in your
area. Does your area have good 5G? If it does, maybe you can leave this as 5G. If it's spotty,
LTE. This is a battery video, not a 5G video, but Preferred Network Type is just as much about
battery as it is about speed and connectivity. So, since LTE is so much more built out than 5G
is at this point, it's not only faster but just having your phone connected that one network type
is going to save you a lot of battery life, but choose LTE. I'm gonna tap LTE. And there you go,
Prefer Network. Type is LTE. Thanks, Google Pixel, for that one setting. Yes. Next,
we're gonna talk about some display settings. Here on our Samsung Galaxy S21, I'll swipe down
upper right-hand corner of the screen and then tap on the gear icon. Tap on display.
The first thing we're gonna talk about is Dark Mode. It makes sense: if your screen is darker,
it's putting out less power. Excuse me, Professor Brainiac. Simple enough, tap Dark. Boom. There you
go. Next, tap on Motion Smoothness, this has to do with the refresh rate on your phone's screen. So,
it can go all the way up to 120 hertz to make things look really smooth. But by default,
it's going to be 60 hertz. And for reference, you're watching this video right now
in 30 Hertz — or 30 frames per second. So, is it really going to be that much smoother? No.
Turn this off. Your processor is going to do less work, it's going to save battery life and they say
it right there. Yeah. So I'll tap on Standard: "Get better battery life with 60 hertz screen
refresh rate". Tap Standard, then tap Apply. Next, tap back, upper left-hand corner of the
screen and come down to Lock Screen, tap on that. Now, we're gonna talk about Always On Display.
Isn't that a cool feature? It's always on, but does it use more battery life?
Always, always using battery life, and it's always on. Yeah, and my phone gets lonely in my
hip pocket. Yep, so I'll just tap that switch to turn it off. Yeah, that's perfect. Next,
let's talk about a permissions issue: if an app has access to your microphone all the time, that
means it's always listening to you. Waiting to hear your voice, and it's using battery when it's
doing that. Just bracing for that moment when you say the magic words that make all of our devices
go off. Yes, like "Hey Google". We don't want our devices to be able to do that. Right, it's also a
little creepy sometimes. Did you know that you can actually have apps listening to you all the time?
It's true. Yeah, tap Back, upper left-hand corner of the screen. Come down here and tap Privacy, tap
Permission Manager, and then scroll down and, tap Microphone. Here, you see Allowed All The Time:
Google? No, thank you. Just, tap on Google and then well, you have to deny it. Deny it.
Yep, it's okay to do Allow Only While Using The App, but it's interesting
that they don't allow you to do that for this. But I would just yeah, Deny. See you later.
"If you deny this permission, basic features of your device may no longer function as intended."
Your device. Device. Your device may no longer function is intended, mate. Yes. Your device. Now,
if you're not comfortable doing this, maybe you have a Samsung Galaxy and you,
you know, Bixby voice. Bixby. Same thing. It could be constantly listening to you. But it's not in
here. It's not in here. Where is it David? You have to go into the Bixby app? I'll go back to the
Home screen, and then swipe up. Tap Samsung, and then tap Bixby. Tap on the hamburger menu, upper
left-hand corner of the screen. Tap Settings, and then here you'll see Voice Wake-Up. Now,
this isn't on for us right now because we're doing the screen recording, using the microphone. But
normally this would be on, and this means that Bixby's always waiting to say, you know, "Hey,
Bixby". Right, or you're waiting to say it and it's waiting to hear it. Yes. So, just tap that
switch to turn this setting off. Next, we're going to turn off Enhance Processing. Theoretically,
when this is on they might get slower. And if that's true — might not be true — milliseconds.
Yeah, you're not really going to notice the difference here. So let's go back to the
Settings app, swipe down, tap on the gear. Scroll down, keep scrolling to Battery And Device Care.
Tap on Battery, scroll down here, tap on More Battery Settings, and then turn off the switch
next to Enhanced Processing. Boom. Is it going to be slower? No. If it is, you're not going
to notice it. Right. And if you do, you can always come back — with any of these Settings,
really. It's not like a marriage here. While we're here in the Battery section, Let's tap Back,
upper left-hand corner of the screen, and then, tap on background usage limits and just make sure
the switch next to Put Unused Apps To Sleep is turned on. Otherwise, your unused apps are going
to be running more in the background, draining battery life. Yes, especially because, I mean,
when I first got my phone, I downloaded a ton of apps and I don't even use like, you know,
10% of them anymore. So yeah, turn the switch on. Put them right to sleep. One good tip when
you're having software issues, battery issues, is to make sure your Android is up to date.
When you update the software on your Android, it fixes software bugs. I mean that's why they do it,
so a lot of the time that will save you a lot of battery life. How do we do it, David? Let's
go back to the main page of the Settings app. Here we go, back to Device Care. And scroll down
and tap on Software Update. Boom, tap Download and Install. It will check for an update here,
and if an update is available, install it. Do it. Send it. Full send. "Software is up to date". I
actually updated this yesterday. Interesting, very responsible. Yes, Yep, maybe that's why our
phone was so fast and it has such great battery life. Absolutely. Especially, subscribing to this
channel. Also, a great battery, saving feature. Only 7% of the people subscribe that watch our
videos. Please subscribe. Yep. This one might be a bit controversial: It's closing out of your apps.
Right. So, in a perfect world, you should never have to do this because the software should do it
for you, but we don't live in a perfect world, David. Apps do crash. It's a good idea just to
close them out every once in a while, it's kind of like wearing a seatbelt in your car. Yeah,
you shouldn't need it but you'll be glad you did. Let's tap on the Multitasking button down
here at the bottom. We've got some apps open, swipe these up and off the top of the screen
when you're not using them. Nice and easy, get rid of them. Yep. If one of them was being bad,
not anymore, right into timeout. But, shhh. You've closed your apps, they're not going
to crash any more. Let's go back to the Settings app and talk about Adaptive Battery. To get there,
tap back to the main page of the Settings app. Tap on Battery And Device Care, tap Battery again.
Scroll down and tap on More Battery Settings. And here you have Adaptive Battery. Adaptive Battery
limits the battery usage of apps that you don't use often. Right. It's a great idea to turn this
switch right on. Tap. Boom. There's so many things that you could change and just really
make your battery last longer. It's amazing that these things don't come turned on by default. Yes,
absolutely. Conspiracy to get you to buy a new phone? Perhaps. They're on to me, dude. Those
guys are sharp as nails up there. You can't put anything past them. Similar to some of the display
settings we talked about earlier in this video: Screen Lock Out time. If it's set to 10 minutes
and you forget to lock the screen, it's going to be on for 10 minutes and it's going to drain some
battery life. Exactly. Set it to two minutes. There's that's — you're limiting the amount of
time. Yes, that is what this setting does. I'll tap back to the main page of the Settings app.
Come down here and tap on display. Scroll down and tap on Screen Timeout. Mine's set to 10 minutes
right now because we're doing a screen recording. Hypocrite! Hypocrite! Hypocrite! But two minutes,
probably enough for most people. Right. Hypocrite. Hypocrite, What's the origin of that word, David?
I don't know. Hippocrates. Now, if you're really in a pinch, we don't really recommend doing this
on a daily basis because it's probably a sign — if you have to do it all the time — it's probably
a sign of a, you know, hardware problem with your battery. But Power Saving Mode will automatically
do some of these things. A couple other things to restrict the amount of power your Android
is using. Save some battery life in the process. Right. It's not called "Power Spending Mode". Yes,
Power Saving Mode. Power Saving Mode. Save some battery. Let's go back to the main page of the
Settings app, come down here to Battery And Device Care. Tap on that. I feel like we've
been here before, David. We've been here a lot, a lot, a lot today. I a wonder why, it's
a battery video. We're in the battery section, people, come on. It's like an obstacle course,
then just turn on this switch next to Power Saving Mode. Be specific, "This limits background,
network usage, syncing, and location." Checking Motion Smoothness, which we already changed, gets
changed to standard. So some of these tips are already baked in to the site and we wanted to just
let you know the difference between things that maybe you don't want to turn off all the time,
which this would do, kind of. This is too much. It's unnecessary. You're absurd! That's absurd!
But things like Motion Smoothness: turn those off. Yep, you don't need them on. And those
are some Android batteries tips. Thanks for watching this video. Give it a thumbs up,
if you enjoyed. Leave a comment down below. Any questions. Any tips for us that we might have
missed in this video. We can do a follow-up video in a few weeks with some more Android Battery
Tips. Everybody loves battery tips. There's a lot in the Android Settings app that you can change
and it's hard to hit on everything in one. Yeah. Impossible. Please Subscribe as we said earlier,
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