Eight Tips to save battery of BlackBerry OS 10

Save battery on your smartphone and get us longer than one day. This has become the mantra for many users who have to deal with ever more powerful terminals, with larger screens, but with a range that leaves much to be desired.  

This time, we focus our analysis on BlackBerry OS 10, perhaps one of the operating systems that gives us more options to extend battery life. Do not miss our tips!

Control email

When introducing new email accounts, is much more efficient to choose the protocol Microsoft Active Sync or IMAP, POP that heavy, forcing the terminal to download a larger amount of data.

On the other hand, if we are going to use more than one email account, make sure you enable push notifications only on my primary account or the one you use most often, I can leave the rest in time or even manual sync.

Device driver

Since upgrading to BlackBerry OS 10.2 , the menu "Device Driver" (search for it in settings) gains in functionality, allowing real-time monitoring battery usage that make different applications.

From here we can monitor the percentage of battery you have consumed a particular application since the last time you reload your phone or memory usage, CPU consumption data, etc.. it performs. Even from the same menu you can control the size of the installed applications and uninstall that do not interest us.

Connectivity

As with other mobile operating systems, data consumption, Bluetooth, NFC, etc. connectivity. are among the main culprits that our BlackBerry battery does not last as long as we would like.

As in almost all operating systems, Wi-Fi connectivity is usually the most energy efficient speaking(as we have identified a number of networks and not we force the terminal to be constantly looking for new networks). Also spare battery without the DLNA connectivity temporarily disable our device (Media Sharing or Play On).

Notifications

If we receive a good number of notifications throughout the day, we could consider revising our profiles and customize notifications. Note for example that if the settings of your smartphone is ready to vibrate with each notification, consume more battery than if you just set LED notifications.

On the other hand if you activate the "bedside mode" got off all notifications, allowing continued operation instead incoming calls.

Android Apps

If we have installed Android on your terminal, we need to bear in mind that once we open, not close unless we do it manually, ie continue working in the background . To do this, we click on the "x" to close once they are minimized.

Applications in background

Some of the BlackBerry Apps World have the ability to work in the background, even when they are not active, which reduces the life of our battery throughout the day. The good news is that Blacberry OS 10 allows us to identify what those Apps and avoid such behavior in the background.

To make us go to the menu "Settings", "Privacy and Security" and then "Application Permissions".From there we will choose the "background apps" option and we will see what the apps that have this capability yet, change the permissions of the apps we do not want to have this capability are.

Display brightness and Dark Themes

As with all smartphones, a way to reduce battery use in the BlackBerry family is adjusting the screen brightness. From the system settings you can control brightness to find the percentage with which we feel most comfortable.

Also if you have a smartphone with OLED screen (BlackBerry BlackBerry Z30 and Q10), we can further reduce battery consumption of your screen picking a Dark Theme applied to BBM contacts and our private records on the agenda. To do so, we must enable it from the configuration of each of the Apps.

Screen lock

To prevent the screen of your device from accidentally switching and consume energy unnecessarily,we must ensure that we activate the screen lock before putting the smartphone in our purse, pocket, etc..

We can also customize the time we want to elapse until the screen turns off and locks automatically. To do this go to Settings, Display, Screen Lock.