Is it a Faulty Battery or Something Else?

It’s happened again: you charged your phone and, in only a few hours, its battery life is nearing empty. Certainly, your phone’s short battery life might be because of a bad battery or a battery that’s come to the end of its life. But the big battery suck on your phone might be something else. Know what exactly is draining your battery with PowerPRO.This DFNDR feature lets you see the biggest consumers of your phone’s power. Once you know which apps or programs are taking up your battery, PowerPRO will help you manage your battery and offers solutions to make your battery life last longer. Click here to check why your battery now:

As you run a PowerPRO scan, you might see some surprising reasons your battery is draining so quickly. Here are a few major battery sucks that surprised us.

Your Apps Keep Running in the Background

You might think your apps aren’t running because you aren’t using them, but really, many apps continue to refresh throughout the day. If PowerPRO says that one of your apps is using a lot of battery, you can bet that it’s continuously refreshing. To fix this problem, you can disable background activity on just that app or you can be safe and disable background activity on all your apps.

Your Phone Settings Are Draining Your Battery

Some of the biggest surprising battery-draining culprits are screen brightness and vibrate mode. Conserve battery by turning your screen brightness down — or, if you have a new phone, turning on the setting that lets it change brightness based on its surroundings. Vibrate mode is another problem; instead of putting your phone on vibrate, turn your ringer either off or on.

You’ve Set Your Phone to Automatic Sync

Other apps, especially document creation and photo apps, often back up your documents several times throughout the day. If you find that your battery is draining quickly or that you don’t need to have your files so regularly updated, you can set your phone to only sync manually, when you tell it to sync.

Once you’ve figured out the battery-draining culprits, you’ll be better informed about what apps to remove and what changes to make in order to extend your battery life. If none of these solutions make a difference, though, you likely have a faulty battery on your hands.

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