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Battery life

Tips and tricks to extend your battery performance.

INSTRUCTIONS & INFO
  1. To turn on the battery saving features of your device, from the home screen, tap the Settings icon.
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  2. Under the General tab, tap Power saving mode.
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  3. You can prolong battery life with modes that save power.  Tap the Power saving mode toggle to turn on Power saving mode.
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  4. Under Battery, you can view which applications are using the most battery power.
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  5. To set the screen timeout to a shorter duration, tap Settings icon > Device > Display > Screen timeout > select desired time.
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  6. To turn Location Services & GPS on or off, swipe down from the top of the screen and tap Location.
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  7. To turn off auto-update apps, tap Play Store > menu icon > Settings > Auto-update apps.
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  8. To turn off auto-sync, swipe down from the top of the screen and tap the Expand icon.
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  9. Then tap Sync.
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  10. If you are traveling and do not have access to mobile or Wi-Fi networks, switch to Airplane mode.
    Note: To turn aurplane mode on or off, swipe down from the top of the screen, tap the expand icon, then tap Airplane mode.
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  11. If Airplane mode is on, the Airplane mode icon will appear in the notification bar.
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