8Extending Your Battery LifeActive applications, light levels, Bluetooth usage, and GPSfunctionality all act to drain your battery. The following is a list ofhelpful tips that can help conserve your battery power:• Reduce your backlight on time.• Turn Bluetooth off when not in use.• Turn Wi-Fi off when not in use.• Deactivate the GPS when not needed. Most applications using thisfunction will periodically query the GPS satellites for your currentlocation; each query drains your battery.• Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before charging yourdevice. Repeating this process of a complete discharge and rechargecan over time reduce the storage capacity of any battery.• Turn off Automatic application sync.• Use the Power Savings Widget to deactivate hardware functions such asWi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Synchronization, or LCD brightness setting.• Check the Battery use screen to review what features or functions havebeen consuming your battery resources.• Check the Running Services and close any unnecessary applications.• Use the Task Manager feature to end/shutdown background applicationsthat are still running. These minimized applications can, over time,cause your device to “slow down”.• Turn off any streaming services after use (see Running Services).• Animated wallpapers use processing power, memory, and more power.Change your Live Wallpaper to a non-animated Wallpaper gallery orGallery image.Power SavingsThe Power Savings application was designed to quickly activate(turn on), or deactivate (turn off) those functions or applicationsthat use the most battery power.1. From the Home screen,touch and hold an emptyarea until the Add to Homescreen menu displays.2. Tap Widgets Powersavings. The Power Controlshortcut is added to thecurrent screen.3. Tap any of the icons on thePower Savings shortcut barto activate/deactivate thefeature.
