13Extending Your Battery LifeActive applications, light levels, Bluetooth usage, and GPSfunctionality all act to drain your battery. The following is alist of helpful 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 usingthis function will periodically query the GPS satellites for yourcurrent location; each query drains your battery.• Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted beforecharging your device. Repeating this process of a completedischarge and recharge can over time reduce the storagecapacity of any battery.• Turn off Automatic application sync.• Use the Power Savings Widget to deactivate hardware functionssuch as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Synchronization, or LCD brightnesssetting.• Check the Battery use screen to review what features or functionshave been consuming your battery resources.• Check the Running Services and close any unnecessaryapplications.• Use the Task Manager feature to end/shutdown backgroundapplications that are still running. These minimized applicationscan, 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 morepower. Change your Live Wallpaper to a non-animated Wallpapergallery or Gallery image.
