How to Prolong your Blackberry Battery Use

When it comes to mobile phones, battery is the key.  Here are the following tips in order to prolong your Blackberry Battery use.

Using Auto On/Off

Using Auto On/Off, you could save energy on your Blackberry smartphone especially when not using it.

You can configure Auto On/Off by following these steps:

1. From the BlackBerry Home screen, choose the Options icon.

2. Select Auto On/Off.

3. Set the Weekday, Weekend, and Turn On/Turn Off options you would like.

4. Press the Menu key and choose Save.

Turning off unused BlackBerry connections

Your BlackBerry has several different connectivity options, including cellular antenna, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. These drain your battery when turned on so there is no reason to turn them on when not using them.

Follow these steps to turn off connections that you don’t need:

1. On the BlackBerry Home screen, select the Manage Connections (antenna) icon.

2. Navigate to the connection that you want to turn off and deselect the check box.

To turn back on the connection, you just check the check box.

3. Press the Escape key to return to the BlackBerry Home screen.

If you turn off all connections, you won’t receive e-mails, phone calls, or messages until you turn your mobile connection back on.

Optimizing your Backlight settings

The backlight is one of the biggest battery drains on your BlackBerry. Lowering your backlight brightness can extend your battery life.

Follow these steps to adjust your backlight settings:

1. From your BlackBerry Home screen, select the Options icon.

2. Choose Screen/Keyboard.

3. Select Backlight Brightness and choose a value lower than 100 (the brightest).

The lower the setting, the less battery life will be used, but also the dimmer the screen, which may make it harder to see in some cases.

4. Select Backlight Timeout and choose a value lower than 2 min.

The lower the setting, the less the battery life that will be used, but the backlight will also time out faster when a key is not pressed — which can get annoying.

Closing unused BlackBerry applications

The more BlackBerry applications you have running at once, the more battery power your battery consumes. Applications that run in the background, such as Facebook and instant messaging applications, significantly decrease your battery even when you’re not actively using them. Besides saving battery life, closing pplications that you’re not using makes your BlackBerry respond faster.

The best way to prevent these applications from draining your battery is to turn them off when you’re not using them. To do so, press the Menu key and choose Exit or Shut Down instead of pressing the Escape key to send the application to the background.

Some applications need to run in the background; these applications won’t show up as open applications. Each of these background processes takes up a small amount of memory and battery life. In the event that your device is having an issue, or the battery is draining quickly, you may want to try starting your BlackBerry smartphone in Safe mode, which loads only the Research In Motion default applications and no third-party applications. You can then troubleshoot and remove the application that could be causing the problem.

Follow these steps to enter into Safe mode:

1. Remove your BlackBerry battery for about 10 seconds, and then reinsert it.

2. Wait for the LED light to turn off.

3. Press and hold the Escape key until your device finishes booting up.

A dialog box appears, asking if you want to stay in Safe mode.

4. Select OK.

At this point, you can uninstall the application that you think might be causing problems. You can do this by going to the BlackBerry Options (wrench icon) and select Application options, and then uninstall the trouble-causing application.

5. When you are finished with Safe mode, remove your BlackBerry battery for about 10 seconds, and then reinsert it again.

Make sure you do not hold the Escape key while your BlackBerry smartphone is booting up. This will allow it to boot normally.

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