Friday, November 9, 2012

10 Ways To Save Battery Life and RAM in Android Mobile Phones

Smartphone’s have recently become extremely poplar. They are like mini tablets right in our hands

that we can carry everywhere with us. Even if you have the best mobile broadband service, you

would still prefer to use your smartphone to check your recent emails or social media updates using

the apps. There are apps for almost everything, but these apps are also a major drain on the

smartphone’s battery.


Android mobile phones are no different. If you are fully using the features of your Android phone, you

will realize that your battery barely lasts for a day. Fortunately there are certain ways following

which you can ensure an increase in the battery life of your Android phone.


How to Save Battery and RAM ?

1. Dim the Screen Brightness

The large, colorful display on the screen of your Android eats away its battery life. Use the ‘Auto-Brightness’ feature on your phone, so that the screen can adjust its brightness automatically according to the light in the surroundings.


2. Reduce the Screen Timeout

Another way to save battery by restricting the use of its display is by reducing the timeout for the screen. Keep it as short as possible so that the display does not drain the battery. 30 sec or less is the best option because at times the screen has simply lit up because you accidently tapped on it.

3. Disable Bluetooth & Wi-Fi

Who doesn’t love the constant connectivity? But it is a big hole in your battery life. So disable the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when it is not in use. You will notice a drastic change in your battery life; this will easily add an hour or more to it.


4. Use GPS with Care

Don’t just go crazy while using the GPS. There are numerous apps on your Android phone that are using GPS tracking to provide suitable services to you. These include social network apps, Places app, Google maps, etc.

5. Save Apps on your Micro-SD Storage Card

Running and installing apps on your Android phone is what uses up all the RAM space. Try to install application on your Micro-SD storage card instead. This will free RAM space and speed up your phone. The pre-installed apps cannot be shifted to the SD card, but games, Skype, songs, movies, etc. can be saved on the storage card.


6. Install Android Boosting Software

Since, the battery issue of Android phones is highly common, there are many Android battery boosting software available on the market. They help monitor the battery life of your Android phone and help kill unused tasks with just a tap. The same can be done by using the task manager on your Android phone, but it will have to be done numerous times a day manually. So to save yourself all that trouble, download an app that does it for you. This creates space in your RAM that other apps need to run, also making the phone faster.

7. Activate the Power Saver Mode

Your Android phone contains a Power Saver mode, in which you can set the default setting for your phone’s power-consuming features. This mode automatically turns off when your battery is 20% left, but you can set it to turn on sooner so that your battery lasts longer.


8. Turn off Vibration

Putting your ringtone to ‘Ring and Vibrate’ consumes a lot of battery life. If you are in a place where you know that you wont here the ringtone, then switch off the vibration as soon as you leave that place. If you are in a meeting put your phone on silent and keep it in front so that you can see the screen light up when it rings, instead of keeping it on vibration and in your pocket.


9. Turn off Notifications

When your Android phone receives a notification, its screen lights up and it rings. This uses the battery life as well, so turn off nonessential notification so that your phone’s battery can last longer.

10. Turn of Auto-Sync

Auto-sync means that every time you go online with your Android phone it will sync each an every application installed on your phone. That also means that the space in your RAM is used up. Change the sync settings to manual, just leaving apps like your Gmail on auto-sync so that you only receive the most important updates on time.

How to Root Samsung Galaxy Y S5360

Samsung has finally launched its low end Smartphone in order to compete with Smartphone having

very low cost and supporting android operating system. This Smartphone by Samsung is named as

Samsung Galaxy Y S5360.This Smartphone has 2MP camera, Android 2.3 OS, 832 MHz

processor and 3.0 inch TFT capacitive touch screen.





However as this Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 was at low cost it has got some less features as well as

low optimization on Operating System all in order to come to its low price. In order to remove the

limited functionality of this device the rooting of the Smartphone is necessary. Rooting process is

known to be quite risky but yes if followed properly you will be completely safe. Rooting is very

compulsory step required for low end Smartphones. So let’s get started. But remember to

completely charge your device as this is the starting requirement.


Safety First :


As you are going to do a risky job follow these safety measures before starting.
Your Smartphone should be fully charged or at least with 60% charged, in order to get ready for rootin. If you try on low battery your Device will crash and hence will get Jammed.


Backup all your Data like Images, Contacts etc before rooting because all files will get removed during rooting of the device.


Close all the background applications, especially antivirus and battery checkup utility.
If you a newbie, better Pray to god hoping everything would go fine
Before Starting, Enable USB Debugging on your mobile. This can be done as follows Settings > Applications > Development



Steps Required in Rooting your Samsung Galaxy Y S5360

Download the Required Root Package HERE

Connect your Device Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 to the computer only via USB. (Forgot about Bluetooth)

No Extraction is required. Copy the Zip file to the root of the SD card and remember not to paste
in any folder as it would cause an interruption.

Never Unplug your Device Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 while rooting

Switch off your Smartphone to enter into recovery mode

Keep pressing The Volume Up Key, Home key and Power Button to enter the recovery mode.

Now, as you are in the recovery mode only Volume up and down would work to select the file. So
use those buttons and select Update.zip .

The rooting will start taking place after you have selected on Update.zip. It would usually take about 10-15 mins

After rooting the device will automatically restart and then normal booting will take place. The rooting of your Phone is now done!