Try 10 tips to extend your handset's battery life...

Try 10 tips

to extend your handset's battery life:

1. See what's sucking the most

juice. Navigate to Settings > Battery to

see an organized breakdown of what's

consuming your phone's battery.

Applications and features will display in

a descending list of battery hogs. If you

see an application you barely use or a

feature you never use, you'll want to

uninstall the app or turn off the feature.

2. Reduce email, Twitter, and Facebook

polling. Set your various messaging

apps to "manual" for the polling or

refresh frequency, just as a test, and

you'll instantly extend your device's

battery life by a significant amount.

Once you see what a difference that

makes, try re-enabling just the most

important ones, and possibly reducing

their polling frequency in the process.

3. Turn unnecessary hardware

radios off. It's great that today's phones

have LTE, NFC, GPS, Wi-Fi, and

Bluetooth, but do you really need all five

activated 24 hours per day? Android

keeps location-based apps resident in

the background, and the constant drain

on your battery will become noticeable,

fast. If your phone has a power control

widget, you can use it to quickly turn on/

off GPS (the largest power drain), NFC,

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LTE. On stock

Android, swipe down to bring up the

Notification bar, and then tap the icon

on the top right corner more....