Manage Your Apps - HTC Desire 820 User Manual

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don't want to receive calls or messages.
Manage your display
Lowering the brightness, letting the display sleep when not in use, and keeping it
simple helps save battery power.
ƒ Use automatic brightness (the default), or manually lower the brightness.
ƒ Set the screen timeout to a shorter time.
ƒ Don't use a live wallpaper for your Home screen. Animation effects are nice to
show off to other people but they drain your battery.
Changing your wallpaper to a plain, black background can also help a little. The less
color is displayed, the less battery is used.
For more details, see Settings and security

Manage your apps

ƒ Install the latest software and application updates. Updates sometimes include
battery performance improvements.
ƒ Uninstall or disable apps that you never use.
Many apps run processes or sync data in the background even when you're not using
them. If there are apps that you don't need anymore, uninstall them.
If an app came preloaded and can't be uninstalled, disabling the app can still prevent it
from continuously running or syncing data. See
Limit background data and sync
Background data and sync can use a lot of battery power if you have many apps
syncing data in the background. It's recommended not to let apps sync data too often.
Determine which apps can be set with longer sync times, or sync manually.
ƒ In Settings, tap Accounts & sync and check what types of data are being synced
in your online accounts. When the battery is starting to run low, temporarily
disable syncing some data.
ƒ If you have many email accounts, consider prolonging the sync time of some
accounts.
In the Mail app, select an account, tap
adjust the settings under Sync schedule.
ƒ When you're not traveling from one place to another, sync weather updates
of only your current location, rather than in all of your named cities. Open the
Weather app, and then tap
ƒ Choose widgets wisely.
Some widgets constantly sync data. Consider removing the ones that are not
important from your Home screen.
In Play Store, tap
ƒ
to avoid automatically adding Home screen app shortcuts whenever you've
and Personalizing.
Disabling an
> Settings > Sync, Send & Receive, and then
to edit and remove unneeded cities.
> Settings, and then clear Add icon to Home screen
app.