Battery And Power Management - Sony SGP712 User Manual

Battery and power management

Your device has an embedded battery. To get the most use from it, keep track of the
power consumed by different apps and features. Background power saving features
are activated by default to help you reduce battery consumption, and additional
power saving modes are available to help you reduce battery consumption further
when necessary.
Power saving features lower the priority for certain non-essential device functions,
such as higher grade image performance, network activities such as location
services, app synchronisation and background Wi-Fi scanning. If you do not want an
application to be affected, you can exempt it in the Battery optimisation menu.
System updates may change the power saving features available on your device.
To view battery consumption, estimated time, and power saving tips
1
From your Home screen, tap
2 Find and tap Settings > Battery. An overview appears showing the battery
percentage and an estimated battery time.
3 Tap SHOW BATTERY USAGE to view a list of features and services that have
consumed battery power since the last charging cycle. Tap an item to get
information on how to reduce its battery consumption.
To view battery consumption for applications
1 From your Home screen, tap
2
Find and tap Settings > Apps.
3
Select an application and review its battery consumption under Battery usage.
General usage tips to improve battery performance
The following tips can help you improve battery performance:
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Lower the screen brightness level, see
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Turn off Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi and location services when you don't need these
features.
•
Turn off your device or use Airplane mode if you are in an area with no or low
network coverage. Otherwise, your device repeatedly scans for available
networks, and this consumes power.
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Change the synchronisation settings for your email, calendar and contacts, see
Synchronising with online accounts on page 47.
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Check the applications that have a high battery consumption and consider the
battery saving tips provided on your device for these applications.
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Change the notification level for an application, see
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Turn off the location-sharing permission for an application, see
settings on page 52.
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Uninstall applications that you are not using, see
page 22.
•
Use a Sony original handsfree device to listen to music. Handsfree devices
consume less battery than your device's loudspeakers.
•
Restart your device every now and then.
To make exceptions to power saving features for apps
1
From your Home screen, tap
2
Find and tap Settings > Battery.
3 and select Battery optimisation. You will see a list of applications that
Tap
are not optimised.
4 To add or remove applications from this list, tap APPS and select or de-select
an application from the list to edit its optimisation settings.
5
The list of applications that are not optimised will get updated according to
your settings.
You can also configure Battery optimisation from Settings > Apps >
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Screen settings on page 51.
Notifications on page 27.
Application screen on
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