Improving Battery Performance - Sony Xperia S User Manual

To charge the phone
1 Plug the phone charger into a power outlet.
2 Plug one end of the USB cable into the charger (or into the USB port of a
computer).
3 Plug the other end of the cable into the micro USB port on your phone, with the
USB symbol facing up. The battery status LED lights up when charging starts.
4 When the phone is fully charged, disconnect the USB cable from your phone by
pulling it straight outwards.
Make sure not to bend the connector when removing the cable from the phone.
Battery LED status
Green The battery is fully charged
Flashing red The battery level is low
Orange The battery is charging. The battery level is between low and full
To check the battery level
1 From the Home screen, tap
2 Find and tap Settings > About phone > Status.

Improving battery performance

The following tips can help you improve battery performance:
Charge your phone often. This will not affect the lifetime of the battery.
•
• Downloading data from the Internet is power consuming. When you're not using the
Internet, you can save power by disabling all data connections over mobile networks.
You can do this from Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Data
enabled. This setting does not prevent your phone from transmitting data over other
wireless networks.
• Turn off GPS, Bluetooth™ and Wi-Fi® when you don't need these features. You can turn
them on and off more easily by adding the Quick settings widget to your Home screen.
You do not need to turn off 3G.
• Set your synchronisation applications (used to synchronise your email, calendar and
contacts) to synchronise manually. You can also synchronise automatically, but increase
the synchronisation intervals.
• Check the battery usage menu in the phone to see which applications use the most
power. Your battery consumes more power when you use video and music streaming
applications, such as YouTube™. Some Android Market™ applications also consume
more power.
• Close and exit applications that you are not using.
Lower the screen display brightness level.
•
Turn off your phone or use Flight mode if you are in an area with no network coverage.
•
Otherwise, your phone repeatedly scans for available networks, and this consumes
power.
• Use a Sony Ericsson original handsfree device to listen to music. Handsfree devices
demand less battery power than the phone's loudspeakers.
• Keep your phone in standby whenever possible. Standby time refers to the time during
which the phone is connected to the network and is not being used.
This is an Internet version of this publication. © Print only for private use.
.
15