How To Improve Motorola Android Droid’s Battery Usage
Here are some ideas from Netnetblog on how to improve the Motorola Droid’s battery life:
There are two things that need addressing about the power-hungry Droid. First, TURN OFF GPS. It makes complete sense to have it on out-of-the-box so as to let the customer get familiar with the functionality. Verizon should stick a posty on the package that states “use GPS only when necessary.” Turn that GPS on and watch the battery bar slide at 100 mph. I don’t need GPS to surf the TV anyway.
Second, there is a “location” feature that uses the position of the cell towers, GPS (I think) and Internet databases. It’s not known how much this feature contributes to the battery-juice hunger though. The service continuously updates as you move about St Louis. It is cool for applications that provide you local content such as movies, store sales, etc. Some advocates have issues with this and classify it as a privacy issue. No sleep lost here. If privacy isn’t breached this way, it is probably breached a half-dozen other ways. You may turn this functionality off to conserve on battery juice.
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