Tuesday, August 9, 2016

How to save battery on your phone when you play Pokémon Go – BBC World

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Image caption An inveterate gambler? Follow these tips to prolong your days as coach.

Nothing to do: If you want to walk through the streets hunting imaginary creatures, the minimum you’ll need is a good data packet … and a lot of battery.

on Monday the company that developed the game, Niantic, announced the reestablishment of the mode “battery saving” , whose deactivation generated great criticism from the community of players.

But if it helps, the chances of you to stay halfway are high.

Pokémon Go demands the use of GPS phone , the graphics processor , the cellular radio and camera , plus ask you to keep the screen with good brill or .

a test conducted by the specializing CNET in July last with an iPhone 6S found that with only half an hour, consumption was 15% of the battery . “At that rate you’ve eaten the entire load it in seven hours,” he said.

So, what can you do? In addition to using the recently reactivated saving mode battery, these are the most popular suggestions:

1 Adjust the screen brightness

Perhaps the best advice to conserve the battery.



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Image caption Lowering the maximum brightness can help.

Use the darker option you can .

A test Wirecutter found that in the iPhone6, use the lowest brightness setting could represent savings of up to 54% in battery , while on a Moto X Pure Edition the figure was 30%.

2. Disables the augmented reality

that is, the possibility of seeing the Pokémon against the actual background that captures your camera.

If you turn this off, you’ll see on a stage created.

True removes much of the grace , but if it comes to saving battery to play longer, it may be a viable sacrifice.

3. Turns things

For example, the sound, some perhaps dispensable Pokemon of experience. The Bluethooth, if you do not require synchronization in this way to play.

Some suggest also uses mode Google maps offline , although it is controversial: others say it makes no difference. In any case, if you want to try, you have to prepare in advance. In this story we tell you how to do it:

The other thing you can do-and that it’s any general advice for saving battery in any circumstance-is to turn off apps that operate in the background, when not you are actively using.



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Image caption and remember: no handle and play at the same time.

Facebook and Google are some of the most common “eat” battery without us realizing it. Although, again, the result can be mixed:

If you’re on the street, the page dedicated to everything related to Pokémon, PokemonGoDB, also recommends off the wifi .

The reasoning behind this is that if you are using your mobile data, the constant search for hotspo ts by your phone with enabled wifi becomes a waste of battery.

4. Buy an external battery

Even if you apply all these tips, your phone battery has a limit. If you’re a hardcore gamer, you might want to invest some money in an external battery , you can find a wide range of models and prices.

If none of that works here are our tips to prolong the battery of your phone:

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