The HTC Thunderbolt currently is making waves with its groundbreaking 4G speeds and capabilities. But we all know that one good thing always has a downside. All that speed and functionality seriously drains the Android phone’s life, giving heavy 4G users much frustration. Giving only a little over 4 hours in battery life when in 4G, the phone dies down in the middle of the day and has to be recharged. Why buy a 4G phone when you can’t max out the function’s use? Here are two tips and tricks on how to make the HTC Thunderbolt battery last longer than it does without turning off the 4G.
Tweak your display settings. There are a couple of things that a user can do to adjust the display settings to conserve more battery energy. One can turn of the auto-brightness, or atleast adjust the phone’s brightness to level down where it’s still comfortable and easy to see. Try lowering it to 25%. Given the Thunderbolt’s TFT capacitive touch screen, trust that the display would still be clear, given the percentage setting. Decreasing your screen display time out is also an option. The phone’s default screen time out is a minute, but one can lower it down to a couple of seconds.
Get the sync settings under wraps. This will not only save up battery life, but can also help in saving up your mobile data allotment. Some installed applications and widgets on the HTC Thunderbolt have the ability to sync themselves automatically, without the user giving some sort of prompt or command. These then end up running on the phone’s background when there is some updating that needs to be done. Uncheck the auto-sync option and disable background syncing. If syncing is really needed, one has the option to choose the applications that can only do so.
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