Extend the battery life on your BlackBerry®
BlackBerry setting modifications that will help extend the life of your Blackberry mobile device.
1. Adjust your backlight
- Go to the main menu
- Select options (spanner)
- Highlight Screen/Keyboard
- A secondary drop down menu will appear
- Select a lower number
- Go to the next step before saving the setting
2. Adjust your backlight timeout
- Go to ‘Backlight Timeout’
- Reduce the timeout
- ‘Automatically Dim Backlight’ should also be left on
- Press the menu key and select ‘Save’
- Your settings from both step 1 & 2 will be saved
3. Enable Auto on/off
The most obvious way to extend your battery life is to turn off your BlackBerry.
- Go to main menu
- Go to ‘Options’
- Scroll and highlight ‘Auto on/off’ menu.
- Modify the times to turn on and off the handset weekdays or weekends.
- Press the menu key to save your changes.
4. Turn off your GPS
- Go to Options
- Select ‘Advanced options’
- Highlight the ‘GPS sub-option’
- Select ‘GPS Services’ to change location to ‘off’
- Press the menu key to ‘Save’
5. Turn off Data, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Wi-Fi and mobile data can really drain down your battery even when you are not actively using it.
- Go to the main menu
- Select the ‘Manage Connections’ icon
- Highlight and select ‘Wi-Fi’ to remove the tick which turns it off
- Scroll down to select ‘Mobile Network Option’
- Select ‘data services’ to turn it off
- Press the ‘menu key’ select ‘save’
- In the same menu screen scroll down to ‘Bluetooth’ to remove the tick which disables it
- Press the ‘back button’ to exit and return to the main menu
6. Close down running programs
Like most smartphones, the BlackBerry phone could be running various applications in the background even if you exit the program.
- Press the menu key
- Select ‘Switch Application’
- A list of programmes currently running will be displayed
- Select the application you are no longer using s
- Press the menu key
- Scroll down to select ‘close’ to exit the application
7. Timeline of Data-enabled applications
Social media sites that send notifications to your device constantly are using both data and draining your battery. You should check the individual application settings to change how often your notifications are sent. The image below is an example of an application.
- Launch the application
- Press the ‘menu key’
- Select ‘options’
- Scroll through the pages to find ‘Timeline Refresh Delay’ and increase the time
- You may consider scrolling through to deselect ‘Add location to every tweet and use your cell tower for location’
- It stops using your GPS which will decrease your battery drain
8. Download 3rd party battery monitoring software
Third party software is another way you can monitor your battery life. Various applications are available through the BlackBerry application store.
- Launch the ‘App Store’
- Search for battery status
- The free application is called ‘battery watch’ - download it
- Go to ‘main menu’
- Go to ’downloaded folder’ to launch the software
- You should see what your battery level is at the top
