Table of contents:
- My mobile uses its battery too fast. What I can do?
- Check which app is draining your battery
- Format your Xiaomi phone
- Go into the developer options and disable this
- Modify the search for mobile networks
- Adjust automatic brightness
One of the reasons why, in the end, we end up getting rid of mobile phones is because their battery begins to dwindle. They don't last as long as they did in the first months and now we can hardly keep them alive at the end of the day. Batteries degrade, that's how it is. We cannot expect them to last forever as freshly opened. However, there are situations in which we can notice that it may be an error in the terminal itself. Especially when the mobile does not have too much time.
In this special we are going to give you a few tips about what to do when the battery of our Xiaomi we see that it discharges too quickly. Don't forget to follow them to the letter to see if your problem is fixed. If not, you will have to pull the warranty.
My mobile uses its battery too fast. What I can do?
Check which app is draining your battery
The battery may be draining too soon due to a certain downloaded application. To see what it is, we are going to go to the mobile settings and, by scrolling down, we locate the ' Battery and performance ' section and enter it. Inside the screen we have to click on 'Energy use'. On this screen it is also interesting that you have pressed the 'Use adaptive battery' switch. In this way, the operating system will detect the use we make of the mobile, limiting the battery for applications that you do not use regularly.
In the 'Applications' tab we see which is the one that appears in the first position, since it will be the one that is spending the most battery. If we see that it is typical of the system, such as 'Android System' or 'Google Play Services' I am afraid that we cannot uninstall them. In this case, the only thing we can do is format the mobile so that the system will reinstall itself and end this problem. However, this also depends, very much, on how optimized the MIUI layer is and the problem could be solved with a software update.
If, on the contrary, the first application that appears you have installed it yourself, you have two possibilities: either uninstall it completely and download an alternative application or delete its data. For the second we will do the following:
- Click on the application in question
- At the bottom of the screen click on 'Details'
- Next, we click on 'Storage' and a new screen will open
- At the top, click on 'Clear cache or' Clear storage 'if we want to erase all the application data
Format your Xiaomi phone
If you need to format your phone and leave it as you took it out of the box, we will carry out the following steps.
- We enter the 'Settings' section and then go to ' Additional settings '
- At the bottom we look for 'Backup and restore' and, within this section, we go back down to the bottom until we find 'Delete all data'.
- Before formatting the mobile, make sure to make a copy of all your files on your PC, since formatting will erase all of them.
- Now click on 'All phone files' and just wait for the system to restart your phone, this time without data.
Go into the developer options and disable this
Another trick that can work to prevent the battery from draining so easily is to activate the 'Developer options' and turn off the switch of two functions that are found at the bottom of the options,' Activate MIUI optimization 'and' Notify about high-risk functions '. Disabling these two options has been found to work for many users. Without them we can continue using the mobile without any problems.
The only thing that to enter the 'Developer options' we have, first, to activate them. To do this, we enter the 'Settings' section of our phone and then 'About the phone'. Next, click seven times on 'MIUI version' to activate the 'Developer options'. These can be found in the 'Additional settings' section.
Modify the search for mobile networks
When mobile coverage is unstable, the mobile does not stop looking for where to connect so as not to lose the signal. And that work entails a waste of energy that is made possible by the battery of our device, so if you are in unstable areas it will last little. To modify the networks to connect to from your phone, all we have to do is the following.
We open the application in which we dial the phone number we want to call and write the following code ' * # * # 4636 # * # *', without quotes. Without having to press anything, a screen will open with three options of which we will press the first, in which we can read 'Information about the phone1'.
On the screen that opens we will have to locate 'Set preferred network type' and display the arrow that accompanies the title. From the long list of types of networks that appear, we must select the one that says 'LTE-WCDMA', that is, the mobile will only search between 3G and 4G networks, By default it has to search among too many types of networks per what the battery consumption is going to be higher. If you notice that your coverage, after making the change, is altered in any way, nothing happens, you just have to restart the mobile so that the type of network to be located is readjusted.
Adjust automatic brightness
You would be surprised by the amount of battery that we see wasted on a mobile simply by not having the automatic brightness adjusted. Thanks to this option, the screen will always receive the appropriate brightness for the situation in which we find ourselves. And if your device does not work as it should, always make sure to use the correct brightness, adjusting it manually. You would be surprised how much battery we can save with the brightness of the screen.
