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How To Improve Battery Life on Yu Yureka & OnePlus One Running CM12 Lollipop [No Root Needed]

Most of the Yu Yureka and OnePlus One owners jumped in joy when the CM12 was finally released officially and the OTA started rolling out. And some of us were short of patience and went ahead to manually flash the update zip. While the overall feeling about the CM12 is that is a solid build, runs smooth, looks to be better than its predecessor in many different ways, there has been few issues that many are reporting.

While most of them need minor corrections there is one issue that many are raising concerns about – the dreaded BATTERY DRAIN issue. It is quite surprising that many report an improvement in the battery life as compared to CM11 most of us are not seeing that happen. Quite a number of users also rooted their devices and tried out custom ROMs which provided commendable performances around the battery department.

Also Read: Update Yu Yureka to CM12 Lollipop Manually

Also Read: How To Root Yu Yureka Running Lollipop CM12

So we too tried the CM12 and were not satisfactory in terms of the battery life when compared to the CM11 44s build. That led us to do some tweaks and were pleasantly surprised to find some improvements in the battery life. Here is what you too can try:

Tips to Improve Battery backup  –

1. Greenify App –

Greenify is app that will prevent apps from running while you lock your phone or put it on stand by. This is a FREE app available on the Google Play Store and does not require any rooting. Once installed, select the apps that you want the system to do the needful when you lock your phone or move it to stand by.

2. Adaptive brightness –

this is an option under the Display section of the Settings which will run all the time to constantly monitor and change the brightness levels of the phone based on the external conditions. While this is a good option it does run all the time thus sucking the battery juice to a certain extent. Turn this OFF

3. Ambient Display –

this is again another option under the Display section of the Settings, when turned on (is ON by default) splashes notifications on the lock screen in black & white, every time you grab your phone off a table or something. This is a built in feature of Android Lollipop and is very useful. However, it is not that every time you grab the phone you wanna view notifications. You could be heading some where and want to keep the phone in your pocket or mounting the phone onto your car dashboard and the list goes one. So every time you do this, the ambient display comes and goes. While this may not eat up a whole lot of battery, turning this off will do something good.

4. Adaptive Backlight –

similar to the Adaptive display this again keeps running constantly all this time. While turning this option ON is supposed to save battery life, it could be counter productive in that notion in case the external conditions you live force it to change the backlight way too many times. Disable this option.

5. Google Play Services in Privacy Guard –

this one is a major culprit in sucking the hell out of your battery juice. Navigate to Settings > Privacy > Privacy Guard > Advanced Settings > Google Play Services and do the following changes:

5.(a) Set Location to Ignored

5.(b) Disable Wake Up

5.(c) Disable Keep Awake

6. Brightness Level –

Bring down the brightness level to around 20%. But be warned that there could be instances when the phone is used under sunlight and you may have to manually increase the brightness but this step does help a LOT in saving the battery life for you

Based on our tests, with these tweaks done you should be able to push the battery to give you anywhere between 30-60 minutes of extra life!

Always know that it all comes down to one’s usage pattern but the above steps do help. Of course there are general/basic tips that one can also adopt like turning on WiFi or Mobile Data switch ON as and when required and so on which will also help you increase battery life.
Here is the snapshot of the SOT we got as compared to 4-5 hours of SOT before making the tweaks – first one is 100% of the time on WiFi while the second one is 80% on WiFi and 20% on 3G data:

What we also hear is that Cyanogen is aware of this battery drain issue, and are supposed to push a light OTA sometime in a week or two. Hopefully that should fix things up! We will keep you posted on that but in the meanwhile if battery life is too much of a concern do try out the tweaks we mentioned above, based on your need and preference.


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Shubham Mishra

Founder and Chief Editor at PaidFreeDroid. Shubham likes to keep on top of the tech world and loves to help people around him who face day to day trouble with technology.

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