Battery Aid for Android
Battery Aid is a free application for devices running the Android operating system designed to improve battery life in various ways.
Battery life is an important factor when it comes to mobile devices, considering that you may not make it throughout the day or night without recharging a device if its manufacturer shipped it with a weak battery.
And that is not even taking into account what users do on their devices. While it is clear that activities such as playing games or watching videos drain a lot of battery, it is important to note that installed applications may also impact battery drain significantly.
Battery Aid
The free Android application Battery Aid, compatible with Android 4.0 and up, saves battery automatically after it has been installed.
The application's primary method of doing so is monitoring WiFi, Data and Bluetooth connections to disable the connection methods if they are not used for a period of time.
The default idle time is set to five minutes for all connection types but you can change it to 15 minutes instead on the configuration screen.
Battery Aid highlights how much battery it has saved while running, and may also hint at other options to save battery.
It displayed a notification on a test device that adaptive brightness was turned on for instance, and that the feature uses extra battery.
It linked to the relevant setting in the options so that it was easy enough to turn it off. Additionally, it allows you to change the display brightness and screen timeout on the same screen.
As far as configuration options are concerned, you may disable any of the three options to save battery when a connection has not been used for five or fifteen minutes. This may be useful if you rely on one connection type, say WiFi and don't want wireless connectivity to be turned off by the application.
You may disable all battery saving options at once as well. If you are using a car dock, you may configure a low-charge reminder or have the app enable Bluetooth automatically for you.
Battery Aid Pro is available as well. The only feature it adds to the application is a screen full of battery stats. Users who upgrade to Pro support the developer, and all future upgrades are included according to the Pro screen of the application.
Closing Words
Battery Aid can be a helpful application when it comes to saving battery while using the Android device or while it is idle.
It is by no means a complete solution that saves as much battery as possible, as it lacks lots of features for that.
However, it may be useful if you use at least one of the connection methods regularly and keep it enabled all the time.
Update: Battery Aid 2 has been released. The new version of the app features a material design home screen, icons and aid buttons, as well as several enhancements and bug fixes.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?