The single most important
thing that I find lacking in my smartphone today is Battery Life. Whatever we
do, we barely scratch past a day without needing a charger. How about I tell
you a simple way to improve the battery life of your phone automatically.
Enter – Smart Wifi
Toggler!
This is a small Android
app that does a simple job effectively. It shuts down your wifi when you leave
a wifi zone (like your house / clinic) and restarts it when you get back to a
wifi zone. This leads to a large amount of battery life improvement as open
wifi is a serious drain on your phone’s battery, plus a potential security
hazard.
Here is what the Google
Play Store description says
“Smart WiFi Toggler is an
application designed to control your phone's WiFi using location based rules.
Its aim is to conserve battery and minimize data charges by turning WiFi off
when not connected to a network, and turning it on when a known hotspot is present.
It constantly learns where your hotspots are located to make its decisions.
It's a very useful application if you frequently forget to turn WiFi off when leaving a hotspot, or if you want to automatically switch from mobile data to WiFi to conserve battery whenever you're back into a hotspot.”
It's a very useful application if you frequently forget to turn WiFi off when leaving a hotspot, or if you want to automatically switch from mobile data to WiFi to conserve battery whenever you're back into a hotspot.”
There are many similar sounding apps so please remember to
download the app with the above icon only. The author of the app is “Seboult
Aghuelan”.
In my use I have found that this app takes a couple of days
to figure out your default wifi zones. Once it has learnt your regular wifi
areas it is quite effective in improving battery life. The only issue I find is
that Android automatically shuts down the app after a few days and then I need to restart it to keep it working.
Till the next time,
