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LeanDroid Battery Saver saves battery life by handling the smartphone's connectivity

By Luis D.

Updated: Feb 04, 2015, 3:17 AM

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LeanDroid Battery Saver saves battery life by handling the smartphone's connectivity

Developer: TeqTic	Download: Android
Category: Battery life	Price: Free

LeanDroid is a lightweight battery saver that prolongs your device's battery life by disabling WiFi, Cellular Data (2G, 3G, LTE), Bluetooth, and GPS after a certain period of not using it and keeping the screen turned off. It automatically re-enables these connections when the screen is turned back on. It turns them on periodically too, as to let pending notifications come through. Of course, the app only re-enables connections that it disabled, not all of the available connections.

As with any battery app, some of its functionality is user-customizable. For example, you can set it to disable Wi-Fi connections only if there is negligible data transfer while screen is off - so downloading and streaming stuff while the screen sleeps is possible. There is a disable time interval setting that you can adjust to the length of an average song and make sure LeanDroid doesn't miss out on data activity. Or you can set a stretch of time when connections are automatically turned and kept on.

If you want to give LeanDroid a try, keep the following in mind. Handling GPS and cell radio connectivity works on KitKat and later devices only, and it requires root. Dual-SIM smartphones won't have data disabled on both cards due to manufacturer reasons. Finally, if you are on KitKat 4.4.1 or 4.4.2, there's a bug that won't let services restart themselves once killed by the system. LD works around it by using a persistent notification. If you want to hide it, find and un-check the "show notifications" option in the app. Oh, and don't swipe LeanDroid away from Recent Apps, as this will bug it out.

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Luis D. has a multitude of news, features and review articles written for PhoneArena. He adeptly demystifies complex technology topics, such as the development of advanced materials for bendable device displays and the evolution of chipset manufacturing.

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LeanDroid Battery Saver saves battery life by handling the smartphone's connectivity

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