Huawei P20 Pro Top 31 Battery Life/Drain Saving Tips & Tricks
Вставка
- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Got a P20? Want to save battery? Look no further!
Here I'll run down some in-depth battery saving tips and tricks for the P20/P20 Pro.
If you have any tips of your own please share them down in the comments below to help out other users.
Below is a list of most of the tips/tricks and where to find them in the phone settings:
WIRELESS & NETWORKS -
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi+ TURN OFF
Configure - Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep - Only when charging
Mobile network
4G - TURN OFF
Preferred network type - GSM only (2g signals operate at a lower frequency which can penetrate through walls easier)
Advanced
Wi-Fi/Mobile data switch - Never switch to mobile data
Mobile data always on - TURN OFF
Carrier aggregation - TURN OFF (this allows for 4.5G - network provider dependant)
Dual SIM Settings
Internet access during calls - TURN OFF
Dual SIM 4G - TURN OFF
Mobile data
Data saver - TURN ON (select what apps you still want to access network)
Call settings
Vibrate when ringing - TURN OFF (both SIMs)
DEVICE CONNECTION
Bluetooth - TURN OFF
NFC - TURN OFF
Huawei Share - TURN OFF
BATTERY
Power saving mode - TURN ON
Screen resolution
Smart resolution - TURN OFF
HD+ Enable
App launch - Manage all automatically
Darken interface colours
SETTINGS COG
Keep Wi-Fi on - Never
DISPLAY
Brightness - Automatic - TURN OFF
Colour & eye comfort
Natural tone - TURN OFF
Colour mode & temperature
Normal
Wallpaper - Choose something black
Notch - Hide notch
Auto-rotate screen - TURN OFF
SECURITY & PRIVACY
Disable Face unlock
Screen lock & passwords
Always display information - TURN OFF
SMART ASSISTANCE
HiTouch - TURN OFF
Power saver Mode - TURN ON
Ultimate power saver mode - TURN ON
....and, for the final one, you should turn your phone off, and the battery will last much longer...
Haha good suggestion 😂👍🏻
This is really really helpful. Good job and thanks so much for this!
Thank you very much. Glad it helped you out :)
Please do a similar video for every new phone you get. Very useful
Thank you. I'm planning one for my S10 now as well 😊👍🏻
Hello Android Addicts,
This my smartphone Huawei P20 Pro CLT-L29. My phone is 4 years until now, and why my phone are reduce Battery Life and what cause of it? Please answer it quickly
Thank u man
No problem 😊👌
Don't forget screen brightness
It is covered under disabling automatic brightness control 👌🏻
Thanks you for this informative video. It helped me with my batterie draining issue. Regarding the oled screen on the p20 pro, do you know anything about the phone, not using pure black in the overall interface? i have noticed my p20 pro glowing in dark, compared to my nexus 6 which also has an oled. when i use the same black images in a completely darkened room and go into Fullscreen, my p20 pro`s screen shines in a greyish black, whereas my nexus 6 is invisible.
Thanks for your comment.
Interestingly I'd never noticed this before. I've just done some tests to check mine:
1) Downloading a black wallpaper from the Internet - not a fair test because the quality of the images can't be guaranteed - I could see pixelation as I zoomed into it to get it full screen so the screen wasn't truly black.
2) I've tried installing an app called "Backlight Bleed Test" which is actually for LCD screens. However, it displays a full screen of black so think it is OK for this test...And I do indeed see a glow on the screen. There's a ~1cm strip across the bottom of the display and a maybe 5mm strip at the top of the screen UNLESS I set the brightness in this app to 5%. (This is also seen when I paint a black square using PicsArt and zooming in in Google Photos...)
However, I do NOT notice this when the Always On Display is running...🤔 It does make you wonder whether this will/does affect battery life as pixels are being lit when they're not needed.. Good find! 👍
I feel like my Huawei battery has gotten worse and I have all of these features enabled, is it me being optimistic that the battery should last for weeks or has there been a problem with this for others?
How long does yours normally last you? I charge every night but that's just a habit people have come to accept after the 'smart phone' boom of the early 2000's.
You're never going to get more than 2-3 days out of this phone without being on "Ultra power saving mode" I'm afraid. It's only a 4,000mAh battery after all.
If you're looking for a phone which lasts even longer than this then I'd suggest a lower-power device such as the Lenovo P2. You can see a comparison test I did with the P2 here: ua-cam.com/video/n2DWeGnHaI8/v-deo.html Sadly the camera on the P2 isn't great so it really depends what you want out of the phone...
@@AndroidAddicts yeah once a day too, but I guess I use it a lot for UA-cam and games and social media etc, so I guess that's about right, and I have downloaded many apps since so they take up battery too. Yeah it probably is just me expecting too much, however I just played candy crush and the battery went down by 2% in 20 minutes.
If you're playing games then I'd definitely have the standard "Power saver mode" active and the screen brightness as low as is comfortably possible as those'll be the things that will use the most juice. The"Power saving mode" should reduce CPU speed too which I have never found to cause any slow-down or stuttering during games I'm playing.
@@AndroidAddicts yeah mate I've got all of those features enabled, I'm probably expecting it to be a power machine I guess.
It's a power machine alright - it uses a lot of power 😜😆
Nice tips thank you
Glad you found them useful 🙂
Thanks for data
No problem. Hope you found the tips useful 😊
My friend, how I can set the second SIM connection type to GSM only, like the first SIM as you done? My p20 pro let me to do this only with the second sim card which it is the data card while I can't do this with the first sim card which I use only for voice dailing.
As the P20 Pro is only "Dual SIM Dual Standby" this means that there is only one transceiver in the phone - only one SIM is used when you make/receive a call and the other is put 'in standby' (try making a call on one SIM and you'll notice the little hour glass next to the SIM that's not in use).
When you set the network mode, it is setting it for both SIMs at the same time. You cannot set them individually - for that you'd need a "Dual SIM Dual Active" phone.
If you set it to 2G, both SIMs switch to 2G. The same goes for 3G and 4G.
The only way you can get the "Preferred network mode" to show up under SIM 1 is to set it as the preferred SIM for data - this won't help you as you use SIM 2 for data.
I hope that helps and makes sense 😊
Android Addicts thank you very much
No problem. Glad I could help 😊👍🏻
Does it work on mate 20 pro
The Mate 20 Pro comes with Android Pie so it's possible the layout of the menu systems is slightly different. The key points are the same however so it should give you an idea of where to look
Thanks
Hi wanna ask what reason could be that my huawei p20 pro that i left it in like 40% then i power it off after a couple of minutes or maybe an hour when i turn it on its in 9 or 10%
Sounds like an app is draining your battery. Install GSAM Battery Monitor and try and work out what's causing it
I love this phone the battery is great
How many hours do you normally get with your P20? A full day? More than one day?
Great vidéo thx. I see you have fitbit app installed... I can't receive notifications... Any tips to fix it?
Is it just the fitbit app you're not getting notifications for or is it all apps?
@@AndroidAddictsit's just fitbit. It seems that notifications for fitbit doesn't work with huawei p20 pro
I only have notifications on my watch when app is open in background
Ok, try this:
Open the phone's Settings and search for "notification" in the search bar. You should see "Notification access" listed. Click on there and then another screen appears with a list of options. Select "Notification access" again and you should see the Fitbit service listed. Try enabling it for Notification Access.
Failing that, in the Fitbit app itself, ensure you also have "Always connected" turned on and synced to your Fitbit. My Fitbit battery still lasts about 5 or 6 days with this turned on.
Let me know how you get on!
@@AndroidAddicts Thanks, I'll try that. I also put "widget keep-alive" on in fitbit app... Will see 😉
Good luck!👍🏻👌🏻
Kindly help with an answer, is 6 hours of battery duration normal? I only use FB, youtube, medium-end game. Is it really okay if the battery only last that long? It includes 10-15 mins rest/sleep. Please help me.
If you mean screen-on-time then yes, that's not too bad 👌
Hello again man, is unplugging my phone on 95% good? Or harmful? Should I always fully charge it?
And does making your screen yellowish help saving the battery too?
Nice and thx for this great help Clip
I have the Huawei P30 Pro but this is fast the same .
Do you use Theme?
Do you know some other Settings ?
Hi maybe you can help with advice. When I bought my phone it was good the battery for 1,5day than 10days later from one day to another one it dropped down with a slightly bit more use to around 12hours it's quite weird. Now I get the fast charger they said with that it could improve the battery life too. Do you have any idea why it could be? Thanks
Hi there. I don't think using a fast charger will help particularly. Maybe have a look at what apps you installed recently to see if one of those is running in the background and draining the battery.
@@AndroidAddicts thanks for your reply. I will have a look. Will see. I just didn't want to run back to the company straight.
Thank you
Ok good luck. You can also install a batter monitoring app such as GSam Battery Monitor, it'll give more details for you: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
You have to let it collect data for a day or two
@@AndroidAddicts hi. I did a factory reset and it looks now everything good. I use the phone since 1day and 2hour quite strong and still 26% remaining. Which should be good for another 10hours at least. Will see. And I did put back the same apps like before so maybe if someone have the same issue is good to try this before panicking like me :)
Hi just wanna ask how to fast charge huawei p20 pro? Thanks.
You can see here: ua-cam.com/video/IzTvRHp85_Q/v-deo.html
@@AndroidAddicts thank you! And sorry to bother but i have another question when i turn off my phone it has like black stains idk why but most of the time don't
It could be the screen getting slight screen-burn or something. Make sure you don't have the brightness on full all the time to help preserve the screen
Help me i got my first time a p20 pro it drains fast when i play pubg and if i play from 100% it starts draining at 70% and if it reaches 30% it shutdown from itself and it overheats too much
It depends how long you're playing for really. Also, the phone takes a few weeks for the battery to fully calibrate too.
@@AndroidAddicts dude u play like 3 hours or something and when the phone heats it starts draining
@@AndroidAddicts I recently got a Huawei phone aswell and the battery seems to drain extremely fast. Is it because it haven't callibrated yet?
I certainly remember mine having a seemingly bad battery for the first couple of weeks yes. If you still have issues after this time you should ask for help from the place you bought it 👍
@@AndroidAddicts no my phone had a bad battery I changed it a brand new one and no issues more
Hi where to find Gsam Battery monitor on the phone? Thank you
Hi there, you have to install it from the Play Store.. Here's a link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
@@AndroidAddicts thank you so much😊
My average per complete charge is only 11h 12min(9h 31min active) huhu is there something wrong on my battery if like that? Since yours is 1d 9h (16h 51min active)
I don't think GSAM is very accurate to be honest. I've just looked at it again and now it says my average is 2d 16h (2d 1.2h active)! 😂🤣
I currently have 18% battery. I've checked the Huawei battery stats for today (I've had the phone unplugged from power since about 7:15am and it's now 11:55pm) and it says: Used 16h 38m. Estimated time left: 2h 16m
@@AndroidAddicts huhuhu i bought my p20 pro last july, how about yours? And do you overcharge it? Coz sometimes i did overcharged it. Charged it at night then unplugged it when im awake huhuhu
Can i do that on p20 lite
Yes you can. The main difference is that the P20 Lite has an LCD screen so the 'dark mode' features etc will make no difference to you
Hi, how do you create a shortcut for a certain option in the settings menu? Thank you!
I have a shortcut to the 2G/3G settings. Is this what you mean? It's actually an app that I downloaded which does it😊
@@AndroidAddicts yes, exactly that! Can you tell me the name of the app, please?
I can do better than that 😀 here's the link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dc.max.a2g_3g_4g
It's called 2G-3G-4G Shortcut 👍🏻
Did this now I don't get any notifications. Please help
Make sure Ultra Power Saver is off and also check your Data Saver settings. Watch from 4:47 and disable Data Saver. Let me know if this helps
Thanks for the fast reply. I've done that and still receive no notifications
When I get a notification it wakes my screen but doesn't display what the notif was for or anything and when I turn it on and pull down the menu from the top i can't even see any notifications there.
Turn off the 'standard' power saving mode too. See if that helps you
@@AndroidAddicts that didn't make a difference either