{"id":8128,"date":"2016-03-04T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2016-02-27T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T19:15:47","slug":"samsungs-ultra-power-saving-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8128","title":{"rendered":"Samsung’s Ultra Power Saving Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Galaxy S6 has a robust battery. It’s a great phone! And like all Samsung phones, it offers features beyond the stock Android set. One of them that I used recently was the Ultra Power Saving Mode. It worked amazingly well.
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\nThis past week, I went on a trip with two of my sons to Disneyland. I used the phone as a camera and took lots of photos, such as the one in Figure 1.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. My sons Jonah and Jordan in front of the Disneyland theme park.<\/p><\/div>\n

As often happens when you’re away from your primary locations, the phone tendeds to burn through battery power. Yes, I checked my mail and uploaded a few images to Facebook. That’s what phones are for, but the effect is that your battery drains.<\/p>\n

By the time we were waiting in line for the last ride, my phone showed only 36% charge left. That’s still pretty good, but as anyone who’s used a modern phone knows, just because I have a third of a charge left doesn’t mean I get an equivalent number of hours.<\/p>\n

Seeing that I didn’t really need the phone for photos or to check mail, I activated Samsung’s Ultra Power Saving Mode: In the Settings app, tap Battery, then tap Ultra Power Saving Mode.<\/p>\n

The phone’s touchscreen went to grayscale and showed only six icons. Mobile data was disabled. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were disabled. I could send and receive calls, but that was about it.<\/p>\n

A phone call came in while the phone was in Ultra Power Saving Mode and I took it, which was great. And I could make a call, but the battery wasn’t draining. In fact, when I finally charged the phone, it still showed 36% power remaining — which I found most impressive!<\/p>\n

The Galaxy 6 also features a less-rigorous Power Saving Mode. In that mode, screen brightness is turned down, vibration is turned off, and some wireless features are disabled. These are the same battery-saving techniques I recommend in my Android For Dummies<\/em> books. I could have just used that feature, but I really wanted to check out the Ultra Power Saving Mode. I’m glad I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8134,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions\/8134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}