How to Extend your Samsung Galaxy Battery Life from Hidden Menu

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The Samsung cell phone models that make up the Galaxy series are characterized by having batteries conditioned for intensive use. However, its autonomy and efficiency can decrease over time, causing frequent unexpected shutdowns or slowness to run very demanding applications.

That is why the most advisable thing is to practice a series of preventive measures, such as, for example, doing a proper battery calibration. It is also of great help to reduce the power consumption of the applications installed on the phone as much as possible in case of having a very low level of charge and not having a charger at hand.

The Samsung Galaxy Hidden Menus

These two options are accessible on a Samsung Galaxy cell phone from two secret menus that can be easily activated. For this, you only have to enter a sequence of characters with the keyboard that includes a series of digits and the asterisk and number keys. Here we show you.

How to Access the Samsung Galaxy Hidden Battery Menu

From this hidden menu of Samsung Galaxy phones it is possible to perform a battery calibration procedure, which will result in better terminal performance.

Follow these steps after you’ve charged the battery, preferably 100 percent, as the charge level may drop sharply during calibration.

Open the app to make phone calls. Then enter the sequence *#0228#. The BatteryStatus screen will immediately open.

On this screen, click on Quick Start. Then click OK.

Now, fully charge the battery and repeat the process for one more time.

How to Access the Samsung Galaxy Hidden SysDump Menu

Now, the SysDump menu contains advanced system options, one of them being the Low battery dump function, which allows you to deactivate the phone’s applications in order not to consume battery.

This option has the disadvantage that the affected applications will not be able to synchronize information with their servers, so they will not comply with the work of notifying the user, however, it is very useful in case of having the battery with the minimum charge. Follow these steps to activate this function.

Open the app to make phone calls. Then enter the sequence *#9900#. The SysDump menu will immediately open.

Click on the Low Battery Dump option so that it changes from Off mode to On mode. Then press Exit to exit the menu.

When your phone returns to an optimal charge level, you can deactivate this option following the same instructions.

Tips to Increase your Phone Battery Life

While it is true that the above procedures can help you improve the battery performance of your phone, your efforts will be useless if you do not take additional measures such as:

reducing the brightness of the screen, uninstalling unnecessary applications (for example, supposed battery optimizers ), turning off the Wi-Fi when you are away from home, keeping the device’s operating system updated, or turning on the energy saving function in the models in which it is available.

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