Increasing battery life of Motorola Razr² V8

Tired of your phone's battery finish in less than 2 days without even being used? With these useful tips your mobile battery will last longer.

 

Reduce the brightness of the V8 screen:

Despite being a great screen with very bright colors, it consumes to much battery. The outer screen as example, even though it doesn't have many features, just by seeing the time it will use a lot of battery.

The standard brightness of Razr2 V8 is 3, but you can reduce it to 0. The changes will be noticeable, however you will realize that even with less bright than before it will have a better display than many others mobiles of the same price.

To change the brightness, do the following:

• Open Main Menu;
• Settings;
• Phone Settings;
• Display Settings;
• Brightness, decrease to 0 or the amount you want. The lower, more battery life will be preserved.

 

Reduce speed of network search - Only do this if you live in a big city, else you may get bad signal strengh:

Reducing the time it search for signal will make it use less battery.

To reduce:

• Open Main Menu;
• Settings;
• Network;
• Search Setup;
• Speed, change to Slow.

Select the band the mobile will use with your carrier network:

The Motorola Razr² V8 is Quad-Band, so by default it will aways search for signal in the 4 differents band. Selection only a couple of bands will considerably increase battery life. Most of the mobile networks operates with band 900/1800, so choose it according to the carrier you use.

To do this:

• Open Main Menu;
• Settings;
• Network;
• Search Setup;
• Band, then change to the band your carrier use.

 

Turn off the Bluetooth when not in use:

When enabled, the bluetooth signal is countinuously being sent out there. Motorola V8 bluetooth version is 2.0, despite the increased speed than version 1.0 it spends much more battery.

To disable:

• Open Main Menu;
• Settings;
• Connections;
• Bluetooth;
• Options > Manage > Setup Bluetooth > Bluetooth Power, change to Off.

 

Disable annoying sounds:

By default, V8 comes with many unnecessary sounds (and often annoying) when you press any button.

To disable:

• Open the Main Menu;
• Settings;
• Profiles;
• In the option Keypad volumes change to Silent.