Apps are awesome, and can be an excellent way to pass the time, keep in touch with friends or check on things that you love. The
average Android user has about 95 different apps installed on their smartphone at any given time (some of which are bloatware and come pre-installed). Of those 95 apps, users use an average of 35 apps on a day-to-day basis. The others? They’re just plain battery drain and space suckers.
So, if you are one of the millions of people who frequently finds their phone chirruping sadly about low battery in the middle of the day, don’t despair! There are plenty of things you can do to help
preserve your battery life. But if those aren’t working, then perhaps you should look to your apps as the culprits.
Here are the top ten apps that drain your battery at start up, based on a study conducted by AVG of more than 1 million app users in the third quarter of this year. These apps are hard on your phone when you start up, and many will continue to run in the background until you tell them not to. Interestingly enough, the top two are actually Samsung bloatware.
Apps That Drain Battery at Start Up
- AllShareCast Dongle S/W Update (Samsung bloatware)
- ChatON Voice & Video Chat (Samsung bloatware)
- Beaming Service for Beep’n’Go (Moheam)
- magicApp: Free Calls (magiclack VocalTec)
- Samsung WatchON Tablets
- Facebook
- Path
- PPS for Mobile
- Vault-Hide SMS Pics & Videos
- Al-Moazin Lite Prayer Times
Of course, these apps really only hit your phone hard when it starts up. For the apps that run in the background, making sure you utilize the Task Manager (or other similar) apps can help ensure that you only have apps running that you’re actually using.
Aside from start-up apps, games are probably the biggest battery-suckers. In fact, according to a
CNet article, roughly 62% of the time spent on phones is dedicated solely to games. On that line of thought, here are the games most likely to hit your battery hard:
Top Battery-Draining Games
- Puzzle & Dragons
- Hay Day
- Candy Crush Saga
- Minecraft — Pocket Edition
- Cookie Jam
- Pet Rescue Saga
- Clash of Clans
- Bubble Witch 2 Saga
- Farm Heroes Saga
- Angry Birds
I can’t say that any of these games surprised me as battery-drainers, but it’s still good to know which apps to stay away from if you’re trying to conserve your battery life. Are there any games you can think of that are really hard on your battery? Let me know in the comments!]]>
