BatteryGuru app by Qualcomm goes out of beta, promises clever battery savings

Qualcomm has a special app called BatteryGuru that optimizes power usage on phones with Snapdragon chipsets and it just graduated out of beta. It’s an easy to use app as it does its own thing – it spends a couple of days in the background learning your usage habits and then gets in control of things like Wi-Fi, which apps are allowed to run in the background, and so forth.

BatteryGuru learns the locations of the Wi-Fi networks you use and powers off Wi-Fi connectivity when you’re away from them.

Controlling app behavior is a little more complicated. Each app that connects to the Internet to refresh data (and drain the battery in the process) can be set to one of three modes. The first mode lets apps refresh only “when you need it” based on what BatteryGuru has learned of how you use the app.

The other two modes are simpler – let the app handle its own refresh schedule or only let the app refresh when you open it. You can set the mode for each app manually, so you can be sure critical apps deliver notifications on time while rarely used apps don’t drain the battery unnecessarily.

BatteryGuru can also disable mobile data if it detects it has been idle for a while. Of course, you can disable any of the features of the app if you prefer to manage that particular setting manually.

The app has over 100,000 downloads and a rating of 4 out of 5 stars at the moment, so the response is relatively positive – even though it was only available with a beta status so far. You can download it on most Snapdragon-powered phone (it requires Android 4.0) and Qualcomm promises to add support for more devices. If you’re not sure about the chipset on your device, you can check with our specs database.

Source | Via