How to Maintain Your Smartphone

So you got the Smartphone you have been longing for so long, now you must take good care of it in order to maintain it for your usages for a long time. Today everyone wants to own one to make their day to day tasks. Owning a Smartphone makes your life easy. You can see around yourself, everyone today are using their phone to get their work done be it a project submission. Bill payment, chatting with friends on Facebook or reading a recipe for a special dinner. Now you can’t imagine your life without a Smartphone.

As today Smartphone comes with lots of advanced features, but they are becoming delicate and vulnerable to external threats as well. Here are some tips for you to keep your Smartphone safe and handy for your use.

How to Maintain Your Smartphone

Take Care of Your Battery

Imagine livening your life with a weak heart, yes a battery is indeed a heart to a phone, if it’s not properly taken care of it will not let your phone have a good and easy life. Lithium-ion batteries today have a life span of 3 to 5 years if taken good care of. Battery works very well when its fully charged so take some time out and leave your phone with charging point to let it get its full daily dose. And never use your battery to the last extent as it not only hamper the performance of your phone it also reduce the storage power of the battery. Never expose battery to extreme temperature as it harms its storage capacity and you’ll have to change the battery for your phone way before the designated date.

Use Good Hardware Protection

Just looking after the software won’t get you across the water. You should use a mobile cover for your phone to save it from daily wear and tear. Use a screen cover to save it from scratches, Use a good quality screen cleaner to clean the surface of your phone, it will not even clean your phone but prevent dust and other micro particles to get into the hardware. So nothing will disrupt perfect functionality of your hardware.

Use a Good Antivirus

Using Smartphone without antivirus make your data more vulnerable to external threats. As there are lots of applications available in the market, and with some of them there could be attached some virus, even any spam mail or file on your mail can be contained with a virus which will be lethal to the security of your phone. So invest in a good antivirus to protect your precious data from all kinds of malware practices. Some antivirus are available free of cost and for some you have to spend some extra bucks. So choose wisely and accordingly to your requirement.

Take Backup

There are some condition and circumstances which we can’t control and which effects security of the data. Imagine if your phone is lost or stolen. Then obviously you will not be in condition to collect all the data manually. So always keep backup of your phone data as contacts, text messages, appointments ready in case of any such emergency. You can take backup of data locally on your pen drive or external hard drive, Also there are many backup solutions available for smart phones today which will keep taking backup of your files on regular interval as per your custom settings. You can also save your data on cloud like Google drive or drop box so the chances of losing it will be minimal.

Use Original Accessories

Every company makes accessories for their devices today, so that their users can use original accessories with their phones. Using an original accessory is very crucial for a Smartphone. Like if you are not using an original battery, you will never get the same performance from your phone and that duplicate part can even damage your phone further and you’ll have no one but you to blame for that. So always use original accessories for your phone they will not only increase the life of your Smartphone but even enhance the Smartphone using experience. 

Clear All Cache and Cookies

Whenever you browse the web through your phone your phones active memory gets clogged by all the history. When active memory gets clogged your phone’s performance get effected as it become slow and you can’t do your daily day to day work with ease. So keep clearing all your cache and cookie data on a regular interval for smooth operation of your Smartphone. You can clear these data by going into setting menu of your phone.

Delete Unused Apps and Media Files

Some app in our phone start seems irrelevant as time pass and we get a new and better app for the same task. But we don’t keep track of those unused apps. This ignorance leads to the clogging of memory which disrupts the smooth functioning of the phone. So take time and review applications on the phone and uninstall or delete them by going into setting menu. With our Smartphone we tend to click and share photos and videos which take a major space in memory. So keep deleting media files, which you are not using or if you do not want to delete them just transfer them to any external storage device, be it your PC or laptop, or any cloud Google drive or Dropbox. 

Close Unused Apps and Process

When you start a new app on your phone instead of closing the old app or process your phone open the new app on it. It takes active memory and drains your battery too. So always close an app instead of just minimizing it. You can always check active app in running app option and close the app and processes which you think are not usable now and can help your phone to take some rest.

Gone are the days when you have to sit in front of a computer or laptop to check mail, make presentations, preparing files or even having live video conferences. Now you can do all these things with your Smartphone even from your home. So Smartphone s has become essential parts of our lives. So keeping good care of them is a very important task to do. So keep the above points in mind to maintain your Smartphone for problem free and long run. Thanks