Recommendation for cold days to get warm fingers: Take your device with both hands, plug in the charger.
*3 download from notebook via Wifi TetherĪs an additional reference, the baseline: Airplane Mode: 6.4 / 6.4 / 10.7 mW. | Wifi Stby 5 GHz | - | 14.6 mW | 20 mW | | GPS Searching | 550 mW | 263 mW | 191 mW | | Action | Motorola Droid | Galaxy S3 | Galaxy S6 | In July 2012, the same publisher again made something similar with his article Durchhaltetraining (Google translate: Hang on! – this article is available online, but paywalled), this time utilizing the more recent Samsung Galaxy S3 same for the Samsung Galaxy S6 in January 2016 1 – so I add their values here: ┌─────────────────┬────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────┐ They slightly modified a Motorola Droid to be able to get precise data on energy consumption – and ended up with a nice table like this, which already substracts the „base consumption“ and thus gives the data for each component/action. But if you think about what you could turn off/down and what effect it offers: There's a nice table to be found at the German technology site Heise, titled Energiesparplan ( Google Translate Version here). There are so many things one can do I don't wanna repeat here: Remove bad apps, reduce brightness of your dis… ahem, said: not repeat, OK. Then use Screebl to keep your phone screen on when the phone is only held at certain angles.