Android phones are the latest gadgets around, and it’s not surprising to watch people enjoying them. Nonetheless, Android phones have their share of woes – insufficient battery power dominates the list. Thankfully, most of them can be treated effortlessly. Read on to find more.
Switch off unessential services:
Services like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS should not be kept switched ON always. Use it only when you need to transfer files or use a Bluetooth headset, while GPS should be used only if you are having difficulty finding your way around some place while travelling. Switch off GPS Geolocation features in any other app that makes use of it as well. You can use Wi-Fi only when you have an access point around. When you are on an airplane, switch to the Airplane mode to switch off all of these services at once. You can find this option in Settings > Wireless & networks > Airplane mode. These services drain a lot of battery and it is best to keep them switched OFF unless you really need to use them.
Switch off notifications:
While notifications are very useful, it is also true that they silently drain your battery power. It is best to switch off sound notifications as well as LED notifications to save battery. Manual check is certainly cumbersome but surely saves battery power.
Disable constantly syncing apps:
The same reason is valid for disabling syncing apps. Some built-in applications like Email, keeps on trying to access the internet at regular intervals without user intervention, thus reducing battery power. You can either set it to sync at longer intervals, or simply switch off automatic syncing. You can always sync it manually by hitting refresh button whenever you with to find out if you have got any new mails. This setting can be changed in the Email application in Accounts and sync > General sync settings and remove the checkbox next to Auto-sync. In addition to email, this will affect social networking applications and RSS feeds which tend to keep on trying to sync to find updates. You can manually sync to get updates for these applications.
Upgrade to the latest firmware:
Upgrading the firmware of your Android phone can lead to better battery life. This has been documented when upgrading from 1.x to 2.x. One of the reasons for the better battery life with the newer firmware is that it fixed the ever-present message application, which stayed on persistently, and now it goes to sleep, saving battery. In a similar way, it is also a good idea to update your apps to their latest versions as battery optimizations are usually done once in a while in newer versions.
Disable Adobe Flash:
Flash gives an enriching web experience but also consumes a lot of battery. Switching it off is one possible way of reducing battery consumption. You can set the browser to load Flash only when you want it to load. To do this, open the internet browser, press the Menu button on your Android phone, select More, go to Settings > Enable Plug-ins and set it to On demand.
Use Battery Usage Screen:
Android phones have a nifty little utility, which lets you monitor what apps consume the most power and thus affecting battery life the most. This is the Battery Usage Screen and you can access it by opening Settings > About Phone > Battery use. You can then decide what action needs to be taken.

Seesmic is a powerful app that allows you to manage your Twitter Accounts, effectively. The app enables you to share images, post videos to YouTube, configuring your notifications and share links. It manages all the twitter timelines on a single screen. You can even manage multiple twitter accounts, and open the tweet view directly from the app without opening the new tweet link. Download the application here.
Phonebook 2.0 developed by Voxmobili is a fantastic app that combines all social networking and instant messaging under a single roof. This app secures the contact and notifies the users who are online and will centralize all communications. You can customize Contact groups, Provides Contextual Information, Mobile Social Networking, Event logs and Sync and Backup. Download the application here.
SVPlayer Alpha is a perfect option for music buffs. This app plays different media formats on your smartphone, and supports Flv, RMVB, Divx/Xvid, AVI, WMV and MP4 formats. You will be able to play all latest videos formats as well. Download the application here.

Tracking latest news in and around the World is a difficult task, today. However, with latest app in the market, you can track the latest happenings on your fingertips. The Economist application available on your phone allows you to read the magazine without requiring to buy a print version. Further, you no wait for the magazine to arrive at your place.

Features:

• A new issue weekly is being uploaded in the Android App (updated on every Thursday 9PM),
• Ability to download whole issue on your Android Phone so that you can read it in absence of internet connectivity
• You can HEAR the whole issue, excellent advantage to people who are on the go or physically challenged
•  Ability to archive the previous issues to refer them later, whenever you want
•  You can even subscribe from within the app for full access to The Economist on your Android phone
• Easy to use interface along with the neat Graphical user interface setting it apart from other applications

Increase the processing speed of your HTC Evo 3D to a whopping speed of up to 1.8GHz. The increased speed will enable you to enjoy the fastest processing of all apps that you desire to download, run and use.

Procedure:

Step 1: Once your HTC Evo 3D phone is rooted via Fre3vo method, you will be able to run the rooting applications. In case you lose the temp root apps due to the path file /system/bin/su then you will have to re root the device as that means that the root access have been revoked.

Step 2: Select the desired frequency and voltage to set your phone. Ensure that it has to be a multiple of 54 MHz. The maximum frequency you can have is 1782MHz (54 * 33).

Step 3: Now push the kernel module into your HTC Evo 3D phone via the following command,

adb push 8x60_oc.ko /data/local/tmp/8x60_oc.ko.

Step 4: With the help of the “SetCPU”, you can set the maximum frequency to 432 MHz and to a minimum of 384 MHz. Now, visit the home screen and press the power button, wait until 8-10 seconds for the kernel to load. The command given below replaces the scpll_l_val with the value you got above and the vdd_uv with the voltage you want (in micro volts). The valid command and the correct one for reaching to 1.8GHz,

adb shell insmod /data/local/tmp/8x60_oc.ko scpll_l_val=33 vdd_uv=1375000

Step 5: Please note that if you don’t specify any parameters then the module defaults to a maximum of 1512 MHz which is nothing but to the 1250000 Micro Volts. In case if it crashes down, then you will must re-install the kernel and reboot the phone to try the same again.

Step 6: Get into the Set CPU after which it will auto detect and select the new maximum frequency. Once the new frequency is re-set, it will turn into stable scpll_l_val and vdd_uv and will turn on the first core as well.

That’s it! A few users claim that their phone has been clocked to a maximum of around 2GHz. All depends on the kernel.

The open source Android operating system offers multiple customizability and accessibility options, and overall flexibility that we can now perform most of the important tasks right away. One such very interesting and useful application is Ringdroid, this application can help you make ringtones by editing music files and save the files as per requirement.

Now with Ringdroid you can very efficiently create ringtones and alarm sound on your Android phones. The application UI is very simple but most importantly application performance brings out the uniqueness. We can edit music files to make ringtones, alarm tones, notification tones and can also be used to remove unwanted parts from a music file. Further, you can also record a sound clip and edit it accordingly to remove unwanted parts from particular sound clip. The newly created file can be saved onto SD card conveniently.

The file formats supported by this application are MP3, AAC/MP4 (including unprotected iTunes music), WAV and 3GPP/AMR.

The scrollable waveform UI is very simple in handling and accurate in usage, once a part of a music file is selected using the starting and ending pointers we can tap the screen in order to play the selected music part, this results in faster editing of music files. Finally, the edited file can be directly assigned to a particular contact.

If you own a website and desire to keep checks over the web site hosting server performances, the best way to do that is picking up your Android phone and connecting the website over EDGE, 3G and / or WiFi connectivity.

Server uptime and downtime are the main characteristics used to measure the performance of a server. Several websites that enable you to check uptime and downtime but then again you must visit those websites, which becomes a daunting task. To combat the challenge, Pingdom a famous uptime monitoring application available on Android phone can be downloaded and installed for free. The most appealing feature is the graphical representation that facilitates the perfect understanding of the server uptime and downtime history.

You can create Pingdom account for free, and avail more features, services and benefits. So what can the app do for you?

• The application enables instant alerts about the websites to be monitored. The application sends PUSH messages on our Android phones. For this particular feature it is necessary that the Android version is 2.2 and up.
• SMS and email alerts
• Easy viewing of uptime and response time statistics for each site that is to be monitored. Graphical interpretation proves effective.
• Current status of web sites like if it is UP or DOWN.
• A facility of Checks helps in the identification of the sites and / or servers that are monitored. A Check can correspond to a web site or a server. Hence, it can be customized.
• Information about each Check can be obtained in monitoring resolution. An essential aspect of monitoring.
• Many application protocols are supported by this application-  HTTP, Ping, DNS, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, TCP port, etc. All these protocols are shown as Check types.
• Information about target IP address and URL can also be obtained.
• The application UI is simple and can be understood very easily.

It is worth a try!