Android: If you've ever set your phone down and waited ages for it to go to sleep, or turned the screen off only to see it come back to life, you know there's some app keeping it awake—the trouble is ...

Wakelock Revamp is a nifty app that can prevent your Android device from sleeping too deeply while on standby. This app has been helping me to overcome severe performance issues on my Nokia 3.4. It’s ...

I can now see the bigger picture of why battery drain happens on the system level ...

Over the past couple of months, an increasing number of Android smartphone users have reported issues regarding battery life, specifically in relation with deep sleep / Doze Mode. Apparently, the main ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Several Cyanogen OS 12 (CM12S) users have been reportedly complaining about reduced battery life with the new Lollipop Cyanogen update as the device never goes to deep sleep, owing to the inherent ...

If there's one thing Purdue University researchers can't stand, it's an inefficient Android app. They've already revealed how some titles burn huge amounts of energy just by running ads (e.g., Angry ...