Extending Battery Life on your Verizon Wireless Phone

Everyone has problems with their Verizon cell phone keeping and holding a charge, especially as your phone gets older and begins its second year of service. This guide will assist you in bringing new life into your old Verizon mobile phone.

Your battery is one of the few items on a cell phone that endures wear and tear. With temperature changes, half charges, and moisture fluctuations, your battery ages quicker than the rest of your phone. You can always extend your battery life by following these steps:

1) Check your display settings to decrease your screen brightness, your keypad lighting duration, your backlight duration, and any other display timers. All too often, the manufacturer settings are much too long anyway, and you likely didn't change those settings when you bought the phone. Check under Menu > Settings > Display to increase your cell phone battery life by changing these settings.

2) Turn off roaming. Your cell phone is designed to grab on to the strongest and clearest signal it can find. With many cell phone provider's price plans, roaming is included and turned on in your phone by default. By turning off your roaming, you can eliminate your phone searching out those roaming towers and prevent your phone from searching for roaming cell towers all the time. 

3) Do a PRL update. Your phone has a list of cell towers pre-programmed into the phone, so that it has an idea where to look for signal. As cell providers change tower directions and add new ones, this preferred roaming library changes, leaving your phone searching for towers, using up more battery life. Dial *228 and select option 2 to update your PRL and save battery life on your cell phone.

4) Drain your battery down completely for recharging. We charge them up, but rarely let them discharge completely before recharging. Doing this excercise a couple of times per month can increase your battery life.

Following these steps will allow you to increase your battery life and keep you happy with your cell phone much longer, at least until you're ready to get a new phone with Verizion's new every two policy, and may put off the expenditure of $50 - $60 for another battery.