How to Use and Configure Android's "Battery Saver" Mode

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[The Atlantic] How to Assign a Name to a Range of Cells in Excel When creating formulas in Excel, you can reference cells from another part of the worksheet in your formulats. But if you have a lot of formulas, all those cell references can get confusing. There's an easy way to remove the confusion. Read This Article → How to Connect Bluetooth Headphones to Your Apple TV No need to leave a headphone cord dangling across your living room floor: you can easily pair wireless Bluetooth headphones with your Apple TV. Read This Article → How to Use and Configure Android’s “Battery Saver” Mode Google added a “Battery Saver” mode to Android with Android 5.0 Lollipop. On a modern Android device, this mode can kick in and help prolong your battery when it’s almost dead. You can tweak that battery threshold or enable Battery Saver mode manually. Read This Article → Is a Computer’s CPU Active When an Operating System Is in Sleep Mode? When you put your operating system into sleep mode, just how much activity is still actually occurring “under the hood” with your computer’s hardware? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has a great explanation to help a curious reader learn more about how his system and computer works. Read This Article → How to Pause Books and Podcasts Instead of Muting Them in Apple Maps Navigation If you use any type of navigation app, then you know that it will usually talk over anything else you’re listening to. For music, this may be fine, but if you’re listening to an audiobook or a podcast, then it can be pretty annoying. Read This Article → How to Send a Digital Touch Message with Your Apple Watch The Digital Touch feature on your Apple Watch allows you to send sketches, taps, or even your heartbeat to another friend who also has an Apple Watch. Here’s how to use it. Read This Article → Forget Flashing ROMs: Use the Xposed Framework to Tweak Your Android Many low-level tweaks can normally only be performed on Android by flashing custom ROMs. The Xposed Framework allows you to modify your existing system without installing a new custom ROM. All it requires is root access. Read This Article → How to Use a Physical Game Controller with an iPhone, iPad, or Android Device Unfortunately, not every mobile game supports physical game controllers. But quite a few games do, thanks to the Apple TV’s support for MFi controllers. For Android, devices like the NVIDIA Shield have encouraged developers to have controller support to their games. So, while this won’t necessarily work for every game you own, it should work for a fair amount. Read This Article → Advertisement Download What Is the Internet of Things? The Internet of Things (IoT) is a blending of software and hardware, introducing intelligence and connectedness to objects and adding physical endpoints to software. Radical changes in the hardware development process have made the IoT—and its vast possibility—accessible to anyone. Click here to download