How to Automate Your Phone's Battery Life Using AutomateIt

As I have previously mentioned in many posts is the powerful ability of AutomateIt to automate your phone in a variety of different ways.  Today's post is about using the app to manage your battery life.  I ask my phone to work very hard all of the time so when it is low on battery I just want my phone to be able to do the basics (text and call).  Using these rules allows my phone to last for approximately 2.5 more hours.

Battery Low Turn Off GPS 

The trigger for this AutomateIt rule is battery level below 15%. The action is turn off GPS. The battery rules enable me to save my battery when it is low. I turn off all of the stuff that drains my battery that is not essential (or I view as not essential) till my battery recharges and then it turns all of the items back on.

Battery Low Turn Off 3G 

The trigger for this AutomateIt rule is battery level below 15%. The action is turn off 3G.

Battery Low Turn Off Wireless 

The trigger for this AutomateIt rule is battery level below 15%. The action is turn off wireless.

How to Automate Your Phone at Work Using AutomateIt

AutomateIt is the best phone automation app out there so how do you use it at work.  The items I want automated at work include sound, Wifi connection, and data use.  I have many rules written for AutomateIt which can be found here, so the key is making sure the new work rules are compatible with those.

• Sound Work - Trigger is location is work.  The sampling rate is 5 min (anytime after 30 seconds will work since work enable time is 30 seconds).  Action is turn phone on vibrate.  I do this because I want AutomateIt to turn off my phone's sounds one time while I am at work.  I use this rule along with enable sound work and disable sound work to only allow my phone to turn my phone on vibrate once because I might want to have sound on and I don't want it to keep turning my phone volume off all day.

• Work Disable - This rule turns on your work sound rule. Work Disable works together with the rule Work Enable to check your location only once. I use the next three AutomateIt rules with my headphone jack but it could also be used with a time. The trigger for this rule is headset is unplugged. The action for this rule is enable rule Sound Work.

• Work Enable - The trigger for this rule is headset is unplugged. The action for this rule is disable rule Work Sound. The key to this AutomateIt rule is the delayed execution. I have mine for 30 seconds which allows Work Sound to check the location and then turns Work Sound off before it checks your location again.