Your smartphone battery will charge faster

If you want to charge your smartphone battery faster, you only need to observe a few points. Even if there is no miracle cure, several minutes can still be saved. We show the best tricks.

Smartphone battery: does flight mode help with charging?

Since faster transmission of the electricity is not possible, you have to reduce the energy consumption during the charging time. The flight mode will help you here. This will interrupt all radio and network connections.

• iPhone: Open the "Settings app" and activate the "Airplane mode" option at the top. Alternatively, place your finger on the bottom of the screen and drag it upwards. Here you can also activate the flight mode.
• Android: If you hold down the power button on your smartphone for a few seconds, you can activate "Airplane mode" or "Offline mode". You can also find the flight mode in the "Settings" app and in the notification center.
• Note: The flight mode unfortunately only helps to a limited extent. Depending on your smartphone, you can only save a few minutes. If you don't use your smartphone during the charging process anyway, you can use it to speed up the process sensibly.

Charge the battery faster - with these tricks it works

• If you use your smartphone while charging, this can extend the procedure. If you charge your smartphone at the socket, this effect is hardly noticeable. However, the battery charges faster in the car or at a mobile charging station when you are not using the smartphone.
• Alternatively, you can turn off your smartphone. So you can be sure that no additional battery is used. The effect at the socket is also very slight here.
• You can find more tips for extending the battery life here for HTC One and for Samsung Galaxy.

Tip: Mobile battery charger for on the go

If the battery is not charged quickly enough, your smartphone gets new energy with mobile chargers:

• The "EasyAcc" can charge up to two mobile phones via USB at the same time (8400 mAh). Available from around 30 euros.
• "Winten" (5200 mAh) is smaller and more manageable. Price about 15 euros.
• If the battery of your smartphone can be replaced, a second cell phone battery will help you on the go. Numerous external cell phone batteries had to prove themselves in the CHIP test: for less than 50 euros you get up to 10 hours of additional runtime.

In our smartphone tests, we also check the charging time of the cell phones. You can read which smartphones are real turbochargers in this smartphone comparison.