Today we take care of solving one of those problems that we have been living in our meats all weekend. As much as we try to configure the screen sleep it does not turn off with the consequent battery drain that this entails. How can it be fixed?
To try to alleviate this problem, we will go from the simplest solution to the most complex, hoping that the first of all will allow you to avoid this energy problem in your phone, because the longer the screen stays on, the more we will see how the battery of the itself begins to descend.
Set the blocking time
You may have unknowingly changed your smartphone’s sleep mode settings without your realizing it. First of all, access the Display and Brightness settings and check that you have set the time to turn off the screen in less than a minute. If it is never or in a time much higher than 5 minutes, you are going to be a huge amount of battery.
Switch off the mobile phone
The solution that has worked perfectly for us and that usually fixes almost all the problems of our mobiles. When something does not work well and we have not turned off (restarted) our mobile for weeks, it is normal that the failures begin to make an appearance.
Letting the phone rest for a few minutes turning it off can solve the error with the automatic screen lock on your smartphone .
Charger and original cable
If the problem persists, it may have originated from using a USB cable that was not the manufacturer’s own. When using a third-party cable alternate to the original of the brand of your mobile phone, it can damage the charger or the phone itself, causing its power component to present errors, such as the inability to enter sleep mode.
The best thing you can do is recharge your phone with its original cables and chargers (if you don’t have it you can buy one) and then restart it to check if the fault has disappeared.
Calibrate the battery
In many occasions, when having so much time using the mobile, the battery of the mobile can get to be miscalibrated and therefore give a worse autonomy in the day to day or present errors of operation like the one that concerns us. Fortunately, calibrating it is very simple.
Many of us have a habit of not cycling the battery and this is something that affects its performance. Follow this advice to calibrate the mobile phone battery and make it improve drastically.
Free up space
When our smartphone reaches its maximum storage capacity, it will work slower and, but it will even affect some of the system configurations, in this case, creating problems for the screen sleep mode .
Today there are numerous space optimizers that allow us to save a few gigabytes of internal memory but it never hurts to manually check the amount of photos, videos or apps that are unnecessary on your mobile to gain storage and what functions better.
Also take a look at the latest apps installed on the mobile that may be creating a malfunction.
Hard reset
If after doing all this you can not get your smartphone into sleep mode , the thing seems more serious than it seems and you should resort to the last solution for your problems, restore the mobile to its factory state . This will leave your mobile as new and you will lose all the data stored in it so it is essential to make a backup of all of them before anything.
Once done, locate the System menu from the mobile settings, select “reset device” and, once inside, check the option “reset phone” or “delete all data”.
