Trend Micro™ Longevity Help

Contents

Introduction
Basics
Optimize the Battery
Power Saving Recommendations
Status
Power Hogs
Premium Version
Contacting Trend Micro

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Introduction

Trend Micro™ Longevity for Android is a simple app for maximizing your smartphone’s battery life.

The FREE version includes:

The PREMIUM version includes all the free features, plus:

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Basics

Trend Micro Longevity has three tabs to help you save battery power.

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Optimize the Battery

Optimize with the Free Version

To make your battery last longer using the free version, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Power Hogs tab.
  2. Look over the pie chart and tap the app or service using the most power.
  3. Move the slider beside the app or service to the left.
  4. Tap the item's icon beside the pie chart icon (top right).
  5. Tap the settings icon beside the Running Apps Optimizer button to add apps to the Approved Apps List.
  6. Tap Running Apps Optimizer to shut down apps not on your Approved Apps List.

Optimize with the Premium Version

To make your battery last longer using the premium version, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Status screen.
  2. Tap Smart Power Saver.
  3. Make sure that a green check mark appears beside Enable Smart Power Saver.
  4. Tap the Back button.

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Power Saving Recommendations

To get the most out of Longevity, follow these steps:

  1. Tap the Power Hogs tab and take a look at what uses the most power. You might want keep some apps or services running even if they use a lot of power.

  2. Tap the item list icon beside the pie chart icon (check the top right part of the screen).

  3. Tap the settings icon, beside the Running Apps Optimizer button, to add apps to your Approved Apps List.

  4. Tap Running Apps Optimizer to shut down apps not on your Approved Apps List.

    Longevity shuts down all apps not on the Approved List when optimizing the battery. To keep an app running, tap Add apps to Approved List.

  5. If you bought the Premium version of the app, tap the Premium tab and make the changes shown below.


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Status

Battery Status

The battery status icon shows how much power your battery has left and how much longer you can use your Android phone. Tap the battery status icon to see detailed information about your battery.

Just-a-Phone Mode

Just-a-Phone mode can help keep your Android phone going much longer. It automatically shuts down everything but the most essential features and directs you to switch off your GPS and location services, if your phone has them.

If you switch on Just-a-Phone mode, any actively running apps will shut down after 10 minutes.

Smart Power Saver

Smart Power Saver takes all the work out of saving power on your device by letting you set Smart Standby and Smart Wi-Fi.

Power Hog App Alerts

Power Hog App Alerts announce when something starts draining your battery too quickly. This feature uses the Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation to check the power usage of apps on your device.


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Power Hogs

The Power Hogs tab shows what uses the most power on your device by checking your apps against the power consumption records of hundreds of thousands of apps in the Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation database. You can use this information to help decide how to optimize the battery.


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Premium Version

The Premium version of Longevity offers the following special features:


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Contacting Trend Micro

Before contacting Trend Micro, try to find the answer to your question in the help system.


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