5 hacks to keep your smartphone charged during a power outage - WFTV Orlando

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ORLANDO, Fla. — A smartphone tin beryllium a lifeline successful a storm, but it’s useless without power. Fortunately, there’s ne'er been much ways to support a smartphone juiced up.

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Here are immoderate casual ways to support your telephone successful the greenish if you suffer power:

1. Charge up each laptop successful your home. If you suffer power, crook a laptop connected (but don’t unlock the screen) and usage your iPhone oregon Android cablegram to complaint your telephone via the USB ports. Most newer laptops tin complaint a smartphone aggregate times.

2. Keep your telephone connected “Low Power Mode.” This mounting volition usage acold little juice. On an iPhone, spell to “Settings,” scroll down to “Battery” and crook connected “Low Power Mode.” On an Android, swipe down from the apical paper and find the “Power Saving” icon.

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3. Use your car to complaint your phone. Most newer cars person a USB larboard – oregon two. Even if your car is retired of fuel, you tin crook it connected and complaint it utilizing the car battery. It’s a past resort, but if you person a newer car battery, it volition complaint a telephone aggregate times easily.

4. Buy an outer charger if you don’t person one; astir cause stores person them. Portable smartphone artillery chargers are getting amended and little expensive. Most cause store chains person them adjacent the counter, but you volition wage much for the convenience. But if you request 1 close now, that is simply a bully spot to look.

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Companies specified arsenic Anker and Aukey merchantability high-quality, precocious capableness chargers connected Amazon. Consider buying 1 earlier the adjacent storm. Some of the caller 1 person capacities approaching 30,000 mAh, which is capable to complaint an telephone implicit 5 times.

5. Still person powerfulness but privation to complaint a telephone rapidly without utilizing a partition socket? Plug it into the USB larboard connected your TV. Most newer TVs person one.

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