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Increase Battery Life with Location Mode on Lenovo A7000

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You're watching VisiHow! This is a tutorial on how to manage the power consumption of "Location services" on the Lenovo A7000-series smartphone. As many of you may know, "Location services" can use lot of your battery charge.

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In order to manage power consumption, we go to the "Settings" panel
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This can be done by tapping the Settings icon on the home screen of our phone.

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If we do not have the Settings icon, we simply swipe down from the top of the phone
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This will open the notification panel.

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From the notification panel, we tap the gear-shaped Settings icon at the top
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One tap on the gear-shaped Settings icon will bring up the "Settings" panel.
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On the "Settings" panel, we are looking for a purple circle with a map tag
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It is labeled "Location services".

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We tap "Location services" once
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Tapping it once will open up the "Location services" panel. In this video, "Location services" is enabled, as indicated by the blue toggle.
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What we are looking for is to tap on "Mode"
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One tap on "Mode" will allow us to choose which "Location services" mode we would like to have. There are three types to choose:
- "High accuracy", which uses a combination of GPS, mobile networks, and our wireless network;
- "Battery saving", which only uses our wireless network and our mobile network;
- "Device only", which only uses the GPS service of our device.
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To change "Location mode", we simply tap one of the modes
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Once we've tapped the mode, it will be changed.
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We can tap a mode to change it again
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We can tap "High accuracy" again to go back to the default mode
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When we tap on "High accuracy", we will be asked to confirm the use of Google "Location services".
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We tap "Agree"
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We will allow Google to track our location.
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This concludes our tutorial on how to change "Location mode" to conserve battery usage or to reduce power consumption on the Lenovo A7000-series smartphone. If you have additional questions, comments, or suggestions, please let us know in the section below. Thanks for choosing VisiHow! Have a great day!