How can I optimize my Nothing Phone 3's Battery: Beyond "Adaptive Battery"

ViMish

Hey everyone,

I’ve been using the Nothing Phone 3 for a while now, and while I love the OS and the hardware, I’m struggling to get a full day out of a single charge. I’m currently getting about 0.75 of a day with my typical usage:

1–2 hours of light gaming.
~2 hours of YouTube.
General office applications (Email, Teams, etc.).

My Current Habits:

Charging: I stick to the 20–80% range to preserve long-term health.
System Settings: Adaptive Battery is already ON.

I have a friend with an iPhone 17 Pro who easily clears 1.5 days on a similar 80% to 0% cycle, and I’m wondering if I can bridge that gap.

My Questions for the Community:

System Tweaks: Are there any specific “under-the-hood” settings or Developer Options you’ve found that actually make a difference? (e.g., suspending execution for cached apps, specific animator scales, or network tweaks?)
App Recommendations: Are there any modern optimization apps you recommend? I’m looking for things that might help manage background processes more aggressively than the stock OS.
Debloating: Has anyone had success using ADB to remove specific background packages without breaking Glyph functionality or system stability?

I’d love to hear how you guys are squeezing more juice out of your devices!

itc_c

we cant match the apple efficiency , everything is in house for apple. Same goes for apple’s M series chips on thier laptops , hands down the best at efficiency with only a few coming close but lagging behind in other aspects.

only way i could think you could extend it further is maybe enabling battery saver sooner than the default 25% and disabling HDR for videos , use standard 60 hz refresh rate.

ViMish

itc_c ah come on, 60Hz just makes the phone feel older than eons

and yeah you are right about the apple efficiency being at a different level because the OS, and the chipset is manufactured in house

But I also believe that it’s to do with how efficiently IOS optimizes background apps, so any applications that we can use to do that in android? or in nothing?

Rooks

use battery saver the whole time
Youtube: use Opera browser so you can listen to Youtube with the screen off
change settings so charging stops at 90% instead of 80%