A few tips will keep your mobile
by robinner ner dfA few tips will keep your mobile device
alive, writes Eric A. Taub.
If you?re a recent convert to smartphones,
you?re probably still discovering all the amazing things your BlackBerry,
Android phone or iPhone can do. But one thing you most likely found out right
away: The more you do, the shorter your phone?s sony vgp-bpl9 battery,
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While a standard mobile phone?s charge can
go three days or more, many smartphone owners are dismayed to learn that their
new toy requires charging every 24 hours, or even more often. Whether you?re
using a laptop or a smartphone, the devices can be tweaked to get the most out
of its lithium-ion batteries.
Dim it
The brighter your screen, the more juice
you?re using. If you?re in a dimly lit room, turn down your brightness. If you
have an auto-dimming feature on your device that detects the light in a room,
use it. The same advice holds for sound; if you use your smartphone or laptop
to play music, lower the volume.
If you have a BlackBerry, the company?s own
holster will turn off the screen when you insert the phone.
Stop searching
It is great that you can use Bluetooth
technology to connect your smartphone to a headset or use Wi-Fi to speed up the
downloading of email messages. But when you?re not using that headset or you?re
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Portable devices don?t know there isn?t any
Wi-Fi or a Bluetooth headset and continue to search for them, using unnecessary
power.
Similarly, put your phone to sleep when it
is in standby. On an iPhone, do so through the Settings icon. On a BlackBerry,
use the Manage Connections icon.
Skip a generation
Your smartphone is also continually looking
for a mobile phone signal. If you?re in a weak signal area, your phone must
work even harder to find one, decreasing battery life. If you know there is no
coverage in your area, turn off your device?s mobile capabilities.
If your GSM 3G network is not available or
the signal is weak, the battery will drain faster looking for one.
Consider turning off the phone?s 3G
network; it will make web access slower but won?t affect the quality of phone
calls.
Check mail manually
Mobile smartphones can check for email
messages and instant messages automatically. Or they can be set to ?push?
notifications as soon as they arrive in your server?s mailbox. Both strategies
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To increase your battery life, turn off
push and increase the interval between when the phone checks for messages. Or
better, set up your phone to check for messages manually.
Turn off everything
The simplest way to cut power to a minimum
is to put your smartphone into ?airplane mode?. You turn your BlackBerry or
iPhone into a music player and personal organiser and you won?t be able to
receive email messages or make or receive phone calls but you will stretch your
battery.
?In airplane
mode and running just the alarm clock, your iPhone battery will last up to a
week,? says Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of ifixit.com, an online iPhone and Mac
laptop repair company.
Disable the animations
The hotter your laptop feels, the more
battery power it is using. And one of the biggest users of power is Flash
animation, the technology behind many online videos and animated ads.
To improve dell
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and ClicktoFlash for Macs and Flashblock for PC are programs that will
automatically restrict Flash.
Get an app to aid you
A number of applications can help monitor
battery life and shut off functions that cut down on a mobile device?s
effective power.
Battery Go! and myBatteryLife tell iPhone
owners how much charge they have left and how that power translates into
minutes of talk time, music, video and web surfing.
NB BattStat alerts BlackBerry owners to the
amount of battery charge remaining, as well as the battery?s temperature. (Hot
batteries lose power more quickly.) The device can be set to vibrate or sound
when a predetermined low battery level is reached.
Radio Saver will monitor your BlackBerry?s
mobile coverage and shut off the device?s mobile circuitry when you are out of
range of a signal.
Best BatterySaver allows owners of mobile
phones using the Symbian operating system (including models from Nokia and Sony
Ericsson) to create battery-saving profiles. For example, certain features can be
turned on automatically when the phone is connected to a wall plug or Bluetooth
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For laptops, programs such as Battery
Health Monitor (Mac) and Laptop Battery Power Monitor (PC) keep track of
battery charge and estimate how many more times you?ll be able to recharge your
battery.
Realise the end will come
Lithium-ion batteries cannot be
overcharged; a device?s circuitry cuts off the power when they are full.
However, manufacturers still recommend that
a laptop not be continually connected to power once the battery is at its
capacity. If a laptop won?t be used for several months, it should be stored
with the battery in a 50 per cent charge state.
All batteries can be fully charged and discharged for a fixed number of cycles; lithium ion hp Compaq 6710b battery, hp Compaq 6715b batteries typically last between 300 and 500 cycles.
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