Saturday, July 9, 2011

Why IPhone Batteries Drain Fast and How To Fix It




    Have you ever noticed that the longer you have your iphone the faster the battery life drains. The more apps you downloaded  the less power you have? Here are some pointers to increase your iphones battery life.

1. Close all apps that are opened previously-  If you opened an app and don't close it, it will continuously use up your battery even if your not using your phone at all. The more apps you open, the less battery life you will have if they stay open. To close all applications, press the HOME button twice, wait until the screen empty and all the apps will appear at the bottom. Press and hold one app until a red negative (edit) sign comes up on each app. Then press all the negative signs to close each applications. You can scroll all the open apps by tap sliding the screen to the left. This maneuver will not delete the app but will only close it.


2.Turn off "push" notification in all email accounts. A push notification is an apple feature that uses push technology in an open IP  connection to forward notifications from the servers of third party applications to iphone, ipod touch and ipad. To turn it off, do the following steps:
                     a. tap "Settings" icon
                     b. tap "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
                     c. tap "Fetch New Data"
                     d. turn of "Push"
                     e. reboot your iphone by holding down sleep/wake button until you see the red slider
                        appear, then drag that slider to turn the phone off. Turn on the phone the same way to    
                        complete  rebooting.

3.Turn of Wi-Fi if not using. If the Wi-Fi is on, it is always refreshing anywhere you go to get into a network even if you are not using it. If you have a data plan with your provider and does not need the Wi-Fi, you don't really need it on all the time. You can only turn it on if you have a limited data plan and would like to use the Wi-Fi for more data usage. Other than that, just keep it off.

4.Auto-lock- Not a lot of iphone users know that turning the iphone back on after it was manually locked or turned off takes more battery power. So it's better to just put it in "Auto-Lock" than "Power-Off".

5.Use "Airplane Mode"- If you are in a place where there is a low or no coverage area. This setting will disable the iphone's connection with your cellular network blocking all calls or texts.

6.Use "Auto-Brightness" instead- Most people think that controlling the brightness manually saves you battery but actually the "Auto-Brightness" feature is the setting that saves energy. It only adjust the lighting when needed. To do it just tap "Settings"->"Brightness"->"Slider" or "Auto-Brightness"

7.Keep "Bluetooth" off if not needed- If you are not using "Bluetooth" turning it off will save you energy. If it is on it will keep on refreshing to look for connections and will use up a lot of your battery life.

8.Turn off "Location Services" if not needed- If on, this feature will also use  battery life. So if you are not using an app that needs your location, it's better to just keep it off. To do this tap "Settings"-"General" ->"Location Services"->"Off"

2 comments:

Michelle said...

Hi,

I have heard that the i phone needs to be recharged every night, it really put me off getting one. So thanks for sharing how to save the battery life.

Nice one!

Best
Michelle

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