Tips for Saving Battery on iPhone 4

As the iPhone 4 is approaching its first birthday (and earlier models approach their second, third, etc), it's time to start looking at ways to improve battery life.

After all, is about a year than most of the batteries begin to lose some capacity, ie, the phone just does not work for the same time as before.

The New York Times columnist David Pogue recently got four tips about the battery of a "genius" in an Apple store - some are obvious, others less so. Here is a summary of the tips, some comments and two tips.

1 .- Turn off email notifications. Without doubt, force your phone to check email every 15 minutes spent battery. You can end your productivity, too. Tell your friends and colleagues if they have to communicate urgently send a text.

2. Turn off location services. A lot of applications take advantage of the GPS of the phone when in fact they need. In configuration, location services, disables the applications that use your location. (Yes, we speak of you, Angry Birds!)

3. Turn off notifications. While you are in the mail application, turn off all notifications and unnecessary sounds, alerts, and insignia of the home screen. Applications that use these features consume battery.

4. Close background applications. Apple says background applications are not technically "running" unless they are in the foreground, which means they do not consume power. The Genius of the Apple store said otherwise, and must be manually shut down all background applications. We do not agree, the trouble of constantly monitoring and closing of applications does not mean the battery you can get.

5. Lower the screen brightness. Nothing sucks battery like the screen. If the brightness setting up to start when you down to 50% load. You will not like this at first, but after an hour, not even notice the difference and get a longer battery life.

6. Keep out of your pocket. The hotter the iPhone, the faster you run out of battery. And you know what's in your pocket? The body heat. If possible, save it to your handbag if you're a woman, take the belt.

By the way, if your iPhone is out of warranty, consider replacing the battery completely. That is unamanera sure to keep it running, and it is easier and more affordable than you think. For a 3G iPhone costs $ 6.

Do you have any advice battery life of your own to share?

How to Save Battery on iPhone

There are many methods to reduce the consumption of Apple phone

The Iphone is a phone with many utilities. You can browse the web, checking our email, listen to music, view maps, photography, etc.. If we add all these functions having a large touch screen, understand that to some extent it is logical that the iPhone battery is spent so quickly. There are, however, many 'tricks' to reduce their energy consumption.

1 How long does the battery of an Iphone?

These are their returns according to Apple: 

In calls: 5 hours connected to a 3G network and 10 to 2G. 

Standby: 300 hours with the wifi mode off and a lot of coverage area 

Using the Internet: 5 hours if the connection is established through a 3G network and 6 if it is through a wireless network 

IPod mode: up to 7 hours playing video files and up to 24 playing audio files.

2 3G.

The 3G technology lets you download files at high speed. When we checked, we will be able to surf the Internet and check our email very quickly. Clearly, our Iphone will consume much more energy when this technology is turned on, especially in areas with limited 3G coverage. Therefore, if you know you are not going to need it, turn it off. 

To disconnect the 3G technology follows the following path: Settings> General> Network> Enable 3G

3 Application 'Push'.

This application allows us to receive email in real time. This implies that our Iphone has to be constantly interacting with the server that hosts our email. Energy expenditure, of course, is very large. But this is not necessarily so. Not only can we turn this application, but we can also select how often to update the inbox of our mail. We have four options: every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes, every hour or manually. Also, it helps to know that the first option (15 minutes) is the most energy will be consumed as it is the highest number of updates per hour to perform. Consequently, the energy option that will allow you to save is the last. To disconnect the 'push' is the following path: Settings> Fetch New Data> Push

4 Howmany email accounts you have on your phone?

You can sync your iPhone with multiple accounts simultaneously. The more they are, the more battery power your phone consume. For this reason, another good option for not wasting energy is to limit, as much as possible, the number of mail accounts that have hosted on your Iphone. 

To disable the various mail accounts that you follow this path: Settings> Mail, Contacts, Calendars> Account

5 Bluetooth.

With your Iphone bluetooth enabled you will be able to connect, especially to hands-free devices such as those with many cars. There are always going to need this application, and when ready to use, turn it off. Consume much less energy. 

To turn the Bluetooth on your iPhone, follow the following path: Settings> Bluetooth

6 Wireless.

With the application wifi connected, not only will you be able connectors to a wireless network to surf the Internet, but also your Iphone will be constantly looking for new networks that are within your reach. So if you know you will not connect to the Internet, disconnect this application. 

To turn off the wireless mode of your iPhone, follow the following path: 

Settings> Wi-Fi

7 The luminosity.

You have two options to adjust the brightness of your iPhone: either fixed manually or let the phone be set so that automatically adjusts to ambient light. To reduce energy consumption, it is best to reduce, by hand, the brightness of the screen as much as possible. 

To change the brightness of your iPhone, follow this path: 

Adjustments> Brightness

8 EQ.

When you listen to music on your Iphone, you have the ability to equalize to your liking, with a consequent increase in energy expenditure. Turn off EQ mode and accomplish save a lot of battery. 

To change the EQ, follow this path: 

Settings> iPod> EQ

9 Airplane mode .

Your Iphone will be constantly looking for mobile network to connect to. When we are in areas where coverage is low, the effort will make the iPhone to find one of these networks will be much higher and therefore will spend more energy. For this reason, when in areas with little or no coverage, connect the 'flight mode'. But remember that while you have activated this mode can not receive or make calls. 

To activate the airplane mode on your iPhone: 

Settings> Airplane Mode

How to Save Battery on iOS 5

There are so many new features in IOS 5 that the issue can optimize battery consumption is something that escapes us. To avoid running out of time before we can follow these tips that let you:

1 .- Display brightness: how pretty and shiny that the iPhone screen is having a high brightness value that our battery can suffer. It is best value to indicate a medium-low and turn off the automatic brightness.

2 .- Push Notifications Mail / Contacts / Calendars: This section is critical in the sense that Push notifications are a source of energy drain very important. The optimum is to disable Push and set a frequency suitable to our needs. The wider this frequency consume less battery power.

3 .- Notices of Applications: With the arrival of Notification Center, and is not as fast if we are uninhabited or not notifications for an application. It is not enough out of the Notification Center, the ideal is to disable all options for that in this way does not leak energy into something that does not interest us.

4 .- Restricts the use of Ping: Let's be honest, few people use Apple's music social network, Ping. To prevent our iOS 5 connects every time with their servers have to go to Settings / General / Restrictions.

5 .- Management of the different forms of Internet connection: With the iPhone can connect to the Internet in various ways. Using the 3G network is the way consumes more battery power, followed by wireless and ending with Edge / GPRS. It is not always convenient to have all active connection options, but choosing the most appropriate for each time and use.

6 .- Bluetooth and Location: On these two options can also compromise the battery life. Both options are also likely to be activated at the time that you are clear that you will use, if not active does not make sense to have them consuming battery. Keep in mind that Apple has emphasized the fact that we use the function of icloud Find My iPhone. Although it is desirable to avoid shocks, locate and lock the device with IOS 5 distance, we must warn that the battery uses GPS positioning.

* If you go into Settings / Location / System Services, you will find a variety of options you can disable to conserve the battery of our device if we consider them important.