I've heard that bluetooth being on doesn't drain the battery much, but
it has to use some power, and you might be in a situation where every
little bit helps. I turn bluetooth off if I know I won't be using it for
a while. I figure it saves some power and makes for a more secure device.
On 04/09/2013 07:49 PM, Lisa belville wrote:
Is Bluetooth really such a drain on the battery if there's no device
being used?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
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Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: a battery saver, but effective?
I had an app I ran on my Symbian phone that took certain battery
saving steps as the battery wore down. It would start by turning off
radios, dimming the screen and closing applications. It was all
configurable, i.e. you could go in and configure it to turn off
certain things or shut down certain apps as you went from 3 bars of
battery life to 2 bars and then to 1 bar. Bluetooth and open apps may
not make much difference, but if you're in a situation where you need
to stretch things out, every little bit can help. Obviously, you also
don't need such an app because you can do all of this manually, but I
found this app was nice in case I forgot to turn off bluetooth when I
wasn't using it, and besides, why use an iPhone if you aren't going to
run apps that help you remember things and keep you from needing to do
a few mundane tasks.
On 04/09/2013 07:37 PM, Lisa belville wrote:
Nope. I guess for me and probably for lots of people, it's the idea
we've had engrained in us from using windows that less programs open
makes it easier to switch between applications on the fly. I'm thinking
of people who rely on the Alt+Tab keystroke to move between open
programs.
But, I was out today launching and then closing apps using the app
switcher and if anything, all of that moving apps in and out of
operation seemed to drain the battery faster. I had 38 percent battery
power when I started my unintentional experiment and wound up with 22
percent battery power after about 2 hours of downloading and installing
2 apps as well as doing some live streaming while simultaneously
switching between a combination of iMove, Talking Goggles, and the
iPhone camera.
Part of this was to demonstrate some features of the iPhone to sighted
family members and also to get more familiar with how streaming and app
usage behaved while using the phone completely on the Verizon network.
I turned the screen curtain on and off numerous times and used the
triple click home feature to turn VO on and off to make things easier
for the sighted people using the phone.
Today was unusual in that I normally don't have several apps open at
once or download app after app and then mess around with their
settings. I also don't have sighted folks using my phone so there's no
need to adjust the screen curtain and VO settings.
I noticed that the Wifi setting automatically gets deactivated while the
blue tooth feature does not, this even if my keyboard was here at home
while I was across town. Admittedly, this may have been the cause of
the battery draining so quickly.
I do keep the screen curtain on out of habit just as a privacy
precaution. I've lived around sighted people all of my life, so I've
learned to be a bit proactive when it comes to keeping my net
surfing/phone usage as private as possible.
Lisa
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Lisa Belville
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Paganelli"
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To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: a battery saver, but effective?
a battery saver, but effective?None of them actually can save you
battery power. They just monitor power consumption and the apps that
your not using at the time so you can close them and I'm not all that
sure that works either. I've tried deleting apps from the app switcher
as somebody said you have all those apps opened and I never saw that
that made any difference either so these kinds of apps probably won't
gain you any extra battery power. Just because there's an app for that
doesn't always mean it's worth anything in my opinion.
----- Original Message ----- From: Ramy Moustafa
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:41 AM
Subject: a battery saver, but effective?
Hi all:
Please I need to ask if anyone find a good battery life saver for I
phone? I found some programs but they didn't do anything.
Any ideas?
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