What’s up everyone? Jon Rettinger here and I want to give you some battery saving tips for the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS. So when I first got my iPhone 3G about a year ago, it was well known the battery was not fantastic. The first thing that I used that I charged it all the way up, I take it off the charger on 6:00 a.m. and come noon time the thing was dead.
The next week with the same amount of usage now it was getting until 3:00. The next week you would have the same usage and I was suddenly getting to 4:00 to 5:00 and I started to get much longer battery life out of the device and I kept my usage constant, so I was really monitoring it very closely.
So I want to share with you some of the tips that I learned with the 3G that I have carried over to the 3GS that have helped me maximized battery life. The 3GS does claim much battery value life than the 3G and I’ll show you how to maximize that to its fullest potential.
So the first thing that I recommend is calibrating the battery so when calibrating the battery you maybe familiar with that term from your laptop. So when you use your device essentially you have a memory meter in the upper right hand corner. It would just explain the number or a visual representation. That visual representation might not always be so accurate. It’s actually what the phone needs. It is a reference point and when calibrating that it gives it accurate reference point and it updates it. So the reference point that was in there with the forward shift was accurate but a few days or weeks or even months later that reference point may have shifted. So when your phone says you have 20% battery left you in fact may have 30 to 40% or even 10% left.
So to calibrate your battery and give you more accurate sets of what you have is very easy to do. First to back up your phone just in case, use it until it dies. Once you get the 20% warning, the 10% warning and they will just shut off. Take your phone, plug it into wall and let it sit for a good eight, nine, 10 hours up to 12 hours if you can. Essentially what this does it brings the battery down to zero and from that zero standpoint it established a new reference point backup to a 100%. These new battery technologies don’t really have memory or these are not supposed to but I have found that battery conditioning can also really help lengthen the life of the battery.
And what all that means is just use your phone. You will see that the first day you use your 3GS, your new 3G your battery isn’t going to be fantastic. Don’t get discourage, keep using the phone. Use it, try it like you normally would and your battery life would increase. I’ve had the 3GS now for well exactly a week and my battery life is already increased drastically and it’s like that to continue. But with the next two to three weeks, so when I was telling you about my 3G and how we last until noon by the time I finally gave it to my father last week, I can get a good day, day and a half out of the battery life. That was just with conditioning and calibrating the battery probably every three to four months. So I hope that was helpful.
Let me show you some other battery tips, saving tips you can do right on the phone. So let’s go ahead and take a look down. So here is the iPhone 3GS and these tips will work on the first Gen iPhone and the 3G. So the first thing I have to recommend and really the thing that you can do to see the biggest increase in your battery life is to change the brightness. So go to settings, go to brightness and pull it all the way down or at least to level where you’re comfortable at.
I will say though that while I’m saying to do this, I generally keep the brightness out relatively high on my phone. It’s turned down right now because the bright doesn’t always show up best on the camera but turning the brightness down will definitely help with battery. Also auto brightness, turn that on. That will automatically adjust the phones keeps saying brightness a lot. But it will adjust the brightness level to optimize your battery and for the environment around you. So for those of you who are using 3GS or any device really with push notifications, if you turn those off you will also get increased battery life. It’s actually if you’re using devices or applications that take advantage of push. That does take some battery life. It’s not drastic but it’s a little bit of an increase that you can get.
The next thing is Wi-Fi asked to join network turn that off. It doesn’t turn off your Wi-Fi it just turns off the little notification that pops up to let you know there are Wi-Fi hotspots. So most of the time you are using Wi-Fi you generally know where those hotspots are. And you have heard of the place where you don’t, you probably just check like I did right now and go into Wi-Fi and see all different networks so you can still connect. It just turns off notifications, really just some simple steps. The next thing if you’re like me you use speaker phone quite a bit. When using speaker phone hit the top button that will turn off the screen and you can still use the speaker just as you would before. Definitely, I think it helps with battery saving, you’re not to light up the screen.
So guys hope you enjoy. I want to give you just some real simple and easy tips to help maximized your iPhone’s battery life. If I miss some tips that maybe you’ve come up with leave them in the comments. You know, I’m sure people will love to find ways to help maximize the battery life on their device. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. For exclusive content be sure to follow me on Twitter@Twitter.com/Jon4Lakers. Put the link to that in the side bar and I will see you in the next video, bye-bye.
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