Saturday, April 13, 2013

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Anyone who’s used an iPhone for even a few days has discovered that while these phones are more powerful, and more fun, than perhaps any other cell or smart phone, one place they don’t excel is battery life. Any halfway intensive iPhone user will recharge their phone almost every couple of days.

There are ways to conserve iPhone battery life, but many of them involve turning off services and features, which makes it a choice between all the cool things that the iPhone can do and having enough juice to do them.

Here are 14 tips to help you extend your iPhone battery life.

1. Turn on Auto-Brightness

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The iPhone has an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the screen based on the light around it (darker in dark places, brighter when there's more ambient light) to both save battery and make it easier to see. Turn Auto-Brightness on and you’ll save battery because your screen will need to use less power in dark places.

Find it in the Settings app -> Brightness & Wallpaper -> Auto-Brightness On

2. Reduce Screen Brightness

iphone battery life: screen brightness

You can control the default brightness of your iPhone screen with this slider. Needless to say, the brighter the default setting for the screen, the more battery it requires. Keep the screen dimmer to conserve more of your battery.

Find it in Settings -> Brightness & Wallpaper

3. Turn Bluetooth Off

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Bluetooth wireless networking is especially useful for cell phone users with wireless headsets or earpieces. But transmitting data wirelessly takes battery and leaving Bluetooth on to accept incoming data at all times requires even more juice. Turn off Bluetooth except when you’re using it to squeeze more juice from your battery.

Find it in Settings -> Bluetooth -> Move Slider to Off

4. Turn Off 3G/4G

iphone battery life:turn off 3g

The iPhone 3G and later models can take advantage the speedy 3G and 4G LTE cellular phone networks. Not surprisingly, using 3G, and especially 4G LTE, requires more battery life to get the quicker data speeds and higher-quality calls. It’s tough to go slower, but if you need more battery, turn off 3G or LTE and just use the older, slower networks. Your battery will last longer (though you’ll need it when you’re downloading websites more slowly!).

Find it in Settings -> General -> Cellular -> Slide Enable 3G to Off on some models or Enable LTE to Off on the iPhone 5 or newer

5. Keep Wi-Fi Off

iphone battery extend: turn off wi-fi

The other kind of high-speed network that the iPhone can connect to is Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is even faster than 3G, though it’s only available where there’s a hotspot (not virtually everywhere like 3G). Keeping Wi-Fi turned on at all times in hopes that an open hotspot will appear is a sure way to drain your battery life. So, unless you’re using it right this second, keep Wi-Fi turned off.

Find it in Settings -> WiFi -> Slide to Off

6. Turn Off Location Services

iphone battery performance: turn off location services

One of the coolest features of the iPhone is its built-in GPS. This allows your phone to know where you are and give you exact driving directions, give that information to apps that help you find restaurants, and more. But, like any service that sends data over a network, it needs battery power to work. If you’re not using Location Services, and don’t plan to right away, turn them off and save some power.

Find it in Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> Slide to Off

7. Turn Data Push Off

iphone battery: turn off data push

The iPhone can be set to automatically suck email and other data down to it or, for some kinds of accounts, have data pushed out to it whenever new data becomes available. You’re probably realized by now that accessing wireless networks costs you battery life, so turning data push off, and thus reducing the number of times your phone connects to the network, will extend your battery’s life. With push off, you’ll need to set your email to check periodically or do it manually (see the next tip for more on this).

Find it in Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar -> Fetch New Data -> Slide to Off

8. Fetch Email Less Often

iphone battery performance: fetch data less

The less often your phone accesses a network, the less battery it uses. Save battery life by setting your phone to check your email accounts less often. Try checking every hour or, if you’re really serious about saving battery, manually. Manual checks means you’ll never have email waiting for you on your phone, but you’ll also stave off the red battery icon.

Find it in Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar -> Fetch New Data -> Select Your Preference

9. Auto-Lock Sooner

iphone battery life: auto-lock sooner

You can set your iPhone to automatically go to sleep – a feature known as Auto-Lock - after a certain amount of time. The sooner it sleeps, the less power is used to run the screen or other services. Try setting Auto-Lock to 1 or 2 minutes.

Find it in Settings -> General -> Auto-Lock -> Tap your Preference

10. Turn off Equalizer

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The iPod app on the iPhone has an Equalizer feature that can adjust music to increase bass, decrease treble, etc. Because these adjustments are made on the fly, they require extra battery. Turn the equalizer off to conserve battery. This means you'll have a slightly modified listening experience - the battery savings might not be worht it to true audiophiles - but for those hoarding battery power, it's a good deal.

Find it in Settings -> Music -> EQ -> Tap off

11. Do Less-Battery-Intensive Things

Not all ways to save battery life involve settings. Some of them involve the way you use the phone. Things that require the phone be on for long periods of time, or use a lot of system resources, suck the most battery. These things include movies, games, and browsing the web. If you need to conserve battery, limit your use of battery-intensive apps.

12. Sleep and Wake Less

Constantly putting your phone to sleep and waking it up will drain battery life. Of course these functions are common parts of using the phone, but you can also be judicious in your turning on and off of the phone and save battery life at the same time.

13. Buy an Extended Life Battery

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If all else fails, just get more battery. A few accessory makers like mophie and Kensington offer extended life batteries for the iPhone. If you need so much battery life that none of these tips help you enough, an extended life battery is your best bet. With one, you’ll get days more standby time and many hours more use.

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14. iPhone 4S & iOS 5: Turn Off Other Location Settings

system services settings

Use this tip if your iPhone 4S or devices upgraded to iOS 5 are burning through battery life too quickly. It's probably a software bug, so Apple may fix it and this tip may go away, but in the meantime, here it is.

A number of additional location services introduced in iOS 5 seem to be draining battery too quickly. Turn them off and you should regain some battery life.

Find it in Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services -> Turn off Diagnostics & Usage, Location-Based iAds, and Setting Time Zone

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Stuart Hughes, a Liverpool-based jeweller had earlier built a diamond iPhone 4, Platinum MacBook Air and Gold iPad 2. Now, the enthusiast has built an iPhone 5 with gold and diamonds, making it the world's most expensive smartphone.

   
The iPhone with gold and diamonds

According to the designer, the custom made iPhone 5 took him 9 weeks to build and the complete device has been made by hand. The outside casing of the smartphone is said to be made up for 24-carat gold, while the home button consists of 26-carat black diamond.

The Apple logo and the corners of the smartphone are built using the white diamonds. The device is encrusted with 600 precious stones, out of which, 53 are housed in the Apple logo at the back. The world's most expensive smartphone was ordered by a Chinese based businessman, who owns the black diamond that went into the construction.

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iPhone 5 with gold and diamonds surfaces, costs US$15.3 million (Auckland repair, unlock, Dr Mobiles Limited)

Stuart Hughes, a Liverpool-based jeweller had earlier built a diamond iPhone 4, Platinum MacBook Air and Gold iPad 2. Now, the enthusiast has built an iPhone 5 with gold and diamonds, making it the world's most expensive smartphone.


The iPhone with gold and diamonds

According to the designer, the custom made iPhone 5 took him 9 weeks to build and the complete device has been made by hand. The outside casing of the smartphone is said to be made up for 24-carat gold, while the home button consists of 26-carat black diamond.

The Apple logo and the corners of the smartphone are built using the white diamonds. The device is encrusted with 600 precious stones, out of which, 53 are housed in the Apple logo at the back. The world's most expensive smartphone was ordered by a Chinese based businessman, who owns the black diamond that went into the construction.

This post is sponsored by:

Dr Mobiles Limited (Map)
1, Huron Street, Takapuna, Auckland 0622
Tel: (09) 551-5344, Mob: (021) 264-0000
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

2013: Auckland Laptop Computer Repair and Services, new layout design for this year. Dr Mobiles Limited

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This is the new design for our laptop computer repair and service for 2013!

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Apple iPhone 5 Factory Unlock by Dr Mobiles Limited, Auckland, New Zealand (iOS, repair)

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This year, we flip the image of the Dr Mobiles cyborg onto the left side for our factory unlock (also know as remote unlocking).

We now can unlock Apple iPhone 5 in a relative fast manner.  For example:
(A) Australia Vodafone iPhone 5 unlocking (full unlock) takes about 5-10 minutes only
(B) Telstra Australia iPhone 5 factory unlock takes 5 to 7 hours
(C) US AT&T Apple iPhone 5 unlock takes only 2-24 hours to be unlocked!

Best of all, the above can be done remotely and you can pay us the unlock fee via paypal!

See our ads below:

Kia ora and greetings from Dr Mobiles Limited (a GST registered company).  We are the leading independent mobile phone repair laboratory in New Zealand. This is a 100% locally owned and operated New Zealand company and had served over +13,000 clients since 23rd February, 2011.  Our service is time-tested and people proven.

What Do We Do?
We provide a wide range of professional repair service for your expensive Apple iPhone 5, smartphones, tablets and MP3 player like iPod Touch 5.  On top of that we cater for desktop, laptop computer repair and services.**

Why Dr Mobiles Limited?
All  repair work are done at our own office, we do not send them away for third party repair.  We offer the following:
-> Free inspection for faulty iPhones, tablets, iPad, iPod
-> Free loan phones during repair
-> Free insurance damage report
-> Free off-street parking (30 mins)
-> Free repair quote
-> Free insurance claim report
-> Free return shipping.

Free Inspection
Dr Mobiles Limited will inspect your damage smartphone, iPhone FREE of charge. There will be no hidden cost should you decided not to repair it or any reason. Simple answer is: No Fix = No Charge.

Remote Unlock
Dr Mobiles Limited is the pioneer for remote network unlocking.  We can remotely unlock your Apple iPhone, Samsung, HTC, LG and Sony Xperia smartphones.  Remote unlock means your precious phone stay with you when we unlock it remotely. If your phone cannot be unlock, we will not charge you, means: No unlock = No Charge.

Payment
We take online banking payment, eftpos cards and Paypal.

Our Advantage
We do not charge our client is the phone or computer is not repairable.  On top of that, we provide 90 days back to base warranty.  You do not need to make appointment to inspect your phone.

Times does matter
60 minutes jailbreak unlock
50 minutes Galaxy S3 screen replacement
45 minutes iPhone 5, 4S and 4 screen replacement
40 minutes iPhone 5 system flex replacement
30 minutes iPhone 3, 3G digitizer or LCD replacement
20 minutes PIN unlock for most smartphone
10 minutes Australia iPhone unlock
(All done at our HQ while you wait).

Keep It Real
When it comes to repair cost, we do keep it real and also at the same time safeguarding our clients' interest.

Story short, you can try us out and we will not waster your time.  Most people make promises and we deliver results.  After all, over 13,000 happy customers will not be wrong!

Online contact details
http://doctormobiles.blogspot.co.nz/

www.twitter.com/drmobilesnz/ 

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Mobile Phone News 2013: Samsung, Apple to use wireless charging on their phones? www.drmobiles.co.nz

Wireless_charging

Wireless charging tech has been around for a few years now, but 2013 might be the year it finally goes mainstream. Industry sources say that Samsung and Apple are both working on wireless charging for their 2013 flagships smartphones.

Samsung is reportedly looking at Qi from the Wireless Power Consortium – it’s currently the most popular choice with members including Nokia, LG, HTC, Sony and Motorola. It’s worth noting that Samsung is currently a member of a competing standard run by the Alliance for Wireless Power (along with Qualcomm, TI, Broadcom and others).

Whichever standard it goes for, Samsung may not integrate the tech right into the Galaxy S IV, but put it in an optional back cover instead (like the Nokia Lumia 820). There are currently third-party Qi charging kits for the Galaxy S III as well, but not an official Samsung-made accessory.

Apple is also looking into enabling wireless charging on its products, but the company will reportedly go for a homegrown solution, which won’t be out of character for the Cupertino giant. According to insiders Apple is also investigating an implementation og the tech as an add-on rather than build it into the iPhone 5S.

In less than a week we’ll know if Samsung has put wireless charging tech in the Galaxy S IV and what kind. Apple’s announcement won’t be for some time, though.

This post is sponsored by:

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Auckland Apple iPhone 5 Crack Screen Repair, Dr Mobiles Limited, 2013, iOS, unlock

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This is our new advertisement design for Apple iPhone 5 digitizer replacement (or commonly termed as crack screen repair).

The picture came from our repair lab, using Apple iPhone 5 (whatelse) to take the actual photo of the damaged Apple iPhone 5.

Our advertisement should read like this:

Kia ora and greetings from Dr Mobiles Limited (a GST registered company).  We are the leading independent mobile phone repair laboratory in New Zealand. This is a 100% locally owned and operated New Zealand company and had served over +13,000 clients since 23rd February, 2011.  Our service is time-tested and people proven.

What Do We Do?
We provide a wide range of professional repair service for your expensive Apple iPhone 5, smartphones, tablets and MP3 player like iPod Touch 5.  On top of that we cater for desktop, laptop computer repair and services.**

Why Dr Mobiles Limited?
All  repair work are done at our own office, we do not send them away for third party repair.  We offer the following:
-> Free inspection for faulty iPhones, tablets, iPad, iPod
-> Free loan phones during repair
-> Free insurance damage report
-> Free off-street parking (30 mins)
-> Free repair quote
-> Free insurance claim report
-> Free return shipping.

Free Inspection
Dr Mobiles Limited will inspect your damage smartphone, iPhone FREE of charge. There will be no hidden cost should you decided not to repair it or any reason. Simple answer is: No Fix = No Charge.

Remote Unlock
Dr Mobiles Limited is the pioneer for remote network unlocking.  We can remotely unlock your Apple iPhone, Samsung, HTC, LG and Sony Xperia smartphones.  Remote unlock means your precious phone stay with you when we unlock it remotely. If your phone cannot be unlock, we will not charge you, means: No unlock = No Charge.

Payment
We take online banking payment, eftpos cards and Paypal.

Our Advantage
We do not charge our client is the phone or computer is not repairable.  On top of that, we provide 90 days back to base warranty.  You do not need to make appointment to inspect your phone.

Times does matter
60 minutes jailbreak unlock
50 minutes Galaxy S3 screen replacement
45 minutes iPhone 5, 4S and 4 screen replacement
40 minutes iPhone 5 system flex replacement
30 minutes iPhone 3, 3G digitizer or LCD replacement
20 minutes PIN unlock for most smartphone
10 minutes Australia iPhone unlock
(All done at our HQ while you wait).

Keep It Real
When it comes to repair cost, we do keep it real and also at the same time safeguarding our clients' interest.

Story short, you can try us out and we will not waster your time.  Most people make promises and we deliver results.  After all, over 13,000 happy customers will not be wrong!

Online contact details
http://doctormobiles.blogspot.co.nz/

www.twitter.com/drmobilesnz/ 

This post is sponsored by:

Dr Mobiles Limited (Map)
1, Huron Street, Takapuna, Auckland 0622
Tel: (09) 551-5344, Mob: (021) 264-0000
info(a)drmobiles.co.nz
Facebook - Blogger - Twitter - Tumblr - Google+
 
New Lynn Branch (Map):
3069, Great North Road, New Lynn, 0622
Tel: (09) 5555-344, Mob: (021) 374-007sales(a)drmobiles.co.nz