Monday, February 29, 2016

Tips and Myths about the Cell Phone

There is a lot of mis-information about how our devices work and what we can do to make them perform better. A number of issues users face are things like battery life, storage space, and glass repair. Please read the following article and for our blog: 
  1. Discuss a recent issue you had with your cell. How did you solve it? 
  2. Try one of the tips recommended in this article and tell us if it helped. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/technology/personaltech/tips-and-myths-about-extending-smartphone-battery-life.html?emc=edit_ct_20160225&nl=personaltech&nlid=63377140&_r=0

13 comments:

  1. Recently, my smartphone's battery life has been deteriorating rather quickly. I solved it by turning off the perspective zoom on my phone's wallpaper. I also reduced the screen brightness, because it took a lot of battery power.

    After reading this article, I checked my battery usage list to find out what apps were taking up the most battery life. I then disabled the background activities for these apps. I found out that this tip is somewhat helpful, but it still works.

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  2. My cellphone is constantly losing its battery life at a constant rate. A trick I've used every since I started using one was to turn down my
    brightness setting. According to the article, tweaking the email settings should help preserve battery life, and I believe that considering I have about 4,000 unchecked emails and I get notified everytime I receive one. I'm pretty sure that's the number one reason for my battery drainage.

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  3. A constant problem I have with my cellphone is its battery life. The battery life on my phone drains out really quickly. Compared to my friends with their newer edition phones, their battery life tends to be much stronger. A hack or trick that I've been told to do was to turn down my brightness on my screen. Another trick I was told to do was to refresh all of my recent apps. The article says that some apps take up a lot of your battery life. By going into the settings and seeing which ones take up the most, you can refresh them for better battery life. I've tried this many times before and is actually does tend to help a little.

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  4. My phone's battery always dies quickly. Up until recently I always left all notifications enabled, and left on location services for apps I did not use. Once I discovered that these were two major problems for my battery life, I switched off useless notifications and location services. I have also found that deleting unnecessary pictures and apps maintains battery life. After reading this article I have also begun to lower my brightness, and I have marked a significant difference.

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  5. My phone didn't seem to have any problems, since it was new. Well, up until yesterday it didn't have problems. A few days ago, I realized that my battery life would always drain much quicker whenever I listened to music on Spotify. Yesterday, I tried out the tip of listening to downloaded music instead. I also lowered my brightness whenever I didn't need it so bright. That seemed to help a bit because I now have more battery than usual. After reading this article, I tried out the tip of turning on auto-brightness because I sometimes forget to lower the brightness, and it actually works because now I waste even less battery.

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  6. A problem I have with my phone is my battery dies so quickly. I turn down the brightness all the time when it is dying. A tip from the article that works is to check the battery usage lists. Apps like snapchat and instagram drain my battery. I close all these apps when my phone is dying.

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  7. One problem I had with my phone was, it was dying much too quickly. It would be at 100% at home and I would go out and do something while only using it every once in a while and it would be at almost 20%. I started to turn down the brightness every time I went out and I found that It helped. After using a couple of these tips with the blocking ads and turning down brightness I noticed it helped.

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  8. My phone's battery often drains too quickly for my liking. After using it for only a few hours, more the half the battery is gone. To help solve this problem, I keep my brightness as low as possible to help slow down the battery drain. The tip I used from the article is turning off push notifications. This helped a little since some of my friends text a lot in a group chat so my ohone goes off a lot.

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  9. A problem that I had with my phone is that it died very quickly. I used to make sure that all of my apps were closed and the brightness was low. From this article I learned that closing your apps doesn't help preserve the battery. Now I still lower the brightness and put my phone on airplane mode when I have bad reception.

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  10. My cellphones battery often dies very quickly. It will go from 100% to 15% way too fast. Apps like snapchat, instagram, and twitter drain my battery life. To help with this problem, I've been limiting my time on these apps and closing them out when I'm done with them. I also turn the brightness down and turn on low battery mode.

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  11. My battery tends to die very quickly, and recently i have noticed it has been dying at 20%. I can"t get a new phone or a new battery right now, so i've started not to use my phone as much when i don't have a charger with me.

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  12. On my phone, the battery would die really quickly. It would die in a day, and I would have to charge it often. I put my phone on low or auto brightness and if my wifi connection is spotty, I would turn off the wifi and use my data or cell service instead. My phone lived much longer after that.

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  13. My battery has not had problems yet. Last year when I had my old phone the battery would die at 14%, and there was nothing I could do to fix it. I used to put my phone on "do not disturb" and I would turn my brightness off. Now with my new phone, I learned how to save my battery's life.

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