I have a question similar to Reggie's. I'll be traveling to Europe in a month,and I'd like to take my phone and use it on wifi, but I don't want to incur any phone charges. How exactly do I turn off the cellular connection while keeping wifi alive? I noticed I can turn on air plane mode and then selectively turn on my wifi. In this way, it looks like the cellular phone service is still turned off. Is this the way to do this?
BTW, I don't think temporarily turning off a feature of a smart phone is undermining the power of a smart phone. I can also see where someone might be in a situation where they'd like to extend the battery somewhat without having to borrow some AC or make sure they have a battery backup on their person. On 28/09/12 12:47, Rose Combs wrote: > What is the sense in having a powerful smart phone if you turn every feature > off? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Scott Howell > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Battery savings > > You know I just do not see any point in going through all of this. You are > just going to make yourself crazy trying all of these things. If you were > going to be out hiking in the wilderness and really need to conserve > battery, I would say turn everything off except for the phone and maybe just > turn the thing off until needed. However, there is ac power just about > anywhere you are and hey you could always stand in front of a computer at a > store and sneak your iPhone cable into a USB port. Point is you are only > making the whole experience unpleasant turning this and that on/off just to > save a couple percent on the battery scale. You of course would not harm > anything turning cellular off, but honestly nor would you save anything and > if you did it would be almost negligible. > > On Sep 27, 2012, at 12:36 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I have my phone on wifi and I have cellular on. What would happen to my > phone and to my battery is I turned off cellular in the house and turned it > back on when out? If I turn it off does that mess up my carrier? >> >> >> >> >> >> Reggie and Brooks >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
