Keep in mind, due to Apple's sandboxed approach the app you had for your Symbian phone likely can do a lot more than equivalent battery saving apps for iOS.
Grant On 4/9/13, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> I've Got A Mind Like A Steel Trap - Rusty and Illegal In 37 States. >> Lisa Belville >> [email protected] >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Paganelli" >> <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> 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: [email protected] >> 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? >> >> >> -- 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. >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the >> Google Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > 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. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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