How to use battery efficiency?

I'm using Macbook a lot (8-10 hours per day). I want to know how to use battery efficiency and long lasting.

For more specific, i wonder i should use my Mac until its power is 50%-40% and plug in the charger or i need to plug in when it is 20% or under.
Then, if my Mac is fully charged, keep plugging the charger and keep running or i have to plug out and use all of the power before charging again?
@BCreg: Those links you posted i have seen it long time ago but it isn't really helpful. i need something more specific likes as a grahp of each stage of the battery when it need to be charged.

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Need Expert's Advice - How to use LabView Efficiently and to increase Readability

My application is fairly complex. It is a real world testing applications that simultaneously controls 16 servo motors running various stress testing routines asynchronously and all at the same time. The application includes queues, state machines, sub VI's, dynamically launched VI's, subpanels, semaphores, XML files, ini files, global variables, shared variables, physical analog and digital interfaces and industrial networking. Just about every technique and trick that LabView 2010 has to offer and the kitchen sink as well.
Still I am not happy with the productivity that LabVIEW 2010 has provided, nor the readability of my final product.
Sometimes there are too many wires. Much of my state machines have a dozen or more wires just going from input to output, doing nothing, just because one or two states in the machine need that variable in some state. Yeah, I could spend alot of time bundling and unbundling and rebundling those values, but I don't think that would improve things much.
We have had a long discussion about the use or misuse of Local variables in this forum and I don't want to repeat that here. I use them sparingly where I think it is relatively safe to do so. I also have a bug whenever I try and copy some code that contains one or more local variables. On Pasting the code with local variables, the result is something other than what I expected, I am not sure what. I have to undo the paste and rebuild the code one object at a time.
I am also having trouble using trouble using Variable Property Nodes. When I cut and paste them, they often loose their reference object and I have to go back into the code and redo the Link To on each one. That wastes alot of time and effort.
Creating subVIs is often not appropriate when the code makes many references to objects on the Front Panel. Some simple code will turn into a bunch of object references and dereferences which also tends to take alot of work to clean up and often does not help overall readability in many cases. I use subVIs when appropriate, but because of the interface overhead, not as often as I would like to. My application already has over 150 sub VIs.
The LabView Clean Up Diagram function often works poorly. It leaves way too much empty space between objects, making my diagrams 3 to 4 24" screens wide. That is way too much and difficult to navigate effectively. The Clean Up function puts objects in strange places relative to other objects used nearby. It does a poor job routing wires and often makes deciphering diagrams more difficult rather than easier.
My troubleshooting strategies don't work well for large diagrams and complex applications. The diagrams are so complex that execution highlighting may take 20 minutes for a single pass. Probes help, but breakpoint aren't of much use, because single stepping afterwards often takes you to somewhere else in the same diagram. I can't follow the logic well doing this.
Using structures, I may have Case structures nested 5 to 10 levels deep inside some Event Structure inside a While Loop. Difficult to work with and not very readable.
All and all, I can make it work, but I am not happy about the end result.
I am hoping to benefit from some expert advice from those that are experienced in producing large complex applications efficiently, debugging efficiently and producing readable diagrams that they are proud of.
Can anyone offer their advice on how best to use the LabView features to achieve these results in complex applications? I hope that you can help show me the light.

I'm not an expert but I'm charged out as one at work.
I am off today so I'll share some thoughts that may help or possibly inspire others to chime. I have tried to continually improve my code in those areas and would greatly welcome others sharing their approaches and insights.
Note:
I do refactoring services to help customers with this situation. What I will write does not represent what we do in a code review since our final delverable is a complete final design and that is beyond the scope of this reply.
I'll comment on your points.
dbaechtel wrote:
My application is fairly complex. ...
While watching Olympic figure skating competion slow-motion replays, I learned how the subtleties of how the launching skate is planted while entering a jump can make the difference between a good jump and a bad one.
In software, we plant our foot when we turn from the design to the development. I have to admit that there where a couple of times when I moved from design to development too early and found myself in a situation like you have described.
How to know when design is done?
Waterfall says "cross every 't' and dot every 'i' " while Agile says "code now worry about design latter" and Bottom-up "says "demo working why bother designing" (Please feel free to coment on these over-simplifications gang).
My answer is not much more helpful for those new to LabVIEW.
My design work is done when my design diagrams are more complicated than the LabVIEW diagrm they describe.
dbaechtel wrote:
simultaneously controls 16 servo motors running various stress testing routines asynchronously and all at the same time. The application includes ...and the kitchen sink as well.
Have you posted any design documents you have? These will help greatly in letting us understand your application. More on diagrams latter.
Anytime I see multiple "variations on a theme", I think LVOOP (LabVIEW OOP ) . I'll spare you the LVOOP sales pitch but will testify that once you get your first class cloned off and running as a sibling (or child) you'll appreciate how nice it is to be able to use LVOOP.
Discalimer:
If you don't already have an OOP frame of mind, the learning curve will be steep.
dbaechtel wrote:
Still I am not happy with the productivity that LabVIEW 2010 has provided, nor the readability of my final product.
Sometimes there are too many wires....going from input to output, doing nothing,... spend alot of time bundling and unbundling and rebundling those values, but I don't think that would improve things much.
Full disclaimer:
I used to be of the same opinion and even used performance arguements to make my point. I have since, changed my mind.
Let me illustrate (hopefully). This link (if it works for you, use lefthand pane to navigate hierachy) shows an app I wrote from about 10 years ago when I was in my early days of routing wires. Even the "Main" VI started to suffer from too many wires as this preview from that links shows.
Clustering related data values using Type Definitions is the first method I would would urge. This makes it easier to find the VIs that use the Type def via the browse relationships>>>callers. If I implement my code correctly, any problem I believe is associated with a particualr piece of data that is a Type def has to be in one of the VIs that use that type def therefore easier to maintain.
When I wrote "related data" I am refering data normalization rules (which my wife knows and I picked-up from her and I claim no expertise in this area) where only values that are used together are grouped. E.G. Cluster named File contains "Path" and "Refnum" but not "PhaseOfMoon". This works out nicely with first creating sub-VI since all of the data related to file operations are right there whe I need it and it leads into the next concept ...
When I look at a value in a shift register on the diagram taking up space that is only used in a small sub-set of states, I concider using an Action Engine . This moves the wire from the current diagram into the Action Engine (AE), and cleans up the diagram. The AE brings with it built-in protection so provided I keep all of the opearations related to the the Type def inside the AE I am protected when I start using multiple threads that need at that data (trust me, it may not make a difference now but end users are clever). So that extra wire is effective encapsualted and abstracted away from the diagram you are looking at.
But I said earlier that I would not sell LVOOP so I'll show you what LVOOP based LV apps look like to contrast what I was doing ten years ago in that earlier link. This is what the top level VI looks like.
And this is the Analysis mode of that app.
I suspose I should not mention that LVOOP has wizards that automatically create the sub-VI (accessors) that bundle/unbundle the clusters, should I?
Continuing...
dbaechtel wrote:
We have had a long discussion about the use or misuse of Local variables...I also have a bug whenever I try and copy some code...
If you can simplify the code and duplicat ethe bug. please do so. We can get it logged and fixed.
dbaechtel wrote:
I am also having trouble using trouble using Variable Property Nodes....
That sounds like a usage issue. Posting code to illustrate the process will et us take a shot at figuring out what is happening.
dbaechtel wrote:
Creating subVIs is often not appropriate... My application already has over 150 sub VIs.
"Back in the day..." LV would not even try to create a sub-VI that involved controls/indicators. I use sub-VIs to maintain a common GUI often but I do it on purpose and when I find myself creating a sub-VI that involves a control/indicator, I hit ctrl-z immediately!
I figure a way around it (AE ?) and then do the sub-VI.
Judging by your brief explanation and assuming you do a LVOOP implementation, I would estimate that app need 750-1500 VIs.
dbaechtel wrote:
The LabView Clean Up Diagram function often works poorly....
THe clean-up works fine for how I use it. After throwing together "scratch code" and debugging the "rats nest" I'll hit clean-up as a first step. It guess good enough on simple digrams and in some cases inspires me to structure the diagram in a different way that I may not have thought about. If I don't like, ctrl-z.
Good deisgn and modualr implementaion led to smaller diagrams that just don't need thrre screens.
dbaechtel wrote:
My troubleshooting strategies don't work well for large diagrams and complex applications....Can anyone offer their advice on how best to use the LabView features to achieve these results in complex applications? I hope that you can help show me the light.
Smaller diagrams single step faster since the sub-VI run full speed. I cringe thinking about a 3-screen diagram with multiple probes open ( shivver!).
Re: Nestested structres
Sub-VIs (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
If it works you have prven the concept is possible. That is the first step in an application.
I hope that gives you some ideas.
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How to manage storage efficiently on my 5S 16GO?

Hello Apple community!
I've a 16GO and I use it a lot to take pictures and vids, which fills up the storage pretty quickly.
I have iCloud and I paid to get 20GO, but I don't really know how to use it efficiently.
Technically, it's supposed to upload all my stuff automatically, right?
So should I just periodically delete all the stuff in my Camera Roll? Is there a way to do it without having to select all the pictures one by one?
Should I back-up my stuff on my computer too?
I admit all the iCloud/iOS storage management thing is really confusing to me. :-x
Anyway, thanks for reading!

Deleting photos from the camera roll doesn't delete anything from iCloud (photo stream). However, the only way to keep photos permanently in iCloud is to add them to a shared stream (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmc0cd7e99). My photo stream photos only remain in iCloud for 30 days. The problem with using shared streams as your backup is that the photos will be a lower resolution than your originals in the camera roll (approx. 3.1-3.5 megapixels). That is satisfactory for viewing them on your devices, and will allow you to delete the originals from the camera roll to free up space, but as razmee209 suggested earlier, you should import the original full resolution photos to your computer before deleting them from your camera roll (as explained here: iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer).

Specialty of supply function and how can we use it efficiently?

Hi Experts,
I have one question.
What exactly the function of “Supply function” for a node.
Some says when ever lead change happens the “Supply function” triggers.
I put a break point in Supply function say “ZSupply” written code to populate the table.
It triggered only once to populate the table. If this is the functionality then I can write code in method and call it in modify view my checking it for first time why “supply function”. I want to know what is its specialty, how can we use it efficiently?
Thanks
Gopal

Hi Gopal,
You are correct even without supply function you can achieve the same functionality i.e when ever there is a change in HEADER the corresponding ITEM for the HEADER can be displayed.
But the idea of using SUPPLY Function is - the code written in the node i.e assume HEADER and ITEM relation gets executed as and when the node is instantiated in the run time where in there is no need us to handle it explicitly.
If not used SUPPLY Function then we need to handle the complete HEADER and ITEM relation explicitly.
Regards,
Mohammed

How to preserve battery life ~ used to last all day, now it runs out by lunchtime

How to preserve battery life ~ used to last all day, now it runs out by lunchtime

I would advise updating to iOS 7. It might improve your battery and the bugs are worked out by now.
If not wanting to update because of the new look, here are some tips:
-Turn off bluetooth when not needed.
-Connect to wifi and turn off cellular data when possible.
-When not around wifi, turn wifi off.
-Keep your screen at around 50% brightness.
-Disbale certain apps or features in Settings<Privacy<Location Services if they are not necessary.
-Close out of apps in the multitasking bar.
-Enable airplane mode when you plan on not using your phone for a while.
Hopefully these tips help you. If your battery does eventually get too bad, you can get it changed out by apple. If youve had your device for under a year, you can take it into an Apple store and theyll give you a new phone in return. Have a good night and good luck!

How can i use connectionfactory efficiently?

i am wondering about the connection factory Object in jms.it may be used by one or more client.So how can i use it efficiently, each client have a connection factory or all of clients use the only one. pls tell me the truth,and thanks a lot !

Connection Factory is an administered Object and ideally should be shared between n number of users. (1<=n<=Total Number of users).
There are some connection factory which are used for administrative purposes. Only the administrators of the JMS server can access them.
JMS server can run on different protocols or more than one transport protocol (HTTP , TCP, HTTPS etc). So client can use the connection factory depending upon the protocol with which it can communicate.
Also the connect URL in the connection factory can be different. So one connection factory may be responsible for connections on JMS server1 and other may be responsible for connections on JMS server2.
Also check out your vendors documentation to know more about the power of Connection factories.

I have iphone 4s and i update it to last version of ios7.1.2;this version of ios use battery more than ios 7.1.1 ;now i want to back to that version!help me how can i?

i have iphone 4s and i update it to last version of ios7.1.2;this version of ios use battery more than ios 7.1.1 ;now i want to back to that version!help me how can i?

Downgrading isn't possible. iTunes won't install iOS versions older than the latest compatible release, and if one's somehow installed anyway, Apple's servers won't activate the device afterwards.
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I can't read Or write I have been using the iPad With the accessibility icon Is there a video help them teach me how to use it more efficiently

I cannot read or write I have been using the iPad With the accessibility icon Is there a video to help teach me To learn how to use this accessibility more efficiently

It sounds like you may have multiple problems, but none of them are likely to be caused by malware.
First, the internet-related issues may be related to adware or a network compromise. I tend to lean more towards the latter, based on your description of the problem. See:
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/baddns.php
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/hackedrouter.php
If investigation shows that this is not a network-specific issue, then it's probably adware. See my Adware Removal Guide for help finding and removing it. Note that you mention AdBlock as if it should have prevented this, but it's important to understand that ad blockers do not protect you against adware in any way. Neither would any kind of anti-virus software, which often doesn't detect adware.
As for the other issues, it sounds like you've got some serious corruption. I would be inclined to say it sounds like a failing drive, except it sounds like you just got it replaced. How did you get all your files back after the new drive was installed?
(Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com, in the form of buttons allowing for donations. Donations are not required to use my site or software.)

How to use Photoshop elements more efficiently

I have a blog Jobs & Newspaper Job Ads i frequently used Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe products to make banners,advertisements and other things for marketing,I need help of how to use all tools effectively and which element shoud be applied first and which one last as i feel a bit diffcult to creat more complex and close to nature graphics.

I am unaware of a universal work flow.
Suggest the following considerations for your projects:
For printing, resolution should be 240-300 px/in. For web work, 72 px/in is ok
File>new>blank>file will allow you to set the parameters
Optimize the background
Add your component graphics. Each should be on a separate layer. Ideally, the resolution of the graphics should be the same value as used in step #2
Make adjustments with adjustment layers, e.g. levels, brightness/contrast
Sharpen last
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HT4623 Having upgraded my software I have now lost the use of wifi and the battery efficiency has dropped dramatically. I have followed online advice and reset the device - no joy and recently visited an Apple Store, only to be advised to buy a new phone?

Just updated software to 7.0.6 to find wifi facility lost and battery efficiency reduced. Apple store advise to buy a new phone. Surely the problem stems from the update ?

Have you followed http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1559 ?
Also try settings>general>reset>reset all settings
If you have followed that article and restored your phone and set it up as new and you're still having that issue you may call and explain you followed the article and are still having the problem. Most likely they will either set up a replacement for you. If they ask you to set up the one time phone support agreement, and they assist you with a restore again, they won't bill you if they end up having to repair it.

Best Practice to use battery

Sir, I am a Lenovo user since 7 months, I have a technical doubt . Is it good to run on battery power or to use a charger when I use it in my home? Please tell me how to use my laptop efficiently . Is it good to running on AC adapter or on battery for 1 or 2 hours of usage
Please advice
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi
Capacity is the length of time you can run your system on a fully charged battery. It is normal for all
batteries to lose some capacity over time. Each time you discharge and recharge your battery, you will lose
a very small amount of this capacity.
Some of the capacity may be recovered through using a more aggressive power management scheme.
You may also want to check for specific information on your system; for example, some BIOS updates
include power management enhancements. Other systems have specific tools to help with battery life.
You can charge the battery pack while the computer is powered on or off.
After the battery pack has been fully charged, you can operate the computer;
however, the battery gauge may not accurately report the amount of charge until
the battery pack has been calibrated. It is, therefore, recommended that a new
battery pack be calibrated soon after purchase.
To maintain the measurement
accuracy, Lenovo recommends periodic calibration about every 90 days to reassess
the energy storing capacity of the cells. To complete the calibration of a battery, a
full charge of the battery must be followed by a full uninterrupted discharge.
Unless these two steps are completed together, proper calibration is not achieved
Hope This Helps
Cheers!!!

How to see battery status while playing a game

Some games seem to close off menu bars and everything else.
My daughter plays the sims 3 and sometimes uses battery power, but she always panics that the mac will just shut down due to lack of battery power.
How does she see what the power is at while playing the game?
Its normally just in the menu bar, but like i say this game overrides all that info until the game has been quit.
Thanks.

Anybody?

HT1695 I know nothing about how to use my new ipod and when reading the little bit of information in the folder that came with it, all I can do is turn it on, but it just powers down after a few seconds. How do I work this thing?

I know nothing about how to use my new ipod and when reading the little information that came with it, all I can do is turn it on. Then in a few seconds it goes black, never having brought up a screen to do anything! Help! What do I do to get this thing going?

You might consider connecting it to the charger and charging up the battery overnight.
Please Get the iPod Touch User Manual for iOS 5

How to use i for if condition in a for i in loop?

Hi friends,
I have a question on how to use i for IF condition in a loop, in order to get an efficient programming and results. Here is outlined SQL:
cursor is
select c1,c2,c3 from table1; -- 100 rows returned.
open cursor
loop
fetch c1,c2,c3 into v1,v2,v3;
for i in 1..3 loop
if 'v'||i between 90 and 100 then
v_grade := 'Excellent';
elsif 'v'||i between 80 and 89 then
elsif 'v'||i between 50 and 59 then
end if;
end loop;
close cursor;
This way, I don't need to use a lot of if..then for hard code v1,v2,v3,.... actually I have more v..
But Oracle gave an error of this usage of 'if 'v'||i' or 'v'||to_char(i).
Thanks for any advice in advance!

user508774 wrote:
Thanks for comments and advices. But I didn't get your inputs clearly. Are you saying I don't need to use PL/SQL to achieve this?Correct. Ronel and John showed you the basic approaches. SQL is not a mere I/O language for making read and write calls. It is a very capable, flexible and powerful language. One can solve a problem with a few lines of SQL code, that will take 100's of lines of PL/SQL or Java code.
So do not underestimate what can be done in SQL.
v_cmd := 'UPDATE parts_categ_counts SET w1='||v1||', w2='||v2||...||v9||' WHERE seq='||vseq||';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE v_cmd;This code is also wrong. Besides the fact that there is no need for dynamic SQL, this approach creates a brand new SQL statement each loop iteration.
SQL is source code. It needs to be parsed (compiled). The end result is an executable program that is called a cursor. This cursor needs to be stored in server memory (the SQL Shared Pool in the SGA).
The problem with your code is that it is slow and expensive - it generates lots of unique SQL statements that need CPU for parsing and server memory for storage.
These add up to a very significant performance overhead. That is the wrong approach. The correct approach is the same one that you would use in any other programming language.
Let's say you need to use Java to process a bunch of CSV files - exact same CSV layout used by each file. A file needs to be read, processed, and a log file created.
Will you write a Java program that loops through the files, for each file found, write a Java program for processing that file, compile it, then execute it?
Or would you write a Java program that takes the name of the file as input, and then process that file and writes the log file?
The 2nd approach provides a program that can process any of those CSV files - one simply needs to pass the filename as an input parameter.
Your code and approach use the 1st method. Not the 2nd. And that is why it is wrong.
To create a SQL program with parameters is done by using bind variables. Instead of
v_cmd := 'UPDATE parts_categ_counts SET w1='||v1||', w2='||v2||...||v9||' WHERE seq='||vseq||';
The following SQL source code should be created:
v_cmd := 'UPDATE parts_categ_counts SET w1=:v1, w2=:v2 ..., w9=:v9 WHERE seq= :vseq';
The tokens with the colon prefix (such as :v1), are bind variables. Think of these as the parameters to the SQL cursor.
The server parses this SQL into a cursor. You can now execute the same cursor over and over again, using different bind variables. (just like the 2nd approach above that one would use in Java)
In PL/SQL, this is made even easier as you can code native SQL code with PL/SQL code and use PL/SQL variables in it. The PL/SQL compiler is clever enough to do the SQL parsing, variable binding, and cursor execution for you. So in PL/SQL, you would use:
UPDATE parts_categ_counts SET w1=v1, w2=v2 ..., w9=v9 WHERE seq= vseq;
Where v1 and the others are PL/SQL variables.
That all said - PL/SQL is only used for data crunching, when the processing of data is too complex for the SQL language to deal with. And this is very seldom the case.
The main reason for using PL/SQL it to provide processing flow control, conditional processing and error handling, for SQL code. As the SQL language does not have these features.

Iphone4s and iCloud/Apple Movie Trailers app stuck in loop using battery on wifi

This one is a long story and took me a day or so of looking around to figure out. I don't know if it causes all the battery drain issues, but it was at times causing some usage on my 4s.
Background:
I use my mac as an iTunes server - always running - so AppleTV can reach it etc via homesharing. I have a TimeCapsule too and a neat feature is wake on demand proxy where if the the mac is set for wake on demand and it is a sleep, the AppleTV will wake it via the proxy.   Works great. Even the iOS remote apps will wake it. Anything requesting a bonjour service that is active on that sleeping mac will wake it. All was good.
Then one day, I noticed it waking in the middle of the night - whenever the iPhone turned on with a notification. I thought that was weird. I quit the apps. hard reset, etc. Still occured. I could put the mac to sleep and just turn on my iPhone and it would wake. Note I have an iPad and it did not exhibit this behavior. I gave up for a few days. Mac would go back to sleep after 10 minutes so no big deal.
Side note I also have wifi sync OFF. I had it on for itunes syncing but noticed that iTunes maintained a constant connection to the phone even when not wired so you can drag and drop to the phone etc.    So to be sure that was not draining battery, it turned it back off. It also would wake on demand when it was enabled so I knew it wasn't that setting causing the issue.
Investigation:
I started with netstat and my airport logs. I found my mac address, ip address, and then found when I turned on the phone a connection established everytime to port 49166 on the phone.   It would create a connection everytime the phone turned on.
I used 'sudo lsof -i -P' to find the process opening the host port on the mac to that phone port. It was 'ubd'. Looking that up on google, I found it was the Ubiquity process.    I also found that it had a log in '~\Library\Logs\Ubiquity'. Looking at the log, I found the following occuring whenver I turned on my phone and usually very few minutes while the phone was on:
[ERROR]       99090c4718 [11/11/22 09:50:34.347] {D2650C3E} 264.connect-https://xxxxx-xxxxx-iPhone.local.:49166 parse_cert_challenge:608 signer 0: com.apple.idms.appleid.prd.4243556669426c674b3255694250464d4d41395633513d3d
[ERROR]       9911fa663c [11/11/22 09:50:34.497] {D2650C3E} 264.http_runloop client_received_error:401 client 0x7fa868433850 error The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -9801.) userinfo <CFBasicHash 0x7fa86862e5b0 [0x7fff74f3af40]>{type = immutable dict, count = 0,
[ERROR]       9911fa663c [11/11/22 09:50:34.497] {D2650C3E} 264.http_runloop client_received_error:401 entries =>
[ERROR]       9911fa663c [11/11/22 09:50:34.497] {D2650C3E} 264.http_runloop client_received_error:401 }
[ERROR]       9911fa663c [11/11/22 09:50:34.497] {D2650C3E} 264.http_runloop client_received_error:401
[ERROR]       9b655ad834 [11/11/22 09:50:44.486] {D2650C3E} 264.ubd-main-loop save_local_state:5772 NOT saving identity   0: 'com.apple.idms.appleid.prd.4243556669426c674b3255694250464d4d41395633513d3d' of type 2
[ERROR]       9d5e1dfa80 [11/11/22 09:50:52.954] {D2650C3E} 264. shutdown_file_transfers:714 cancelling any pending ftrs from peer 0x0003
I assumed those 401 errors were http errors. The logging would kick in whenver the phone was turned on.   I figured a loop like that must be using battery at least on wifi. I don't think it does this on 3g. I didn't know if this was related to the wake issue but it was the only clue.
I found a macworld article on problems with iCloud/Ubquity causing a hang. I didn't have a hang but I wondered if there was a file sync of some sort going on. I remembered reading somewhere that on OSX, documents for sync are kept in '~/Library/Mobile Documents'. So I looked there. I found one file called '43LU875E5~com~apple~movietrailer' and a hidden directory called '.ubd'. which has files with names and id's that matched some early parts of the log.
I was at a loss. Since it was a connection problem, I took Safari on OSX, turned on the phone, and connected to the https address in the log. Sure enough, I got messages from keychain to add roots and ccerts etc. Did this and eventually got an error returned. But it did connect which meant the phone was running a web server. Neat. And ubd wanted to connect to it and couldn't and was going to keep trying forever.
Since the only clue I had was the movies trailer data file, I went to my iCloud control panel and sure enough there is a movies trailer data file in iCloud (along with my ipad and iphone backups). So I tried to delete it . iCloud returned an error and could not delete. OSX console log showed an http 500 error.
So, I figure not much else to do, so I delete the app from my phone and my ipad. It even gives a nice warning when deleting that you have a file in iCloud that you may want to delete. Unfortunately, I still couldn't.
Final Testing
After deleting the app from the phone, I checked the ubiquity log. I could turn on and off the phone and it would no longer create the log entries, no netstat connection, no web server running anymore. I put the mac to sleep, and turned on the phone, It would not wake it up. Repeated test. Passed. Opened the Remote App and it woke up the Mac as expected. Everything was back to normal and I no longer had a looping connection between my Mac and my phone.   Note - this occured even when the trailers app was shutdown on the iphone. This appeared to be an iCloud sync issue.
Final Thoughts
- This did not occur with my iPad and it had the same app. I deleted it there to be safe.
- I have no clue how much battery this uses. I have pretty good life most of the time and my assumption is no matter what, it would help to turn this loop off. It was really the waking the mac all the time that had me bothered. I just stumbled on a bigger issue.
- I doubt the problem is occuring all the time. My ipad did not have the issue, only the iPhone. It was likely an anomoly that showed up and may or may not occur. I thought posting the experience and if anyone else is having similar problems this may help. I am not advocting that everyone remove the app. Just take a look around if you are using the app and are seeing issues.

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!
Hallelujah!!! Thanks for the correction (fat fingers, as you suspected).
Now to the good news. I started Safari, then pasted the URL in and pressed Enter. To my utter amazement the quicktime "Q" logo appeared briefly, then a "screen" box in the window and the movie itself began to load. After a short while it began to play, just like it should!
More good news. The exact same technique worked in Firefox as well!
Now the not-so-good news. When I enter the URL in Quicktime Player "Open URL", the player window opens showing the audio and video controls but no "viewing screen". I let it run for about 5 minutes and nothing ever appeared. I must qualify this by saying that right now my wireless connection is running very slow, so I will try QTP again when things are moving faster.
Believe it or not, this is the very first suggestion I tried that actually made a noticable difference. Of course, this is still a workaround (which I will gladly use). Hope there is a permanent resolution to this somewhere.
BTW, I plan on downloading and re-installing OS X 10.5.2 using the "Combo" package. My original install of both 10.5.1 and .2 were done via "Software Update" and this is the only other suggestion I've seen that might resolve my issue. My plan is to do the re-install only on the G5. If it corrects the problem there, I'll wait a week and then do the same with my MacBook.
In either case I will let you know the results in a follow-up post to this topic.

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