Leave phone connected during work: Does this help or hurt battery life?

If draining and charging ultimately wears battery down, could i leave it plugged to charger during the day at my desk? This would seem to cut down charging cycles, but maybe it introduces other problems.

Won't harm it all all, it stops charging when it is full.
Your lithium polymer battery does need exercise though, make sure to do a full charge cycle at least once per month.

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HT1222 how much does this update redu e battery life?

how much battery life does iday update loose?

An update is never designed to reduce battery life. A small handful of users complain about battery issues with every single update.

I have an apple iphone 4 that I want to download audio books from my library onto it. I cannot figure out how to do that. The iphone does not show up on my mac laptop as a connected device. Does this kind of download have to run through itunes? Thanks

I have an apple iphone 4 that I want to download audio books from my library onto. I cannot figure out how to do that. The iphone does not show up on my mac laptop as a connected device. Does this kind of download have to run through itunes? Thanks

Yes it is done through iTunes. The iPhone will never show up in Finder as a device. The following is general information on iTunes sync: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386 and the following is a previous discussion where the post by Andreas Junge helped others that had a problem syncing audiobooks: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20052732#20052732

Since upgrading to the latest version, I am unable to listen to XM radio on-line and unable to remote connect to work. Please help.

Since upgrading to the latest version, I am unable to listen to XM radio on-line and unable to remote connect to work. Please help.

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Are you still facing the same error ? If yes, are you getting this error everytime you are trying to export ?
Please try again and check.
This is basically a compilation error , where files are not converted into proper format correctly.
Thanks,
Sanjit

I have an iPhone 5s and in my iTunes music library have the songs checked that I want downloaded onto my phone. Instead of doing this, it is syncing all songs whether they are checked or not even tho I have the "sync only checked songs" box checked.

I have an iPhone 5s and in my iTunes music library have the songs checked that I want downloaded onto my phone. Instead of doing this, it is syncing all songs whether they are checked or not even tho I have the "sync only checked songs" box checked. So basically it's syncing all of the songs when I just want the checked ones on. This is very frustrating.

When your device is connected, check the tabs at the top ("Summary" "Apps" "Music," etc. Under the Music one, check to see if "Sync Music>entire music library" is checked. If it is, that may be why all the songs are syncing.

HT1476 i-phone3 wont recharge; initially home button wouldn't work. Applied the 'auto-touch button thing' via settings. This worked until I ran out of battery life. Now it won't recharge either via laptop (usually does) or wall switch. Just a blk screen.

i-phone3 wont recharge; initially home button wouldn't work. Applied the 'auto-touch button thing' via settings. This worked until I ran out of battery life. Now it won’t recharge either via laptop (usually does) or wall switch. Just a blk screen.

In general theory, one now has the Edit button for their posts, until someone/anyone Replies to it. I've had Edit available for weeks, as opposed to the old forum's ~ 30 mins.
That, however, is in theory. I've posted, and immediately seen something that needed editing, only to find NO Replies, yet the Edit button is no longer available, only seconds later. Still, in that same thread, I'd have the Edit button from older posts, to which there had also been no Replies even after several days/weeks. Found one that had to be over a month old, and Edit was still there.
Do not know the why/how of this behavior. At first, I thought that maybe there WAS a Reply, that "ate" my Edit button, but had not Refreshed on my screen. Refresh still showed no Replies, just no Edit either. In those cases, I just Reply and mention the [Edit].
Also, it seems that the buttons get very scrambled at times, and Refresh does not always clear that up. I end up clicking where I "think" the right button should be and hope for the best. Seems that when the buttons do bunch up they can appear at random around the page, often three atop one another, and maybe one way the heck out in left-field.
While I'm on a role, it would be nice to be able to switch between Flattened and Threaded Views on the fly. Each has a use, and having to go to Options and then come back down to the thread is a very slow process. Jive is probably incapable of this, but I can dream.
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Help, iphone 3gs battery life go down in 3h abroad

Hi everyone, my iphone 3gs battery in italy is perfectly normal, when i go for example in spain or in greece ( no different voltage) the phone is 100% in the morning but after 4 h without call, message, wifi or 3g activated run out at all.
I try to close all the app, close all tab of safari, roaming is off for the data, i clear history and i reset it....
I dont know what else i could do...
Help plese! Thanks

F1l0 wrote:
Yes but as i told you i have 3g off operator is in manual mode ( vodafone es) and no wifi or other connetion are on....
Update of the firmware?
Thanks
That is NOT what you said previously. You said: "I try to close all the app, close all tab of safari, roaming is off for the data" We are NOT psychic. Your original statement does NOT indicate that you have 3g off.
If the phone is unable to lock onto the preferred provider you set in manual mode, it will be constantly searching for the carrier signal. This will drastically reduce battery life. If you are out of range of the carrier you want to use, put the phone in airplane mode.

HT4759 Does I Cloud use more battery life

Does I Cloud use more battery life?

I suspect that if you turn on the backlight to look at the artwork, the backlight uses battery juice. I doubt the physical presence or absence of album art uses any more juice.
BTW, I don't believe the album art uses a "**** of a lot of MB". It probably only adds a few KB to the song file since it is so small.

Does this help your "user did not respond" problem?

Here’s what was going on.
If I call a buddy #1 > I get the “user did not respond”.
If I call buddy #2 > I get “user did not respond”.
However, If I call buddy #3 it works right away, no problems what so ever.
This was a constant problem, the same result over and over again when attempting to connect.
Three out of the four of us have something in common
So, how come when I call buddy #1 and buddy #2 does iChat displays “user did not respond” ? Thinking about it, we all have multiple Macs (except buddy number 3) on a network and the same router. So it appears that when I try to call someone with more than one Mac on the network I get the error.
Again, all three of us had something else in common we were all using a DMZ service on the router to direct internet traffic to a Mac which was not running iChat (ie a server).
Time to experiment
Buddy #1 disabled DMZ then I called him.. nothing but the “user did not respond” message. I disabled DMZ (now both off us have DMZ off) I called him again (after restarting iChat) and it worked.
We both restarted iChat, Macs, Routers multiple times and it still worked 8 out of 10 times. Now, this is a huge improvement on failing to connect every-time. I did however remember reading somewhere about changing the default port number.
More Settings
The default port number iChat uses also stops my video and audio from working but this is easily fixed.
Open iChat and make yourself off line then navigate to:
iChat > Preferences > Accounts > Server Settings.
Change the default port to 443.
Close the window and make yourself available
iChat now connects to video and audio calls every single time.
So, for us it looks like disabling DMZ and changing the port number worked perfectly.
Instructions.
1. Quit iChat
2. Log into your router (enter the routers address in the address bar of your internet browser)
3. Look for a DMZ setting, possibly listed within the WAN SetUp section.
4. Disable DMZ
5. You may need to restart your router
6. Configure iChat's defualt port number (shown avbove)
7. Make your-self 'Available' on iChat
8. Start a video chat.
I would highly recommend that you pass this information on to your online buddies you wish to video or audio chat with. This configuration has to be set on both the caller's and and receiving buddies computer
Equipment used whilst I was testing
Myself: iMac G5 20'' - Integral iSight - Mac 10.4.6
Buddy #1: iMac Intel 20'' - Integral iSight - Mac 10.4.6
Buddy #2: iMac Intel 17'' - Integral iSight - Mac 10.4.6
Buddy #3: iMac Intel 17'' - Integral iSight - Mac 10.4.6
Netgear DG834 Modem/Router Firmware: V3.01.29
MacBookPro 17", G4 Powerbook 17", G5 quad, G5 iMac, G3, mac mini x4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Good luck!

Hi Jan,
Some notes.
The Certain Buddy problem is almost certainly down to NAT issues.
DMZ is an extreme form of Port Forwarding and is therefore a NATted service on most devices.
Netgears are know to kave this problem with iChat even with the same model with the same firmware.
It means the problem continues in Port Forwarding, Port Triggering and DMZ.
UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) is not a NAT service so will get around this.
However there seems to be somthing quirky with Netgear's implemintation of this that needs it started up at least twice to work properly.
The need to change the port from 5190 to 443 normally occures on those devices and firmware that Port Forwards AND list protocols to open the ports which then lists port 5190 twice.
Changing the port in iChat and then disabling the Port forward on port 5190 TCP also should get around this problem.
9:52 PM Sunday; June 11, 2006

Reader Preferences-Internet-Connection Speed: What does this do?

Can someone explain what exactly this setting controls or manages? When I search I see different mentions of what this setting controls, from only controlling multimedia to controlling how fast the .pdf actually opens.
The latter makes no sense; why would you throttle how fast a .pdf opens via this setting? At least managing multimedia makes sense, as that could control the quality of the media being downloaded. Faster speed = bigger better video file, etc.
Regardless, I have a request to make a Group Policy change for thousands of users to set this from the default of 56K to LAN, and I want to understand what this setting actually manages, and what the ramifications of making this change are for all users.
What happens if I set it to LAN for all users then someone is in a remote region of the world and only working on dial-up? It does still happen!
Using Reader 11 on IE8 and IE9 on Windows 7 64 bit.
Thanks!

jlaqua2 wrote:
Can someone explain what exactly this setting controls or manages? When I search I see different mentions of what this setting controls, from only controlling multimedia to controlling how fast the .pdf actually opens.
The latter makes no sense; why would you throttle how fast a .pdf opens via this setting? At least managing multimedia makes sense, as that could control the quality of the media being downloaded. Faster speed = bigger better video file, etc.
Regardless, I have a request to make a Group Policy change for thousands of users to set this from the default of 56K to LAN, and I want to understand what this setting actually manages, and what the ramifications of making this change are for all users.
What happens if I set it to LAN for all users then someone is in a remote region of the world and only working on dial-up? It does still happen!
Using Reader 11 on IE8 and IE9 on Windows 7 64 bit.
Thanks!
Can someone explain what exactly this setting controls or manages? When I search I see different mentions of what this setting controls, from only controlling multimedia to controlling how fast the .pdf actually opens.
It controls the enabling or disabling of certain "caching" for large PDFs or those that contain multimedia, which load slower on dial up connections. It has NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on opening local PDFs.
Regardless, I have a request to make a Group Policy change for thousands of users to set this from the default of 56K to LAN, and I want to understand what this setting actually manages, and what the ramifications of making this change are for all users.
That would all depend on what the ACTUAL connection is for those users. IF they're all on a LAN, then it would be OK to set LAN as the default in deployment.
What happens if I set it to LAN for all users then someone is in a remote region of the world and only working on dial-up? It does still happen!
Then the end user would need to go in and reset it to "Dial up".
FWIW - The reason it's set to Dial up by default is that ANY connection speed faster than 56k will still work with this setting. The reverse isn't so. If someone has their connection set to LAN and they're on dialup, a large ddocument will take forever to load in a browser window, because things like preloading images and media are enabled and not cached under the LAN setting, and with dialup, the PDF will need to load all that content AS IT DOWNLOADS, likely leading to a browser "lockup".

PC Suite says no phone connected, but working

After updating to 6.82.22 (from 6.78) I couldn't connect to my 6233 via Bluetooth (Widcomm 4.01.700). It hang's after entering authorization code on the phone. I uninstalled PC suite, used PC Suite cleaner and rebooted. After installing from the scratch I could complete the pairing process. After next reboot PC Suite says "no phone connected", no cable driver installed, no supported BTstack found - but every component of PC Suite is working and I have full access to the phone. OS: Win2k Server SP4, BTstack: Widcomm 4.01.700 PC Suite 6.82.22

Yes - thanks. Now it says connected and gives the BTstack Version in system information. Seems to be a problem with startup, even if the BT tray icon launch up before PC Suite and PC Suite seems to be the last to launch.

I keep receiving an error message when i try to sync my phone of : 1450 What does this mean?

I keep receiving an error message when I try to Sync my I phone 4. It says Can't Sync 1450. What does this mean? I've had this phone for over a year with no problems.

Yep. Tried that. And just did it again.
Still no joy.

Rotoscoping...can you get work doing this?

I understand most people use a green screen when they need to composite video, but I was wondering if their is a work market for people who do this pretty well

Yes, absolutely. In fact, demand for roto artists is increasing as some companies nowadays are opting to roto certain shots that would traditionally be shot green screen.
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But if you are considering doing this professionally, you may want to consider a software package with more features such as Shake, Nuke or Silhouette Roto.

ITunes Match. How does this help me?

ok I purchased Match. Now how do I keep the songs on my iphone while adding songs from Match? When I turn Match on in my phine, it informs me that the Match tunes will replace those on my device. What gives?

I never got this message. And even though Match has finished (or rather, did step 3 and then started step 1 again, and keeps doing this), not one of my songs has been upgraded to 256kbps from 128, 160 or 192. What's this about?

Does this sound right? Battery question

I unplugged my phone from charging all night, sent and received 14 texts, had a 5 minute phone call, checked the weather app, total time elapsed 50 minutes...and my phone was at 95%. I have done everything that people have suggested to save battery life, but that seems like my battery doesn't last as long as my Blackberry Curve did. If it matters I have a white 16 GB phone.
Tks!

Do you have LTE turned off since you state you don't live in a LTE area? In all honesty, you're comparing a more complicated device to an older BB Curve and it's battery life...which is not the thing to do. You can not expect the same battery life (in general that is) to your BB because it's really not going to happen. The 5% drop you experienced may not be bad at all if you had what amounted to 50 minutes of use...what does it say under usage for usage and standby? You don't have to over do it to the degree you mentioned (limiting yourself to only texting and a few phone calls)...the battery isn't going to drain THAT fast, but if you're concerned or what you really want to do is more intensive acts that will help the battery drain much quicker (streaming for example) then yes, you will need to have a way to charge on standby....just in case. That could be taking your charger to work with you...or having a car charger to re-juice while traveling...not necessarily what you may have been expecting, especially coming from a BB but not something completely unheard of from most LTE devices or most current smartphones.
My own personal battery life so far is better than I expected but I am coming from the iPhone 4s so I am used to iPhone battery life. Also, maybe restoring my iPhone 5 from my 4s backup helped with the settings all being in great places automatically...I'm not sure. I don't check it every hour or anything to be able to tell you the % left (I don't have that turned on in settings...I turn it on briefly when curious but I have never left it on...no particular reason other than having the number sitting in the corner annoyed me lol), but I have used my 5 in the same manner that I have my 4s and I have not needed any additional day charges. I have gone well over 24 hours before charging was needed (when the 20% warning popped up) on most days....the shortest timeframe before having to charge again was 17 hours...and that was after spending several hours in the waiting room at the car dealership so I played long sessions of games while listening to music and responding to texts and FB messages whenever they popped up. And even after all of that, when I plugged the phone up I still had not received the 20% warning (it was at 23% when I plugged it up). I also took some pictures and 2 short videos...and checked emails...sent texts throughout the day and used FB/Twitter/Instagram throughout the day...and made some phone calls. I do live in a LTE area if that matters although the 5 is my first 4G phone. I stayed away from 4G initially because it was not in my area and because I saw the dreadful battery lives of friends with 4G Android devices (granted, there are currently Androids with better battery life). I went with the 5 concerned about the battery life because of 4G (which I have no problem turning off if the drain became too much since ultimately, I don't care all that much about it. It's nice but 3G isn't so slow that it makes use unbearable...try remembering dial-up internet and maybe you'll appreciate it a little more lol). At any rate, those are my current experiences with the iPhone 5....to me the experience feels successful, but to others the battery life I listed may seem terrible. Just thought I'd share to give you an idea of what I am experiencing...hopefully you'll see others real-use info and it will help you determine what may be "normal"....and help you figure out if you are having a battery issue that may need to be looked in to.

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