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Saving your battery life isn’t rocket science—the general principle is to get rid of the things that are draining the battery the most, and trim down other things that you need to use, but maybe can tweak a little. Keep reading for the full explanation. 1.Use Android’s Built-in Battery Usage Screen There’s a screen built into Android that most casual users probably don’t even know about, and it can tell you exactly what is killing your battery. Head into Settings –> About Phone –> Battery use to see what has been killing your battery life. From this screen, you can usually see what apps are the worst offenders, and you will probably notice that the biggest problem—at least, the biggest one that we can fix—is actually the backlight on the phone. Personally I’d prefer to talk less to other humans, but that isn’t always an option! 2. Adjust the Backlight to be Less Bright Since we’ve already determined that the backlight is usually the biggest problem, you should probably adjust the settings. Head into Settings –> Display –> Brightness, where you can choose to automatically adjust, which usually works fairly well, or you can just turn the brightness down to the lowest acceptable level. You should make sure that the screen timeout value is set to turn off quickly as well. 3. Disable Your Wi-Fi When You Don’t Need It Wi-Fi can really speed up accessing data on your phone, but it can also be a big drain on the battery if you don’t need it enabled, especially when you are out and about… The phone will try and scan for a wireless network even though you may not want it to. To enable Airplane mode, you can head into Settings –> Wireless & networks–> Airplane mode. You can easily toggle the Wi-Fi on or off with a widget or shortcut—there’s a built-in widget included in Android phones, or you can use the AnyCut or BetterCut utilities to create your own shortcuts to directly turn them on or off without requiring a widget. 4. Disable Bluetooth if You Don’t Use It If you aren’t using a wireless headset, there’s no reason to have Bluetooth running all the time, and you should probably cut it off to save the battery life. If you never use it at all, head into Settings –> Wireless & networks–> Bluetooth. You can also enable or disable the Bluetooth when you do need it, using the power widget. 5. Use the Power Widget to Easily Toggle GPS, Bluetooth, Wireless, and Screen Brightness Android includes a built-in Power Widget that can easily toggle these settings on or off—just long press on the background of one of your screens, choose Widget –> Power Control to add it to the screen. You’ll notice in this example screenshot that I’ve got my GPS enabled but I’m not using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth at the moment—the icon all the way on the right lets you easily toggle the screen brightness settings. This is probably the simplest and easiest thing that you can do to save your battery without having to dig into the settings all the time. 6. Disable Apps that Sync ConstantlyThe built-in Email application (not the Gmail one, which uses Push technology) can **** the battery badly, because it syncs on a too-regular basis, especially when you have lots of accounts—each one of them is set to sync every 15 minutes. You’d be better off setting it up to sync manually, but if you want it to sync automatically, you should set it to sync less frequently. Open up the Email application, head to your account, and choose Account settings –> Email check frequency from the menu. Change this to something more like an hour… or never. You can always hit refresh manually when you want to read your email. The same thing holds true for other accounts, like Twitter clients, which are even less important to update all the time. For Seesmic, you can head into Settings –> Background Updates from the main screen. For the official Twitter app, the settings are similar. The Facebook application polls automatically in the background, and you can customize the refresh interval for that as well—if you don’t need Facebook updating all the time, you should set this value as high as possible. From the main Facebook screen—the one with the icons—head into Settings –> Refresh interval from the menu. 7. Disable the GPS Location Features One of the biggest battery ****ing features on my droid is the GPS… When I have navigation going, the battery dies far too fast, so I end up having to keep it plugged in the whole time I am driving. This makes sense… but what you might not know is that a lot of other applications use the GPS as well. You can also change the GPS to use wireless networks, and uncheck the option for Use GPS satellites—this will make the GPS a little less accurate, but it will save your battery. Note that you probably want the real GPS enabled if you’re using Google Maps Navigation. Additionally, you should turn off the geolocation features in your Twitter client, weather application, or whatever other apps that you really don’t need them in. If you want to keep it enabled, that’s great, just realize that it does drain the battery, so uncheck this option to help. 8. Use a Task Manager to See What is Always Running It is a wise decision to have a copy of Advanced Task Cleaner or a similar application installed on your phone to help you kill applications that don’t need to be running, but more so that you can see what exactly is launching itself repeatedly in the background. You can setup an auto-kill list for applications you don’t use that often—make them cut off when you shut off the screen, or after an interval. Note: If you’ve configured your application settings to not pull down lots of data or do checking in the background, it’s not quite as important to keep tasks killed all the time—that’s really what kills your battery, not having them sitting idle. You can also configure advanced task manager to show you CPU usage for each app, which is a more useful meter than memory usage when it comes to battery life. 9. Disable or Remove Applications That You Aren’t Using Once you have identified the application that you don’t want running all the time, check in the settings to see if it can be removed from running in the background. Some applications will give you an option for notifications that can be turned off if you don’t need them, making the application not check in the background so often. It should go without saying, but we’ll say it anyway—you should remove the apps that you don’t need anymore, especially the ones that are draining your battery as determined from the android battery panel or task manager. Head into Settings –> Applications –> Manage Applications and then you can click the Uninstall button for an app. 10. Disable Home Screen Widgets You Don’t Need If you’ve got loads of widgets that are pulling data from the web, that means they are likely pulling down data in the background all the time. You should try not to go overboard with these, or remove the ones you don’t actually need. 11.Disable Animated Wallpaper Yeah, that sweet animated wallpaper doesn’t help your battery any. Get rid of it for a small extra battery savings. 12. Use APNDroid to Kill Your Entire Data Connection When You Don’t Need It If you’re using a phone that’s on the AT&T or T-Mobile networks, you can use the APNDroid utility to kill your data connection entirely with a simple widget. It doesn’t work on Verizon phones in my testing. It’ll disable the data but still allow regular calls and SMS. 13.Keep the Battery from Getting Too Hot One of the quickest ways to kill a battery is to leave it out in the sun—try and keep your phone somewhere that isn’t too hot whenever possible. You’ll end up needing to replace the battery a lot quicker if you don’t. Additional NotesThere’s a number of other things you can do to extend your battery life a bit—one of which is to use a rooted phone and install the Autostarts utility, which you can use to keep applications from launching themselves automatically. Since this isn’t something you can do on a stock phone, we’re not covering how to do it here.

Laptop Innovation Trends 2011 Technological ingenuity that will make portable computers even better It's long since we put out our wish list of what we expected from laptops. Today, it's really hard to point out a bad laptop -- most have a decent (monotonous even) spec-sheet and aren't horrible to use. But as we keep pushing the envelope on what more can we do with these portable computers, newer technologies make their way, first into premium models and after an affirmed success rate, get pushed down to cheaper laptops. Laptop manufacturers keep cranking up the raw power -- a dual-core processor will be swapped with a quad-core, a yester-generation graphics chip with a newer gen -- which is more or less expected. But the innovations that we're talking of do more than just make 'em faster, some allow faster data transfers, some provide new wire-free experiences, some hightened 'dimensions' of entertainment. Let's check out what's in store this year: Faster Data Transmission For many years, we've been used to the decent speeds those typical USB 2.0 ports found on all laptops deliver. But now with the amount of data increasing exponentially, there's need for a faster medium. To give you a simple example, all those 700MB DivX rips are soon being replaced by 720p HD rips that are anywhere between 3 to 7 times that size (2GB or 4.8GB). Last year, we saw a few handful laptops sporting a USB 3.0 port, but I feel the newer standard should proliferate into most mainstream models by the year end. The speed-bump is fantastic - theoretically it can do 4.8 GBps, which is ten times more than the current USB 2.0's 480 MBps speed limit. In our real world testing, we saw the speeds were roughly two to three times faster than a regular drive, which is not bad at all. But don't get too excited just as yet, because Intel's on the verge of announcing its Light Peak technology, that supports an insane 10GBps with the use of optical medium instead of copper wires. Apple's updated Macbook Pros are supposed to feature this technology with the 'Thunderbolt' moniker. So basically this year, you'll be staring a lot less at a progress bar despite shuffling GBs and GBs of data. Hybrid Hard Drives Most laptops today come with traditional platter-spinning hard drives. These magnetic mediums of storage are cheaper to make and on an average have hundreds of GBs of space. Flash-based SSD drives are making their way into premium segment models like the Macbook Air, and they offer faster speeds, no vibrations or noise and have a better tolerance to physical shock. The major compromise with SSDs is space -- even the most highest-end SSD-based laptops come with around 128 to 256GB space, which in comparison to regular hard drives is paltry. Hybrid Hard Drives are basically regular spinning disks with a small capacity SSD integrated into the body. How does this help? The Operating System files are typically installed in the faster accessible SSD, whereas the spinning drive is used to store user data. So, your computer can have instant on and ultra-fast boot times like an SSD based PC, yet have a huge space to store all the content as well. It also helps in saving power. Windows already supports these types of drives by the virtue of a feature called 'ReadyDrive' since Vista. The instant turning on and off we experienced in the Macbook Air is something that we would appreciate to have in every laptop. More on Chip Back in school, we were taught that the Central Processing Unit (or processor) contained a couple of units like the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit), Memory Registers, Control Unit etc. These were the elements that lie on that chip that we'd insert into the motherboard, while other functions like the memory controller or the graphics processing unit were placed separately. Since the past few years, we see these other core components of a PC moving onto the same chip that also occupied the CPU. Well, CPU's are getting smaller and smaller each year as per Moore's law; they're down to as low as 32 nanometer as of today, so there's definitely gotta be extra space over there (as the actual size of the chip hasn't increased). Intel's recent Atom processors and even the top-of-the-line Sandy Bridge have Graphics processors and memory controllers on the chip. Even AMD's Fusion "APU" platform is pretty much the same thing. So what are the advantages of them being positioned close to the CPU? Communication between these components is faster and more efficient, thus improving performance and even saving power. Wireless Streaming onto a bigger screen Nowadays, most laptops have an HDMI port to directly hook them up to a bigger LCD TV or projector. The great thing about HDMI is that it uses a single cable to transmit audio and video, thus reducing clutter. With advancement in wireless technology and processing power, we're on the brink of wireless transmission of content from a laptop onto a bigger display. Intel's calling this technology WiDi, Apple calls it 'AirPlay'. Off the two, WiDi requires you to purchase a small box that connects by wire to your TV and accepts transmission from your laptop's Wi-Fi chip. Apple requires you to purchase the Apple TV, which essentially does the same thing for not just computers but even iOS devices like the iPhone or iPad. So, you can basically be streaming your favorite movie stored on your laptop to an LCD TV or say a PowerPoint presentation to a projector wire-free from a distance. Stereoscopic 3D We saw an affordable 3D laptop with typical polarized glasses last year, but weren't as impressed, especially after experiencing what 3D on PCs is with a stereoscopic pair. Although the original NVIDIA 3D Vision kit is somewhat clunky with its IR transmitter, recent pro-gaming laptops like the ASUS G73JW have smartly integrated that sensor right beside the webcam. So, all you need to need to do is put on those active glasses and experience 3D. Although this may be seen in ultra-expensive laptops like the one mentioned above, I'm sure by the end of the year it will trickle down into some mid-range models too. These laptops may not be hardcore gaming PC replacements, but they can be pitched more towards 3D video viewing. Optical Drive Extinction Years ago, imagining a PC without an CD Drive would send shivers down your spine. If you ask me now, I don't really care anymore. Thanks to high-speed, unlimited Internet access and USB-based storage that's cheap, re-usable and stores much more data than even a dual-layered Bluray disc, the DVD drive in my PC lies untouched for months. As more and more people choose to opt out of using optical media to transfer data, more laptop makers can go forward and put the space that the drive occupies to better use. I'd trade it to fit a bigger battery or make the laptop thinner any day, instead of holding on to a DVD drive that I might find some use some day. Thanks to Rohan Naravane Courtesy : Techtree

Hi, I had some strange experiences & problems with MNP, which I am sharing with members for information. I had requested for UPC code on the same day it was launched to migrate from RCDMA to GSM due to handset issue being a frequent International traveler and got the code in minutes. I went to TATA DOCOMO outlet the next day and filled all the documents on next day i.e. Friday 21st Jan; and received the confirmatory SMS in minutes. As the executives were totally ignorant about the MNP steps, I had to give a "class" for them! On Tuesday, 5 days later RIM people got awaken from sleep and started calling me requesting me to be with them instead of moving to Docomo. I told them that my US handset (Blackberry) doesn't work on GPRS as it can't edit Proxy settings, but works only with APN and call charges are being high compared to Docomo (1 paise/ 2 seconds), I have decided to move. They told me that the back end is ready to change the proxy settings and customize the plan for me, if I move to RGSM. I said ok, but with one condition as my 3 friends need the same tariff, which was also agreed. On Wednesday,Indian Republic day, I went to Web World and filled the application for RGSM and white paper request for cancelling the MNP and to proceed with INP (Internal Number Portability) and provide Reliance GSM as per advice from Chennai CC. Thursday evening I received SMS from TA-191 saying the MNP is ready and it will change as per the request at 22.00hours on 27th thursday. I thought it is moving to RGSM and inserted RGSM waiting for my Reliance connection active, Nothing happened!! In morning when I tried to call my Reliance number from other operator, it said - the Tata Docomo number you are trying to reach.... I knew that my connection was switched to Docomo. So changed SIM and checked the connection. Now the problem starts... I was able to get the SMS, make calls to all networks with my old number with Docomo but able to receive calls from all networks EXCEPT Reliance!! I called TATA Docomo CC, they said it is the MNP delay and wait for 2 hours.... Later I found that my CDMA handset receives calls from Reliance networks and able to make calls as well to all networks at the SAME TIME when I was making calls using Docomo with same number!! I showed to people - every laughed and liked the new concept - * Calls from all networks received on Docomo * Calls from Reliance received on CDMA handset * Calls possible on BOTH HANDSETS with same number, even at the same number * One number works with 2 operators at the same time I went to Web world, the head was friend of mine and they all had a good surprise. The complaint was posted both with Docomo & Reliance. Now what my friend at web world says, it was a technical error. The operator has to claim and stop the process of MNP before 4 days or it will automatically switched to the new operator as per the program. The approval for migration to Docomo & approval for retaining number for Reliance was done by the authority in less than one hour difference. The server updating delay may have approved both operators!! Relaince says that they will retain the number and Tata says they have got the number first and the process is completed. Just now some one called from reliance and confirmed whether both handsets works at the same time & the issue would be resolved quickly, as usual. I told him that I am happy to be with Docomo & I need not require Reliance as they were not able to work on time. Shall update what happens. Thanks,

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That is because of Two Reasons... 1. Different ways an Operating System and Storage Devices Manufacturer Calculate STORAGE CAPACITY...... 2. Formatted & Unformatted Capacity.. May be the following can help... Advertised vs. Actual Since consumers don't think in base 2 mathematics, manufacturers decided to rate most drive capacities based on the standard base 10 numbers we are all familiar with. Therefore, one Megabyte equals one million bytes while one Gigabyte equals one billion bytes. This isn't too much of a problem with fairly small numbers such as a Kilobyte, but each level of increase in the prefix also increased the total discrepancy of the actual space compared to the advertised space. Here is a quick reference to show the amount that the actual values differ compared to the advertised for each common referenced value: Megabyte Difference = 48,576 Bytes Gigabyte Difference = 73,741,824 Bytes Terabyte Difference = 99,511,627,776 Bytes Based on this, for each Gigabyte that a drive manufacturer claims, they are over reporting the amount of disk space by 73,741,824 Bytes or roughly 70.3 MB of disk space. So, if a manufacturer advertises an 80 GB (80 billion bytes) hard drive, the actual disk space is around 74.5 GB of space, roughly 7% less than what they advertise. Now, this isn't true for all the drives and storage media on the market. This is where consumers have to be careful. Most hard drives are reported based on the advertised values where a Gigabyte is one billion bytes. On the other hand, most flash media storage is based around the actual memory amounts. So a 512MB memory card has exactly 512 MB of data capacity, but this leads to the next area of reported space. Formatted vs. Unformatted In order for any type of storage device to be functional, there must be some method for the computer to know which bits stored on it relate to the specific files. This is where formatting of a drive comes in. The types of drive formats can vary depending on the computer but some of the more common ones are FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS. In each of these formatting schemes, a portion of the storage space is allocated so that the data on the drive can be catalogued enabling the computer or other device to properly read and write the data to the drive. This means that when a drive is formatted, the functional storage space of the drive will be less than its unformatted capacity. The amount by which the space is reduced will vary depending upon the type of formatting used for the drive and also the amount and size of the various files on the system. Since it does vary, it is impossible for the manufacturers to quote the formatted size. This problem is most frequently encountered with flash media storage over larger capacity hard drives. It's a Standard Industry Practice by all Storage Manufacturers......You will get the same capacity as reported in this Pen Drive with Practically any Branded USB Pen Drive.... So True Capacity is a matter of perception From Which Angle You are Looking... OS or Manufacturer...And File System Used...

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I'm not defending any technology here. Just making the members aware of the facts for making meaningful decision. There's lot of unworthy hype about GSM-3G in the air which I feel should be measured against facts so that members will not fall prey. EVDO provided by the CDMA players on mobiles till the date of allocation of GSM-3G spectrum(1st september 2010) was quasi-illegal. That's the main reason why CDMA players were not able to promote EVDO in handsets as you might have wanted. My sincere request to anybody for that matter is please wait for sometime(say 2-3 months from now)to measure HSDPA performance and coverage against EVDO performance and coverage in India before passing any judgement. If you want to shift because of voice service issue(either with coverage/customer relation/performance), please go-ahead immediately on MNP. If you want to shift for the word "3G" and data service, I request you to postpone it and make judgement after 3 months.

I read with fascination how passionately Kesav defends EVDO with all this technical parameters. I too would have done the same earlier but not now. All this is theory (not saying wrong theory) but fact of the matter is Reliance lost a golden opportunity to capture High Speed Data market for Mobiles despite having EVDO with it for as long as more than 2 year. It had everything, the subscriber base, nationwide network, one of the largest fibre connectivity in India, access to international data pipes. It just needed to seize the initiative, launch some good handsets at right prices, attractive data plans and it could have been a leader in high speed data market for mobiles without even paying those thousands of crores for 3G GSM spectrum. The first mover advantage would have been unassailable for GSM operators to get anywhere near to. I read somewhere on RIMWEB that Reliance might not be launching EVDO for the fear of it being ripped, hacked by people for free data. While this may be true technically but if this is the reason then it is more shameful for Reliance not to be able to find a solution for security. Verizon runs America's largest CDMA network, provides EVDO and remember there is no OMH Sim Card handsets in America. So all CDMA handsets are programmed and all the more chances of it being hacked. Plus you have a huge no. of geeks in America for mobiles as compared to India. If EVDO security was such an issue, Verizon would have gone bankrupt by now. Actually it makes hell lot of money. But now does one seriously think that many Reliance CDMA subscribers deprived of all this for years will still hold on to it by merely this technical comparisons of whether EVDO is superior to 3G GSM or not? I don't think so.MNP and 3G GSM launch in the next two months is going to be defining moment for Reliance CDMA as it will see all those premium high ARPU customers walking for greener pastures. One has to just look around RIMWEB how frustrated such subscribers are with Reliance. And RIMWEB with its some 45000 members is just a representative sample of the Reliance subscriber base. I know many people who are not members of RIMWEB but are equally frustated with it for Data and handsets. Thousands are seething in anger and frustration and i think Reliance is going to meet the same fate as BJP met in 2004 where it too started believing in that glossy "Shining India" campaign without understanding realities on the ground and was voted out by the silent majority. I feel more sad for our heroes at RIMWEB who fought such a lonely battle with Reliance to see it reason and atleast provided us with good handsets.

I understand this issue but it'll be solved with VORA(Voice over Rev. A) update on EVDO Rev. A on the network side. I feel operators will go for this update on the n/w side due to competition from HSDPA. Unless VORA is applied, EVDO players cannot provide video calls. I'm not sure whether EVDO Rev. A handsets should go for an update or not.